My mom used to work at Children's Palace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_World), which was a competing toy store in the 80's. Toy R Us would build their stores right next to them to try to put them out of business. When the weekly flyers came out for sales on things like baby food and diapers, Toys R Us would send their employees over to Children's Palace to buy up all the sale items in the flyer so that they were out of stock, causing angry customers - many of whom were low income. Toys R Us minions would sometimes just throw away the merchandise in the trash outside the store after their raids. My mom had a lot of stories about their guerrilla retail tactics. Toys R Us eventually won out and Children's Palace went out of business, but my parents never let us go there. Bankruptcy couldn't have happened to a more deserving company, albeit 30 years too late.
I couldn't agree more. There is no other phone out there that I can comfortably hold and use one handed, and fits easily and comfortably in any pocket. I wouldn't mind waterproof and the edge to edge screen like the X, which would keep that same form factor while expanding the screen size. I miss the time when smaller and smaller tech was considered revolutionary instead of lbudget". I for one would pay premium prices for the SE form factor in a flagship phone. Maybe I'm a niche market, but I would have switched to Android in a heartbeat when the 6 came out (before the SE saved the day) if Samsung or Google Pixel/Nexus line started committing to a "mini" version of their flagships. There's no phone big enough for when I want a real screen - for that I use an iPad or laptop. My phone is for portability.
That's a pretty ridiculous statement. Apple, for all its faults, supports its products way longer than just about any other hardware maker you can buy from. There's a lot to criticism Apple for, but this ain't one of them. (Disclosure: Owner of a Series 0 Apple Watch that just got a software update yesterday and can count on continuing to get them for years to come).
We are just one generation away from theaters going out of business, and it canâ(TM)t come soon enough. I just saw Spider-Man Homecoming in a theater a week after it came out because I could not longer avoid enough spoilers to enjoy the movie if I waited any longer. Every other part of the experience other than the release date was sub-par to just waiting and watching it at home. The food, the ticket price, the seats, the crowds, the volume (loud != immersive), and the inability to pause and hit the restroom when my kid had to go make theaters a worse experience in every sense. At the beginning of Homecoming, Tom Holland did a little intro thanking the audience for watching the movie in the theater and I couldnâ(TM)t help but feel sorry for him for missing the boat, like the rest of Hollywood. Sorry Chris Nolan, youâ(TM)re movies are good but I canâ(TM)t agree with you on the theater being better in any way your audiences care about.
I've used iPhones since the iPhone 3G, and I admit I'm pretty bored with it honestly. The Pixel looks like it is a nice alternative. When it was time to trade in my iPhone 5s, this last line of Nexus phones had just been released, and I was tempted. But I just couldn't do it when it came down to it for a few reasons. First, my old iPhone 5s still runs the latest iOS. Apple supports their devices for an insane amount of time. The Pixel/Nexus line seem to be the only ones that have any chance of seeing more than one or two versions of Android. Second, lock in. It's getting to the point where the respective app stores have enough investment that the thought of rebuying or finding alternative apps is very daunting. And third, I was not in the market for a giant phone. I guess I am one of the rare people who will pay premium prices for a small, powerful phone. So I opted for the SE. If I were already an Android user, I can't think why the Pixel wouldn't be the phone to get. As a potential switcher, I keep watching to see if Google can woo customers away from Apple, but I think they need to put a better focus on what Apple switchers are unhappy about in their ecosystem. And Google has a bad history of not sticking it out with a product line if the first few iterations don't sell well. I still miss the Nexus 7 line:(
I mean, granted it may be more of a contractor thing, but who makes friends at "work"? I mean, you go there to earn money and leave for the day, period.
Oh man, I'm sad for you after that comment. I understand work/life separation and all that, and I can also be painfully introverted, but if you form no meaningful relationships someplace you spend half of your waking life, I hope you'll reevaluate your priorities. It's not like you have to go to each other's family events or be besties or anything, but if you don't have someone at work who you trust enough to really know how each other is doing, might I humbly suggest you're missing out and there are better workplaces to invest your time.
Chrome is a serious resource hog on the Mac too, even with few or no extensions. Chrome 57 is somewhat improved, but I find myself favoring Safari much more simply because it will not destroy my battery life. Firefox is orders of magnitude worse than all of them. While I don't believe Microsoft's 3 hour number either, it's indisputable that Chrome can't beat Safari or Edge when it comes to battery life, a fact which I appreciate Google finally feeling the pressure to address.
Looks like this study makes the same faulty assumption that the news media does - that a voter can be counted on only to vote for the candidate of their preferred party. Those other candidates they magically transferred votes for didn't actually run in those districts, so saying one democrat is the same as another and one republican is the same as another - a fashionable and fun cynical fiction for sure - is just not true.
I always thought of Tory as the Brian Dunkleman of Mythbusters. You know, that guy who hosted with Seacrest during the first season of American Idol that no one remembers. They should have dumped Tory when he tried to electrocute Adam with the Ark of the Covenant, and no one would have minded.
I saw Jim present this at the StirTrek conference in Columbus in 2012. It was a really good presentation. Life is short and we aren't promised a tomorrow, but this guy clearly was doing what he was passionate about. http://bostonrb.org/presentati...
I was with you until you brought up VB and then proved you haven't got a clue what you are talking about. VB.NET code written for the 1.0 framework 14 years ago compiles and works exactly the same in the latest 4.5 release, full stop. If you're really referring to classic VB6 and prior, or the false notion that VB6 was ever intended to able to magically port to.NET, that's pretty much ancient history at this point. There's lots to complain about with VB, but Microsoft has had language compatibility right for almost 15 years now.
I just finished applying it to my 4th generation iPad. It took about 10 minutes, which was longer than I expected. It uploads an app to your device, which you then run to apply the jailbreak. If Apple would just include a Dvorak keyboard, my main reason for jailbreaking would be gone. Or rather, it would only be driven by my desire to tinker and not from any real need.
When the perpetrator of a crime is prosecuted for it, he's not a victim. And when that perp then commits a harm against himself, he's no victim there either. You keep using that word 'victim', but I don't think you know what it means.
Well, thankfully you don't get a vote then. I for one am happy that someone is willing to stand up and say current behaviors are driving our country toward an inevitable debt burden we can never hope to repay, regardless of whether the message is popular. Someone is finally saying it's time to have a credible plan to turn things around. Now, if only they had a credible plan...
This. This. One hundred times, this. Owning an iPhone has meant that at the end of your two year contract, you're still getting software updates. And buying a smart phone is an investment in the eco-system. It's so simple, it's frightening that MS can't figure it out - those people who bought your product, the ones willing to give you money and buy apps from your store, keep those people happy. If you do, they will evangelize your product. If you don't those 2 years are an eternity of loathing. As a.NET dev, I want a phone I can enjoy writing software for, but they have yet to sell me on whether it's worth the investment. The Lumia is a gorgeous phone, but can they keep people using it happy for 2 years the way Apple does? Outlook not good. So I type away on slashdot via my iPhone and wait to give Apple my money for the iPhone 5s next year, sight unseen. Boring, but reliably good for the long haul.
Agree or disagree with Miguel, Linus, Cox, or whomever... The simple point remains that just over a decade ago hardly anyone ran a Unix desktop. Linux looked poised to change that. But today, the most prevalent desktop OS isn't Linux, it's OS X. All the posturing and blaming and theorizing is great and all, but lost in all the bickering is the simple fact that Linux has yet to come out on top in the consumer space (minus embedded), and at this point no longer looks poised to ever do so. That may be fine for some, but for many the dream of an open source consumer PC OS is slipping away. I commend Miguel for at least being willing to say why he thinks so, rather than going on pretending the failure isn't a huge letdown to many of us. He may not be right about the why, but at least he's willing to admit the 'what', which is light years further than many in the community *cough* Stallman *cough* have been able to do.
We've weathered 3 tech downturns since I've been in the IT biz without a dent, our housing market didn't have a huge bubble so there wasn't much value lost, and unemploment in IT is near 1% here right now. Everyone's hiring developers. Lived here all my life - weather's decent if you like real snow in winter and heat in the summer, the city is growing and modern, and there's a fair amount to do if you prefer more family-oriented over a single's night life. If you write code, come. We'd love to have you.
While true, that's a pretty disingenuous comment to the topic at hand. Anyone with previous iPhone experience can tell that the 4S battery life is abysmal. My 3 year old iPhone 3G lasted many hours longer than my brand new 4S. does It doesn't take millions of users to see this. It's not like it's barely noticeable.
No doubt. When I read the OP, all I could think of was that of was what an understatement it is to say they released version 6 early when you consider that 4.0 came out a few months ago. Given all the really bad decisions Mozilla has made lately, I have to wonder if they've ever heard of this little old browser called Netscape? History seems to be repeating itself.
Considering XNA and Silverlight are still being pushed pretty hard with Windows Phone
Actually, that's the whole reason for the debate, right there. Windows 8 is the next iteration of Microsoft's very late-in-coming mobile strategy. The whole reason for the hoopla in the first place is that Silverlight was the center of that strategy for WP7, but the Windows 8 demo (done on a touch screen) looks like an indicator of a Crazy Ivan shift in that mobile development strategy. The discussion about on the MS forums is about WPF and Silverlight and the whole mobile strategy. The discussion here is a some bizarre chicken-little-sky-is-falling-ms-flamebait-typical-slashdot-crapfest.
Obviously from this thread and the headline, there's little understanding of what the uprising is about. Silverlight is not dead - perhaps on the web at large, but within intranets and line of business apps it's huge. But that's the stuff that you'd never see if you don't work for a Microsoft shop. And the big issue isn't any of that anyway - it's that Microsoft has FINALLY been working on getting their mobile strategy together and now it looks like they're changing directions erratically. Windows Phone 7 was a huge (but late) step forward, and a lot of investment has begun in that arena. And silverlight was a big part of that. And now with the Windows 8 announcement with so much focus on mobile, the silence about silverlight is deafening. There's nothing that indicates that they are building on their previous direction.
Now, you may be part of the typical slashdot crowd and believe that this is just SOP with Microsoft, and for a small subset of technologies you'd be right, but mostly that opinion is dead wrong as MS is probably one of the best companies out there at supporting legacy tech and putting out stuff with backwards compatibility in mind. It's what keeps MS in business, and it's something that has many flaws, but is their greatest strength as well. This Windows 8 announcement looks to be an abandonment of that philosophy, and it's a bit alarming. If they have something to say about WPF development for mobile, they need to say it - and quick. (Full disclosure: Professionally, I'm a.NET developer, but have never had anything but passing interest in silverlight)
Huh, that's funny. Without projects like Mono, I personally wouldn't have been willing to touch Linux (or OS X). Thankfully, your opinion - though apparently shared by many - doesn't mean squat. I for one am glad for the availability of choice in the open source world, and the beauty is that what I chose doesn't have to line up with what anyone else chooses. I'm hopeful another company picks these guys up soon as the risk now is that the team won't stay together. The only mistake I see with Mono was they tied themselves to Novell which has been destined for the bottom of the sea for years.
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My mom used to work at Children's Palace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_World), which was a competing toy store in the 80's. Toy R Us would build their stores right next to them to try to put them out of business. When the weekly flyers came out for sales on things like baby food and diapers, Toys R Us would send their employees over to Children's Palace to buy up all the sale items in the flyer so that they were out of stock, causing angry customers - many of whom were low income. Toys R Us minions would sometimes just throw away the merchandise in the trash outside the store after their raids. My mom had a lot of stories about their guerrilla retail tactics. Toys R Us eventually won out and Children's Palace went out of business, but my parents never let us go there. Bankruptcy couldn't have happened to a more deserving company, albeit 30 years too late.
I couldn't agree more. There is no other phone out there that I can comfortably hold and use one handed, and fits easily and comfortably in any pocket. I wouldn't mind waterproof and the edge to edge screen like the X, which would keep that same form factor while expanding the screen size. I miss the time when smaller and smaller tech was considered revolutionary instead of lbudget". I for one would pay premium prices for the SE form factor in a flagship phone. Maybe I'm a niche market, but I would have switched to Android in a heartbeat when the 6 came out (before the SE saved the day) if Samsung or Google Pixel/Nexus line started committing to a "mini" version of their flagships. There's no phone big enough for when I want a real screen - for that I use an iPad or laptop. My phone is for portability.
That's a pretty ridiculous statement. Apple, for all its faults, supports its products way longer than just about any other hardware maker you can buy from. There's a lot to criticism Apple for, but this ain't one of them. (Disclosure: Owner of a Series 0 Apple Watch that just got a software update yesterday and can count on continuing to get them for years to come).
We are just one generation away from theaters going out of business, and it canâ(TM)t come soon enough. I just saw Spider-Man Homecoming in a theater a week after it came out because I could not longer avoid enough spoilers to enjoy the movie if I waited any longer. Every other part of the experience other than the release date was sub-par to just waiting and watching it at home. The food, the ticket price, the seats, the crowds, the volume (loud != immersive), and the inability to pause and hit the restroom when my kid had to go make theaters a worse experience in every sense. At the beginning of Homecoming, Tom Holland did a little intro thanking the audience for watching the movie in the theater and I couldnâ(TM)t help but feel sorry for him for missing the boat, like the rest of Hollywood. Sorry Chris Nolan, youâ(TM)re movies are good but I canâ(TM)t agree with you on the theater being better in any way your audiences care about.
I've used iPhones since the iPhone 3G, and I admit I'm pretty bored with it honestly. The Pixel looks like it is a nice alternative. When it was time to trade in my iPhone 5s, this last line of Nexus phones had just been released, and I was tempted. But I just couldn't do it when it came down to it for a few reasons. First, my old iPhone 5s still runs the latest iOS. Apple supports their devices for an insane amount of time. The Pixel/Nexus line seem to be the only ones that have any chance of seeing more than one or two versions of Android. Second, lock in. It's getting to the point where the respective app stores have enough investment that the thought of rebuying or finding alternative apps is very daunting. And third, I was not in the market for a giant phone. I guess I am one of the rare people who will pay premium prices for a small, powerful phone. So I opted for the SE. If I were already an Android user, I can't think why the Pixel wouldn't be the phone to get. As a potential switcher, I keep watching to see if Google can woo customers away from Apple, but I think they need to put a better focus on what Apple switchers are unhappy about in their ecosystem. And Google has a bad history of not sticking it out with a product line if the first few iterations don't sell well. I still miss the Nexus 7 line :(
I mean, granted it may be more of a contractor thing, but who makes friends at "work"? I mean, you go there to earn money and leave for the day, period.
Oh man, I'm sad for you after that comment. I understand work/life separation and all that, and I can also be painfully introverted, but if you form no meaningful relationships someplace you spend half of your waking life, I hope you'll reevaluate your priorities. It's not like you have to go to each other's family events or be besties or anything, but if you don't have someone at work who you trust enough to really know how each other is doing, might I humbly suggest you're missing out and there are better workplaces to invest your time.
Chrome is a serious resource hog on the Mac too, even with few or no extensions. Chrome 57 is somewhat improved, but I find myself favoring Safari much more simply because it will not destroy my battery life. Firefox is orders of magnitude worse than all of them. While I don't believe Microsoft's 3 hour number either, it's indisputable that Chrome can't beat Safari or Edge when it comes to battery life, a fact which I appreciate Google finally feeling the pressure to address.
Have you ever stopped reading a cringeworthy Slashdot summary after the first two sentences? Don't lie, the answer is yes.
Looks like this study makes the same faulty assumption that the news media does - that a voter can be counted on only to vote for the candidate of their preferred party. Those other candidates they magically transferred votes for didn't actually run in those districts, so saying one democrat is the same as another and one republican is the same as another - a fashionable and fun cynical fiction for sure - is just not true.
I always thought of Tory as the Brian Dunkleman of Mythbusters. You know, that guy who hosted with Seacrest during the first season of American Idol that no one remembers. They should have dumped Tory when he tried to electrocute Adam with the Ark of the Covenant, and no one would have minded.
I saw Jim present this at the StirTrek conference in Columbus in 2012. It was a really good presentation. Life is short and we aren't promised a tomorrow, but this guy clearly was doing what he was passionate about. http://bostonrb.org/presentati...
I was with you until you brought up VB and then proved you haven't got a clue what you are talking about. VB.NET code written for the 1.0 framework 14 years ago compiles and works exactly the same in the latest 4.5 release, full stop. If you're really referring to classic VB6 and prior, or the false notion that VB6 was ever intended to able to magically port to .NET, that's pretty much ancient history at this point. There's lots to complain about with VB, but Microsoft has had language compatibility right for almost 15 years now.
I just finished applying it to my 4th generation iPad. It took about 10 minutes, which was longer than I expected. It uploads an app to your device, which you then run to apply the jailbreak. If Apple would just include a Dvorak keyboard, my main reason for jailbreaking would be gone. Or rather, it would only be driven by my desire to tinker and not from any real need.
When the perpetrator of a crime is prosecuted for it, he's not a victim. And when that perp then commits a harm against himself, he's no victim there either. You keep using that word 'victim', but I don't think you know what it means.
Well, thankfully you don't get a vote then. I for one am happy that someone is willing to stand up and say current behaviors are driving our country toward an inevitable debt burden we can never hope to repay, regardless of whether the message is popular. Someone is finally saying it's time to have a credible plan to turn things around. Now, if only they had a credible plan...
This. This. One hundred times, this. Owning an iPhone has meant that at the end of your two year contract, you're still getting software updates. And buying a smart phone is an investment in the eco-system. It's so simple, it's frightening that MS can't figure it out - those people who bought your product, the ones willing to give you money and buy apps from your store, keep those people happy. If you do, they will evangelize your product. If you don't those 2 years are an eternity of loathing. As a .NET dev, I want a phone I can enjoy writing software for, but they have yet to sell me on whether it's worth the investment. The Lumia is a gorgeous phone, but can they keep people using it happy for 2 years the way Apple does? Outlook not good. So I type away on slashdot via my iPhone and wait to give Apple my money for the iPhone 5s next year, sight unseen. Boring, but reliably good for the long haul.
Read in context, it's obvious that I am saying the most prevalent unix-based OS is clearly OS X, which it is.
Agree or disagree with Miguel, Linus, Cox, or whomever... The simple point remains that just over a decade ago hardly anyone ran a Unix desktop. Linux looked poised to change that. But today, the most prevalent desktop OS isn't Linux, it's OS X. All the posturing and blaming and theorizing is great and all, but lost in all the bickering is the simple fact that Linux has yet to come out on top in the consumer space (minus embedded), and at this point no longer looks poised to ever do so. That may be fine for some, but for many the dream of an open source consumer PC OS is slipping away. I commend Miguel for at least being willing to say why he thinks so, rather than going on pretending the failure isn't a huge letdown to many of us. He may not be right about the why, but at least he's willing to admit the 'what', which is light years further than many in the community *cough* Stallman *cough* have been able to do.
We've weathered 3 tech downturns since I've been in the IT biz without a dent, our housing market didn't have a huge bubble so there wasn't much value lost, and unemploment in IT is near 1% here right now. Everyone's hiring developers. Lived here all my life - weather's decent if you like real snow in winter and heat in the summer, the city is growing and modern, and there's a fair amount to do if you prefer more family-oriented over a single's night life. If you write code, come. We'd love to have you.
While true, that's a pretty disingenuous comment to the topic at hand. Anyone with previous iPhone experience can tell that the 4S battery life is abysmal. My 3 year old iPhone 3G lasted many hours longer than my brand new 4S. does It doesn't take millions of users to see this. It's not like it's barely noticeable.
Strange. 10 years ago I used to get my news from slashdot first. Now, not so much anymore. This list is pretty exhaustive and has more backing than I expect you'd find anywhere else, including here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read
No doubt. When I read the OP, all I could think of was that of was what an understatement it is to say they released version 6 early when you consider that 4.0 came out a few months ago. Given all the really bad decisions Mozilla has made lately, I have to wonder if they've ever heard of this little old browser called Netscape? History seems to be repeating itself.
Considering XNA and Silverlight are still being pushed pretty hard with Windows Phone
Actually, that's the whole reason for the debate, right there. Windows 8 is the next iteration of Microsoft's very late-in-coming mobile strategy. The whole reason for the hoopla in the first place is that Silverlight was the center of that strategy for WP7, but the Windows 8 demo (done on a touch screen) looks like an indicator of a Crazy Ivan shift in that mobile development strategy. The discussion about on the MS forums is about WPF and Silverlight and the whole mobile strategy. The discussion here is a some bizarre chicken-little-sky-is-falling-ms-flamebait-typical-slashdot-crapfest.
Obviously from this thread and the headline, there's little understanding of what the uprising is about. Silverlight is not dead - perhaps on the web at large, but within intranets and line of business apps it's huge. But that's the stuff that you'd never see if you don't work for a Microsoft shop. And the big issue isn't any of that anyway - it's that Microsoft has FINALLY been working on getting their mobile strategy together and now it looks like they're changing directions erratically. Windows Phone 7 was a huge (but late) step forward, and a lot of investment has begun in that arena. And silverlight was a big part of that. And now with the Windows 8 announcement with so much focus on mobile, the silence about silverlight is deafening. There's nothing that indicates that they are building on their previous direction.
.NET developer, but have never had anything but passing interest in silverlight)
Now, you may be part of the typical slashdot crowd and believe that this is just SOP with Microsoft, and for a small subset of technologies you'd be right, but mostly that opinion is dead wrong as MS is probably one of the best companies out there at supporting legacy tech and putting out stuff with backwards compatibility in mind. It's what keeps MS in business, and it's something that has many flaws, but is their greatest strength as well. This Windows 8 announcement looks to be an abandonment of that philosophy, and it's a bit alarming. If they have something to say about WPF development for mobile, they need to say it - and quick. (Full disclosure: Professionally, I'm a
Huh, that's funny. Without projects like Mono, I personally wouldn't have been willing to touch Linux (or OS X). Thankfully, your opinion - though apparently shared by many - doesn't mean squat. I for one am glad for the availability of choice in the open source world, and the beauty is that what I chose doesn't have to line up with what anyone else chooses. I'm hopeful another company picks these guys up soon as the risk now is that the team won't stay together. The only mistake I see with Mono was they tied themselves to Novell which has been destined for the bottom of the sea for years.