Netbooks are are just toys. They are too anemic to do serious work on it unless if you *GASP* connect up through citrix to a farm or desktop via VNC/RDP. But guess what? You can do the same thing with an iPad. Citrix receiver, Logmein Ignition or a VNC client pick your poison.
They are just smaller and "CHEAPER" laptops with screens so small and low res that the desktop OSes running on them feel cramped. Their keyboards are painful to use for people with larger hands and the CPU/GPU power limits them to little more than light web surfing and use of "web" apps like Google Office.
I look at a netbook and I don't see them offering anything new to the table and feel like people are investing in them because of a false sense of economy when you are getting a device even less powerful than a 2006 MBP.
The really crazy people are those who already had a laptop and bought a netbook in addition to having a desktop.
If you really "need" a full OS on the go, get a desktop replacement and have that as your sole computer or if you really don't need desktop apps all of the time, get an iPad for apps and mobile gaming and connect back to your PC or mac desktop with Logmein or some similar service and you will have a tablet/slate with an OS designed specifically for touch from the ground up.
iPads are popular because they are easy to start using whether you are a windows user or mac user or even a novice. If you search Youtube videos, you will find that they are so easy that even a toddler can use one.
A lot of people have realized that they really don't need to haul around a desktop replacement laptop and that they really don't actually use all of the powerful apps on a laptop the majority of the time.
If you really need to use a desktop app, you can connect back to your home desktop using either VNC (OS X) or Remote desktop (windows) or to a corporate citrix farm. There are VNC viewers, and a citrix receiver for the iPad and I understand that other services like Logmein Ignition also have iPad apps.
Even with these remote connection apps readily available, most people will not use them often and are satisfied with native iPad apps and web apps like those from Google.
Many people have compared the iPad with the PADD from Star Trek and there is a great deal of similarity between them. Both represent a way to access information from a central computer and be able to view and edit some of that information while on the go. Neither the fictional device or the iPad was meant to replace the larger computer terminals that you have at your disposal.
I propose that we all boycott Australia and simultaneously send letters (not emails) to the Australian government expressing your intent to boycott them until they stop it with this censorship crap.
Don't visit Australia on vacation. Don't buy any australian products. Don't visit any australian websites. Don't see any australian movies.
How soon after this will everyone be required to be chipped in the hand in order buy, sell or work? Mark of the beast is coming and sheeple on the internets will welcome it with open arms because they will think that it is "cool" and subversive against the faith of their forefathers. Do you really want to become a drone?
We do not know for certain if a particular strata was exactly 90 million years old, but a possible error rate of 30000:1 is not being passed off as credible research by any scientist in radioactive decay-based dating. For practical purposes, bell curves serve as a useful indicator of probability by showing a gradient of weight around a mean, not to prove that the leftmost infinitesimally improbable armpit of the curve represents any significant doubt to the central argument.
That is all very interesting but there is no known value to solve against. That error rate 30000:1 is something you or someone pulled out of their ass and now it is simply accepted dogma. Dogma is not the same as a known fact. If the rate of decay is allegedly millions of years, there is no way to prove or disprove it and therefore it should not be considered science but rather dogma. You can forget about the possibility of cosmic radiation if you like but the fact still remains that the decay rate is not verified by anything and the concentration of the gas when the rock formed is also not known.
The scientific method requires a known control. For carbon dating, there is external evidence that you can use to judge the accuracy of it (historical records) but for other dating methods, where is the known control? Don't feed me circular logic crap about the state of gases in strata beside fossils of a "known" age because that is a feedback loop. I was not born yesterday.
Not only have some of these gas based dating methods been thrown into question by the realization that cosmic radiation can speed up the radioactive decay of those gases but we do not have any way to verify the decay rate unaffected by cosmic radiation using the classic scientific method. There is no control old enough. We also do not know what concentration of those gases were when they were trapped in the rock let alone what they were even a couple hundred years ago.
Even if the scale of the rate of decay was accurate, there is no way to know what the started state was when it was trapped, whether that gas was trapped long before that strata formed and whether cosmic radiation has sped up the decay since it was deposited in the strata.
In a nutshell, you do not know for certain if a particular strata is 3000 or 90 million years old.
You can always buy phones without a plan...even the iPhone.
iPhone without a plan? In the United States?
Are you that damn lazy? Take a trip to Canada, go to an Apple store and buy an unlocked iPhone directly from Apple at an Apple store.
Alternatively, if you have a friend in Canada, they can order the unlocked phone directly from Apple for you and ship it to you after they get it or they can go to an Apple store, buy the unlocked phone and ship it to you.
Actually you're wrong, there's a large number of heterosexual people who engage in sexual acts with people of the same sex just for physical pleasure or a various number of other reasons. The accepted medical definition of gay is someone who feels an emotional attraction to someone of the same sex. If you're a straight man you can get off with another man, it's just the way human body works, falling in love with that man that's a totally different story.
Wow. You are really confused. If you have consensual homo sex then you are a homo. FULL STOP. The definition of gay is someone who is physically attracted to someone of the same sex you moron. Feelings have nothing to do with it. If you are a guy and you have had sex with another guy then you are a homo. Got it?
I don't know what sort of propaganda you have been reading but it certainly could not possibly be a medical journal.
I know that I am straight because I only have a physical attraction towards the opposite sex. I only get a boner from women.
Love and sex are not the same thing. Homosexuals have homosexual sex while heterosexuals only have heterosexual sex. Some gay people do have both and are sometimes called "bisexual". Do you notice the word "sex" in homosexual? They are not called homophiles anymore.
There are many types of love and sadly everyone has become so phobic that people are afraid of having meaningful friendships with each other for fear of it being misconstrued. You can care about someone like they were part of your family. That is a type of love called brotherly/sisterly love.
If you live in an area with good AT&T coverage you wont notice a problem. Go out into the boonies.
I see your anecdotal evidence and match with my own. Out here in the midwest ive seen it happen on every iphone4 ive had the opportunity of trying it on. Including the display model at the AT&T store.
My issue, though, is I have not found an area that does not jump from good to so-bad-i-just-need-to-stare-at-it-for-the-iphone-to-fail. There does not seem to be any in-betweens around where I live. Either ATT just plainly sucks, or they work great.
Yeah, that is caused by the formula that they use to calculate signal strength which was wrong. 4.0.1 only changed the size of the bars. The number of bars swing wildly because the range for full bars is so wide and the rest so narrow. You might not have such a strong signal to begin with and when there is a drop, it appears to be catastrophic when you actually had only 3 bars of strength.
Mac OS X is the world’s most advanced operating system. Built on a rock-solid UNIX foundation and designed to be simple and intuitive, it’s what makes the Mac innovative, highly secure, compatible, and easy to use. Quite simply, there is nothing else like it.
In addition to USB signals, the dock connector provides, Left/Right Line in/out, Control signals to/from accessories like radio clocks, Video out, S-Video Luminance, S-Video Chrominance output, VGA out and it also used to provide firewire data signals on older iPod models.
However, only if I can run linux or android on it, I might buy an iPad. Yes, linux or andoid may not perform that well on this device (cpu and battery-wise), but the mere openness of these OSes is sufficient for me.
Are you really that foolish that you would spend your money on hardware and install another OS on it knowing that it will not perform well compared to the native OS? I assume that you don't "earn" your money and that you are some rich kid living on a trust fund because no sane person would do that because it is "open" with their own hard earned money.
If you are that careless with your money, I suggest sending some of it my way so that I can feed some homeless people.
Do you know why certain countries hate us so much? Because we have been so blessed by the creator but we wasted our riches on wrecking things for the "fun" of it.
It is a hole in the library used to parse PDFs and load fonts apparently. If other platforms (linux desktop and android) use the same version of that library for PDFs, they too could be vulnerable to a remote exploit such as this.
This is true but I don't feel like carrying around my iMac in suitcase and the screen on the iPhones are too small to read on. I don't own a Kindle (never really serious considered one) and I'm giving away my MBP to my mother so my iPad will be my portable computing device when I go on longer trips. My iPhone is always with me but I like having a larger screen for reading or watching video when on a trip.
If you need to carry an iPad when you are going on a trip, so that you can read or watch movies, do yourself a favor, and just don't go on a trip.
Because it's obvious you're not going on a trip because you want to.
Ok, some people have these things called "JOBS" and some of us travel to other locations as part of our "JOB" so it is nice to be able to read articles/books/magazines, browse the web, email, watch videos and play games either in a hotel room or on route to/from home on a plane or ferry.
In my opinion Microsoft should move forward with the Courier and not just blow it off like another invention that will fail. I think this would rake in a lot of money and be a huge competetor to Apples IPad. I for one would wait in long lines to recieve one of these.
So it would be a success like like the Zune or the KIn? Listen, I'll let you in on a little secret. What hardcore gadget/windows enthusiasts think will sell well usually does not sell well at all. A few examples of this would be: Windows Tablet PCs, Zune, JooJoo, Archos, IRiver, Kin, Open Moko, and the Courier.
In order for a product to be successful, it needs to appeal the general buying public and if there is third party software to me made then developers (geeks) need to buy into the platform. It does not need to appeal to nerds (enthusiasts) which would include a lot of slashdot regulars and tech bloggers. CNET journalists believed that the Zune would be successful and that HDDVD would win the format war so that should give you an indication of how out of touch tech blogger are with the masses.
Apple's designs set the trend for knock-off electronics for years. How many phones since the iPhone have been made to "look like the iPhone?" How many MP3 players since the iPod? Now the tablet computer. Apple has a lot of weight on its shoulders because there's a giant knock-off industry just waiting to see what they'll do next.
To be fair, to the extent that "there's a giant knock-off industry" waiting to see what Apple does, Apple itself is a giant knock-off company.
How many smart phones and PDAs were around before the iPhone? How many MP3 players were around before the iPod?
Apple's successes in those areas are because they knocked off the previous products really well. The iPad is really the first arena they're entering where there really wasn't much of an existing market.
*WHOOSH*
The GP was talking about the "aesthetics" of the hardware and the "look and feel" of the UI. There may have been other phones on the market before the iPhone and other MP3 players before the iPod but these devices and their associated syncing software set a new standard that others have been trying to imitate.
I'm sure someone would bring up the Prada phone that came out just before the iPhone but I believe that to be an example of industrial espionage. Apple had been working on their iPhone and platform for a number of years and it seems odd that Prada would have come out with a phone of that form factor out of the blue right before the iPhone launched.
but a company that can convince people they need a product that does the same thing as other gadgets they already own has to be doing something right.
FTFY.
And yes, Slashdot, this is just my opinion. Sorry if it angers you.
This is true but I don't feel like carrying around my iMac in suitcase and the screen on the iPhones are too small to read on. I don't own a Kindle (never really serious considered one) and I'm giving away my MBP to my mother so my iPad will be my portable computing device when I go on longer trips. My iPhone is always with me but I like having a larger screen for reading or watching video when on a trip.
$150K in NYC is not the same as $150K in BFE. Cost of living and all that jazz.
Dude, NYC is full of people earning less than 20 percent of that amount who somehow get by. There are plenty of choices you can make to get by on less even if you earn a lot of money.
1. Choose to live outside of NYC and commute by train or choose a cheaper neighbourhood in NYC
2. Shop for groceries where you live and brown bag it.
3. Buy cheaper but long lasting clothing.
You can then take all of that money that you save and invest it towards an early retirement .
Your cost of living is largely in your own control through the choices you make.
If you're living in New York, that is probably accurate. In any case, if the software they're writing is producing $100,000/day, it sounds to me like they're on the wrong side of this software. Why not write your own and then use it on the side for some extra $$?
Yes, if you choose to live in New York in a convenient location and live a comfortable lifestyle then you can end up consuming enough money that you "get by" on 100,000 dollars a year but did it ever occur to you that there are plenty of working stiff that make a fraction of that who somehow seem to get by too?
The software they wrote is not producing money. The traders are using it as a "TOOL" to ply their business to earn 100,000 dollars a day.
These whiny children need to put things in perspective.
I think that something really important to remember in all this is they live in NY. You pretty much have to divide their salary by half to get an equivalent salary anywhere else in the US.
Even with that in mind, I think the real problem isn't that the programmers should make more, it is that the traders should make LESS. Whining about not being able to take advantage of rigging the game to funnel money to yourself like your superiors do shouldn't get you any sympathy.
Ok, half of 150,000 USD is 75,000 USD which is a lot more than a lot of programmers make in the rest of the US. You can live in such a way that you need 150,000 USD or you can simply choose live in a different part of the city (or outskirts) and not live such an extravagant lifestyle. That way you can save up money, invest it and retire early.
You make it sound like everyone living there has to earn at least 50,000 USD just to get by which is not true. I'm sure there are people who work in NY who earn 20 percent of what this guy is earning (30,000) and get by just fine.
Releasing software as open source can be altruistic and kind but it can also be means to stroke one's own ego. If you pick the GPL for example, your primary concern is not to help others but rather to further your project by ensuring that anyone else working on the code has to contribute back to your project thereby improving on the original work. You can then then release again and collect fame and glory.
That's not to say that altruism cannot be one of the motivations behind the project but picking the GPL does tend to place the emphasis on the "work" rather than a notion of "giving" back to the community without any expected reward.
If this study equates being a "fan" of variants like Android as being altruistic then it is seriously flawed. Fans rarely contribute anything. They like linux because it is "free" which means that Android phones are likely to be cheaper. That is the opposite of altruism.
People can have kind words and yet do nothing because they barely have the means to help themselves. In other cases, these "have nots" just have different priorities and spend their money on their vehicles instead leaving very little for anything else.
It could be that people who are well off simply don't talk about being altruistic and kind but rather put their will into action by helping others either through volunteering or donations. Not everyone feels the need to list off all of the good that they do because they have no interest in seeking the praise or approval of men.
You can answer a study to appear altruistic and kind and yet being either unable or unwilling to help others.
it's just a choice not to sell it through a corporate channel with a brand to maintain.
And that is the exact problem. US people, especially religious ones think there's some problem with nudity. This usually tends to be the older ones, most in their 20's don't have this problem. What exactly is it that makes nudity so bad?
You could not be more wrong. Religious people don't have a problem with nudity. Religious people get naked with their spouse and "get it on". A lot of religious people would not have a problem with "art" photography with nudes in it. Pornography is not created as "art". Its sole purpose is for people to look at it and then self-abuse themselves into a climax. That is not sex. Sex requires two people.
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Netbooks are are just toys. They are too anemic to do serious work on it unless if you *GASP* connect up through citrix to a farm or desktop via VNC/RDP. But guess what? You can do the same thing with an iPad. Citrix receiver, Logmein Ignition or a VNC client pick your poison.
They are just smaller and "CHEAPER" laptops with screens so small and low res that the desktop OSes running on them feel cramped. Their keyboards are painful to use for people with larger hands and the CPU/GPU power limits them to little more than light web surfing and use of "web" apps like Google Office.
I look at a netbook and I don't see them offering anything new to the table and feel like people are investing in them because of a false sense of economy when you are getting a device even less powerful than a 2006 MBP.
The really crazy people are those who already had a laptop and bought a netbook in addition to having a desktop.
If you really "need" a full OS on the go, get a desktop replacement and have that as your sole computer or if you really don't need desktop apps all of the time, get an iPad for apps and mobile gaming and connect back to your PC or mac desktop with Logmein or some similar service and you will have a tablet/slate with an OS designed specifically for touch from the ground up.
iPads are popular because they are easy to start using whether you are a windows user or mac user or even a novice. If you search Youtube videos, you will find that they are so easy that even a toddler can use one.
A lot of people have realized that they really don't need to haul around a desktop replacement laptop and that they really don't actually use all of the powerful apps on a laptop the majority of the time.
If you really need to use a desktop app, you can connect back to your home desktop using either VNC (OS X) or Remote desktop (windows) or to a corporate citrix farm. There are VNC viewers, and a citrix receiver for the iPad and I understand that other services like Logmein Ignition also have iPad apps.
Even with these remote connection apps readily available, most people will not use them often and are satisfied with native iPad apps and web apps like those from Google.
Many people have compared the iPad with the PADD from Star Trek and there is a great deal of similarity between them. Both represent a way to access information from a central computer and be able to view and edit some of that information while on the go. Neither the fictional device or the iPad was meant to replace the larger computer terminals that you have at your disposal.
"Honey, I shrunk the moon" starting Rick Moranis.
I propose that we all boycott Australia and simultaneously send letters (not emails) to the Australian government expressing your intent to boycott them until they stop it with this censorship crap.
Don't visit Australia on vacation. Don't buy any australian products. Don't visit any australian websites. Don't see any australian movies.
How soon after this will everyone be required to be chipped in the hand in order buy, sell or work? Mark of the beast is coming and sheeple on the internets will welcome it with open arms because they will think that it is "cool" and subversive against the faith of their forefathers. Do you really want to become a drone?
Wake up before it's too late.
We do not know for certain if a particular strata was exactly 90 million years old, but a possible error rate of 30000:1 is not being passed off as credible research by any scientist in radioactive decay-based dating. For practical purposes, bell curves serve as a useful indicator of probability by showing a gradient of weight around a mean, not to prove that the leftmost infinitesimally improbable armpit of the curve represents any significant doubt to the central argument.
That is all very interesting but there is no known value to solve against. That error rate 30000:1 is something you or someone pulled out of their ass and now it is simply accepted dogma. Dogma is not the same as a known fact. If the rate of decay is allegedly millions of years, there is no way to prove or disprove it and therefore it should not be considered science but rather dogma. You can forget about the possibility of cosmic radiation if you like but the fact still remains that the decay rate is not verified by anything and the concentration of the gas when the rock formed is also not known.
The scientific method requires a known control. For carbon dating, there is external evidence that you can use to judge the accuracy of it (historical records) but for other dating methods, where is the known control? Don't feed me circular logic crap about the state of gases in strata beside fossils of a "known" age because that is a feedback loop. I was not born yesterday.
Not only have some of these gas based dating methods been thrown into question by the realization that cosmic radiation can speed up the radioactive decay of those gases but we do not have any way to verify the decay rate unaffected by cosmic radiation using the classic scientific method. There is no control old enough. We also do not know what concentration of those gases were when they were trapped in the rock let alone what they were even a couple hundred years ago.
Even if the scale of the rate of decay was accurate, there is no way to know what the started state was when it was trapped, whether that gas was trapped long before that strata formed and whether cosmic radiation has sped up the decay since it was deposited in the strata.
In a nutshell, you do not know for certain if a particular strata is 3000 or 90 million years old.
You can always buy phones without a plan...even the iPhone.
iPhone without a plan? In the United States?
Are you that damn lazy? Take a trip to Canada, go to an Apple store and buy an unlocked iPhone directly from Apple at an Apple store.
Alternatively, if you have a friend in Canada, they can order the unlocked phone directly from Apple for you and ship it to you after they get it or they can go to an Apple store, buy the unlocked phone and ship it to you.
Actually you're wrong, there's a large number of heterosexual people who engage in sexual acts with people of the same sex just for physical pleasure or a various number of other reasons. The accepted medical definition of gay is someone who feels an emotional attraction to someone of the same sex. If you're a straight man you can get off with another man, it's just the way human body works, falling in love with that man that's a totally different story.
Wow. You are really confused. If you have consensual homo sex then you are a homo. FULL STOP. The definition of gay is someone who is physically attracted to someone of the same sex you moron. Feelings have nothing to do with it. If you are a guy and you have had sex with another guy then you are a homo. Got it?
I don't know what sort of propaganda you have been reading but it certainly could not possibly be a medical journal.
I know that I am straight because I only have a physical attraction towards the opposite sex. I only get a boner from women.
Love and sex are not the same thing. Homosexuals have homosexual sex while heterosexuals only have heterosexual sex. Some gay people do have both and are sometimes called "bisexual". Do you notice the word "sex" in homosexual? They are not called homophiles anymore.
There are many types of love and sadly everyone has become so phobic that people are afraid of having meaningful friendships with each other for fear of it being misconstrued. You can care about someone like they were part of your family. That is a type of love called brotherly/sisterly love.
If you live in an area with good AT&T coverage you wont notice a problem. Go out into the boonies.
I see your anecdotal evidence and match with my own. Out here in the midwest ive seen it happen on every iphone4 ive had the opportunity of trying it on. Including the display model at the AT&T store.
My issue, though, is I have not found an area that does not jump from good to so-bad-i-just-need-to-stare-at-it-for-the-iphone-to-fail. There does not seem to be any in-betweens around where I live. Either ATT just plainly sucks, or they work great.
Yeah, that is caused by the formula that they use to calculate signal strength which was wrong. 4.0.1 only changed the size of the bars. The number of bars swing wildly because the range for full bars is so wide and the rest so narrow. You might not have such a strong signal to begin with and when there is a drop, it appears to be catastrophic when you actually had only 3 bars of strength.
Proficiency in OSX does not equate to proficiency with Unix.
I can guarantee the vast majority of OSX users have no idea that it is based on unix.
Hyperbole much?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/
See:
http://pinouts.ru/PortableDevices/ipod_pinout.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_connector#Apple_30_pin_dock_connector
In addition to USB signals, the dock connector provides, Left/Right Line in/out, Control signals to/from accessories like radio clocks, Video out, S-Video Luminance, S-Video Chrominance output, VGA out and it also used to provide firewire data signals on older iPod models.
This is a great step.
However, only if I can run linux or android on it, I might buy an iPad.
Yes, linux or andoid may not perform that well on this device (cpu and battery-wise), but the mere openness of these OSes is sufficient for me.
Are you really that foolish that you would spend your money on hardware and install another OS on it knowing that it will not perform well compared to the native OS? I assume that you don't "earn" your money and that you are some rich kid living on a trust fund because no sane person would do that because it is "open" with their own hard earned money.
If you are that careless with your money, I suggest sending some of it my way so that I can feed some homeless people.
Do you know why certain countries hate us so much? Because we have been so blessed by the creator but we wasted our riches on wrecking things for the "fun" of it.
It is a hole in the library used to parse PDFs and load fonts apparently. If other platforms (linux desktop and android) use the same version of that library for PDFs, they too could be vulnerable to a remote exploit such as this.
This is true but I don't feel like carrying around my iMac in suitcase and the screen on the iPhones are too small to read on. I don't own a Kindle (never really serious considered one) and I'm giving away my MBP to my mother so my iPad will be my portable computing device when I go on longer trips. My iPhone is always with me but I like having a larger screen for reading or watching video when on a trip.
If you need to carry an iPad when you are going on a trip, so that you can read or watch movies, do yourself a favor, and just don't go on a trip.
Because it's obvious you're not going on a trip because you want to.
Ok, some people have these things called "JOBS" and some of us travel to other locations as part of our "JOB" so it is nice to be able to read articles/books/magazines, browse the web, email, watch videos and play games either in a hotel room or on route to/from home on a plane or ferry.
In my opinion Microsoft should move forward with the Courier and not just blow it off like another invention that will fail. I think this would rake in a lot of money and be a huge competetor to Apples IPad. I for one would wait in long lines to recieve one of these.
http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet
So it would be a success like like the Zune or the KIn? Listen, I'll let you in on a little secret. What hardcore gadget/windows enthusiasts think will sell well usually does not sell well at all. A few examples of this would be: Windows Tablet PCs, Zune, JooJoo, Archos, IRiver, Kin, Open Moko, and the Courier.
In order for a product to be successful, it needs to appeal the general buying public and if there is third party software to me made then developers (geeks) need to buy into the platform. It does not need to appeal to nerds (enthusiasts) which would include a lot of slashdot regulars and tech bloggers. CNET journalists believed that the Zune would be successful and that HDDVD would win the format war so that should give you an indication of how out of touch tech blogger are with the masses.
Apple's designs set the trend for knock-off electronics for years. How many phones since the iPhone have been made to "look like the iPhone?" How many MP3 players since the iPod? Now the tablet computer. Apple has a lot of weight on its shoulders because there's a giant knock-off industry just waiting to see what they'll do next.
To be fair, to the extent that "there's a giant knock-off industry" waiting to see what Apple does, Apple itself is a giant knock-off company.
How many smart phones and PDAs were around before the iPhone? How many MP3 players were around before the iPod?
Apple's successes in those areas are because they knocked off the previous products really well. The iPad is really the first arena they're entering where there really wasn't much of an existing market.
*WHOOSH*
The GP was talking about the "aesthetics" of the hardware and the "look and feel" of the UI. There may have been other phones on the market before the iPhone and other MP3 players before the iPod but these devices and their associated syncing software set a new standard that others have been trying to imitate.
I'm sure someone would bring up the Prada phone that came out just before the iPhone but I believe that to be an example of industrial espionage. Apple had been working on their iPhone and platform for a number of years and it seems odd that Prada would have come out with a phone of that form factor out of the blue right before the iPhone launched.
but a company that can convince people they need a product that does the same thing as other gadgets they already own has to be doing something right.
FTFY.
And yes, Slashdot, this is just my opinion. Sorry if it angers you.
This is true but I don't feel like carrying around my iMac in suitcase and the screen on the iPhones are too small to read on. I don't own a Kindle (never really serious considered one) and I'm giving away my MBP to my mother so my iPad will be my portable computing device when I go on longer trips. My iPhone is always with me but I like having a larger screen for reading or watching video when on a trip.
$150K in NYC is not the same as $150K in BFE. Cost of living and all that jazz.
Dude, NYC is full of people earning less than 20 percent of that amount who somehow get by. There are plenty of choices you can make to get by on less even if you earn a lot of money.
1. Choose to live outside of NYC and commute by train or choose a cheaper neighbourhood in NYC
2. Shop for groceries where you live and brown bag it.
3. Buy cheaper but long lasting clothing.
You can then take all of that money that you save and invest it towards an early retirement .
Your cost of living is largely in your own control through the choices you make.
If you're living in New York, that is probably accurate. In any case, if the software they're writing is producing $100,000/day, it sounds to me like they're on the wrong side of this software. Why not write your own and then use it on the side for some extra $$?
Yes, if you choose to live in New York in a convenient location and live a comfortable lifestyle then you can end up consuming enough money that you "get by" on 100,000 dollars a year but did it ever occur to you that there are plenty of working stiff that make a fraction of that who somehow seem to get by too?
The software they wrote is not producing money. The traders are using it as a "TOOL" to ply their business to earn 100,000 dollars a day.
These whiny children need to put things in perspective.
I think that something really important to remember in all this is they live in NY. You pretty much have to divide their salary by half to get an equivalent salary anywhere else in the US.
Even with that in mind, I think the real problem isn't that the programmers should make more, it is that the traders should make LESS. Whining about not being able to take advantage of rigging the game to funnel money to yourself like your superiors do shouldn't get you any sympathy.
Ok, half of 150,000 USD is 75,000 USD which is a lot more than a lot of programmers make in the rest of the US. You can live in such a way that you need 150,000 USD or you can simply choose live in a different part of the city (or outskirts) and not live such an extravagant lifestyle. That way you can save up money, invest it and retire early.
You make it sound like everyone living there has to earn at least 50,000 USD just to get by which is not true. I'm sure there are people who work in NY who earn 20 percent of what this guy is earning (30,000) and get by just fine.
Releasing software as open source can be altruistic and kind but it can also be means to stroke one's own ego. If you pick the GPL for example, your primary concern is not to help others but rather to further your project by ensuring that anyone else working on the code has to contribute back to your project thereby improving on the original work. You can then then release again and collect fame and glory.
That's not to say that altruism cannot be one of the motivations behind the project but picking the GPL does tend to place the emphasis on the "work" rather than a notion of "giving" back to the community without any expected reward.
If this study equates being a "fan" of variants like Android as being altruistic then it is seriously flawed. Fans rarely contribute anything. They like linux because it is "free" which means that Android phones are likely to be cheaper. That is the opposite of altruism.
People can have kind words and yet do nothing because they barely have the means to help themselves. In other cases, these "have nots" just have different priorities and spend their money on their vehicles instead leaving very little for anything else.
It could be that people who are well off simply don't talk about being altruistic and kind but rather put their will into action by helping others either through volunteering or donations. Not everyone feels the need to list off all of the good that they do because they have no interest in seeking the praise or approval of men.
You can answer a study to appear altruistic and kind and yet being either unable or unwilling to help others.
it's just a choice not to sell it through a corporate channel with a brand to maintain.
And that is the exact problem. US people, especially religious ones think there's some problem with nudity. This usually tends to be the older ones, most in their 20's don't have this problem. What exactly is it that makes nudity so bad?
You could not be more wrong. Religious people don't have a problem with nudity. Religious people get naked with their spouse and "get it on". A lot of religious people would not have a problem with "art" photography with nudes in it. Pornography is not created as "art". Its sole purpose is for people to look at it and then self-abuse themselves into a climax. That is not sex. Sex requires two people.