They already lost to the Android. Just like they lost to Windows back in the day. And for the same reason: Draconian closed platform attempted vendor and consumer lock in.
Learn, Jobs, LEARN.
Cool story bro. Seriously. Nerds care about those sorts of things while consumers care about "software" that works well. Have you actually taken a serious look at the Android app store? I have and I can honestly say that is sucks not only in the usability department but the lack of commercial games and apps. Then there is the whole thing with media like digital copies that come with Blu-rays and the easy syncing of iTunes music.
You just don't get it. Learn, nerds, learn. Usability and software availability matter. Open source does not matter to anyone other than nerds and people who are cheap and looking for free (gratis) software.
New Android phones available on two CDMA carriers in the US are outselling iPhone models which are about to get refreshed in a month. Colour me shocked *sarcasm*. People locked into contracts on Verizon and Sprint have no other choice and people on AT&T are waiting for the iPhone 4G. Also consider that Verizon is giving away Android phones in a "buy one get one free" promotion.
Outside of the USA, Android is where on the marketshare map? Is it even visible?
TV is full of shows about "human relationships". So full of them they don't even bother to write scripts anymore, just shove randome people into a box with cameras and watch the "human relationships" develop. It would be nice to see something more than that from time to time - a show about exploring a mysterious new land where no one even knows what the basic rules are, and figuring it all out - you know, good SF. That clearly wasn't what Lost was.
Every thing that happens, happens for a reason.
Now that's frightening. Are you sure it isn't this god of your that has Asperger's syndrome?
From the tone of your response, you seem to equate "human relationships" with people getting physical. Unless if you only tuned into the last episode or were completely obliviously to what was going on because you were so enthralled with the minutia, you should have understood that the central themes of the show were faith and redemption.
The main actor of the show (Matthew Fox) appeared on Jimmy Kimball Live last night and confirmed that the main plot of the show centred around Jack who started out a skeptic but ended up believing in a destiny where he would have to give up his life to save the lives of the other people on the island. At one point, he tried to resist that destiny by leaving the island but he eventually accepted his path in life. There were other stories of other characters going through a "fall", change in direction and redemption.
Everything really does happen for a reason and sometimes when we are in the thick of things, we cannot understand it but it often comes clear when you look at it in hindsight. I cannot understand why you would try to anthropomorphize god to the extent that you would expect human emotions from a creator being. If you were in god's shoes, you would have to sometimes put aside the love that you feel for every one of your creations and do what is best for the bigger picture. As humans, we really cannot fathom what that would be like and such a concept seems totally alien to us. As high minded as a person's ideals may be, we still tend to love those who are closer to us more than strangers and would never think of sacrificing those most dear to us to save total strangers or even an enemy. That is how different we are to god because that is exactly what god would do.
If you are disappointed with the lack of answers for what happened in the background or about the religious themes then you main issue is not whether your are an atheist or not but rather that you don't "get" human drama and emotion like you should.
Every long running successful show on television (LOST, BSG, the various Star Treks) were human dramas first and sci-fi second. Why is that? Because, other than the terminal Asperger syndrome sufferers, normal people respond to stories about human relationships and struggles. Those shows were successful because they attracted not only obsessed people looking for sci-fi but regular people looking for a good human drama.
The season finale wrapped up the main plots of the story quite nicely and ignored much of the windows dressing. The Island was not important. It was just a plot device and the real story was about people like Richard, Ben Linus and the survivors of the crash. All of the main characters learned some important lessons and/or redeemed themselves from a previous fall into selfishness/sin.
Wow. You completely missed the point of the show. Your problem is not that you are an atheist. The problem is that you suffer from Asperger syndrome and atheism is just a side effect of it.
LOST, was a human drama about relationships, faith, betrayal and redemption. Other shows like Battlestar Galactica were also human dramas with similar themes that just took place in a different place and time.
The island and all of the weird things that happened there was just window dressing for the main story which was about the survivors of that oceanic flight, the man in black, Richard and Jacob.
I hope that one day, you will wake up and realize that the point of life is to have meaningful relationships with the people around you placed there to guide and nurture and with the god that created you. Every thing that happens, happens for a reason. Each of us only has a short period of time on this planet so use it wisely.
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So Jobs can pucker up and suck a **** outa my *** just like the ticket agencies.
Are you a ticket scalper? Are you one of those cockroaches that prey on people desperate enough to pay double or triple the original asking price?
There is no debt with purchase unless if you buy it on store credit which again would involve something other than cash. You cash is good for paying your bill but stores can refuse cash for purchases.
Well, it's just the never-ending story of Apple wanting to control everything. This is what she said:
"Mr. Jobs, give a sister a break," said Campbell. "I'm not going to go sell my iPad."
Not only controlling all the applications and what you can do with the device, but controlling if you are allowed sell your device too? Everyone always says Apple is not a monopoly, but exactly how is this good for the market or people? You don't need to be a monopoly to abuse customers.
Way to spin it there pal. The policy was mean to discourage people from purchasing a lot of iPads and then reselling them for profit during the initial launch because of the high demand and supplies not being able to keep up with it.
This is really no different than efforts to deter ticket scalping where there are limits on the number of tickets each person can buy.
At least important services were unaffected. My iPhone drops my calls, sometimes won't handle data and when it hangs, no call gets in. If you're buying a phone it's nice that at least the important stuff still works, and that while I'm playing on my device I won't miss critical calls or messages.
Why is it that tourists like me never ever have problem with their iPhone when they visit the US? I never had any problems with my iPhone when I was down in the states. Is it possible that they apply QOS and give worse service to existing local customers who bitch and moan at the CSRs who cannot fix the problems anyway?
Or here is a thought, check out the service levels of carriers in your area before choosing one. If AT&T is so bad in your area, why didn't you just buy an iPod Touch and go with a simple talk and text phone for phone calls on another carrier?
Nobody is holding a gun to your head to go with AT&T or live in trendy San Francisco or New York.
But a machine doesn't need to be locked down seven ways to Sunday in order to use it for casual browsing, playing a bit of music etc.
The appletards seem to think openness and usability are mutually exclusive.
They are not mutually exclusive for people who are willing to learn and are interested having a computer. Apple offers the mac line that purpose where you not only have an easy to use GUI but you can open up a shell and have at it or install the developer tools and start coding.
There are people who are not interested in having a computer or simply have no interest in having to deal with the complexities of having a full fledged computer with them on the road when all they want is to access their music, movies, the web and access their email. The iPad can do all of that, and run games written for the iPad extremely well.
Tablets that came out previously were heavy and had to be maintained just like any other windows machine with OS updates and virus definition files.
By the way, anyone who uses the word "appletard" deserves to be modded as a troll or flamebait. I'm a mac user at home but I'm a software developer for the windows platform with over decade of work experience. I can hack a geektool desktop and write shell scripts with the best of them but I like having an OS with a GUI that does not require me to put on a sys admin hat when I get home.
I plan on getting an iPad when I'm down in Vegas and selling my MBP since I only use my iMac when I'm at home and I have stopped talking my MBP with me on trips. I've been using my iPhone 3GS instead but I'd like to have something with a larger screen but still more portability than my laptop. I think the iPad fits that bill.
A toy that lets you read the paper, play games, and listen to music/watch movies.
Real computers have keyboards, or better keyboard layouts than the ipad/iphone.
It has an onscreen keyboard, support for blu-tooth keyboards and wired USB keyboards (through USB adapter) and an optional dock with an integrated keyboard. You can create presentations, work on spreadsheets and write documents with the iWork apps or connect to a PC or mac and work remotely on those machines.
I for one will buy either a Tablet or a Netbook. Not an iPad though, a true Tablet, with LAN access to my files, Tethering, SD card, USB ports and video out. I'm holding out for all those Tablet pre-announcements, to see if one actually pans out.
Have you seriously ask you this. Do you already have a PC of some sort? If so, why would you want to spend any amount of money to run the same types of applications as you main machine only significantly slower than a laptop? With an iPad, you can have access to your files on the LAN through different third party apps, SD card access with the adapter, A USB port with the adapter and video out with a cable. The only think you will not get is tether although many carriers are offering plans to share smartphone data plans with the iPad.
I used a composite video + stereo L+R cable with my iPhone when I was in Tokyo in my hotel room and I also have a component out cable at home. The iPad has the added capability to output to VGA as well.
Unlike a netbook, you are not struggling to run applications meant for a faster PC on an underpowered device but rather applications specifically written the iPad. Games will run at full speed rather than slowly or not at all like a PC game would on a netbook.
Netbooks are great for people who want to throw a small pc in a bag and have access to the net, type emails etc on the go.
Correct.
iPads are great for people who want to throw a small pc in a bag and have access to the net, type emails etc on the go.
Sounds pretty accurate too.
And pay double the price for doing it. No reasonable person would assert that a $500-$800 Ipad is competing against a $300 netbook. At that price it is competing against laptops. If anything I would expect sales of the low end Macbook to be cannibalized by this thing.
The problem with the netbook is that it does nothing well. It cannot playback even 720p video properly from the web and you can forget about games.
With an iPad, you can not only do what netbooks can do but you also can download applications specifically tuned to the iPad for multitouch and within the processor and gfx chip limits giving you a better gaming experience than you could get with a netbook running games designed for a more powerful PC.
Think for one moment. What has been the reason for developing the majority of technology throughout the ages? Answer: Warfare. Most of the technology we now enjoy including the internet were developed by the military and Nasa. The drive for NASA's space race was fuelled by by the Cold War with the Soviets. Have you noticed how NASA has been pushed to the side as of late?
All of this peace and harmony has been slowing down our technological progress.
I'm shocked that they could not reroute the flights south through an alternate route and that they seemed to have no contingency plans for this sort of event.
The cloud covered, among others, Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle, and Frankfurt, i.e. the 3 busiest airports in Europe (Heathrow is the busiest in the world, and CDG and FRA are not much behind). It also closed the other London Airports, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen. First, this is where people want to go. Secondly, no other airports in range have the capacity to take up this many flights.
All of those airports were closed but do we know for a fact that the cloud was covering those areas? All of those airports you mentioned were "international" and most international flights in the northern such as between Europe and North America and Europe and Japan would usually go close to north pole to take advantage of the wind currents and curvature of the earth at those latitudes. In the past, flights would go across the atlantic stopping to refuel on the east coast of Canada.
Are we all certain that there was ash coverage over those airports and if so, was it enough to pose a danger?
I'm shocked that they could not reroute the flights south through an alternate route and that they seemed to have no contingency plans for this sort of event. Could they not route the flights around the affected area adding an hour to the flight time?
Android starts to lag badly after a while on production builds straight from the manufacturer.
On a G1, yes, but on the droid (I own a milestone, the GSM european version of the droid), definitely not...
Is Youtube blocked where you post from? The video I linked to was a review of the Droid Eris by a linux fangirl. It was not the G1. Perhaps you have an older build of Android without the bells and whistles and the Droid Eris comes with more eye candy?
No one does want to hire me. I'm 40, been programming all sorts of things in all sorts of languages. I learn LAMP in the 90s, then they go and change the P from Perl to PhP. I know both of course. If I learn Objective C, (the pryamids in Egypt), then I can have a Objective C (0 years), on my CV, great, I don't hired. 40 years with zero experience in a new subject, get sent to wall.
It sounds like the issue isn't Objective-C specifically but that your experience is with developing web pages and web apps exclusively not that there is anything wrong with that.
Where I work, developers will often switch from writing server-side app server code to web interface code to even native windows interfaces. I've also switched product teams several times and some of those teams use C# for some components, Java for others and Python. The choice of language depends on whether we are interfacing with our in house services (C#) or Third party servers (Java, Python).
If you had any experience with writing web services in a language like Java, then you could contribute to a team that was writing a client-server app for the iPhone on the server side. Once you know Java, C# is easy to pick up or visa versa.
If you don't have experience with C/C++, Java or C# in an application or server context, learning Objective C will be difficult. So the language might not be the larger hurdle but rather a lack of experience with fat/thin/rich desktop clients.
but is apple going let me use it, and will there be any installed user
base? Not appearing or not found in the App store, would stump me
from wanting to developing there to.
With an attitude like that, I don't see why anyone would want to hire you. If you were a professional developer with a professional attitude, you would not have a problem with learning another language. How do you think all of those.NET developer with years of experience learned C# in the first place? Through osmosis? Through magic?
They picked up some books, read magazines and started learning the language through trial and error.
The fastest way to become obsolete and redundant is to refuse to learn something new or to use the best tool for the job. I've posted before that the majority of languages that I have written code in for the past 10 years have been learned by me while on the job.
If you are afraid to learn Objective-C then I suggest that you turn in your geek card right now.
Actually, the iphone also lags when switching to landscape. How many times have I seen an apple fanboy demonstrate how great their iphone was when switching to landscape while looking at pictures, only to have to move their wrist two or three times to actually get the thing to turn...
The iPhone 3GS does not lag when typing which is what the reviewer was complaining about Android on the Eris. There is a second delay switching from portrait to landscape keyboard in the mail app while the Droid too a longer to switch. Switching without a keyboard on screen is about half a second on the iPhone.
Android starts to lag badly after a while on production builds straight from the manufacturer.
It's a debug build for testing purposes. Debug builds are always rough on the hardware and less responsive. We have no idea how well it will run as a release build, or what the battery life might be.
Lack of vibration support is a device driver. As soon as they figure out which chip is in the iPhone to control vibration, somebody will write an Android driver for it.
You did not even bother to follow that link? No, because if you had, you would have seen that it was a video of the Droid Eris, not the hacked iPhone. That phone is running the production build, not the debug build. Excuses, excuses. Android fans have a million of them.
She thinks that "open source" somehow directly effects end users and that is makes up for slow boot time, a lag when switching to landscape keyboard, lag when typing on on screen keyboard, short battery life and gets too hot. Four hours of battery life is pathetic. Vibration is useless too? Sounds really awesome. I think that Android fanboi/girls are drinking the Koolaid and that Google has an RDF of their own.
You can do whatever freaky shit you want in the privacy of your own home on your home computer but if you look at porn on your phone in public then you deserve to be put on the sex offenders registry and spend some quality time with Bubba in lockup.
Nobody wants to see someone jerkin their gherkin in public places or on public transportation. Not even a taxi driver wants to see that.
I certainly agree - and have argued several times - that Apple has the right to decide what kind of apps they want the iPod and iPad to run.
Actually according to law they do not have that right. I realize that fanbois like yourself need to feel justified, but you're spreading FUD.
Speaking of FUD. Would you care to supply us with a citation proving that statement? Are you a lawyer? Are you telling me that I if I operate a store that I must sell every competing brand in existence besides my store brand? I have yet to see a supermarket that sell every brand of milk available locally for example.
No thanks. Apple might be going the right way in a fashion/marketing sense but not it's no good for tech oriented folks.
What tech oriented people would those be? Hobbyists? People with real tech jobs don't have a problem with it. I've been a developer for over a decade. If I really want to hack during my spare, I can use my iMac booted up in either OS X or windows. In OS X, I have access to the developers tools, languages like Ruby, Python, Perl and PHP. I can customize my desktop with geektool to run shell scripts or PHP pages on apache that scrape the web for gfx and other data.
I could also buy another iPhone, jailbreak it and install a bunch of shit on it but at the end of the day, I want an iphone that works well, not something that is slow and crash prone.
The parent is not flamebait. It is an accurate description of what issues exists with all of MSFT's platforms. Windows 7 is an attempt to depart from this bloat but I'm afraid that they are throwing out the baby with the bath water.
If you disagree, post a rebuttal instead of wasting your mod points.
I speak as someone who develops for windows platforms on a daily basis at work and yet I choose to run a mac at home and I own an iPhone. Some of my co-workers that work in QA also own macs at home.
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They already lost to the Android. Just like they lost to Windows back in the day. And for the same reason: Draconian closed platform attempted vendor and consumer lock in.
Learn, Jobs, LEARN.
Cool story bro. Seriously. Nerds care about those sorts of things while consumers care about "software" that works well. Have you actually taken a serious look at the Android app store? I have and I can honestly say that is sucks not only in the usability department but the lack of commercial games and apps. Then there is the whole thing with media like digital copies that come with Blu-rays and the easy syncing of iTunes music.
You just don't get it. Learn, nerds, learn. Usability and software availability matter. Open source does not matter to anyone other than nerds and people who are cheap and looking for free (gratis) software.
New Android phones available on two CDMA carriers in the US are outselling iPhone models which are about to get refreshed in a month. Colour me shocked *sarcasm*. People locked into contracts on Verizon and Sprint have no other choice and people on AT&T are waiting for the iPhone 4G. Also consider that Verizon is giving away Android phones in a "buy one get one free" promotion.
Outside of the USA, Android is where on the marketshare map? Is it even visible?
TV is full of shows about "human relationships". So full of them they don't even bother to write scripts anymore, just shove randome people into a box with cameras and watch the "human relationships" develop. It would be nice to see something more than that from time to time - a show about exploring a mysterious new land where no one even knows what the basic rules are, and figuring it all out - you know, good SF. That clearly wasn't what Lost was.
Every thing that happens, happens for a reason.
Now that's frightening. Are you sure it isn't this god of your that has Asperger's syndrome?
From the tone of your response, you seem to equate "human relationships" with people getting physical. Unless if you only tuned into the last episode or were completely obliviously to what was going on because you were so enthralled with the minutia, you should have understood that the central themes of the show were faith and redemption.
The main actor of the show (Matthew Fox) appeared on Jimmy Kimball Live last night and confirmed that the main plot of the show centred around Jack who started out a skeptic but ended up believing in a destiny where he would have to give up his life to save the lives of the other people on the island. At one point, he tried to resist that destiny by leaving the island but he eventually accepted his path in life. There were other stories of other characters going through a "fall", change in direction and redemption.
Everything really does happen for a reason and sometimes when we are in the thick of things, we cannot understand it but it often comes clear when you look at it in hindsight. I cannot understand why you would try to anthropomorphize god to the extent that you would expect human emotions from a creator being. If you were in god's shoes, you would have to sometimes put aside the love that you feel for every one of your creations and do what is best for the bigger picture. As humans, we really cannot fathom what that would be like and such a concept seems totally alien to us. As high minded as a person's ideals may be, we still tend to love those who are closer to us more than strangers and would never think of sacrificing those most dear to us to save total strangers or even an enemy. That is how different we are to god because that is exactly what god would do.
Every long running successful show on television (LOST, BSG, the various Star Treks) were human dramas first and sci-fi second. Why is that? Because, other than the terminal Asperger syndrome sufferers, normal people respond to stories about human relationships and struggles. Those shows were successful because they attracted not only obsessed people looking for sci-fi but regular people looking for a good human drama.
The season finale wrapped up the main plots of the story quite nicely and ignored much of the windows dressing. The Island was not important. It was just a plot device and the real story was about people like Richard, Ben Linus and the survivors of the crash. All of the main characters learned some important lessons and/or redeemed themselves from a previous fall into selfishness/sin.
LOST, was a human drama about relationships, faith, betrayal and redemption. Other shows like Battlestar Galactica were also human dramas with similar themes that just took place in a different place and time.
The island and all of the weird things that happened there was just window dressing for the main story which was about the survivors of that oceanic flight, the man in black, Richard and Jacob.
I hope that one day, you will wake up and realize that the point of life is to have meaningful relationships with the people around you placed there to guide and nurture and with the god that created you. Every thing that happens, happens for a reason. Each of us only has a short period of time on this planet so use it wisely.
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So Jobs can pucker up and suck a **** outa my *** just like the ticket agencies.
Are you a ticket scalper? Are you one of those cockroaches that prey on people desperate enough to pay double or triple the original asking price?
There is no debt with purchase unless if you buy it on store credit which again would involve something other than cash. You cash is good for paying your bill but stores can refuse cash for purchases.
for all debts, public and private. Oh, except debts to apple.
There is no debt until both parties enter into an agreement.
Well, it's just the never-ending story of Apple wanting to control everything. This is what she said:
"Mr. Jobs, give a sister a break," said Campbell. "I'm not going to go sell my iPad."
Not only controlling all the applications and what you can do with the device, but controlling if you are allowed sell your device too? Everyone always says Apple is not a monopoly, but exactly how is this good for the market or people? You don't need to be a monopoly to abuse customers.
Way to spin it there pal. The policy was mean to discourage people from purchasing a lot of iPads and then reselling them for profit during the initial launch because of the high demand and supplies not being able to keep up with it.
This is really no different than efforts to deter ticket scalping where there are limits on the number of tickets each person can buy.
At least important services were unaffected. My iPhone drops my calls, sometimes won't handle data and when it hangs, no call gets in. If you're buying a phone it's nice that at least the important stuff still works, and that while I'm playing on my device I won't miss critical calls or messages.
Why is it that tourists like me never ever have problem with their iPhone when they visit the US? I never had any problems with my iPhone when I was down in the states. Is it possible that they apply QOS and give worse service to existing local customers who bitch and moan at the CSRs who cannot fix the problems anyway?
Or here is a thought, check out the service levels of carriers in your area before choosing one. If AT&T is so bad in your area, why didn't you just buy an iPod Touch and go with a simple talk and text phone for phone calls on another carrier?
Nobody is holding a gun to your head to go with AT&T or live in trendy San Francisco or New York.
But a machine doesn't need to be locked down seven ways to Sunday in order to use it for casual browsing, playing a bit of music etc.
The appletards seem to think openness and usability are mutually exclusive.
They are not mutually exclusive for people who are willing to learn and are interested having a computer. Apple offers the mac line that purpose where you not only have an easy to use GUI but you can open up a shell and have at it or install the developer tools and start coding.
There are people who are not interested in having a computer or simply have no interest in having to deal with the complexities of having a full fledged computer with them on the road when all they want is to access their music, movies, the web and access their email. The iPad can do all of that, and run games written for the iPad extremely well.
Tablets that came out previously were heavy and had to be maintained just like any other windows machine with OS updates and virus definition files.
By the way, anyone who uses the word "appletard" deserves to be modded as a troll or flamebait. I'm a mac user at home but I'm a software developer for the windows platform with over decade of work experience. I can hack a geektool desktop and write shell scripts with the best of them but I like having an OS with a GUI that does not require me to put on a sys admin hat when I get home.
I plan on getting an iPad when I'm down in Vegas and selling my MBP since I only use my iMac when I'm at home and I have stopped talking my MBP with me on trips. I've been using my iPhone 3GS instead but I'd like to have something with a larger screen but still more portability than my laptop. I think the iPad fits that bill.
Stop sugar-coating it. It's a toy.
A toy that lets you read the paper, play games, and listen to music/watch movies.
Real computers have keyboards, or better keyboard layouts than the ipad/iphone.
It has an onscreen keyboard, support for blu-tooth keyboards and wired USB keyboards (through USB adapter) and an optional dock with an integrated keyboard. You can create presentations, work on spreadsheets and write documents with the iWork apps or connect to a PC or mac and work remotely on those machines.
I for one will buy either a Tablet or a Netbook. Not an iPad though, a true Tablet, with LAN access to my files, Tethering, SD card, USB ports and video out. I'm holding out for all those Tablet pre-announcements, to see if one actually pans out.
Have you seriously ask you this. Do you already have a PC of some sort? If so, why would you want to spend any amount of money to run the same types of applications as you main machine only significantly slower than a laptop? With an iPad, you can have access to your files on the LAN through different third party apps, SD card access with the adapter, A USB port with the adapter and video out with a cable. The only think you will not get is tether although many carriers are offering plans to share smartphone data plans with the iPad.
I used a composite video + stereo L+R cable with my iPhone when I was in Tokyo in my hotel room and I also have a component out cable at home. The iPad has the added capability to output to VGA as well.
Unlike a netbook, you are not struggling to run applications meant for a faster PC on an underpowered device but rather applications specifically written the iPad. Games will run at full speed rather than slowly or not at all like a PC game would on a netbook.
Netbooks are great for people who want to throw a small pc in a bag and have access to the net, type emails etc on the go.
Correct.
iPads are great for people who want to throw a small pc in a bag and have access to the net, type emails etc on the go. Sounds pretty accurate too.
And pay double the price for doing it. No reasonable person would assert that a $500-$800 Ipad is competing against a $300 netbook. At that price it is competing against laptops. If anything I would expect sales of the low end Macbook to be cannibalized by this thing.
The problem with the netbook is that it does nothing well. It cannot playback even 720p video properly from the web and you can forget about games.
With an iPad, you can not only do what netbooks can do but you also can download applications specifically tuned to the iPad for multitouch and within the processor and gfx chip limits giving you a better gaming experience than you could get with a netbook running games designed for a more powerful PC.
All of this peace and harmony has been slowing down our technological progress.
The cloud covered, among others, Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle, and Frankfurt, i.e. the 3 busiest airports in Europe (Heathrow is the busiest in the world, and CDG and FRA are not much behind). It also closed the other London Airports, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen. First, this is where people want to go. Secondly, no other airports in range have the capacity to take up this many flights.
All of those airports were closed but do we know for a fact that the cloud was covering those areas? All of those airports you mentioned were "international" and most international flights in the northern such as between Europe and North America and Europe and Japan would usually go close to north pole to take advantage of the wind currents and curvature of the earth at those latitudes. In the past, flights would go across the atlantic stopping to refuel on the east coast of Canada.
Are we all certain that there was ash coverage over those airports and if so, was it enough to pose a danger?
I'm shocked that they could not reroute the flights south through an alternate route and that they seemed to have no contingency plans for this sort of event. Could they not route the flights around the affected area adding an hour to the flight time?
Android starts to lag badly after a while on production builds straight from the manufacturer.
On a G1, yes, but on the droid (I own a milestone, the GSM european version of the droid), definitely not...
Is Youtube blocked where you post from? The video I linked to was a review of the Droid Eris by a linux fangirl. It was not the G1. Perhaps you have an older build of Android without the bells and whistles and the Droid Eris comes with more eye candy?
No one does want to hire me. I'm 40, been programming all sorts of things in all sorts of languages. I learn LAMP in the 90s, then they go and change the P from Perl to PhP. I know both of course. If I learn Objective C, (the pryamids in Egypt), then I can have a Objective C (0 years), on my CV, great, I don't hired. 40 years with zero experience in a new subject, get sent to wall.
It sounds like the issue isn't Objective-C specifically but that your experience is with developing web pages and web apps exclusively not that there is anything wrong with that.
Where I work, developers will often switch from writing server-side app server code to web interface code to even native windows interfaces. I've also switched product teams several times and some of those teams use C# for some components, Java for others and Python. The choice of language depends on whether we are interfacing with our in house services (C#) or Third party servers (Java, Python).
If you had any experience with writing web services in a language like Java, then you could contribute to a team that was writing a client-server app for the iPhone on the server side. Once you know Java, C# is easy to pick up or visa versa.
If you don't have experience with C/C++, Java or C# in an application or server context, learning Objective C will be difficult. So the language might not be the larger hurdle but rather a lack of experience with fat/thin/rich desktop clients.
but is apple going let me use it, and will there be any installed user base? Not appearing or not found in the App store, would stump me from wanting to developing there to.
With an attitude like that, I don't see why anyone would want to hire you. If you were a professional developer with a professional attitude, you would not have a problem with learning another language. How do you think all of those .NET developer with years of experience learned C# in the first place? Through osmosis? Through magic?
They picked up some books, read magazines and started learning the language through trial and error.
The fastest way to become obsolete and redundant is to refuse to learn something new or to use the best tool for the job. I've posted before that the majority of languages that I have written code in for the past 10 years have been learned by me while on the job.
If you are afraid to learn Objective-C then I suggest that you turn in your geek card right now.
Actually, the iphone also lags when switching to landscape. How many times have I seen an apple fanboy demonstrate how great their iphone was when switching to landscape while looking at pictures, only to have to move their wrist two or three times to actually get the thing to turn...
The iPhone 3GS does not lag when typing which is what the reviewer was complaining about Android on the Eris. There is a second delay switching from portrait to landscape keyboard in the mail app while the Droid too a longer to switch. Switching without a keyboard on screen is about half a second on the iPhone. Android starts to lag badly after a while on production builds straight from the manufacturer.
It's a debug build for testing purposes. Debug builds are always rough on the hardware and less responsive. We have no idea how well it will run as a release build, or what the battery life might be.
Lack of vibration support is a device driver. As soon as they figure out which chip is in the iPhone to control vibration, somebody will write an Android driver for it.
You did not even bother to follow that link? No, because if you had, you would have seen that it was a video of the Droid Eris, not the hacked iPhone. That phone is running the production build, not the debug build. Excuses, excuses. Android fans have a million of them.
She thinks that "open source" somehow directly effects end users and that is makes up for slow boot time, a lag when switching to landscape keyboard, lag when typing on on screen keyboard, short battery life and gets too hot. Four hours of battery life is pathetic. Vibration is useless too? Sounds really awesome. I think that Android fanboi/girls are drinking the Koolaid and that Google has an RDF of their own.
BTW. iPhone OS 3.1.3 source code can be found here: http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/iphone-313/
I'm trying to figure out how it is better than the iPhone from that video.
Nobody wants to see someone jerkin their gherkin in public places or on public transportation. Not even a taxi driver wants to see that.
I certainly agree - and have argued several times - that Apple has the right to decide what kind of apps they want the iPod and iPad to run.
Actually according to law they do not have that right. I realize that fanbois like yourself need to feel justified, but you're spreading FUD.
Speaking of FUD. Would you care to supply us with a citation proving that statement? Are you a lawyer? Are you telling me that I if I operate a store that I must sell every competing brand in existence besides my store brand? I have yet to see a supermarket that sell every brand of milk available locally for example.
No thanks. Apple might be going the right way in a fashion/marketing sense but not it's no good for tech oriented folks.
What tech oriented people would those be? Hobbyists? People with real tech jobs don't have a problem with it. I've been a developer for over a decade. If I really want to hack during my spare, I can use my iMac booted up in either OS X or windows. In OS X, I have access to the developers tools, languages like Ruby, Python, Perl and PHP. I can customize my desktop with geektool to run shell scripts or PHP pages on apache that scrape the web for gfx and other data.
I could also buy another iPhone, jailbreak it and install a bunch of shit on it but at the end of the day, I want an iphone that works well, not something that is slow and crash prone.
If you disagree, post a rebuttal instead of wasting your mod points.
I speak as someone who develops for windows platforms on a daily basis at work and yet I choose to run a mac at home and I own an iPhone. Some of my co-workers that work in QA also own macs at home.