* - Yep, you develop for them, notice how your hard work resulted in their successful ad campaign "There's an app for that"
Oh please, give me a break.
Most developers I know do it to make money (and have fun at the same time in many cases).
It's like the old "I gave this country thirty years of service, and what did it give to me." line. How about a paycheck every two weeks, free or heavily subsidized health care and a pension for the rest of your life!
I remember a friend of mine moaning that Apple's original iDisk service was running on servers provided by the company he worked for, but nobody would know it because it was invisible to the user. He felt that Apple was trumpeting a cloud based storage solution without actually providing the service from within Apple.
Is that the kind of control of a product space you are referring to, branding a cloud based solution as if it were of their own making without even needing to acquiring, rip off, or otherwise replacing the existing solution?
I'd rather be endorsed by a bespectacled, long-haired Japanese man in a tutu and leggings rocking out on a bass guitar than a police association any day.
Finders keepers, losers weepers...unless the finder blabs to the whole world he found it and proceeds to take it apart and publish the photos, and the loser is Steve Jobs.
I wonder if that's where the Lith, sorry Lite, comes from in bottom corner beers like Bud, Miller Etc?
Maybe it's just me but after a couple of "real" beers from Seattle's own Maritime Breweries and Baron Etc I feel ready to rock, but after a couple of Buds I feel like going to sleep!
As an avid reader of Seattle's soon to be discontinued Post-Intelligencer newspaper (another Hearst venture) I'd be thrilled to see an internet version continue on and one day appear on their large format e-reader.
As much as I like to read the paper I've never been into the sheer volume of raw materials needed to produce them, yet the online format is restricted by the frame and controls on my web browser and the size of my laptop screen.
One thing is for sure - any newspaper that goes Internet only before this depression kicks in will be reaping the rewards when papers who currently rely on print as their main source of distribution fall by the wayside, which they surely will.
Too little too late. They dropped the ball so hard with Vista it's still causing ripples that are just now reaching IE.
They need to go completely different to get back up to speed.
There's an indefinable line out there where AI and human intelligence will meet, in much the same way that alien life and life as we know it will also meet, but will they cross over?
Sure, it'll be cool describing your symptoms to a robot Doc one day when you get a sore throat, and having it drum up some perfectly sripted scrip that actually fixes your throat, but what happens when the robot Doc gets a sore throat?
And it will.
I know we're only talking about the kind of AI that can answer phone calls at this point, but eventually there'll be some...thing...that becomes cognisant of its surroundings and actually starts giving a damn about what's going on.
What happens then?
Should we even be trying to create AI?
Everyone's freaking about about the collider in Switzerland but I don't see any movies about colliders taking over the world anytime soon!
"....people being dropped directly into voice mail despite my phone having signal..."
While I was reading these words my fully charged iPhone with five bars just told me I had a new voicemail without actually, erm, RINGING so I could take the call.
Also call waiting thing went away mysteriously at some point.
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Love it or leave it :-)
* - Yep, you develop for them, notice how your hard work resulted in their successful ad campaign "There's an app for that"
Oh please, give me a break. Most developers I know do it to make money (and have fun at the same time in many cases). It's like the old "I gave this country thirty years of service, and what did it give to me." line. How about a paycheck every two weeks, free or heavily subsidized health care and a pension for the rest of your life!
"And it's perfectly legal." I often wonder for how long? The patent system is so broken it's unbelievable.
I guess if I went out of my way to steal and re-distribute stuff that isn't mine I'd feel threatened by this too.
Maybe the secret documents on how to stitch photos of a swiss valley together are stored there too. http://cdni.wired.co.uk/674x281/s_v/Terabytes.jpg
I remember a friend of mine moaning that Apple's original iDisk service was running on servers provided by the company he worked for, but nobody would know it because it was invisible to the user. He felt that Apple was trumpeting a cloud based storage solution without actually providing the service from within Apple.
Is that the kind of control of a product space you are referring to, branding a cloud based solution as if it were of their own making without even needing to acquiring, rip off, or otherwise replacing the existing solution?
What is it about Apple that pisses sooo many people off? Why can't we all just get along?
I'd rather be endorsed by a bespectacled, long-haired Japanese man in a tutu and leggings rocking out on a bass guitar than a police association any day.
Finders keepers, losers weepers...unless the finder blabs to the whole world he found it and proceeds to take it apart and publish the photos, and the loser is Steve Jobs.
I wonder if that's where the Lith, sorry Lite, comes from in bottom corner beers like Bud, Miller Etc? Maybe it's just me but after a couple of "real" beers from Seattle's own Maritime Breweries and Baron Etc I feel ready to rock, but after a couple of Buds I feel like going to sleep!
I know we're not talking about .com here btw - but you get what I'm ranting and raving on about here ;-)
First they ban porno.com - next they'll be burning women at the stake because someone called them a witch.
Yes, but apart from all that it's exactly like KDE 4.
Cool, more jobs for Real Americans, like plumbing and stuff. That's like software, right? Putting stuff together and running stuff through it.
As an avid reader of Seattle's soon to be discontinued Post-Intelligencer newspaper (another Hearst venture) I'd be thrilled to see an internet version continue on and one day appear on their large format e-reader. As much as I like to read the paper I've never been into the sheer volume of raw materials needed to produce them, yet the online format is restricted by the frame and controls on my web browser and the size of my laptop screen. One thing is for sure - any newspaper that goes Internet only before this depression kicks in will be reaping the rewards when papers who currently rely on print as their main source of distribution fall by the wayside, which they surely will.
Very good
I hope Steve is hard at work recording some video clips to be played Hari Seldon style at Disney theme parks every year for the rest of eternity.
Too little too late. They dropped the ball so hard with Vista it's still causing ripples that are just now reaching IE.
They need to go completely different to get back up to speed.
Maybe our universe is slowly making its way through god's intestines, only to end up in a vast heavenly toilet bowl one day.
Yawn...on that note I'm off to bed.
I think a can of beer would just about fit...
There's an indefinable line out there where AI and human intelligence will meet, in much the same way that alien life and life as we know it will also meet, but will they cross over?
Sure, it'll be cool describing your symptoms to a robot Doc one day when you get a sore throat, and having it drum up some perfectly sripted scrip that actually fixes your throat, but what happens when the robot Doc gets a sore throat?
And it will.
I know we're only talking about the kind of AI that can answer phone calls at this point, but eventually there'll be some...thing...that becomes cognisant of its surroundings and actually starts giving a damn about what's going on.
What happens then?
Should we even be trying to create AI?
Everyone's freaking about about the collider in Switzerland but I don't see any movies about colliders taking over the world anytime soon!
"I'll be playing GTA IV"
I want to be crouching over an unconscious pedestrian when they flip the switch.
"...If you're comparing, say, the guy who designs the box that the iPod comes in..."
The interior of my iPod box was completely dry.
I've had my Aeron since 99 and it's been with me through thick and thin, and now thick again.
I could do with several more inches in vertical travel but other than that it's pretty much perfect.
"....people being dropped directly into voice mail despite my phone having signal..."
While I was reading these words my fully charged iPhone with five bars just told me I had a new voicemail without actually, erm, RINGING so I could take the call.
Also call waiting thing went away mysteriously at some point.