And comes with rather worrying strings attached. At this rate of cloudifying everything I'll need to upgrade my network card to handle all the reactivation and updates every time I wake my pc up from sleep.
By the time your prototype has 20 paying customers and publications in the trade press you can afford to bring in somebody to 'clean up the mess'. For the remaining 19 prototypes you just saved 90% of development cost with no harm done.
Not ideal, but yeah - perfect code is worth nothing if it never sees the day of light.
It actually depends on whether it can be recommisioned by design at all. Might be entirely possible that due to original construction now that it has warmed up it is indeed a complete space junk that cannot be brought back to spec even with refill (not accounted for in design), instrument upgrades (not accounted for in design) or even re purposed for lower spec mission (too narrow operational parameters).
And risked investing to write software to actually work in the form factor. And invested in getting capacitive touch screens becoming production ready. And forced a major US mobile carrier to actually yield to a new business model where manufacturer of device is allowed to retain some kind of control over said software. And (admittedly after much ado) created an actually functioning app ecosystem.
Not many people seem to remember that before iPhone launch US was considered to be in the dark ages with regards to mobile devices and networks in general. The J2ME applications ecosystem worldwide was a trainwreck (quality wise), US specific BREW joke is not even worth taking about, and anything that seemed to work was always locked in to a particular operator and device with 300-500% markup just for having the privilege to be discoverable.
Sure, it can be argued that iPhone is really just a polished LG Prada (small screen, shitty OS, resistive non-functioning touch screen, j2me apps expecting keypad and softkeys. Disclaimer - I had access to both), but that's akin to saying that 787 is really just a scaled up biplane. Principles are largely the same, yes, but doesn't quite capture the scale of improvement and technical challenges that had to be resolved to get there.
When I visited Tokyo I spent my time in couple of sword-shops. My understanding is that there was absolutely nothing preventing me from walking out from any of them with a nice modern katana if I was willing to shell out circa $3000 and a bit more for a suitable scabbard.
Reviewing the article is the default expectation and offer in anything that resembles an interview for publication.
Yes, those 'shocking slip-of-the-tongue' interviews in Daily Mail have been reviewed and approved for publication by the person being interviewed. 100% (if they actually happened, Daily Mail is a tricky example).
Agreed. The point made earlier was implying that such behaviour would be part of normal operation - which it certainly isn't.
There is another caveat with keeping radio modems active while 'powered off' - battery drain. If you are even thinking about transmitting anything as it happens around phone you will have to use pretty much the same amount of battery power as when you are on call (sorry, physics, can't really argue with that) - with perhaps 3-4 hours of operation until the main battery is empty.
If you are trying to be smarter and record/transmit in bursts when in coverage of higher bandwidth signal - still extra power required to operate mics and storage.
Bollocks. Unless by 'turn it off' you mean 'press the power button sending the phone to sleep', there is no smartphone out there that will 'stay on' when 'powered off'.
aGPS works by sending a small data packet to a nearby server (ether over gprs or sms) when starting to triangulate your location to speed up the satellite discovery process.
(Mind you, that does not exclude possibility of compromised software and radio modem + bootstrap indeed being kept alive for eavesdropping purposes. For what it's worth modern smartphones generally consist of a small PC part (buttons, input, screen, cpu, sound, etc) and small separate dumbphone (cellular modem) part that talk to each other over serial bus)
That's standard terms of acquiring small startups. They just paid 30 mil not for the code (the app will be closed), but to have this Fresh Hipster Talent on board. I think they are mad, but so does lots of others.
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And comes with rather worrying strings attached. At this rate of cloudifying everything I'll need to upgrade my network card to handle all the reactivation and updates every time I wake my pc up from sleep.
What portion of the target market already has these games, have played through them repeatedly and knows every single hook and nook by heart?
Being curious - is this 'may the 4th' be with you something that has been going on for a while or just a rather smart viral marketing by Disney?
Which is exactly what I meant. Not sure how I managed to mix up the ordering.
And if it wasn't for that pesky Apple they would still be going golden.
By the time your prototype has 20 paying customers and publications in the trade press you can afford to bring in somebody to 'clean up the mess'. For the remaining 19 prototypes you just saved 90% of development cost with no harm done.
Not ideal, but yeah - perfect code is worth nothing if it never sees the day of light.
It actually depends on whether it can be recommisioned by design at all. Might be entirely possible that due to original construction now that it has warmed up it is indeed a complete space junk that cannot be brought back to spec even with refill (not accounted for in design), instrument upgrades (not accounted for in design) or even re purposed for lower spec mission (too narrow operational parameters).
And risked investing to write software to actually work in the form factor. And invested in getting capacitive touch screens becoming production ready. And forced a major US mobile carrier to actually yield to a new business model where manufacturer of device is allowed to retain some kind of control over said software. And (admittedly after much ado) created an actually functioning app ecosystem.
Not many people seem to remember that before iPhone launch US was considered to be in the dark ages with regards to mobile devices and networks in general. The J2ME applications ecosystem worldwide was a trainwreck (quality wise), US specific BREW joke is not even worth taking about, and anything that seemed to work was always locked in to a particular operator and device with 300-500% markup just for having the privilege to be discoverable.
Sure, it can be argued that iPhone is really just a polished LG Prada (small screen, shitty OS, resistive non-functioning touch screen, j2me apps expecting keypad and softkeys. Disclaimer - I had access to both), but that's akin to saying that 787 is really just a scaled up biplane. Principles are largely the same, yes, but doesn't quite capture the scale of improvement and technical challenges that had to be resolved to get there.
I think you might have done better if you at least pretended you have an invention, not a product.
That's interesting. I'm not sure which one I'd prefer to represent me in a court - three 18year olds or three old senile geezers.
Technically there is no shortage of Nobel prize winners. Every year there is a bunch of folks getting one.
When I visited Tokyo I spent my time in couple of sword-shops. My understanding is that there was absolutely nothing preventing me from walking out from any of them with a nice modern katana if I was willing to shell out circa $3000 and a bit more for a suitable scabbard.
Family members that have worked in the press for long long years. Not sure if the practice has followed over to bloggers and tech sites though.
Reviewing the article is the default expectation and offer in anything that resembles an interview for publication.
Yes, those 'shocking slip-of-the-tongue' interviews in Daily Mail have been reviewed and approved for publication by the person being interviewed. 100% (if they actually happened, Daily Mail is a tricky example).
Case with Iranian family was not an exception. They bought stolen goods. Period.
The fact that the owner was playing to be a nice guy in particular instance has nothing to do with facts.
Agreed. The point made earlier was implying that such behaviour would be part of normal operation - which it certainly isn't.
There is another caveat with keeping radio modems active while 'powered off' - battery drain. If you are even thinking about transmitting anything as it happens around phone you will have to use pretty much the same amount of battery power as when you are on call (sorry, physics, can't really argue with that) - with perhaps 3-4 hours of operation until the main battery is empty.
If you are trying to be smarter and record/transmit in bursts when in coverage of higher bandwidth signal - still extra power required to operate mics and storage.
Bollocks. Unless by 'turn it off' you mean 'press the power button sending the phone to sleep', there is no smartphone out there that will 'stay on' when 'powered off'.
aGPS works by sending a small data packet to a nearby server (ether over gprs or sms) when starting to triangulate your location to speed up the satellite discovery process.
(Mind you, that does not exclude possibility of compromised software and radio modem + bootstrap indeed being kept alive for eavesdropping purposes. For what it's worth modern smartphones generally consist of a small PC part (buttons, input, screen, cpu, sound, etc) and small separate dumbphone (cellular modem) part that talk to each other over serial bus)
> gov't printing money is not a metaphor. gov't prints money daily, to replace old money. They also print money at times to deal with inflation.
gov't printing money is not a metaphor. gov't prints money daily, to replace old money. They also print money at times to cause inflation.
Uhm. I think I'm a decent Java programmer and I haven't bothered to use Joda ever. Not every problem involves handling dates.
You forgot Big Data. Java 8 is built to support Big Data!
Probably. Server side Java (where it is used mainly) is pretty much reasonable security wise.
Why would anyone enable Java in a browser is beyond me.
AOL has a fairly large turnover as well...
They are going to get rid of the app and fold the core algorithm into yahoo websites.
That's standard terms of acquiring small startups. They just paid 30 mil not for the code (the app will be closed), but to have this Fresh Hipster Talent on board. I think they are mad, but so does lots of others.
Yahoo! is AOL these days. There is no way back.
USA has been doing this for decades... Especially with online gaming companies that might not even serve US customers.