You can spot the children in this debate. The ones too young to have lived a life where they weren't constantly attached to a cellphone. Sad little fuckers.
You know what, most people aren;t assholes and will just do it. That solves most of the problem. The ones that don't, will likely be escorted from the venue if they actually use the phone, and be barred.
In theory, no. You step outside the venue if you want/need to use the phone. This is not a problem. 20 years ago the majority of people didn't even possess cellphones. It's not the essential to life that young people think it is.
In practice, the cases look to be neoprene, presumably with some reinforcement. If you were really determined to get your phone out I'm sure you could, and the cost of wrecking the case.
People get searched for clubs and concerts all the time. You can refuse, but you won't get in if you do.
If you really wanted to smuggle a phone in, you'd take two phones. But then try to use it, and you're the odd one out with the phone everyone knows you're not supposed to have, and security may come get you.
Most people are reasonable enough to understand a no-phones policy, but many don't have the self-discipline to then leave the phone alone once in a venue. It's these people that it works for.
In the UK, several Labour politicians have been embarrassed by phone footage of speeches given to groups of far left activists. For example, the shadow chancellor was recently revealed as celebrating the Great Recession in 2008 as something that he had been waiting years for in his fight to overthrow capitalism. And phone footage of Momentum meetings has shown activists scheming to have moderate politicians deselected (essentially removed from office for those not familiar with UK politics). There has definitely been a backlash in the polls against these revelations.
For students or families who favour Apple products, Swift is the obvious choice. Very modern and yet easy to learn. But powerful enough to make real apps.
Start with the Swift Playgrounds app on an iPad. Teaches by setting challenges:
What you are talking about is feature phones, and in America maybe that's about as much as you had. In Europe we had full smartphones years before th iPhone. The Market leader was Nokia phones running Symbian OS, which had full apps written in C++. For 7 years before iPhone.
Most of the people that criticise Apple have never actually owned any Apple products and so haven't a clue about their qualities.
As to Jobs, I believe it's exactly the same people that give Elon Musk a hard time too. There's something about a commercially successful visionary that really annoys them.
Sure Steve Jobs personally was an perfectionist to the point of being an asshole. But then so is Linus Torvalds, but most here give him a pass. Whilst it's an ugly characteristic, in both cases it may be a key ingredient of their success.
I don't know what his plans are. But here's what I'd do. I'd open it up to all the stable governments of the world. If there's going to be a human colony on mars, many countries are going to want one of their people to be in it. So several countries each pay to put a man on Mars. And as a bonus, they get a nice diverse DNA collection for the colony.
Yes, there's plenty of choices of languages for which there is lots of employment opportunities. So it comes down to what you enjoy doing.
For me, I've done C & C++ and I certainly don't miss having seperate header files to maintain and include.
Java? Who wants all that verbosity, and endlessly nesting braces.
Swift is a breath of fresh air. It's rather like a statically typed Python, without the strange idioms and indent based blocks. And everything designed with the objective of limiting the likelyhood of creating bugs.
Understanding algorithms for sorting and searching require very little math.
Indeed. I did those at high school. And again in the first week of CS degree.
Complexity analysis requires understanding of exponents and logarithms, which are taught in junior high school. Most programming is more like doing plumbing than like doing math.
It's built on that. But it's way too complicated a topic for high school. It wasn't even taught in the first year of my CS degree,
Most programming is more like doing plumbing than like doing math. "Okay, take this data stream and connect it to that socket, then run it through a filter and compress it..."
Data processing is like that. If you were writing COBOL in the mainframe days it would seem like that. Or if you're writing shell scripts for Unix like OSs then it may seem like that. But most modern programming is not at all like that.
How it (iTunes App Store) ACTUALLY works is only one device gets a receipt for the consumable. Period.
Anything else is what the app developer chose to do. And by your own criteria, we're not talking about that. ("There're lots of ways it could work. I'm only talking about how it actually works.")
Oh, it certainly could be done between Apple devices within Apple's existing infrastructure. Games could keep consumables on a Game Centre account for all devices.
It could also be a condition for apps to do it SOMEHOW.
But 1) It's not done that way. 2) The contract doesn't demand that that app does it another way.
I'm talking about the built in Apple App Store in app purchases system. And I'm an app developer who's worked on in app purchases.
*If* Pokemon Go does more AND in combination with Android, then that is something they've clearly built on top. Which they are entitled but not required to do. But it's not something you can expect from consumable in-app purchases ordinarily.
Not true. Consumable in-app purchases, such as if buy a number of PokeBalls for Pokemon Go are not transferable. However non-consumable purchases such as buying the full version of an app are transferable to any other device using the same AppleID.
So in the case of this Mario Game, a single purchase of the full game will indeed enable it on all phones.
My guess is that they only started developing this when they saw how popular Pokemon Go was. Probably not much more than the single level that was demoed ready. But they'll certainly want it released for the Holidays, and there isn't another iPhone event before then.
Mario is a big enough draw to be able to hold the hype for a couple of months.
Sure there's an advantage. The iPhone 6 if inadvertantly spilled on with liquid would die. This one, won't. One of the reasons for that is no mini-jack socket.
Looks to me like Google have changed policy. Rather than Nexus being an example for other manufacturers to follow, it looks like Google want to be in full control of Android. Expect features that no one else is allowed to have.
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You can spot the children in this debate. The ones too young to have lived a life where they weren't constantly attached to a cellphone. Sad little fuckers.
You know what, most people aren;t assholes and will just do it. That solves most of the problem. The ones that don't, will likely be escorted from the venue if they actually use the phone, and be barred.
In theory, no. You step outside the venue if you want/need to use the phone. This is not a problem. 20 years ago the majority of people didn't even possess cellphones. It's not the essential to life that young people think it is.
In practice, the cases look to be neoprene, presumably with some reinforcement. If you were really determined to get your phone out I'm sure you could, and the cost of wrecking the case.
People get searched for clubs and concerts all the time. You can refuse, but you won't get in if you do.
If you really wanted to smuggle a phone in, you'd take two phones. But then try to use it, and you're the odd one out with the phone everyone knows you're not supposed to have, and security may come get you.
Most people are reasonable enough to understand a no-phones policy, but many don't have the self-discipline to then leave the phone alone once in a venue. It's these people that it works for.
It looks like a neoprene case, presumably with other layers to make it more robust. Audio would he very muffled at the very least.
In the UK, several Labour politicians have been embarrassed by phone footage of speeches given to groups of far left activists. For example, the shadow chancellor was recently revealed as celebrating the Great Recession in 2008 as something that he had been waiting years for in his fight to overthrow capitalism. And phone footage of Momentum meetings has shown activists scheming to have moderate politicians deselected (essentially removed from office for those not familiar with UK politics). There has definitely been a backlash in the polls against these revelations.
None of which is true.
I tried SHIFT-CTRL-J, and it did nothing.
For students or families who favour Apple products, Swift is the obvious choice. Very modern and yet easy to learn. But powerful enough to make real apps.
Start with the Swift Playgrounds app on an iPad. Teaches by setting challenges:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/ap...
Then download XCode for Mac when ready to take it further.
XCode has Playgrounds for your own experimenting.
Hello World on pretty much any 1980s 8 bit-computer:
Switch computer on.
Type: 10 PRINT "Hello World!"
Type: RUN
There is nothing easier than that.
What you are talking about is feature phones, and in America maybe that's about as much as you had. In Europe we had full smartphones years before th iPhone. The Market leader was Nokia phones running Symbian OS, which had full apps written in C++. For 7 years before iPhone.
Most of the people that criticise Apple have never actually owned any Apple products and so haven't a clue about their qualities.
As to Jobs, I believe it's exactly the same people that give Elon Musk a hard time too. There's something about a commercially successful visionary that really annoys them.
Sure Steve Jobs personally was an perfectionist to the point of being an asshole. But then so is Linus Torvalds, but most here give him a pass. Whilst it's an ugly characteristic, in both cases it may be a key ingredient of their success.
I don't know what his plans are. But here's what I'd do. I'd open it up to all the stable governments of the world. If there's going to be a human colony on mars, many countries are going to want one of their people to be in it. So several countries each pay to put a man on Mars. And as a bonus, they get a nice diverse DNA collection for the colony.
Slashdot denizens hate successful people.
Yes, there's plenty of choices of languages for which there is lots of employment opportunities. So it comes down to what you enjoy doing.
For me, I've done C & C++ and I certainly don't miss having seperate header files to maintain and include.
Java? Who wants all that verbosity, and endlessly nesting braces.
Swift is a breath of fresh air. It's rather like a statically typed Python, without the strange idioms and indent based blocks. And everything designed with the objective of limiting the likelyhood of creating bugs.
It makes programming a pleasure again.
Understanding algorithms for sorting and searching require very little math.
Indeed. I did those at high school. And again in the first week of CS degree.
Complexity analysis requires understanding of exponents and logarithms, which are taught in junior high school. Most programming is more like doing plumbing than like doing math.
It's built on that. But it's way too complicated a topic for high school. It wasn't even taught in the first year of my CS degree,
Most programming is more like doing plumbing than like doing math. "Okay, take this data stream and connect it to that socket, then run it through a filter and compress it ..."
Data processing is like that. If you were writing COBOL in the mainframe days it would seem like that. Or if you're writing shell scripts for Unix like OSs then it may seem like that. But most modern programming is not at all like that.
And if you read one post above that you'll see that was the OP that originally described it. Tit.
How it (iTunes App Store) ACTUALLY works is only one device gets a receipt for the consumable. Period.
Anything else is what the app developer chose to do. And by your own criteria, we're not talking about that. ("There're lots of ways it could work. I'm only talking about how it actually works.")
End of story.
Oh, it certainly could be done between Apple devices within Apple's existing infrastructure. Games could keep consumables on a Game Centre account for all devices.
It could also be a condition for apps to do it SOMEHOW.
But
1) It's not done that way.
2) The contract doesn't demand that that app does it another way.
I'm talking about the built in Apple App Store in app purchases system. And I'm an app developer who's worked on in app purchases.
*If* Pokemon Go does more AND in combination with Android, then that is something they've clearly built on top. Which they are entitled but not required to do. But it's not something you can expect from consumable in-app purchases ordinarily.
Not true. Consumable in-app purchases, such as if buy a number of PokeBalls for Pokemon Go are not transferable. However non-consumable purchases such as buying the full version of an app are transferable to any other device using the same AppleID.
So in the case of this Mario Game, a single purchase of the full game will indeed enable it on all phones.
My guess is that they only started developing this when they saw how popular Pokemon Go was. Probably not much more than the single level that was demoed ready. But they'll certainly want it released for the Holidays, and there isn't another iPhone event before then.
Mario is a big enough draw to be able to hold the hype for a couple of months.
Sure there's an advantage. The iPhone 6 if inadvertantly spilled on with liquid would die. This one, won't. One of the reasons for that is no mini-jack socket.
It's almost as if web sites copy from each other. Not like slashd... oh, wait a minute.
Looks to me like Google have changed policy. Rather than Nexus being an example for other manufacturers to follow, it looks like Google want to be in full control of Android. Expect features that no one else is allowed to have.
I think I'd rather lose the party balloons than the experiments in airships.