Back when I had an iPhone 3G, its email client sucked. The stock email client on Android 2.0 was far superior. Or maybe it just seemed that way because I had a different email app for every mail account, which made checking different mail accounts a lot easier.
Android's stock email client does have a few issues, though: it doesn't cache headers properly, often throwing them out just when I found the one I wanted to read, which is starting to really annoy me lately.
Unfortunately, K-9 doesn't work at all on the Motorola Milestone, and neither does Maildroid. There seems to be an surprising shortage of good mail clients for Android, to the point that I'm considering writing one myself.
Exactly. And what about the people who buy an iPad with the explicit purpose in mind to use it to access a specific publisher's content? Shouldn't Apple be paying that publisher 30% of the price of the iPad, by that logic?
And a brick-and-mortar store often makes anywhere from 50% to 200% profit on stuff sold through their store. Amazon makes money on stuff sold through its store. Google makes money on stuff sold through their outlets.
Every store has its rules and as long as the rules are spelled out and applied evenly then the only question becomes: "Do I want to buy or sell stuff through that store?"
There's one subtle but important difference between the App Store and any other kind of store: When you don't want to sell your stuff through a normal store, you can always look for an alternative, go to the competitor, set up your own store, or whatever. For iDevices, Apple has the only store that can sell stuff for them. There is no alternative, no competitor, and no way to sell your own stuff. If you don't want to sell through their store, you don't get to sell it at all.
Suppose that everything you put into your car, from brake fluid to fluffy dice to toys in the back for the kids, had to be bought at an official Ford dealer. Yes, there are other car brands available, but it's still unreasonably restrictive.
Those differences are all about Macs. iOS and the App Store are a very different story. And some Mac users are terrified that Apple might take the lessons learned with the iOS platform and implement them on Macs.
I'm not terrified, but certainly somewhat worried. The Mac is an excellent platform, and the only Apple product I'm willing to pay for, exactly because it is relatively open. As soon as Apple starts locking it down, I'll have to look for an alternative. And simply paying money to Apple already hurts me because of all the crap they pull.
So why not set up a free or cheap journal and have that indexed by that database?
In any case, I think it would be common sense that any research receiving public funding should be required to be public domain. Want to write closed journal? Fine, but the state isn't going to pay for that. That's how it should work in any sane world. But if I understand you correctly, the reality is the exact opposite of this.
No the more oppressive the regime the MORE resistance needs to be in the open. Oppressive regimes work by making people afraid,
That depends on how oppressive the regime is, and how far its goons are willing to go in doing the dirty work. Extremely oppressive regimes work by making people dead, rather than afraid. Nazis had no problem executing all trouble makers and then some.
There's a rumour that during the protests in Egypt, the soldiers got the order to shoot at the crowd. They all refused. According to that same rumour, the same order was given in Libya, and there they did shoot. But not all, some deserted. Deciding how public or anonymous your protest has to be, is a matter of subtle judgment.
Had the resistance during WW2 operated any more openly than they did, they would have been killed.
If that's it. then yes, he deserves a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile, everybody else would be wise to put the articles he released on a freely accessible and easily searchable website.
What I'd like to know is why those overly expensive journals still exist. Do they pay authors so much that everybody prefers to send articles there? My impression was that both authors and peer reviewers were unpaid or paid very little. So nobody who matters really profits from that rip-off situation. So why don't people set up a free science journal website, and submit everything there?
Yet the damages that Oracle now demands from Google are about as much as what Oracle paid for Sun. Of course those demands are ridiculous, but still, this possibility could have been a justification for Google to buy Sun. And maybe after stripping out Java, they could have sold the hardware part again.
He didn't cross any borders to commit his crime (if it even is a crime). It's more like somebody in Canada pointing out where people can acquire stolen goods, and some of those goods might originate in the US.
Since when is it the government's job to defend corporate interests? The companies are perfectly capable of suing or filing charges in the country where the crime has been committed. Extradition for something like this makes jurisdiction a joke.
Suppose I were to smoke pot (which I don't, but it's legal where I live). It's illegal in France, however. Now suppose France requested my extradition for smoking pot in Amsterdam. That's basically what this is about.
Except that in this case, there's corporate interests involved, but that's what civil courts are for.
It's unlikely that even half of the patents are legitimate. Microsoft doesn't get the money because they won a lawsuit, but because these lawsuits are impossible to figure out, and none of the smaller Android players wanted to get involved in that.
It sounds like the judge is explaining to the lawyers how they should do their job.
He asks for a Sun executive not on Oracle's payroll who would testify in Oracle's favour, then Oracle suggests someone who is on their payroll, and the judge has to explain to the lawyer that someone not on their payroll would be a lot more convincing to the jury. Honestly, can't Oracle's lawyers think of that on their own?
For me, bulk inserts only seem to work well in MySQL, not in any other DB system. (I'm probably doing something wrong; I know little about databases. I just want my data stored.)
I have hardly seen any C / C++ developers complaining about database. Java/Ruby/Python/whatever on the other hand are just pussies.
C/C++ developers are used to cumbersome and arcane rituals. Ruby and Python (Java less so, but still more than C/C++) are supposed to make programming faster and more natural. A more natural way to store and access data makes a lot of sense there. You could call them pussies, but you could also say they're more focused on the goal itself rather than the arcane stuff around it.
MongoDB one of those fine databases that have managed to turn simple into complex eg:
--- simple --- insert into users values('bob','123 Main Street','Springfield','NY');
-- a mess of curly braces, colons, commas and quotes --- {
"username" : "bob",
"address" : {
"street" : "123 Main Street",
"city" : "Springfield",
"state" : "NY"
}
}
Is that what MongoDB code looks like? Looks perfectly readable to me. Cleaner and more structured than the SQL version. More verbose, yes, but highly usable, unlike SQL which always requires a couple of layers of abstraction and conversion and mapping in order to make it usable.
You might have just converted a SQL user to MongoDB.
The USA really need to stop thinking this is a contest between nations to be the best, if they want to advance.
It'd be okay if it was about being the best. Nowadays Americans seem to be concerned only with appearing to be the best. It doesn't matter if the truth is ugly, as long as you hide and deny it.
You can bet Cisco will feel the pain if they're banned from doing business in Canada. I don't think that'd be sufficient punishment, but it's enough to hurt.
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Back when I had an iPhone 3G, its email client sucked. The stock email client on Android 2.0 was far superior. Or maybe it just seemed that way because I had a different email app for every mail account, which made checking different mail accounts a lot easier.
Android's stock email client does have a few issues, though: it doesn't cache headers properly, often throwing them out just when I found the one I wanted to read, which is starting to really annoy me lately.
Unfortunately, K-9 doesn't work at all on the Motorola Milestone, and neither does Maildroid. There seems to be an surprising shortage of good mail clients for Android, to the point that I'm considering writing one myself.
Exactly. And what about the people who buy an iPad with the explicit purpose in mind to use it to access a specific publisher's content? Shouldn't Apple be paying that publisher 30% of the price of the iPad, by that logic?
And a brick-and-mortar store often makes anywhere from 50% to 200% profit on stuff sold through their store. Amazon makes money on stuff sold through its store. Google makes money on stuff sold through their outlets.
Every store has its rules and as long as the rules are spelled out and applied evenly then the only question becomes: "Do I want to buy or sell stuff through that store?"
There's one subtle but important difference between the App Store and any other kind of store: When you don't want to sell your stuff through a normal store, you can always look for an alternative, go to the competitor, set up your own store, or whatever. For iDevices, Apple has the only store that can sell stuff for them. There is no alternative, no competitor, and no way to sell your own stuff. If you don't want to sell through their store, you don't get to sell it at all.
Suppose that everything you put into your car, from brake fluid to fluffy dice to toys in the back for the kids, had to be bought at an official Ford dealer. Yes, there are other car brands available, but it's still unreasonably restrictive.
Those differences are all about Macs. iOS and the App Store are a very different story. And some Mac users are terrified that Apple might take the lessons learned with the iOS platform and implement them on Macs.
I'm not terrified, but certainly somewhat worried. The Mac is an excellent platform, and the only Apple product I'm willing to pay for, exactly because it is relatively open. As soon as Apple starts locking it down, I'll have to look for an alternative. And simply paying money to Apple already hurts me because of all the crap they pull.
So why not set up a free or cheap journal and have that indexed by that database?
In any case, I think it would be common sense that any research receiving public funding should be required to be public domain. Want to write closed journal? Fine, but the state isn't going to pay for that. That's how it should work in any sane world. But if I understand you correctly, the reality is the exact opposite of this.
No the more oppressive the regime the MORE resistance needs to be in the open. Oppressive regimes work by making people afraid,
That depends on how oppressive the regime is, and how far its goons are willing to go in doing the dirty work. Extremely oppressive regimes work by making people dead, rather than afraid. Nazis had no problem executing all trouble makers and then some.
There's a rumour that during the protests in Egypt, the soldiers got the order to shoot at the crowd. They all refused. According to that same rumour, the same order was given in Libya, and there they did shoot. But not all, some deserted. Deciding how public or anonymous your protest has to be, is a matter of subtle judgment.
Had the resistance during WW2 operated any more openly than they did, they would have been killed.
You've got a good point. I'd prefer civil disobedience to be done openly, but the more oppressive a regime gets, the more the need for secrecy grows.
Members of the resistance during WW2 weren't open about sheltering Jews either. It wasn't just illegal; it would get them killed.
If that's it. then yes, he deserves a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile, everybody else would be wise to put the articles he released on a freely accessible and easily searchable website.
What I'd like to know is why those overly expensive journals still exist. Do they pay authors so much that everybody prefers to send articles there? My impression was that both authors and peer reviewers were unpaid or paid very little. So nobody who matters really profits from that rip-off situation. So why don't people set up a free science journal website, and submit everything there?
Yet the damages that Oracle now demands from Google are about as much as what Oracle paid for Sun. Of course those demands are ridiculous, but still, this possibility could have been a justification for Google to buy Sun. And maybe after stripping out Java, they could have sold the hardware part again.
He didn't cross any borders to commit his crime (if it even is a crime). It's more like somebody in Canada pointing out where people can acquire stolen goods, and some of those goods might originate in the US.
But they still wouldn't ask for extradition. They'd sue me in a Dutch or EU court.
Since when is it the government's job to defend corporate interests? The companies are perfectly capable of suing or filing charges in the country where the crime has been committed. Extradition for something like this makes jurisdiction a joke.
Suppose I were to smoke pot (which I don't, but it's legal where I live). It's illegal in France, however. Now suppose France requested my extradition for smoking pot in Amsterdam. That's basically what this is about.
Except that in this case, there's corporate interests involved, but that's what civil courts are for.
At that time, I also didn't understand why Google didn't just buy Sun for whatever they needed to pay. Would have saved everybody a lot of trouble.
They buy crappy startups for 10 billion? I think they tend to offer about 100 or 200 million for crappy startups.
It's unlikely that even half of the patents are legitimate. Microsoft doesn't get the money because they won a lawsuit, but because these lawsuits are impossible to figure out, and none of the smaller Android players wanted to get involved in that.
It sounds like the judge is explaining to the lawyers how they should do their job.
He asks for a Sun executive not on Oracle's payroll who would testify in Oracle's favour, then Oracle suggests someone who is on their payroll, and the judge has to explain to the lawyer that someone not on their payroll would be a lot more convincing to the jury. Honestly, can't Oracle's lawyers think of that on their own?
At least they have a name, rather than merely a generic description, like MS SQL Server.
For me, bulk inserts only seem to work well in MySQL, not in any other DB system. (I'm probably doing something wrong; I know little about databases. I just want my data stored.)
I have hardly seen any C / C++ developers complaining about database. Java/Ruby/Python/whatever on the other hand are just pussies.
C/C++ developers are used to cumbersome and arcane rituals. Ruby and Python (Java less so, but still more than C/C++) are supposed to make programming faster and more natural. A more natural way to store and access data makes a lot of sense there. You could call them pussies, but you could also say they're more focused on the goal itself rather than the arcane stuff around it.
MongoDB one of those fine databases that have managed to turn simple into complex eg:
Is that what MongoDB code looks like? Looks perfectly readable to me. Cleaner and more structured than the SQL version. More verbose, yes, but highly usable, unlike SQL which always requires a couple of layers of abstraction and conversion and mapping in order to make it usable.
You might have just converted a SQL user to MongoDB.
Most people in China have only one child. I think that's the last remaining difference between the US and China.
The USA really need to stop thinking this is a contest between nations to be the best, if they want to advance.
It'd be okay if it was about being the best. Nowadays Americans seem to be concerned only with appearing to be the best. It doesn't matter if the truth is ugly, as long as you hide and deny it.
The Court should represent both sides - Big Oil AND Big Content.
Have you even read this thread? How much outrage do you want?
You can bet Cisco will feel the pain if they're banned from doing business in Canada. I don't think that'd be sufficient punishment, but it's enough to hurt.