the ability to see what apps I've previously paid for (and deleted from my phone because I ran out of room) before I have to click to buy them again (and risk having picked the wrong app for which I will then be charged).
The ability to put files (pdf, doc, etc) in one place that other apps can also access instead of each app having to download it from the internet itself
The ability to turn off ALL sound before the app/video starts to play.
The ability to record a call (they don't have to build it, just allow that app on the store).
how about NOT putting the main speaker under the left side of the phone where I'm likely to block it when I'm holding the phone in my right hand
how about filtering in the app store (I'll say it again - indicating previously purchased apps would be huge... before you purchase them)
How about actually downloading that visual voicemail message so I don't have to be "connected" to listen to it
Nothing terribly difficult there. And there are a bunch of things that Apple could make better that they wouldn't even have to do themselves
A better music/podcast interface (pocket tunes anyone? - apple only allows the radio only version)
How about Google Voice
How about moving contacts from one list to another on the phone
How about moving photos from one list to another on the phone
It's not that the phone can't do the things people want (it can - just jailbreak it), it's that apple doesn't want the phone to do things people want.
All that said the iPhone is awesome. It is a platform for greatness and therefor it is great. It is only diminished in so much as Apple restricts the apps that can run on it. What's wrong with google voice? Do you really think ANYONE will mistake it for the built in phone app after begging and pleading simply to get an invite? Really? Even when their phone rings every time they make an outbound call? Really?
I loved my treo and the apps on my treo (and I had hundreds), but the iphone blows it away with the sheer number and quality of apps (with a few notable exceptions - no astronomy program approaches the quality of astromist (at any price), and I still keep my treo around just so I can play ackwire)
Without the OLPC driving, the industry had no interest in net books. And they still don't have much interest in durable netbooks. And, well, the cost does matter.
And since the cost does matter I would question the dual screens on the device (assuming added a second screen makes it more expensive). It doesn't need to look and feel like a book - certainly not for people that haven't ever held a book. And even for those that have - let go of the past.
How can this be a troll? This is so true.
I would however grant the extending the user base for an OSS project isn't exactly a bad thing, nor is having your company exposed to more OSS - but I sure would call it "giving back to the community".
The funny thing about emissions testing is new/recent cars have to have it done. And the only time I've heard of a new car failing the test is do do bad software in the car, or a sensor that is bad even though the emissions are fine. And for my 25+ year old classic car ('72 Opel GT)- I don't have to get emissions testing at all. WTF?
The whole emissions testing is a scam at this point. Test my care when it's 10 of 15 year old, not 2 or 3.
The program served it's purpose of enforcing lower emissions long ago, now it's just a racket for the state and few business owners to keep ranking in money.
While I'm sure they were trying to give an accurate representation of the molocule in the textbook, I always figured it was just a good way to _represent_ the significant parts of the idealized model - not they they had seen a photograph and then decided to sketch it out.
And I thought atoms (and therefore molocules) were mostly empty space...
... so much for plausible deniability. I mean if you took the time to enter the specific url in the blacklist, it's hard to deny knowing about the site. Still deniable - just a little less plausible.
...kids are curious, but incredibly lazy. So they ask, "why?"
You have to seed the pool of reasoning... If they have no basis for "why" how can you expect them to reason out why something else happens?
I used to push my son in a stroller while I went for a run. He would ask why ad infinitum, and I kept on answering way past his ability to comprehend. But I was amazed at his memory - even years later he remembered the "why" and was able to apply that to new questions - no longer asking simply "why" but asking instead, "is it because...", or "is it like..." but referring to thing that were way outside of his comprehension level at the time he was originally "spoon fed".
I think the biggest problem is that teacher are used to being spoon fed themselves. How many teachers don't know the answer if it's not printed in the "teacher's edition" of the book?
Typical Q&A with the science teacher:
Why is the sky blue?
Because it reflects blue light.
Why does it reflect blue light?
Because it's blue.
It's a good thing they taught me to read early. That's about the only way I learned anything.
I think Apple will just introduce a free Palm emulator for the iPhone (even from a third party), and sit back and watch as Palm and the Pre die a phenomenally fast death.
iTunes on a Palm Pre is nearly insignificant at may garner a few more Pre sales....
All current Palm apps running on an iPhone will tank sales of the Pre
It's not xenophobia. Most people don't have any problem with the people that are looking for jobs from any country. Good for them and good luck to them. If the shoe were on the other foot I would try to make the most of that system too. This is a problem with your government screwing with a free market system at the expense of its own citizens. Just because the US worker is "wronged" doesn't mean that she should (or does) blame the foreign worker. It is the US government that is screwing US workers.
Lets say job A has 3 people qualified to do it, but four companies need job A filled, the three qualified people can pick and choose their job. Now, turn to job B, which also has 3 people qualified for it, but only one company needs job B filled. Now, it's the company who can pick and choose who they hire and for how much (or how little).
If the supply of IT workers is relatively low, the demand side of the equasion will drive up wages to the point where more people enter the field or re-enter the field. If you increase the supply, the wages regardless of where they were before, will decrease. H1-B's increase the supply in a system, which even IF the H1-B workers are paid the same, will decrease wages for all. H1-B's even IF they are necessary WILL drive down wages. And they have the added bonus that since the jobs pay less that what a smart guy can make if he chooses a less afflicted profession, the US supply continues to dwindle. This will either cause an increase in wages OR, you guessed it, mandate the need for more H1-B visas.
The guy fixing the cement slab for your house, he was making much more than the lawyer doing your legal paperwork to buy the house.
I would be much happier with this situation. I don't think legal paperwork is that hard (ianal) or should justify great pay. But tradies do a lot of hard work usually for not a lot of pay. This at least seems more equitable. Now as for the hard work the lawyer put it when the plumber was slacking off in school.... how hard was it? just is justify the difference in lifestyle? Maybe, and certainly knowing what the outcome of your effort would be would affect you chosen profession -- lawyers are reasonably bright - If they knew that they would have to go to school for 8 years and study hard all the while amassing debt just so they could earn half as much as a plumber that dropped out of school... I think there would be fewer lawyers (which might just drive of the wages again).
For example, I work in an office doing a business analyst role, but I wouldn't take say a job moving lawns for the same money. I don't like mowing lawns.
I think the the lawn mower example is spot in. Certainly for the perspective of - it is what it is. Wages for work are where they are - choose your profession accordingly. It's just that a sudden external supply change can really knock you feet out from under you after you have committed to a given profession.
I advertise roles within this team at above the minimum wages but hire very selectively. This means I get someone who is a better worker for the role - and mostly people who want to do the role well.
It's relatively common for two mid-level developers ( or entry, or senior ) to have drastically different skills levels. We'll call that "value". Yet despite that fact that one developer may provide two or three times the value of the other less skilled developer, it is very unlikely that the better developer makes two or three times as much money.
I'd mod you up if I could. You hit the nail on the head.
Particularly when you consider that I am interviewing my prospective employer at the same time. The questions that they ask are invaluable when in comes to understanding who is already working there and what level of competence they have.
It also gives you some clue as to what knowledge they deem valuable (though it's no guarantee it's what you'll need for the job). And if having memorized parameters of some arcane command that they run is that important to them, good for them, I'll take another position - it's probably best for both of us.
Not only do tests tell me more about the job, they also give me the opportunity to stand out against the onslaught of idiots out there.
I'm going to opt for the Starship Troopers plan. Voting is not mandatory, and most taxpayers aren't even allowed to vote... until they demonstrate that they have some concern for the greater good of the society in which they would choose to cast their vote. Secrecy is fine, but I'm not certain it's required (though surely beneficial).
and no, I've never seen the movie
No way, most IT workers are barely competent and I refuse to be hobbled by them and what a union would do. Good IT people don't need unions. Good IT people aren't underpaid. Good IT people don't have to put up with all that silly shit. I am that hobbyist that programmed for fun - long before I got paid to have fun. I'm better at my job for having had a passion for it - rather than some rubber stamp that says at some point I was exposed to the material or jumped through the appropriate hoop. It's the mediocre masses that "need" protection. And it's the mediocrity that should NOT have it. Survival of the fittest - or better stated success of the exceptional. Very few (I'll refrain from saying "if any")in India can even compete with me. [i]My[/i] job isn't going oversees, not anytime soon. But that's not to say I'm so short sighted as to wait until my own livelihood is threatened before I seek protection for myself or those less... fortunate. I've managed take a step or two up the moral ladder - this Marine knows the folly of waiting. (Starship Troopers for those that don't follow http://themacavity.com/stch8web.txt)
But unions are NOT the answer. Our government can help us out quite a bit in area of jobs going overseas (and it should). And businesses will learn a tough lesson in the coming years about the quality and maintainability of that off-shored code. Businesses will also have to deal with having outsourced their most important asset (their people). But there is no need for the American IT worker to sit around and wait for someone else to do something for them. How about showing a little initiative and learning a little bit more about your trade. How about being so knowledgeable and valuable that your company recognizes that they can't replace you with just anybody else? How about taking it upon yourself to not be a commodity? If you don't care about yourself... why should I?
"So who do I call to confirm that this laptop is stolen?"
The owner is probably the only person that should report it stolen regardless of the software "tracking" it. And how does someone know this laptop is your laptop? Perhaps the serial number (unless it has a large scratch through it). You do file that information with your insurance company, right?
It might be a little hard to get them to pay any attention in church after they read "A Stranger in a Strange Land". I think it _will_ catch up with with them in Sunday school - and your kids quoting Heinlein back to the teacher probably won't go over well
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This is the best idea for a movie I've heard in a long time!
frequency hopping != encryption
especially if you are the only transmitter in that spectrum nearby.
Nothing terribly difficult there. And there are a bunch of things that Apple could make better that they wouldn't even have to do themselves
It's not that the phone can't do the things people want (it can - just jailbreak it), it's that apple doesn't want the phone to do things people want. All that said the iPhone is awesome. It is a platform for greatness and therefor it is great. It is only diminished in so much as Apple restricts the apps that can run on it. What's wrong with google voice? Do you really think ANYONE will mistake it for the built in phone app after begging and pleading simply to get an invite? Really? Even when their phone rings every time they make an outbound call? Really?
I loved my treo and the apps on my treo (and I had hundreds), but the iphone blows it away with the sheer number and quality of apps (with a few notable exceptions - no astronomy program approaches the quality of astromist (at any price), and I still keep my treo around just so I can play ackwire)
Without the OLPC driving, the industry had no interest in net books. And they still don't have much interest in durable netbooks. And, well, the cost does matter. And since the cost does matter I would question the dual screens on the device (assuming added a second screen makes it more expensive). It doesn't need to look and feel like a book - certainly not for people that haven't ever held a book. And even for those that have - let go of the past.
How can this be a troll? This is so true. I would however grant the extending the user base for an OSS project isn't exactly a bad thing, nor is having your company exposed to more OSS - but I sure would call it "giving back to the community".
The funny thing about emissions testing is new/recent cars have to have it done. And the only time I've heard of a new car failing the test is do do bad software in the car, or a sensor that is bad even though the emissions are fine. And for my 25+ year old classic car ('72 Opel GT)- I don't have to get emissions testing at all. WTF?
The whole emissions testing is a scam at this point. Test my care when it's 10 of 15 year old, not 2 or 3.
The program served it's purpose of enforcing lower emissions long ago, now it's just a racket for the state and few business owners to keep ranking in money.
textbook drawing of the bonds
While I'm sure they were trying to give an accurate representation of the molocule in the textbook, I always figured it was just a good way to _represent_ the significant parts of the idealized model - not they they had seen a photograph and then decided to sketch it out. And I thought atoms (and therefore molocules) were mostly empty space...
you setup a block list
... so much for plausible deniability. I mean if you took the time to enter the specific url in the blacklist, it's hard to deny knowing about the site. Still deniable - just a little less plausible.
...kids are curious, but incredibly lazy. So they ask, "why?"
You have to seed the pool of reasoning... If they have no basis for "why" how can you expect them to reason out why something else happens?
I used to push my son in a stroller while I went for a run. He would ask why ad infinitum, and I kept on answering way past his ability to comprehend. But I was amazed at his memory - even years later he remembered the "why" and was able to apply that to new questions - no longer asking simply "why" but asking instead, "is it because...", or "is it like..." but referring to thing that were way outside of his comprehension level at the time he was originally "spoon fed".
I think the biggest problem is that teacher are used to being spoon fed themselves. How many teachers don't know the answer if it's not printed in the "teacher's edition" of the book?
Typical Q&A with the science teacher:
Why is the sky blue?
Because it reflects blue light.
Why does it reflect blue light?
Because it's blue.
It's a good thing they taught me to read early. That's about the only way I learned anything.
I don't remember in my lifetime watching a video tape that didn't include the FBI copyright warning about this
Clearly you got your video tapes out of the trunk of a car on a different corner than my parents did.
Congress needs to dictate ONE tax rate for all Internet purchases.
As long as that rate is ZERO!!
How Long Before Apple Files a Lawsuit?
Never... they won't have anyone to sue:
I think Apple will just introduce a free Palm emulator for the iPhone (even from a third party), and sit back and watch as Palm and the Pre die a phenomenally fast death.
iTunes on a Palm Pre is nearly insignificant at may garner a few more Pre sales.... All current Palm apps running on an iPhone will tank sales of the Pre
iPhone + Palm apps > Pre + iTunes
...because it can't render everything properly?
What are you talking about, it gets an amazing 20/100 on the Acid 3 test.
Lets say job A has 3 people qualified to do it, but four companies need job A filled, the three qualified people can pick and choose their job. Now, turn to job B, which also has 3 people qualified for it, but only one company needs job B filled. Now, it's the company who can pick and choose who they hire and for how much (or how little).
If the supply of IT workers is relatively low, the demand side of the equasion will drive up wages to the point where more people enter the field or re-enter the field. If you increase the supply, the wages regardless of where they were before, will decrease. H1-B's increase the supply in a system, which even IF the H1-B workers are paid the same, will decrease wages for all. H1-B's even IF they are necessary WILL drive down wages. And they have the added bonus that since the jobs pay less that what a smart guy can make if he chooses a less afflicted profession, the US supply continues to dwindle. This will either cause an increase in wages OR, you guessed it, mandate the need for more H1-B visas.
The guy fixing the cement slab for your house, he was making much more than the lawyer doing your legal paperwork to buy the house.
I would be much happier with this situation. I don't think legal paperwork is that hard (ianal) or should justify great pay. But tradies do a lot of hard work usually for not a lot of pay. This at least seems more equitable. Now as for the hard work the lawyer put it when the plumber was slacking off in school.... how hard was it? just is justify the difference in lifestyle? Maybe, and certainly knowing what the outcome of your effort would be would affect you chosen profession -- lawyers are reasonably bright - If they knew that they would have to go to school for 8 years and study hard all the while amassing debt just so they could earn half as much as a plumber that dropped out of school... I think there would be fewer lawyers (which might just drive of the wages again).
For example, I work in an office doing a business analyst role, but I wouldn't take say a job moving lawns for the same money. I don't like mowing lawns.
I think the the lawn mower example is spot in. Certainly for the perspective of - it is what it is. Wages for work are where they are - choose your profession accordingly. It's just that a sudden external supply change can really knock you feet out from under you after you have committed to a given profession.
I advertise roles within this team at above the minimum wages but hire very selectively. This means I get someone who is a better worker for the role - and mostly people who want to do the role well.
It's relatively common for two mid-level developers ( or entry, or senior ) to have drastically different skills levels. We'll call that "value". Yet despite that fact that one developer may provide two or three times the value of the other less skilled developer, it is very unlikely that the better developer makes two or three times as much money.
They claim that 'GPS functionality should be limited to military purposes.'
I think that's the problem
Thanks, no really - I wanted my milk to come out my nose
Wow, the first thing they do in a marketing class is market marketing....
I'd mod you up if I could. You hit the nail on the head. Particularly when you consider that I am interviewing my prospective employer at the same time. The questions that they ask are invaluable when in comes to understanding who is already working there and what level of competence they have.
It also gives you some clue as to what knowledge they deem valuable (though it's no guarantee it's what you'll need for the job). And if having memorized parameters of some arcane command that they run is that important to them, good for them, I'll take another position - it's probably best for both of us.
Not only do tests tell me more about the job, they also give me the opportunity to stand out against the onslaught of idiots out there.
I'm going to opt for the Starship Troopers plan. Voting is not mandatory, and most taxpayers aren't even allowed to vote... until they demonstrate that they have some concern for the greater good of the society in which they would choose to cast their vote. Secrecy is fine, but I'm not certain it's required (though surely beneficial). and no, I've never seen the movie
No way, most IT workers are barely competent and I refuse to be hobbled by them and what a union would do. Good IT people don't need unions. Good IT people aren't underpaid. Good IT people don't have to put up with all that silly shit. I am that hobbyist that programmed for fun - long before I got paid to have fun. I'm better at my job for having had a passion for it - rather than some rubber stamp that says at some point I was exposed to the material or jumped through the appropriate hoop. It's the mediocre masses that "need" protection. And it's the mediocrity that should NOT have it. Survival of the fittest - or better stated success of the exceptional. Very few (I'll refrain from saying "if any")in India can even compete with me. [i]My[/i] job isn't going oversees, not anytime soon. But that's not to say I'm so short sighted as to wait until my own livelihood is threatened before I seek protection for myself or those less... fortunate. I've managed take a step or two up the moral ladder - this Marine knows the folly of waiting. (Starship Troopers for those that don't follow http://themacavity.com/stch8web.txt) But unions are NOT the answer. Our government can help us out quite a bit in area of jobs going overseas (and it should). And businesses will learn a tough lesson in the coming years about the quality and maintainability of that off-shored code. Businesses will also have to deal with having outsourced their most important asset (their people). But there is no need for the American IT worker to sit around and wait for someone else to do something for them. How about showing a little initiative and learning a little bit more about your trade. How about being so knowledgeable and valuable that your company recognizes that they can't replace you with just anybody else? How about taking it upon yourself to not be a commodity? If you don't care about yourself ... why should I?
Yeah, but management doesn't know the difference, and they're the ones making the decision to outsource.
"So who do I call to confirm that this laptop is stolen?"
The owner is probably the only person that should report it stolen regardless of the software "tracking" it. And how does someone know this laptop is your laptop? Perhaps the serial number (unless it has a large scratch through it). You do file that information with your insurance company, right?
It might be a little hard to get them to pay any attention in church after they read "A Stranger in a Strange Land". I think it _will_ catch up with with them in Sunday school - and your kids quoting Heinlein back to the teacher probably won't go over well
Me, I use math to write dirty words on my calculator.
Nothing but flamebait and offtopic points