Do they just refund the warranty price and call it a day? Or is that a bonus you get for waiting more than 5 days, but you still get whatever you're entitled to without the refunded warranty?
(Never used the service, but I can't see why they'd have a business if their model allowed them to never pay out anything, ever, except to refund what they were paid)
Sure, just make sure that you assign the CEO, whatever VP is in charge of IT and similar roles with firstname.lastname3@example.com and see how quickly the policy gets changed.
From a job security point of view, you should probably send out "proposed new addresses" as opposed to actually assigning such things in the real world.
BlackBerry also separates the data layer. Save a document to an SD card from your corporate email and try to send it from your personal email? You can't. But you can send it from your corporate email.
It's not the same as fully virtualizing, but it creates a nice data firewall between corporate and personal data.
a BB and MS merger? would require MS to say ok Linux has a place:)
How so? BlackBerry Smartphones don't run Linux, they run a mostly proprietary OS with heavy Java integration. BB10 and PlayBook run QNX, which is an independent micro-kernel with a POSIX interface. Given that Windows itself has a POSIX subsystem (admittedly it's in the process of being depreciated), this wouldn't be a difficult pill for Microsoft to swallow.
I agree completely with regards to giving kids their freedom, my parents were annoying about being over-bearing and it meant that I didn't get the life experience of taking care of myself early in life.
The trick is to know what they're up to, but NOT INTERFERE unless it's actually dangerous. Let them get into a little trouble, because that's how life works, but it's good to know that all is actually well.
Good try, except that people overwhelmingly support ObamaCare when you present it outside of a political context (in other words, sit down and show the terms to people without the label). Inside political context, you still have well over 50% supporting it, so it's not even clearly divided on party lines.
Heck, even Mitt supports it, he practically wrote and implemented it himself at the state level.
"Out of 19,000 emails received by the Committee on the subject of the proposed Draft Communications Bill, not a single one was in favor of it, or even agreed with its premise. Has there ever been a bill so universally rejected by the public in a consultation?"
In other words, the people overwhelmingly support this initiative and it should be implemented as soon as possible, probably way pay raises for the politicians involved?
Understood. And with regards to relaunching the icon, this makes sense. However, when you fast-app-switch back to the web-app, it would be really nice if it left you where you left off instead of restarting like virtually all modern iOS apps do.
iOS does, but it's severely hobbled. When you attempt to return to the app (via fast-app switching or the home-screen-icon) you get to see where you left off for a couple seconds, then it returns to the main URL for that web-app.
This makes it a huge pain to actually use this functionality since if you save, say,/., then instead of being able to finish the comment you were writing, you'll end up at the/. homepage again.
I'm not surprised that Apple has rejected an App that has the purpose of getting people interested in the author's own political agenda.
This is true, Apple never approves applications that have the purpose of fostering a particular political agenda. I bet if Mitt Romney's campaign submitted an Amercia app, it would be rejected promptly.
I've yet to see anything resembling a usable map interface implemented in Safari Mobile. Even Google's is clunky and painful to use vs a native app, so suggesting "Just use Safari" doesn't really scale until it can create as functional an interface as what native apps can do.
Apple is, and should be, free to prohibit any content they want on their store.
Absolutely!
It's their store, we shouldn't force them to add stuff they don't want.
Nobody is forcing anything. Yet. For the same reason that Apple has a right to carry (or not carry) whatever they like, I have the right to complain about it.
The problem here is the locked down devices. You have no other way of installing things on an iPhone.
And this is the reason I'm actually alright with forcing Apple to carry certain things that they might not otherwise want to carry. If the App Store rules weren't such a moving target, I'd have less of a complaint, but the fact that limitations on what software I can install on my device are added after the initial purchase of my device is a bit of a problem, at least to me.
My point is that I was very specifically addressing only desktop installations. It's entirely possible that Android will have a presence in the desktop world in the future, but today, that's approximately 0% of existing desktop installs.
With regards to Windows, I don't entirely disagree. However, there are APIs available that tell a developer/installer/whatever where the correct directories are located.
A properly written application designed in the last 90s for NT will manage to install in C:\Program Files\ (with or without the (x86) depending on whether the current OS needs it) automatically, and will find the %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\ directory despite the fact that such a thing wasn't used at all in NT. No repackaging needed, although some user retraining is needed.
Even if it's up to 2% desktop use, my argument still stands.
At $DAYJOB we don't really look at OSX or Linux because, even combined, they're such a tiny portion of the SMB market that even if we did invest the time to develop cross-platform, it wouldn't pay for the ongoing QA and support. (Plus we're a.NET shop and our product works with, although doesn't require, Active Directory, so the effort would be non-trivial for a less than ideal result)
I'm not a huge Linux fan myself, but I have a few Linux boxes that serve vital roles (with a bit of a fondness for Arch for non-production stuff). Still, I can't see running it as a primary desktop for anyone but a fan of Linux or in an extremely locked down environment.
I touched on that in another reply. Development isn't as significant but performing QA, building installers, upgrade/patch management and similar doesn't scale at all and must be done from scratch on each platform so the ROI needs to be significant.
Worse, how many Linux gamers don't have access to another supported platform already? What good is it if you pull off 1% of your sales on Linux if 90% of those were a lost sale on another platform?
Developing cross-platform is likely not as expensive/difficult as it once was in terms of gaming, this is true. However, there's more than development. The packaging (digital or the digital components of the physical, including the installer, patch management system, etc), QA and other resources don't scale and require significant investments for additional platforms.
More important is the fact that although a larger than average percentage of Linux users might be gamers (and I've never seen any stats either way, although I'd guess it's likely based on my own sample size), I'd hazard a guess that a majority of those gamers are ready, willing and able to play on another platform too if a game isn't available on their preferred platform. So whether it's Windows, OSX or a console that they use, if a significant percentage of Linux sales are stolen from another platform, what's the point?
My point was that it's not as simple as it could or should be (for a typical end user) to have all of their photos saved somewhere safe in real time.
Photo Stream also shows up in a fairly obvious way on the device (in the same place as the photos themselves) and might be known to a police officer, so it would be a bit difficult to conceal, which in my mind, at least partially defeats the purpose.
On the other hand, it sounds like the next Dropbox version (and likely other apps, Qik might be one) will have the option to automatically upload all new photos upon launch, and continue doing so in the background, so as long as you have a bit of time between when you take a photo and when your device is confiscated, you can start the upload process with one touch of a button.
I rather like the idea of the cop not being aware of it, so that they feel they're free to lie on the police report without being aware that evidence is available. Nothing against cops, but if they're willing to cover up evidence and lie, the idea of making their lives more difficult makes me smile.
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Do they just refund the warranty price and call it a day? Or is that a bonus you get for waiting more than 5 days, but you still get whatever you're entitled to without the refunded warranty?
(Never used the service, but I can't see why they'd have a business if their model allowed them to never pay out anything, ever, except to refund what they were paid)
Sure, just make sure that you assign the CEO, whatever VP is in charge of IT and similar roles with firstname.lastname3@example.com and see how quickly the policy gets changed.
From a job security point of view, you should probably send out "proposed new addresses" as opposed to actually assigning such things in the real world.
Nothing looks more professional than bob_smith72@example.com
BlackBerry also separates the data layer. Save a document to an SD card from your corporate email and try to send it from your personal email? You can't. But you can send it from your corporate email.
It's not the same as fully virtualizing, but it creates a nice data firewall between corporate and personal data.
a BB and MS merger? would require MS to say ok Linux has a place :)
How so? BlackBerry Smartphones don't run Linux, they run a mostly proprietary OS with heavy Java integration. BB10 and PlayBook run QNX, which is an independent micro-kernel with a POSIX interface. Given that Windows itself has a POSIX subsystem (admittedly it's in the process of being depreciated), this wouldn't be a difficult pill for Microsoft to swallow.
I agree completely with regards to giving kids their freedom, my parents were annoying about being over-bearing and it meant that I didn't get the life experience of taking care of myself early in life.
The trick is to know what they're up to, but NOT INTERFERE unless it's actually dangerous. Let them get into a little trouble, because that's how life works, but it's good to know that all is actually well.
It's called an iPhone. Your kid will carry it willingly, no stress, no questions asked.
Good try, except that people overwhelmingly support ObamaCare when you present it outside of a political context (in other words, sit down and show the terms to people without the label). Inside political context, you still have well over 50% supporting it, so it's not even clearly divided on party lines.
Heck, even Mitt supports it, he practically wrote and implemented it himself at the state level.
"Out of 19,000 emails received by the Committee on the subject of the proposed Draft Communications Bill, not a single one was in favor of it, or even agreed with its premise. Has there ever been a bill so universally rejected by the public in a consultation?"
In other words, the people overwhelmingly support this initiative and it should be implemented as soon as possible, probably way pay raises for the politicians involved?
And does it run Linux?
Understood. And with regards to relaunching the icon, this makes sense. However, when you fast-app-switch back to the web-app, it would be really nice if it left you where you left off instead of restarting like virtually all modern iOS apps do.
iOS does, but it's severely hobbled. When you attempt to return to the app (via fast-app switching or the home-screen-icon) you get to see where you left off for a couple seconds, then it returns to the main URL for that web-app.
This makes it a huge pain to actually use this functionality since if you save, say, /., then instead of being able to finish the comment you were writing, you'll end up at the /. homepage again.
I'm not surprised that Apple has rejected an App that has the purpose of getting people interested in the author's own political agenda.
This is true, Apple never approves applications that have the purpose of fostering a particular political agenda. I bet if Mitt Romney's campaign submitted an Amercia app, it would be rejected promptly.
I've yet to see anything resembling a usable map interface implemented in Safari Mobile. Even Google's is clunky and painful to use vs a native app, so suggesting "Just use Safari" doesn't really scale until it can create as functional an interface as what native apps can do.
Apple is, and should be, free to prohibit any content they want on their store.
Absolutely!
It's their store, we shouldn't force them to add stuff they don't want.
Nobody is forcing anything. Yet. For the same reason that Apple has a right to carry (or not carry) whatever they like, I have the right to complain about it.
The problem here is the locked down devices. You have no other way of installing things on an iPhone.
And this is the reason I'm actually alright with forcing Apple to carry certain things that they might not otherwise want to carry. If the App Store rules weren't such a moving target, I'd have less of a complaint, but the fact that limitations on what software I can install on my device are added after the initial purchase of my device is a bit of a problem, at least to me.
It's not about fragility, it's about respect. If you can't pull off a bit of respect in an interview, what do you offer as an employer?
Sure, go ahead and hire someone who thinks of themselves as a "fan" instead of a "professional" and see how that goes.
In fact, why not mock all of your potential candidates to see how they handle abuse and only hire people who "pass"?
My point is that I was very specifically addressing only desktop installations. It's entirely possible that Android will have a presence in the desktop world in the future, but today, that's approximately 0% of existing desktop installs.
With regards to Windows, I don't entirely disagree. However, there are APIs available that tell a developer/installer/whatever where the correct directories are located.
A properly written application designed in the last 90s for NT will manage to install in C:\Program Files\ (with or without the (x86) depending on whether the current OS needs it) automatically, and will find the %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\ directory despite the fact that such a thing wasn't used at all in NT. No repackaging needed, although some user retraining is needed.
Even if it's up to 2% desktop use, my argument still stands.
At $DAYJOB we don't really look at OSX or Linux because, even combined, they're such a tiny portion of the SMB market that even if we did invest the time to develop cross-platform, it wouldn't pay for the ongoing QA and support. (Plus we're a .NET shop and our product works with, although doesn't require, Active Directory, so the effort would be non-trivial for a less than ideal result)
I'm not a huge Linux fan myself, but I have a few Linux boxes that serve vital roles (with a bit of a fondness for Arch for non-production stuff). Still, I can't see running it as a primary desktop for anyone but a fan of Linux or in an extremely locked down environment.
I touched on that in another reply. Development isn't as significant but performing QA, building installers, upgrade/patch management and similar doesn't scale at all and must be done from scratch on each platform so the ROI needs to be significant.
Worse, how many Linux gamers don't have access to another supported platform already? What good is it if you pull off 1% of your sales on Linux if 90% of those were a lost sale on another platform?
*cough*Desktop*cough*
Developing cross-platform is likely not as expensive/difficult as it once was in terms of gaming, this is true. However, there's more than development. The packaging (digital or the digital components of the physical, including the installer, patch management system, etc), QA and other resources don't scale and require significant investments for additional platforms.
More important is the fact that although a larger than average percentage of Linux users might be gamers (and I've never seen any stats either way, although I'd guess it's likely based on my own sample size), I'd hazard a guess that a majority of those gamers are ready, willing and able to play on another platform too if a game isn't available on their preferred platform. So whether it's Windows, OSX or a console that they use, if a significant percentage of Linux sales are stolen from another platform, what's the point?
Less than 1% of the desktop market can't justify development for an entire alternate platform?
My point was that it's not as simple as it could or should be (for a typical end user) to have all of their photos saved somewhere safe in real time.
Photo Stream also shows up in a fairly obvious way on the device (in the same place as the photos themselves) and might be known to a police officer, so it would be a bit difficult to conceal, which in my mind, at least partially defeats the purpose.
On the other hand, it sounds like the next Dropbox version (and likely other apps, Qik might be one) will have the option to automatically upload all new photos upon launch, and continue doing so in the background, so as long as you have a bit of time between when you take a photo and when your device is confiscated, you can start the upload process with one touch of a button.
I rather like the idea of the cop not being aware of it, so that they feel they're free to lie on the police report without being aware that evidence is available. Nothing against cops, but if they're willing to cover up evidence and lie, the idea of making their lives more difficult makes me smile.