Never met ya, but I feel like I know ya. This place is losing its heart and soul today, I'm afraid. But you're right of course, it's time for you to set sail. Looking forward to seeing what you do next...
Because all the corporations in the Android ecosystem are not litigious assholes. They are kind, generous, and deeply care about the geeks and the hackers.:-|
You have crystallized my thoughts, sir. "Hey can you waste a bunch of time training and working with someone who will be out the door in short time?" God I fucking hate it. Training new people sucks, it's a drain on resources, and you want me to do it for no gain? Oh hell no.
No, I'm not saying that previous upgrades *might* have broken compatibility, they definitely *did* break compatibility, and there have been cases where, had I known that I would have just started a new project and been much better off. Sometimes it's better to just admit you can't do backwards compatibility and get on with it. I stopped expecting FCP to support projects from previous versions long ago.
It's better than previous FCP upgrades , which claimed to open old files but actually changed things in subtle ways that you didn't realize until it was too late. At least now you KNOW the new behavior.
I had the same reservations before going to college, and I ended up going anyway. I was totally wrong, and it was the best decision I ever made. But I guess you won't have the chance to make that judgement.
His question was NOT well thought out. He thinks he already knows everything, so education is a waste of time. I'd never hire him for any position, especially anything development-related.
I work for a startup that has everything in the cloud (except possibly backup - I'd bet there is a physical copy somewhere). Seriously, all of the above are handled in the cloud, and we have nobody with the title of "IT". We outsource our firewall admin, and all data services are cloud. Mind you, there are plenty of IT tasks being handled by developers, and I definitely do NOT agree that those types of tasks are going away. But I think it is conceivable that the title will fade away, and it is conceivable that very few companies will deal with local services before too long.
So, by your argument, Apple beat Palm solely based on superior marketing and not based on any innovation in the iPhone's design versus Palm's offerings at the time. This is completely and utterly false. The iPhone defined smartphone design NOT because of marketing but because the design was in fact extremely innovative. People like you look at feature lists and say "this one did it first" or "this one is better than that one". Where you fail is that design and engineering !== feature lists.
By "supported widely" I mean "supported by the lion's share of the market". I'm just saying TFA is disingenuous, not that Apple is the shining star of righteousness.
I stand corrected, I thought ALAC was an AAC variant, which it is not:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless
TFA should still mention this, instead of pretending that FLAC is the one and only, and that iTunes supports no lossless format. I do agree in the sense that Apple should either open ALAC and start selling it, or adopt FLAC, or something.
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So the solution is to abuse more children to make child porn to placate them? That's a pretty fuckin odd argument.
Or maybe they're just not into advocating genocide.
Wow, Slashdot has really gone downhill. Pass the Brawndo.
Never met ya, but I feel like I know ya. This place is losing its heart and soul today, I'm afraid. But you're right of course, it's time for you to set sail. Looking forward to seeing what you do next...
Well, you could think of it as a reference to a dotfile at the root. But the above is the official explanation.
I'm pretty sure he's going for a Funny mod. Hey, I laughed. And I'm over 40 :-D
Because all the corporations in the Android ecosystem are not litigious assholes. They are kind, generous, and deeply care about the geeks and the hackers. :-|
The notion that 99.99% of iOS users are not downloading and using apps is laughable.
At least it gave the burners something to do other than annoy the shit out of SF 11 months per year.
That should be cheap to replace when a rock hits it.
Bzzzzt! iOS handles viewing and saving PDF's fine. Thank you for playing "I Bashed Apple on Slashdot". Try again.
You have crystallized my thoughts, sir. "Hey can you waste a bunch of time training and working with someone who will be out the door in short time?" God I fucking hate it. Training new people sucks, it's a drain on resources, and you want me to do it for no gain? Oh hell no.
No, I'm not saying that previous upgrades *might* have broken compatibility, they definitely *did* break compatibility, and there have been cases where, had I known that I would have just started a new project and been much better off. Sometimes it's better to just admit you can't do backwards compatibility and get on with it. I stopped expecting FCP to support projects from previous versions long ago.
It's better than previous FCP upgrades , which claimed to open old files but actually changed things in subtle ways that you didn't realize until it was too late. At least now you KNOW the new behavior.
Totally agreed. Never hire guys like this.
I had the same reservations before going to college, and I ended up going anyway. I was totally wrong, and it was the best decision I ever made. But I guess you won't have the chance to make that judgement.
His question was NOT well thought out. He thinks he already knows everything, so education is a waste of time. I'd never hire him for any position, especially anything development-related.
Wow, the Android drones are out in full force this morning.
What features specifically are you complaining about?
How does Webkit not qualify as open?
I work for a startup that has everything in the cloud (except possibly backup - I'd bet there is a physical copy somewhere). Seriously, all of the above are handled in the cloud, and we have nobody with the title of "IT". We outsource our firewall admin, and all data services are cloud. Mind you, there are plenty of IT tasks being handled by developers, and I definitely do NOT agree that those types of tasks are going away. But I think it is conceivable that the title will fade away, and it is conceivable that very few companies will deal with local services before too long.
So, by your argument, Apple beat Palm solely based on superior marketing and not based on any innovation in the iPhone's design versus Palm's offerings at the time. This is completely and utterly false. The iPhone defined smartphone design NOT because of marketing but because the design was in fact extremely innovative. People like you look at feature lists and say "this one did it first" or "this one is better than that one". Where you fail is that design and engineering !== feature lists.
"Server not found". Looks like you've identified a new market!
By "supported widely" I mean "supported by the lion's share of the market". I'm just saying TFA is disingenuous, not that Apple is the shining star of righteousness.
I stand corrected, I thought ALAC was an AAC variant, which it is not:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless
TFA should still mention this, instead of pretending that FLAC is the one and only, and that iTunes supports no lossless format. I do agree in the sense that Apple should either open ALAC and start selling it, or adopt FLAC, or something.