Yes, you're cool because you got some apps before the iPhone existed. Envy sucks doesn't it. Envy being that thing that makes you feel the need to get all hot and bothered and tell us about how you had these things before iPhone people did.
Guess what, I had a cell phone before the iPhone came out!!! And before that I had a beeper!@$!@!!!! The fact that I had a shitty beeper 15-20 years ago should make it obvious the iPhone is pointless and stupid... or maybe it just makes my comments pointless, stupid and retarded. Which do you thin it is?
Quick, make it more well known so Apple is sure to pull it off the AppStore tomorrow morning, if it takes that long.
You guys are so concerned with showing how cool you are to find the way around things, but too stupid to realize that telling everyone means it'll go away fast as shit. Twits.
ActiveX doesn't run in a sandbox. Its a plugin architecture, an extension of COM. There is no sand boxing and there was never any intention of it. Its just a dynamic library with a specific known set of exported functions. It is no different than a.so in the various UNIX OSes and a.dyld on OS X. Its just a DLL.
There is no way for you to 'break out of an ActiveX sandbox' because there is no sandbox to break out of. You probably also think ActiveX is insecure, without realizing that the only difference between ActiveX and a firefox plugin is that no one has exploited Firefox to auto install a plugin... YET.
Nice try Apple, but if you open your OS development environment to those who don't buy your latest OS and hardware and/or if you allow Java applications, you might eventually have as many applications as other phones in the global marketplace.
Hahaha did you seriously make that statement?
Do you think Apple gives a fuck? They are out selling EVERYONE, in phones AND apps. Yes, they have a little while to catch up with the other phone OSes that have been around FAR longer, but thats because they haven't been around as long.
Why is it slashdotters can't grasp the fact that Apple doesn't need to cater to your retarded whims in order to make a freaking killing? If you think the iPhone is 'hurting' because of the development process then you've lived in a box for at least 2 years.
Show me another phone that got its first 3rd party/unbundled apps a little over 2 years ago with a billion downloads for it. Go ahead, I'll wait.
God you are a fucking pussy. I'm flamebait, sure, but your kids are going to get their asses kicked so many times they turn into wife beating child abusers with that stupid mentality.
You don't need green bricks to make a tank, kids have no problem with red tanks, blue tanks, white tanks and black ones. Its only retarded adults that think something like that is going to stop children from being children or somehow block millions of years of evolution which have made us into aggressive creatures in order to actually survive.
First off, The idea that you can apply your shitty virus infected 'license' to my comments in ludicrous, stop being such a retarded fanboy of GPL. Why do you people think this license is the end all be all and that everyone on the planet wants to be a hippie?
Second, if someone takes an idea I threw on slashdot and turns it into a profit making machine, more power too them, thats my fault for not doing it myself. By your logic, you can not do anything ever, because I'm right now telling you that I've thought of every idea that will ever be capable of making any money and I own the idea. If you try to make money, my lawyers will be at your door. Yes, thats a stupid statement, but it fits right in line with what you are saying.
What you are proposing to 'fight the problem' is exactly the problem, retarded people who think adding more barriers to reusing an existing idea is a good thing.
As for the lawyers, as another reply to your post says... they day that happens is they day someone gets shot in my front yard.
3 times in the last year? My mail server hasn't been unavailable outside of a short scheduled maintaince window 3 times in the last 10 years.
You can put your email on someone elses servers, thats fine, I won't. My internal email doesn't pass over anything unencrypted, our servers require SSL or TLS.
Doing backups on the client side? Have you ever dealt with more than 3 PCs before? Are you nucking futz? My email backup is an rsync command line. It may be hard for someone who is clueless, but anyone with a few years of experience and a head on their shoulders can make backups pretty easy. Hell, now that we're using zfs for the backing stores, we have daily snapshots of the entire system.
You, or whoever was managing your email systems is just a shitty admin, thats what gmail is better for you. Those of us who actually do our jobs have plenty of reasons why its far more cost effective to keep it internal, even if you pay for a dedicated 60k/year admin.
If you're a small company, gmail is fine. If you're of any size at all, outsourcing your email just makes you retarded.
If Chrome gets addons like Firefox it will perform like Firefox, addons, like so many ActiveX controls used in IE are the #1 reason browser perform like shit.
Google's development branch is about 100 times more stable than Mozilla's development branch, so its not really all that biased. When Firefox gets their shit together and starts running the show like professionals and not Microsoft, they can get the same treatment.
Once again, if you're doing server work from your phone, you're doing something wrong. Yes its cool, but the reality of it is, if you have to use your phone to edit something on your server, you fucked up.
So you go ahead and be all proud that you have figured out a way to use your cell phone when you aren't at work to fix something you should have done at work.
I'll spend my time while I'm not at work, not being at work and not worrying about needed to edit a file on my phone because my servers are doing their jobs and not requiring my constant attention.
You think you are cool because you can work from your phone, I am cool because I don't have to.
You don't care about learning curve because you have nothing useful to do with your time but learn how to use obscure retarded software. I have more useful things to do with my time, learning how to do obscure things with software stopped being cool when I discovered boobies. Now I use computers to make my life easier and accomplish tasks, not marvel about how much of my life I can waste reinventing the wheel or learning some hard to use pile of crap software just because I think it makes me cool that I can use some hard to use software package while everyone else just does the same thing with some easy to use package and goes and does other things while you're still looking for your vi quick reference manual.
Some of us have better things to do than be computer dorks, we grew up, have families and other priorities and likely a higher quality of life than those of you glued to your crappy hard to use editors.
I right click on my trackpad all the time, not sure what your problem is.
Actually, this is a new addition, and until it happened, i wouldn't buy a Mac laptop. Now that the pads are multitouch, its a software controlled 'right click', technically it can be any zone of the pad you'd like.
If you had to read a book for the test, they didn't want you. That is exactly what the test is there to weed out, people who don't actually know what they are doing, but have done a little brushing up for the job.
A good developer can code for any language with little more than a reference manual.
If you've gotta go read a book before the Interview, it better be for an entry level position.
You go ahead and keep thinking you are hot shit though, see how far it gets you in this economy.
11 years of experience and many job interviews? Yea, you're obviously a seasoned professional who is reliable.
Do you seriously think what you said makes you sound impressive? If you walked into an interview with me and said something like that or showed me a resume showing 'a lot' of jobs over 11 years I'd laugh you out of the room.
A lot of interviews is NOT a good thing. You are not special, there are far more people out there who can do your job and do it well who don't think they are king shit. I don't want some douche bag who only has 11 years of experience and can't hold a job for more than 6 months, and neither does practically anyone else.
If an employer thinks they can tell in one visit, they are doing something wrong, hiring you is the first indication.
Let me know when you get a real job, and no McDonalds doesn't count as a real job.
And this is a prime reason why 'statistics' are fucking retarded.
You assume that a 'random' sample will yield proper results because its random, and thats just something some retarded ignorant professor shouts at his students.
Its a sign of someone who doesn't understand entropy at all.
This is no such thing as random, sorry. There are some pretty unpredictable things from our prospective, but nothing is random.
Just as easily as a random sample can accurately reflect a population as a whole, it can equally be skewed to be a completely inaccurate representation of the real world.
Statistics as a rule, don't prove shit, taking 'samples' as an accurate representation of reality is retarded as anyone with half a grain of common sense can figure out. The only people who say otherwise are too stupid to realize that people teaching them things are often wrong.
Its a sample, random or otherwise, it should never be used as an accurate representation of reality, doing so just makes you ignorant and/or a politician.
Why do we still live with the x86 instruction set.
Because its really not that bad, unless you happen to be one of the people who sells an alternative, then, and only then, it sucks.
Is "the year of UNIX" here yet?
Maybe not 'the year' but the past several have been awesome for OS X, which is about as 'UNIX' as it comes considering it is indeed a certified UNIX. It may not be your precious Linux (which isn't UNIX, sorry), but UNIX is doing just fine thanks. Not the most popular OS, but it is the second and gaining.
Someone will put NAND directly on the drive, and get an instant speed improvement. All the tech sites will rave about it and it will be an instant must-have item.
Its only slightly more expensive to put RAM on the drive and far better performing if you're mixing mechanical with solid state.
- Their competitor will figure out a way to put the OS files in NAND, for fast booting, via a utility or firmware. The marketing war begins.
Already done for several OSes, including Windows, no one actually cares except geeks. The rest of us don't reboot all the time so it doesn't really matter.
- The third competitor will work with Microsoft or Apple to get OS support for fast boot. Apple will get there first and you'll see a commercial on TV with the Mac guy wondering why the PC guy takes the entire commercial to wake up.
Again, already done, you just put your PC to sleep rather than booting, fast booting will start off as a simple extension of this with a more persistent feel. I do this with VMWare already.
Its awesome when people talk about how the PC industry is just now doing things that were talked about years ago, except, entirely different than what they say.
Because something that OSS people never seem to understand is that at some point there are costs to things. Its harder to see with software, but with hardware and consumables it typically becomes pretty clear quickly.
You can take away patents and ink and paper are still going to cost money, sorry. Unless you're buying HP ink cartridges, its not really that expensive now. And if you're buying HP ink cartridges directly from the store without refilling them you get what you deserve anyway.
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Yes, you're cool because you got some apps before the iPhone existed. Envy sucks doesn't it. Envy being that thing that makes you feel the need to get all hot and bothered and tell us about how you had these things before iPhone people did.
Guess what, I had a cell phone before the iPhone came out!!! And before that I had a beeper!@$!@!!!! The fact that I had a shitty beeper 15-20 years ago should make it obvious the iPhone is pointless and stupid ... or maybe it just makes my comments pointless, stupid and retarded. Which do you thin it is?
Quick, make it more well known so Apple is sure to pull it off the AppStore tomorrow morning, if it takes that long.
You guys are so concerned with showing how cool you are to find the way around things, but too stupid to realize that telling everyone means it'll go away fast as shit. Twits.
ActiveX doesn't run in a sandbox. Its a plugin architecture, an extension of COM. There is no sand boxing and there was never any intention of it. Its just a dynamic library with a specific known set of exported functions. It is no different than a .so in the various UNIX OSes and a .dyld on OS X. Its just a DLL.
There is no way for you to 'break out of an ActiveX sandbox' because there is no sandbox to break out of. You probably also think ActiveX is insecure, without realizing that the only difference between ActiveX and a firefox plugin is that no one has exploited Firefox to auto install a plugin ... YET.
Hahaha did you seriously make that statement?
Do you think Apple gives a fuck? They are out selling EVERYONE, in phones AND apps. Yes, they have a little while to catch up with the other phone OSes that have been around FAR longer, but thats because they haven't been around as long.
Why is it slashdotters can't grasp the fact that Apple doesn't need to cater to your retarded whims in order to make a freaking killing? If you think the iPhone is 'hurting' because of the development process then you've lived in a box for at least 2 years.
Show me another phone that got its first 3rd party/unbundled apps a little over 2 years ago with a billion downloads for it. Go ahead, I'll wait.
'violence and Star Wars shit' ...
God you are a fucking pussy. I'm flamebait, sure, but your kids are going to get their asses kicked so many times they turn into wife beating child abusers with that stupid mentality.
You don't need green bricks to make a tank, kids have no problem with red tanks, blue tanks, white tanks and black ones. Its only retarded adults that think something like that is going to stop children from being children or somehow block millions of years of evolution which have made us into aggressive creatures in order to actually survive.
First off, The idea that you can apply your shitty virus infected 'license' to my comments in ludicrous, stop being such a retarded fanboy of GPL. Why do you people think this license is the end all be all and that everyone on the planet wants to be a hippie?
Second, if someone takes an idea I threw on slashdot and turns it into a profit making machine, more power too them, thats my fault for not doing it myself. By your logic, you can not do anything ever, because I'm right now telling you that I've thought of every idea that will ever be capable of making any money and I own the idea. If you try to make money, my lawyers will be at your door. Yes, thats a stupid statement, but it fits right in line with what you are saying.
What you are proposing to 'fight the problem' is exactly the problem, retarded people who think adding more barriers to reusing an existing idea is a good thing.
As for the lawyers, as another reply to your post says ... they day that happens is they day someone gets shot in my front yard.
Flipper died years ago, caught a nasty virus.
You haven't read much of the old testament have you?
Everyone still has Office installed of course, since they actually do have to communicate with people outside the DC government as well.
3 times in the last year? My mail server hasn't been unavailable outside of a short scheduled maintaince window 3 times in the last 10 years.
You can put your email on someone elses servers, thats fine, I won't. My internal email doesn't pass over anything unencrypted, our servers require SSL or TLS.
Doing backups on the client side? Have you ever dealt with more than 3 PCs before? Are you nucking futz? My email backup is an rsync command line. It may be hard for someone who is clueless, but anyone with a few years of experience and a head on their shoulders can make backups pretty easy. Hell, now that we're using zfs for the backing stores, we have daily snapshots of the entire system.
You, or whoever was managing your email systems is just a shitty admin, thats what gmail is better for you. Those of us who actually do our jobs have plenty of reasons why its far more cost effective to keep it internal, even if you pay for a dedicated 60k/year admin.
If you're a small company, gmail is fine. If you're of any size at all, outsourcing your email just makes you retarded.
Just for reference, theres no need to exit Firefox, sqlite can deal with multiple processes accessimg the same file.
Lets see ... webkit gets 100% on acid now ... how can Opera be more accurate? FanboySaysWhat?
15 year olds? Dude, I'm thirty, its just as embarrassing when my mom sees them now.
If Chrome gets addons like Firefox it will perform like Firefox, addons, like so many ActiveX controls used in IE are the #1 reason browser perform like shit.
Google's development branch is about 100 times more stable than Mozilla's development branch, so its not really all that biased. When Firefox gets their shit together and starts running the show like professionals and not Microsoft, they can get the same treatment.
Once again, if you're doing server work from your phone, you're doing something wrong. Yes its cool, but the reality of it is, if you have to use your phone to edit something on your server, you fucked up.
So you go ahead and be all proud that you have figured out a way to use your cell phone when you aren't at work to fix something you should have done at work.
I'll spend my time while I'm not at work, not being at work and not worrying about needed to edit a file on my phone because my servers are doing their jobs and not requiring my constant attention.
You think you are cool because you can work from your phone, I am cool because I don't have to.
You don't care about learning curve because you have nothing useful to do with your time but learn how to use obscure retarded software. I have more useful things to do with my time, learning how to do obscure things with software stopped being cool when I discovered boobies. Now I use computers to make my life easier and accomplish tasks, not marvel about how much of my life I can waste reinventing the wheel or learning some hard to use pile of crap software just because I think it makes me cool that I can use some hard to use software package while everyone else just does the same thing with some easy to use package and goes and does other things while you're still looking for your vi quick reference manual.
Some of us have better things to do than be computer dorks, we grew up, have families and other priorities and likely a higher quality of life than those of you glued to your crappy hard to use editors.
I right click on my trackpad all the time, not sure what your problem is.
Actually, this is a new addition, and until it happened, i wouldn't buy a Mac laptop. Now that the pads are multitouch, its a software controlled 'right click', technically it can be any zone of the pad you'd like.
Sounds like he hit the nail on the head, sorry if it hurts, but its true.
And nothing of value was lost by not hiring you, thanks for helping them out. Lets see you do that now, with the economy like it is.
If you had to read a book for the test, they didn't want you. That is exactly what the test is there to weed out, people who don't actually know what they are doing, but have done a little brushing up for the job.
A good developer can code for any language with little more than a reference manual.
If you've gotta go read a book before the Interview, it better be for an entry level position.
You go ahead and keep thinking you are hot shit though, see how far it gets you in this economy.
Still working at McDonalds eh?
11 years of experience and many job interviews? Yea, you're obviously a seasoned professional who is reliable.
Do you seriously think what you said makes you sound impressive? If you walked into an interview with me and said something like that or showed me a resume showing 'a lot' of jobs over 11 years I'd laugh you out of the room.
A lot of interviews is NOT a good thing. You are not special, there are far more people out there who can do your job and do it well who don't think they are king shit. I don't want some douche bag who only has 11 years of experience and can't hold a job for more than 6 months, and neither does practically anyone else.
If an employer thinks they can tell in one visit, they are doing something wrong, hiring you is the first indication.
Let me know when you get a real job, and no McDonalds doesn't count as a real job.
And this is a prime reason why 'statistics' are fucking retarded.
You assume that a 'random' sample will yield proper results because its random, and thats just something some retarded ignorant professor shouts at his students.
Its a sign of someone who doesn't understand entropy at all.
This is no such thing as random, sorry. There are some pretty unpredictable things from our prospective, but nothing is random.
Just as easily as a random sample can accurately reflect a population as a whole, it can equally be skewed to be a completely inaccurate representation of the real world.
Statistics as a rule, don't prove shit, taking 'samples' as an accurate representation of reality is retarded as anyone with half a grain of common sense can figure out. The only people who say otherwise are too stupid to realize that people teaching them things are often wrong.
Its a sample, random or otherwise, it should never be used as an accurate representation of reality, doing so just makes you ignorant and/or a politician.
Because its really not that bad, unless you happen to be one of the people who sells an alternative, then, and only then, it sucks.
Maybe not 'the year' but the past several have been awesome for OS X, which is about as 'UNIX' as it comes considering it is indeed a certified UNIX. It may not be your precious Linux (which isn't UNIX, sorry), but UNIX is doing just fine thanks. Not the most popular OS, but it is the second and gaining.
Its only slightly more expensive to put RAM on the drive and far better performing if you're mixing mechanical with solid state.
Already done for several OSes, including Windows, no one actually cares except geeks. The rest of us don't reboot all the time so it doesn't really matter.
Again, already done, you just put your PC to sleep rather than booting, fast booting will start off as a simple extension of this with a more persistent feel. I do this with VMWare already.
Its awesome when people talk about how the PC industry is just now doing things that were talked about years ago, except, entirely different than what they say.
Because something that OSS people never seem to understand is that at some point there are costs to things. Its harder to see with software, but with hardware and consumables it typically becomes pretty clear quickly.
You can take away patents and ink and paper are still going to cost money, sorry. Unless you're buying HP ink cartridges, its not really that expensive now. And if you're buying HP ink cartridges directly from the store without refilling them you get what you deserve anyway.