On another note, most people with GPS devices that I know don't want to use their phones for two reasons: a GPS stays mounted on the Dashboard of the car and because of the screen size. Try glancing at a map on a 1 inch cellphone screen while driving.
Reaching over and touching the nav screen is a thousand times worse than tapping on an iPhone.
Looking over at the nav screen is a thousand times worse than holding the iPhone up by my steering wheel.
Also, my nav system won't let me change my destination until the car's in park!
Granted, I have a built in nav system that came with my car, but I find it useless compared to the iPhone + Google Maps.
It's not the worst option, although the developer license comes with its own set of rules (like you aren't supposed to compile and distribute open source, I believe).
Band together with a bunch of friends and share the provisioning profile. 2 friends, $50 a piece, 4 friends, $25 a piece..., 100 friends, $1 a piece! Then enjoy Apple-approved iPhone freedom.
That, in addition to the fact that it's incredibly easy and safe to jailbreak an iPhone, makes me think this whole argument against the app store 'monopoly' is pointless. Things could be infinitely worse.
Even having a jailbroken phone AND developer license, the App Store is a handy way to find quality software quickly. It's actually the best of all worlds.
Without jailbreaking (Something Apple hasn't stated is OK to do, and has at least implied it is NOT OK to do) you can't load software of your choosing on your own hardware, only software Apple deems worthy to sell on their store.
Incorrect. Pay $99 for a developer's license, compile or develop any software you want, and put it on your phone.
Yes, his post was kind of asshatty. But here's another way to think about it. There are two modes of driving. In one mode, you are alert, aware of your surroundings, you know what lane changes and turns you can make without causing an accident. In the other mode, your brain is on autopilot and you should follow the rules to a T. People who haven't had enough experience driving don't really fit into these categories yet.
The laws are there to stop people from driving recklessly on autopilot, and indeed, that is when most accidents and tickets of experienced drivers happen. People who are distracted with daydreaming, eating, talking on the phone, passengers, etc should be in mode 2 and following the rules.
If you're in mode 1 and following all of the traffic laws, then you're probably bored out of your head. That's just how humans work. As long as driving is *the activity*, people are going to get bored, impatient, and ultimately break laws to make things quicker and more interesting. As long as the driver is being responsible, then it's generally okay, and I can prove that by the fact there aren't more accidents and traffic cops.
A little off-topic, but it reminds me of the US government reneging on the promise of gold or silver in exchange for paper dollars (the ones with the promise on them, of course - not greenbacks).
I've heard really good things about Reaper under WINE. But even I use Windows for home recording. Windows XP 32-bit, that is, because audio software is more behind the times than critics can even claim of Linux.
AGREE. My system worked until PulseAudio RPMs got installed. I reverted to Alsa, but I'm scared about what some future distribution release is going to do to me. Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
So, normal software developers are not weird. They do simple things, like subclassing windows and putting together trees of data structures. But... the few who can do magic under the hood - yes, those guys are just a bit different.
Ya know... I find the normal developers to be the weirdest. I think it takes a really extraordinary person to appear 'normal' on the outside and still code like a motha'. Usually it's the dummies who act awkward, in my experience.
There are people who are born to solve problems, to take things apart and put them back together. These used to be the mechanics and engineers in decades past.
And then there are people who don't fit in anywhere else and decide they want to unite with other awkward people, and working with computers is a byproduct of that. This is the type who says, "Gee, I like video games, I should be a computer developer." Bleh.
Why don't you just ditch the "feminist" title for any of it?
These days, the term "feminist" has come correlated with this sort of thinking and actions that everyone considers deplorable- but give the feminist the out because we're all about giving women "equal" rights and they've obviously been oppressed by men all these years.
Why don't we stop using the title "open source" since Microsoft has hijacked the term with their conflated licenses?
Why don't we stop using the terms conservative and liberal, since the Republicans and Democrats have hijacked those?
Why don't we just stop riding airplanes, because some terrorists blew a few up?
Why don't we just give in, whenever it's more convenient for others who aren't invested in the issue?
Take back the word. Take back your life. Quit letting others' feelings dictate how you express yourself.
My job is a job. Not a career. Not a stepping stone. Not a direction to a greater path in my field. Once I've reached a particular spot and I'm happy and/or comfortable with it - that's it.
First of all, employers don't want to hire people like that. Is that sad? Perhaps. But true.
Anyway, I code for a living, and when I like it, I find that I go home and code something else. That doesn't mean that I don't have any other hobbies... I have plenty to do. But I'm not going to rule out one activity at home just because I do it at work. The type of coding I do at home is different, and stimulates a different part of my brain. Sometimes the recreational programming I do indirectly benefits my work programming. Should I be rewarded for that? Yes, yes I should. That doesn't mean that I'm a "career man", though.
Now I can understand if you don't like your job, if you're stuck programming VB6 all day, that you would never want to program at home. And that's fine. We're different types of people. But that doesn't mean you and Ted Dziuba need to be bitter about it.
I'm simply pointing out that if we hand countries cash, that our cash will retain value, if only for the reason that they want to continue having something of value. This largely allows us to continue printing money. It also gives us international legitimacy if others use our money to buy things.
So as long as they're buying weapons with dollars and not euros, the picture for us is pretty rosy. Not so much for Israel, but we give them money too. And then they buy our weapons. I'll leave the value judgments for someone else, but strictly from a cynical US perspective, this is "a good thing".
While I like your little essay, I think by focusing solely on the international arena, you're missing out on a lot.
First of all, exporting US dollars as aid to other countries just gives the rest of the world more incentive to keep our currency from collapsing.
On to Obama - I didn't vote for Obama (nor did I vote for McCain), but I've started to really like him. While he may not be accomplishing a whole lot yet, he's at least bringing light (and consequentially, discussion) to a lot of topics that were overlooked during the Bush years.
The Republicans aren't even debating his points based on actual facts, but relying on lies and character defamation.
I can totally relate to Obama. He's just trying to get some shit done in a broken system, and a bunch of crazies are trying to bring him down for no particular reason. So yes, his changes are going slowly, but I'm optimistic that he'll get most of his agenda done. He's already doing pretty well: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
To compare that to Bush's accomplishments is absurd. While I tend to give Bush a lot more benefit of the doubt than most people, I don't think he engaged the American public nearly as much, and in this time of cynical politics we need someone like that more than ever.
First of all, it was WARF who sued, not the inventor, I believe. Second of all, Intel has enough money and lawyers to have prevented this. They were caught with their pants down.
Admittedly, I'm not an expert, but I'm looking forward to the end of NAT on every router.
Assuming ISPs allowed regular customers to get a handful of IPv6 addresses- 1. I don't think it would technically be a 'router' anymore if all you're doing is internet connection sharing, since all you'd need is a switch. 2. That would be the end of automatic firewalling, which we all curse, but it prevents probably millions of people from getting infected computers.
As someone in another forum put it so eloquently for me when ebay recently banned a completely legal herbal product:
ebay's like a really bad and inefficient parent. We weren't really doing anything all that bad, but ebay came home with a bad attitude and probably a little drunk. 15 minutes of bitching about the Jews and now somehow we're grounded from buying and selling X on ebay.
And then a week later ebay wakes up and forgets its hangover, remembers yelling about something, but completely forgot about X. Randomly sometimes ebay will smack an auction for back sass, then all the other auctions hide and change go under assumed names because ebay's so drunk it cant figure out the simple euphemisms.
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On another note, most people with GPS devices that I know don't want to use their phones for two reasons: a GPS stays mounted on the Dashboard of the car and because of the screen size. Try glancing at a map on a 1 inch cellphone screen while driving.
Reaching over and touching the nav screen is a thousand times worse than tapping on an iPhone.
Looking over at the nav screen is a thousand times worse than holding the iPhone up by my steering wheel.
Also, my nav system won't let me change my destination until the car's in park!
Granted, I have a built in nav system that came with my car, but I find it useless compared to the iPhone + Google Maps.
It's not the worst option, although the developer license comes with its own set of rules (like you aren't supposed to compile and distribute open source, I believe).
Band together with a bunch of friends and share the provisioning profile. 2 friends, $50 a piece, 4 friends, $25 a piece..., 100 friends, $1 a piece! Then enjoy Apple-approved iPhone freedom.
That, in addition to the fact that it's incredibly easy and safe to jailbreak an iPhone, makes me think this whole argument against the app store 'monopoly' is pointless. Things could be infinitely worse.
Even having a jailbroken phone AND developer license, the App Store is a handy way to find quality software quickly. It's actually the best of all worlds.
Without jailbreaking (Something Apple hasn't stated is OK to do, and has at least implied it is NOT OK to do) you can't load software of your choosing on your own hardware, only software Apple deems worthy to sell on their store.
Incorrect. Pay $99 for a developer's license, compile or develop any software you want, and put it on your phone.
THIS IS UNNATURAL HERESY!!!!
You've convinced me. We need to destroy this program and replace it with one that makes judgments based on feelings.
Yes, his post was kind of asshatty. But here's another way to think about it. There are two modes of driving. In one mode, you are alert, aware of your surroundings, you know what lane changes and turns you can make without causing an accident. In the other mode, your brain is on autopilot and you should follow the rules to a T. People who haven't had enough experience driving don't really fit into these categories yet.
The laws are there to stop people from driving recklessly on autopilot, and indeed, that is when most accidents and tickets of experienced drivers happen. People who are distracted with daydreaming, eating, talking on the phone, passengers, etc should be in mode 2 and following the rules.
If you're in mode 1 and following all of the traffic laws, then you're probably bored out of your head. That's just how humans work. As long as driving is *the activity*, people are going to get bored, impatient, and ultimately break laws to make things quicker and more interesting. As long as the driver is being responsible, then it's generally okay, and I can prove that by the fact there aren't more accidents and traffic cops.
I hate coming across an otherwise useful forum and then having to sign up and log in to view certain topics and download files from it.
Not that I use mailing lists or newsgroups...
That's not a whole lot different from how people made Geocities pages.
A little off-topic, but it reminds me of the US government reneging on the promise of gold or silver in exchange for paper dollars (the ones with the promise on them, of course - not greenbacks).
I've heard really good things about Reaper under WINE. But even I use Windows for home recording. Windows XP 32-bit, that is, because audio software is more behind the times than critics can even claim of Linux.
AGREE. My system worked until PulseAudio RPMs got installed. I reverted to Alsa, but I'm scared about what some future distribution release is going to do to me. Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
So, normal software developers are not weird. They do simple things, like subclassing windows and putting together trees of data structures. But... the few who can do magic under the hood - yes, those guys are just a bit different.
Ya know... I find the normal developers to be the weirdest. I think it takes a really extraordinary person to appear 'normal' on the outside and still code like a motha'. Usually it's the dummies who act awkward, in my experience.
There are people who are born to solve problems, to take things apart and put them back together. These used to be the mechanics and engineers in decades past.
And then there are people who don't fit in anywhere else and decide they want to unite with other awkward people, and working with computers is a byproduct of that. This is the type who says, "Gee, I like video games, I should be a computer developer." Bleh.
Why don't you just ditch the "feminist" title for any of it?
These days, the term "feminist" has come correlated with this sort of thinking and actions that everyone considers deplorable- but give the feminist the out because we're all about giving women "equal" rights and they've obviously been oppressed by men all these years.
Why don't we stop using the title "open source" since Microsoft has hijacked the term with their conflated licenses?
Why don't we stop using the terms conservative and liberal, since the Republicans and Democrats have hijacked those?
Why don't we just stop riding airplanes, because some terrorists blew a few up?
Why don't we just give in, whenever it's more convenient for others who aren't invested in the issue?
Take back the word. Take back your life. Quit letting others' feelings dictate how you express yourself.
My job is a job. Not a career. Not a stepping stone. Not a direction to a greater path in my field. Once I've reached a particular spot and I'm happy and/or comfortable with it - that's it.
First of all, employers don't want to hire people like that. Is that sad? Perhaps. But true.
Anyway, I code for a living, and when I like it, I find that I go home and code something else. That doesn't mean that I don't have any other hobbies... I have plenty to do. But I'm not going to rule out one activity at home just because I do it at work. The type of coding I do at home is different, and stimulates a different part of my brain. Sometimes the recreational programming I do indirectly benefits my work programming. Should I be rewarded for that? Yes, yes I should. That doesn't mean that I'm a "career man", though.
Now I can understand if you don't like your job, if you're stuck programming VB6 all day, that you would never want to program at home. And that's fine. We're different types of people. But that doesn't mean you and Ted Dziuba need to be bitter about it.
A gui is loaded real time from an xml file - I'm not so sure I like that implementation.
You don't have to go that route. You can construct a UI from API calls just like any other toolkit.
FWIW, I prefer using Mono & Gtk# over anything else when I develop in Linux. Though, that's not saying much.
Because they're the ones who ultimately frame the debate to us voters.
I'm simply pointing out that if we hand countries cash, that our cash will retain value, if only for the reason that they want to continue having something of value. This largely allows us to continue printing money. It also gives us international legitimacy if others use our money to buy things.
So as long as they're buying weapons with dollars and not euros, the picture for us is pretty rosy. Not so much for Israel, but we give them money too. And then they buy our weapons. I'll leave the value judgments for someone else, but strictly from a cynical US perspective, this is "a good thing".
While I like your little essay, I think by focusing solely on the international arena, you're missing out on a lot.
First of all, exporting US dollars as aid to other countries just gives the rest of the world more incentive to keep our currency from collapsing.
On to Obama -
I didn't vote for Obama (nor did I vote for McCain), but I've started to really like him. While he may not be accomplishing a whole lot yet, he's at least bringing light (and consequentially, discussion) to a lot of topics that were overlooked during the Bush years.
The Republicans aren't even debating his points based on actual facts, but relying on lies and character defamation.
I can totally relate to Obama. He's just trying to get some shit done in a broken system, and a bunch of crazies are trying to bring him down for no particular reason. So yes, his changes are going slowly, but I'm optimistic that he'll get most of his agenda done. He's already doing pretty well: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
To compare that to Bush's accomplishments is absurd. While I tend to give Bush a lot more benefit of the doubt than most people, I don't think he engaged the American public nearly as much, and in this time of cynical politics we need someone like that more than ever.
Not in various US states and countries.
http://ageofconsent.com/ageofconsent.htm
Ha ha, quit joking around! The world won't exist that much longer!
First of all, it was WARF who sued, not the inventor, I believe.
Second of all, Intel has enough money and lawyers to have prevented this. They were caught with their pants down.
... and all decent people disable the firewall immediately so that their software works.
Not that that's right, but...
Admittedly, I'm not an expert, but I'm looking forward to the end of NAT on every router.
Assuming ISPs allowed regular customers to get a handful of IPv6 addresses-
1. I don't think it would technically be a 'router' anymore if all you're doing is internet connection sharing, since all you'd need is a switch.
2. That would be the end of automatic firewalling, which we all curse, but it prevents probably millions of people from getting infected computers.
My resume is not web 2.0 enabled... yet!
Try Red Hat, but also try Mandriva if that doesn't work out. If you aren't fully satisfied, I'll reinstall Windows for you.
As someone in another forum put it so eloquently for me when ebay recently banned a completely legal herbal product:
ebay's like a really bad and inefficient parent. We weren't really doing anything all that bad, but ebay came home with a bad attitude and probably a little drunk. 15 minutes of bitching about the Jews and now somehow we're grounded from buying and selling X on ebay.
And then a week later ebay wakes up and forgets its hangover, remembers yelling about something, but completely forgot about X. Randomly sometimes ebay will smack an auction for back sass, then all the other auctions hide and change go under assumed names because ebay's so drunk it cant figure out the simple euphemisms.