I am currently in the same situation but with different perspectives:
It took me 4 months to create PozBook all by myself - no investment to lose except time, time and time (and I've never worked so hard).
PozBook is one of the few useful and feature packed but beautiful and easy to use applications that could rival what we have on the desktop, and it is universal in purpose: create geographical text audio, text and picture notes, and share them with everyone. You can use it to create guides and publish them to thousands of iPhone users - and any end user can use it for beautiful note taking.
Think kml or POI on the iphone, but super easy and beautiful, and with a PozBook Share community website (www.pozbook.com/share) to share your creations.
It is a bit more complicated to get than a game, but with so much more value and potential. I will get back to a normal day job now that most of the development is done and will spend my nights advertising and getting the concept out.
Sales have been disappointing but it has only started - I have the chance to have a promising platform for content creation and distribution to push as a product, and not a one-time game.
Unfortunately good apps don't always get recognized and featured.
Apple has to quickly find a way to sort out the applications better- they are at risk of alienating both users who do not find unusual and innovative applications without a long hunt and are stuck with lot of crap applications purchased, and quality developpers who cannot make a decent living making professional applications for the platform.
Shameless plug : I am also looking for a developer job in Vancouver - you can contact me through the pozbook.com website.
Apple is at risk of losing quality developpers for a quantity of inept amateurs who will spend a couple of hours a day to create crapware , hoping that the gold rush isn't over yet. Unfortunately the economics are clear - looking at an informal study made by comparing the top apps with the revenue per day, if you're not in the Top, you can hope to make 25$/day. Impossible to support any quality development at that rate - and it means the development companies are already consolidating with the ones who are taking the lion's pie hiring a lot of competent iPhone developpers to work for them.
PozBook is a great application for the iPhone I have developped over the last 4 months - one of the few useful and feature packed but beautiful and easy to use applications that could rival what we have on the desktop, and it is universal in purpose: create geographical text audio, text and picture notes, and share them with everyone. Think kml or POI on the iphone, but super easy and beautiful. With a PozBook Share community website ala YouTube. It is not a game, it is not an iFart, and it actually costs more than 0.99$ - and all that make it very difficult to sell on the App Store - it seems people are just drowned in the number of crap applications and have stopped looking for quality applications altogether. Unfortunately good apps don't always get recognized and featured.
Apple has to quickly find a way to sort out the applications better- they are at risk of alienating both users who do not find unusual and innovative applications without a long hunt and a lot of crap applications purchased that cannot do what they advertise, and quality developpers who cannot make a decent living making professional applications.
PozBook - Your notes and guides on iPhone
I travelled last year for a year with a backpack across asia, south and north america, and south africa.
here was my setup, made to be light and as unexpensive and helpful as it could be.
overall, you want stuff to supplement your trip, not replace it - your fear of missing your collection of MP3s on the go will soon vanish as you realize you don't need it as much after all - use the gear to enhance the experience by helping you discover the countries you visit and bringing back memories, and communicating with friends, instead of shielding you from the fear of boredom/cultural barriers/melancoly
the biggest thing is: bring things you can get parted from: it may be a little more difficult without them, but don't ruin your trip with security concerns.
everything expensive should be VERY light and small and you should keep it in your daypack all the time. max 1-2 kgs for everything. leave the laptop at home. you'll regret bringing it after 2 weeks of lugging around and fearing to get stolen.
I had: digital camera on AA batteries and plenty of sd card space
pocket pc with gps
ipod (for offloading pictures) but got stolen after 2 weeks in south america. at first I screamed but then I understood that I was actually better off without it as it was one less thing to constantly check and fear getting stolen...
the most important: usb key for cybercafes with proper setup
on the usb key: portable firefox and thunderbird with good confirguration and bookmarks, and accounts with passwords in keychain - no need to type them in cybercafes and have them sniffed!
portable filezilla - great for sending home on ftp server your most beloved pictures, and even more. in a typical 1-2h session in a cybercafe I could upload 50-100 pictures which made sure I wouldnt lose anything if somebody stole my camera. burning cds and sending home is feasable, but a hassle - you dont want to spend an afternoon every week doing that plus laundray, getting information, etc...
pstart - a practical self contained launcher for all of that
bookmarks with login info for my blog, etc... the different keyboard layouts can make typing passwords with **** a real hassle
if you have to type a password in a cybercafe, to avoid keylogger, type random keys in the adress bar then use copy paste to type in your password in the box
skype - can be launched without install
anti spyware and anti virus
PixaMSN or equivalent for chatting with friends
REST2514 - or similar software for recovering deleted files - you may want to have one handy
etc...
Most important:
you want to have time to SEE and DO things - only spend the bare minimum in cybercafes and handling your tech gear, and enjoy the peoiple, the nature, the adventure
the gps is handy in a cab to check that you're taking a more or less straight route : i had my share of laughs indicating to a taximan I wouldnt pay because he made me run in circles, or better yet having coordinates of my destination and giving directions in a totally unfamiliar place to locals.
also the gps is of course extremely valuable in the wilderness
send copies of plane tickets, insurance forms, id card, passport to your email account - you'll be able to print them from anywhere needed
leave instructions for bankers-friends-family to handle your bank accounts and be able to make trasnfers to your visa cards, etc...
the most important asset will be your memories and your pictures: send them home through ftp, email, with web sites, or mail them. record sounds and conversations with the pda/ipod (you can install linux as dual boot on some models and get free mic with just the earphones) it's also very handy for recording messages while waiting for busses or around a campfire and sending them by email so you don't have to spend time writing lenghty descriptions - it also makes them vivid - with good compression you can send a 10 minute monologue for 2mb
also on the pda - extremely handy - various dictionaries: its much fastre to type in the first 3-4 letters than searching through the book - also bring things that will lighten your pack : travel
How the fuck did that get moderated up. It makes no fucking sense and is completely inaccurate (and yes, IAA REAL CompEng)
see the pipeline as a queue: if the queue is long, the first person will take more time to go through it, but the second is just behind the first and it doesn't matter the length of the queue
pipelines are GOOD
it's pipeline STALLS (or BUBBLES) that are bad - when you need to flush the pipeline and reload it with instructions
the first instructions takes 30 cycles, but the others take 1 cycle if everything goes right because there already in the pipeline
To parent: Go read some real books about how CPUs are organized before you talk out of your ass about stuff you dont know.
he was meaning changing the constituion to allow 3 terms and get reelected once again
a much more "minor" transgression that many more people would accept
And I hate to be the one to say it, but such a large aircraft sure looks like a juicy target for a terrorist that wants to get his money's worth out of the anti-aircraft missile he has stored in his closet.
AND WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN! IF ONE OF THOSE FELL ON A SCHOOL MANY OF THEM COULD DIE!
well you can use rss with dodgeit.com (same as mailinator)
then you don't have to check it, it comes to you (and i think rss is even less intruding than email notification)
Yes, in fact it is much more democratic than most "occidental countries"
it is somewhat of a centralized power system, but still people are ELECTED there evry 4 years. Also, I should mention that the state has no military forces, only police and security forces for internal security.
What an ignorant post you made.
Because Linux could possibly offer the following in a relatively close future:
- direct ipod to ipod transfer of music files for "on-the-go" sharing
- ogg support (already there I think) and various other formats (flak anyone?)
- given the new photo adapter (that allows you to transfer pictures from a camera to your ipod) , make it work on older ipods if apple artificially hinder it for acceptance on only the new ipods.
- and many other ideas that are technically feasible but commercially bad ideas for apple
of course this has to begin with incomplete features and bugs, but wait for some time before saying it's not useful and doesn't bring anything new.
On the other hand, rejection of the protocol by the US has nothing to do with money ?? I prefer a country signing it for money than ignoring it for the same reasons.
??? that's useless. A packet only carries the MAC address to the next piece of equipment on the hop route, then it changes. The only thing VALVE can monnitor is the MAC to their ISP? or some big router if they have their own backbone. the IP stays the same. So valve needs to get the final MAC address from the ISP, which leads to the cable modem, but if they can get that I guess they already have the IP-name link from the ISP!
There is a big mistake in the article. Flores is roughly half the size of Belgium, or +- 14 000 sq km.
So either it is another island they are talking about (possibly in the vicinity of Flores) or their 31sq km figure should read 31 thousand sq km (not likely given the importance of the small size of the island that explains their evolution to a small skeleton).
You can see a detailed map or the archipelago here:
Statistically speaking, death rate by asteroids is non negligible and much higher than by terrorist attacks.
The earth gets hit by an asteroid big enough to cause a global catastrophy once every 500,000 years, so the odds of that happening in any given year are 1 in 500,000. Assuming such an impact kills 25% of the Earth's population, that makes the risk from an impact 1 in 4. The odds of any individual dying from an asteroid strike in any given year are 1 in 500,000 multiplied by 4, or 1 in 2 million.
But since we live on average 75 years, these odds must be multiplied by 75 to obtain the risk of premature death in any given year. Hence the lifetime odds of dying from an asteroid strike is 75 in 2 million, or 1 in 25,000.
More than plane accidents.
It seems all you guys do not know what a REAL computer accident looks like.
2 Years ago, a friend of mine was doing some shopping in the financial district. As he was happily and peacefully wandering along the streets, paying attention to various mundane items displayed by the stores he stopped to admire a new music instrument he BADLY wanted. 2 Seconds later, a 19 inch screen and its 40 pounds crashed right next to him, dropped by 2 stupid movers who had set it on an inclined conveyor belt that was going to the 2nd floor.
He had half of his right leg filled with shards from the screen and still has the scars of the cuts to this day.
Well she didn't put gloves for most things like handling vegetables and such, but she explained that for some things it was necessary: handling raw meat apparently was one of them, mixing flour and water to make bread or other things where the hands would get "covered" with a lot of food.
I guess she still allowed herself to take a carrot with her naked hand when cutting it.
This happened in Europe. They know they won't get the plague by touching the skin of another, seemingly healthy, human being(even if that same human being has picked his nose earlier, or worse, touched a door handle!).
Massive hygiene hysteria in the US makes many people believe the contrary.
Gosh I guess some of them even ATE without washing their hands after this!! I wonder of many of them are still alive...
While I was an exchange student in the US (coming from Belgium) I was staying with a wonderful american family in Colorado and have kept strong contacts with them ever since. Before departing, I decided to prepare them meat balls with a home recipe. Once we sat at the table, nobody would eat, and I was wondering how they could not like it without tasting it. So I asked them and they were embarassed because they did not dare to eat because I had prepared the meat balls WITH MY BARE HANDS after washing them. The housewife usually put plastic gloves when manipulating food... So I had to convince them that my hands were disease free and that I had washed them thoroughly and that the meatballs had cooked for 40 minutes in the oven, which would kill anything left. They finally tried the meal (half cold, but we put it in the microwave-- what a sacrilege!) and founjd it fabulous (in earnest, because they asked me to do it once again before leaving)
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I am currently in the same situation but with different perspectives: It took me 4 months to create PozBook all by myself - no investment to lose except time, time and time (and I've never worked so hard). PozBook is one of the few useful and feature packed but beautiful and easy to use applications that could rival what we have on the desktop, and it is universal in purpose: create geographical text audio, text and picture notes, and share them with everyone. You can use it to create guides and publish them to thousands of iPhone users - and any end user can use it for beautiful note taking. Think kml or POI on the iphone, but super easy and beautiful, and with a PozBook Share community website (www.pozbook.com/share) to share your creations. It is a bit more complicated to get than a game, but with so much more value and potential. I will get back to a normal day job now that most of the development is done and will spend my nights advertising and getting the concept out. Sales have been disappointing but it has only started - I have the chance to have a promising platform for content creation and distribution to push as a product, and not a one-time game. Unfortunately good apps don't always get recognized and featured. Apple has to quickly find a way to sort out the applications better- they are at risk of alienating both users who do not find unusual and innovative applications without a long hunt and are stuck with lot of crap applications purchased, and quality developpers who cannot make a decent living making professional applications for the platform. Shameless plug : I am also looking for a developer job in Vancouver - you can contact me through the pozbook.com website.
Apple is at risk of losing quality developpers for a quantity of inept amateurs who will spend a couple of hours a day to create crapware , hoping that the gold rush isn't over yet. Unfortunately the economics are clear - looking at an informal study made by comparing the top apps with the revenue per day, if you're not in the Top, you can hope to make 25$/day. Impossible to support any quality development at that rate - and it means the development companies are already consolidating with the ones who are taking the lion's pie hiring a lot of competent iPhone developpers to work for them. PozBook is a great application for the iPhone I have developped over the last 4 months - one of the few useful and feature packed but beautiful and easy to use applications that could rival what we have on the desktop, and it is universal in purpose: create geographical text audio, text and picture notes, and share them with everyone. Think kml or POI on the iphone, but super easy and beautiful. With a PozBook Share community website ala YouTube. It is not a game, it is not an iFart, and it actually costs more than 0.99$ - and all that make it very difficult to sell on the App Store - it seems people are just drowned in the number of crap applications and have stopped looking for quality applications altogether. Unfortunately good apps don't always get recognized and featured. Apple has to quickly find a way to sort out the applications better- they are at risk of alienating both users who do not find unusual and innovative applications without a long hunt and a lot of crap applications purchased that cannot do what they advertise, and quality developpers who cannot make a decent living making professional applications. PozBook - Your notes and guides on iPhone
I travelled last year for a year with a backpack across asia, south and north america, and south africa. here was my setup, made to be light and as unexpensive and helpful as it could be. overall, you want stuff to supplement your trip, not replace it - your fear of missing your collection of MP3s on the go will soon vanish as you realize you don't need it as much after all - use the gear to enhance the experience by helping you discover the countries you visit and bringing back memories, and communicating with friends, instead of shielding you from the fear of boredom/cultural barriers/melancoly the biggest thing is: bring things you can get parted from: it may be a little more difficult without them, but don't ruin your trip with security concerns. everything expensive should be VERY light and small and you should keep it in your daypack all the time. max 1-2 kgs for everything. leave the laptop at home. you'll regret bringing it after 2 weeks of lugging around and fearing to get stolen. I had: digital camera on AA batteries and plenty of sd card space pocket pc with gps ipod (for offloading pictures) but got stolen after 2 weeks in south america. at first I screamed but then I understood that I was actually better off without it as it was one less thing to constantly check and fear getting stolen... the most important: usb key for cybercafes with proper setup on the usb key: portable firefox and thunderbird with good confirguration and bookmarks, and accounts with passwords in keychain - no need to type them in cybercafes and have them sniffed! portable filezilla - great for sending home on ftp server your most beloved pictures, and even more. in a typical 1-2h session in a cybercafe I could upload 50-100 pictures which made sure I wouldnt lose anything if somebody stole my camera. burning cds and sending home is feasable, but a hassle - you dont want to spend an afternoon every week doing that plus laundray, getting information, etc... pstart - a practical self contained launcher for all of that bookmarks with login info for my blog, etc... the different keyboard layouts can make typing passwords with **** a real hassle if you have to type a password in a cybercafe, to avoid keylogger, type random keys in the adress bar then use copy paste to type in your password in the box skype - can be launched without install anti spyware and anti virus PixaMSN or equivalent for chatting with friends REST2514 - or similar software for recovering deleted files - you may want to have one handy etc... Most important: you want to have time to SEE and DO things - only spend the bare minimum in cybercafes and handling your tech gear, and enjoy the peoiple, the nature, the adventure the gps is handy in a cab to check that you're taking a more or less straight route : i had my share of laughs indicating to a taximan I wouldnt pay because he made me run in circles, or better yet having coordinates of my destination and giving directions in a totally unfamiliar place to locals. also the gps is of course extremely valuable in the wilderness send copies of plane tickets, insurance forms, id card, passport to your email account - you'll be able to print them from anywhere needed leave instructions for bankers-friends-family to handle your bank accounts and be able to make trasnfers to your visa cards, etc... the most important asset will be your memories and your pictures: send them home through ftp, email, with web sites, or mail them. record sounds and conversations with the pda/ipod (you can install linux as dual boot on some models and get free mic with just the earphones) it's also very handy for recording messages while waiting for busses or around a campfire and sending them by email so you don't have to spend time writing lenghty descriptions - it also makes them vivid - with good compression you can send a 10 minute monologue for 2mb also on the pda - extremely handy - various dictionaries: its much fastre to type in the first 3-4 letters than searching through the book - also bring things that will lighten your pack : travel
for people who don't read the links, this is sarcastic.
How the fuck did that get moderated up. It makes no fucking sense and is completely inaccurate (and yes, IAA REAL CompEng) see the pipeline as a queue: if the queue is long, the first person will take more time to go through it, but the second is just behind the first and it doesn't matter the length of the queue pipelines are GOOD it's pipeline STALLS (or BUBBLES) that are bad - when you need to flush the pipeline and reload it with instructions the first instructions takes 30 cycles, but the others take 1 cycle if everything goes right because there already in the pipeline To parent: Go read some real books about how CPUs are organized before you talk out of your ass about stuff you dont know.
it was indexing your drive
he was meaning changing the constituion to allow 3 terms and get reelected once again a much more "minor" transgression that many more people would accept
And I hate to be the one to say it, but such a large aircraft sure looks like a juicy target for a terrorist that wants to get his money's worth out of the anti-aircraft missile he has stored in his closet.
AND WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN! IF ONE OF THOSE FELL ON A SCHOOL MANY OF THEM COULD DIE!
well you can use rss with dodgeit.com (same as mailinator) then you don't have to check it, it comes to you (and i think rss is even less intruding than email notification)
in that case use a non guessable address someting like john.smith.154236@mailinator
Exactly! Until the egg hatches, the chicken will never be born. But the chicken will never be born until the egg hatches!
Yes, in fact it is much more democratic than most "occidental countries" it is somewhat of a centralized power system, but still people are ELECTED there evry 4 years. Also, I should mention that the state has no military forces, only police and security forces for internal security. What an ignorant post you made.
I have NEVER lied in my whole life. I swear.
Because Linux could possibly offer the following in a relatively close future: - direct ipod to ipod transfer of music files for "on-the-go" sharing - ogg support (already there I think) and various other formats (flak anyone?) - given the new photo adapter (that allows you to transfer pictures from a camera to your ipod) , make it work on older ipods if apple artificially hinder it for acceptance on only the new ipods. - and many other ideas that are technically feasible but commercially bad ideas for apple of course this has to begin with incomplete features and bugs, but wait for some time before saying it's not useful and doesn't bring anything new.
On the other hand, rejection of the protocol by the US has nothing to do with money ?? I prefer a country signing it for money than ignoring it for the same reasons.
wtf??? interesting???
??? that's useless. A packet only carries the MAC address to the next piece of equipment on the hop route, then it changes. The only thing VALVE can monnitor is the MAC to their ISP? or some big router if they have their own backbone. the IP stays the same. So valve needs to get the final MAC address from the ISP, which leads to the cable modem, but if they can get that I guess they already have the IP-name link from the ISP!
So either it is another island they are talking about (possibly in the vicinity of Flores) or their 31sq km figure should read 31 thousand sq km (not likely given the importance of the small size of the island that explains their evolution to a small skeleton).
You can see a detailed map or the archipelago here:
http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet/images/indoFlores is approximately at 9S 122E
Statistically speaking, death rate by asteroids is non negligible and much higher than by terrorist attacks. The earth gets hit by an asteroid big enough to cause a global catastrophy once every 500,000 years, so the odds of that happening in any given year are 1 in 500,000. Assuming such an impact kills 25% of the Earth's population, that makes the risk from an impact 1 in 4. The odds of any individual dying from an asteroid strike in any given year are 1 in 500,000 multiplied by 4, or 1 in 2 million. But since we live on average 75 years, these odds must be multiplied by 75 to obtain the risk of premature death in any given year. Hence the lifetime odds of dying from an asteroid strike is 75 in 2 million, or 1 in 25,000. More than plane accidents.
It seems all you guys do not know what a REAL computer accident looks like. 2 Years ago, a friend of mine was doing some shopping in the financial district. As he was happily and peacefully wandering along the streets, paying attention to various mundane items displayed by the stores he stopped to admire a new music instrument he BADLY wanted. 2 Seconds later, a 19 inch screen and its 40 pounds crashed right next to him, dropped by 2 stupid movers who had set it on an inclined conveyor belt that was going to the 2nd floor. He had half of his right leg filled with shards from the screen and still has the scars of the cuts to this day.
You are one sick wacko. I hope you aren't an adult yet and that your mental health will improve during what's left of your teenage years.
Well she didn't put gloves for most things like handling vegetables and such, but she explained that for some things it was necessary: handling raw meat apparently was one of them, mixing flour and water to make bread or other things where the hands would get "covered" with a lot of food. I guess she still allowed herself to take a carrot with her naked hand when cutting it.
This happened in Europe. They know they won't get the plague by touching the skin of another, seemingly healthy, human being(even if that same human being has picked his nose earlier, or worse, touched a door handle!). Massive hygiene hysteria in the US makes many people believe the contrary. Gosh I guess some of them even ATE without washing their hands after this!! I wonder of many of them are still alive... While I was an exchange student in the US (coming from Belgium) I was staying with a wonderful american family in Colorado and have kept strong contacts with them ever since. Before departing, I decided to prepare them meat balls with a home recipe. Once we sat at the table, nobody would eat, and I was wondering how they could not like it without tasting it. So I asked them and they were embarassed because they did not dare to eat because I had prepared the meat balls WITH MY BARE HANDS after washing them. The housewife usually put plastic gloves when manipulating food... So I had to convince them that my hands were disease free and that I had washed them thoroughly and that the meatballs had cooked for 40 minutes in the oven, which would kill anything left. They finally tried the meal (half cold, but we put it in the microwave-- what a sacrilege!) and founjd it fabulous (in earnest, because they asked me to do it once again before leaving)
What about us poor folks who hadn't seen Revolutions yet, you insensitive clod!