I don't see the problem, myself. If I prefer the Google store, I'll use the Google store. If I prefer the Amazon store, I'll use the Amazon store. You might also find features on the Amazon store (like buying an application as a gift for someone else) that don't exist in the Google store.
Competition is a good thing.
What you say is fundamental. I have an iPhone and basically like Apple's store (I also have wrote iPhone applications in the past..niche stuff that doesn't sell all that much and honestly is OLD). However, if I had an Android I think there are many reasons why an Amazon store would be useful:
You may find applications while search their global store. I often find a book related to a piece of software I was searching for.
I already have an Amazon account. There is a single cart, wish lists, and recommendation engine. I could put an Android application on my wish list and see if someone gets it for my birthday.
I can leverage Amazon gift certificates I already get. Anyone with a rewards card can get points cashed in for variety of stores..almost always Amazon is one of them. Now I don't have to choose do I want to only get apps (i.e. an iTunes card) or have possibility of splitting how I use this money.
I think Amazon has one of the nicest and cleanest stores..personal opinion. Even Apple's iTunes store ends up getting way to cluttered in the iTunes application with top sellers, Apple picks, etc.
Just imagine thousands of years from now and the only proof of history is from randomly archived and backed up blogs sites because some super power decided to re-write history along the way to make themselves look better.
I'm not going to say this will not happen and if we have a digital dark ages it will far easier to have only an "approved" history available. However, this is basically been true for all ages of humanity. The Pharaohs only made monuments that extolled the greatness of their accomplishment, battles, or what have you. The shards of pottery we find in burials only have representation of the gods this person and family believed in..not the "other" tribes hated deities. You never get an unbiased view when looking at the major artifacts that survive the ages.
This environment definitely requires a different mindset about quality and compliance. However, many of the technical skills in software and hardware design are the same as other industries. Even the embedded nature of the devices have similarities in other industries.
I'll admit that it seems like a small community with people having friends and previous coworkers in different medical companies. However, it isn't closed community. I personally joined from an enterprise IT company years ago to drive a team making data management products.
The quality and regulatory functions are very specialized and we do significant hiring within and training. Writing 510K documents and compliant quality management systems isn't for the feint of heart. That is only one particular role in building a device.
However, someone with strong background in embedded design (where quality is also important), requirement management and traceability (also important in many environments from consulting, avionics, telecom systems) could be successful in a design role. Risk management is critical to identify hazard and design mitigations but certainly not outside the realm of the rigor found in other industries
This is a Fortune 50 company that has good recruiters, ad placements and a global presence. Your post and another sibling do remind me to follow-up again and push them to research other opportunities to get the job out.
interviews where there are 400+ guys applying for a single job
I'm trying to hire a system designer and project leader in a medical device business. This requires technical experience, ability to do requirements/traceability and risk management in a heavily regulated industry. It is a very challenging role and a great leadership role in a very reputable company. Not exactly an IT or programming job but is definitely a senior technical role.
I have NO candidates in the funnel. The requirements for the job are the minimum and not anything crazy. However, I'm in Milwaukee Wisconsin...so is it a location thing? Where are my 100's of qualified candidates? Right now, H1 or not..I need candidates.
I would normally not mention something like this in an open forum but seemed appropriate. I'm not posting the exact job since I know that's a bit of an abuse. Wish I could though...seems like many good people on/.
I knew that the LP record was dying when in the 80's someone broke into my apartment and stole my rack stereo system (including some of those 100 lb speakers)...but left the turn table.
I mentioned this in another thread a while back, but lolcats could be used and there are plenty of names to use...
Monorail Cat, Basement Cat, Ceiling Cat (is watching you boot), itty bitty OS committee, Serious Cat, and I made you an Mac cookie but I eated it cat...
Personally I always felt that Edison's work on the "Edison Affect" that helped drive the invention of the vacuum tube was far more exciting driving the rise of modern electronics.
I think the light bulb was inevitable and just needed perspiration to get it done. Edison and the many others who made leaps in insight are more interesting with respect to invention and innovation: Guthrie, Flemming, Edison, Lieben, De Forrest.
It is interesting that many of the innovations led to patents that didn't appear to really hamper this new area. Perhaps someone more versed in the area could point out there were many others who where locked out of the market and they would have been more advances prior to the invention of the solid state transistor.
Yes as parent says, all the other films I've heard of and are on DVD. I even saw "The Guild" seasons 1 and 2 via Blockbuster's movies-by-mail service. Obviously, it is much more "known" than this film and is available for purchase today. The "Legend of Neil" is a comedy based on the premise of an ordinary man getting pulled into the original Zelda game. There is a scene which I particularly like where the lead is dragging around all his gear until someone instructs him how to use his "inventory". I'm glad I go to GenCon or I would probably never known of this web series existence.
Back on topic, I don't know Denton. He is likely very well known and has done great things. However, should that give him a pass on any of the acceptance rules for IMDB (right, wrong, or indifferent)? Just because he is in the industry of related industry doesn't mean he should get a listing any more than actors should be handed recording contracts (can this stop, please). If they require a notable production house, it being generally available on DVD or some other outlet, those are the breaks.
As others have said, what is with everyone and their brother trying to do a horror film anyway. Are they cheap and easy? Do they give effects guys a canvas to showcase? I think I've seen a sig on Slashdot about a low-budget horror movie too..are they listed in IMDB?
So far two pieces of evidence have been presented in this thread, the article on steam engines from the grandparent, and the one on sewing machines, on which I just finished giving my opinion.
The history of the sewing machine as very disappointing. You mention that Wilson had to sell his patents. Without patents, would he have received any compensation at all? Without patents, those that posses the capital would benefit and not necessarily the inventor (assuming he isn't in the employ of those with capital). In the case of Savary pumping machine, would he have made a dime if the property owners (those with the mines) could just use his invention?
It is indeed unfortunate that litigation is expensive and makes it difficult for some to protect their patents. It is indeed unfortunate that today we have patent "trolls" (you might argue Savary's heirs were as well, I suppose). I don't think this means the entire concept is wrong.
I'd also look at Papin, who had key ideas in the area of steam power, but without patronage spent his life trying to scrape by instead of enjoy the fruits of his mental labor:
Papin's career, even more than Hookes, illustrates the challenges faced by the most talented scientists if they lacked an independent source of income. The archtype--innovative talen supported either by patronage (...) or by inheritance. -- "The Most Powerful Idea in the World pg 22
As for the last part of your post, I don't think I'm disagreeing that things may proceed faster.
Please summarize, what is wrong with those two articles? In my view, both of them contain evidence on how patents delayed the industrial revolution, and how things actually worked much better once the patents could be ignored.
This, of course, assumes that the information from the inventors would still be readily available (that is a key aspect of patents) instead of locked up in their file cabinets hoping for someday having the capital to build whatever it is. In some cases, the invention is inevitable and might ultimately be found by multiple people. However I look at Newcomen as a contrary example; he spent ten years of his life experimenting to find ways to stable motion of a machine.
On the subject of rewarding inventors, I believe the profit from a successful invention is reward enough.
This necessitates the inventor having the capital to profit from the invention. Without the patent exclusivity as a collateral, how would this happen? Why would the owner of the means of production cut the inventor in when he could simply take the idea and build it? The bottom line, and this is opinion, we might move faster but the minds that came up with ideas may not have been the same people who profited
Replying to you not from disagreement but as an opportunity to bring up another source with a bit of a different point of view.
Others have suggested that the very existence of patents is what allowed artisans to start making money on ideas instead of property (which was owned by the aristocrats). Patents, in this scenario, actually allowed for the Industrial Revolution to happen. The history of how the concepts of patents and the legal language around them is interesting indeed and even in the early years had characters who also tried to abuse the system.
Personally, I believe they are necessary to reward inventors. Many of the problems are related to how you define an invention, not patents on their own (IMHO). Of course, nothing is without problems, but for constructed "things" patents work quite well and seam a good balanced of time of ownership with publication for the common good.
Sorry no link, but "The Most Powerful Idea in the World" by William Rosen discusses how patents are one of many parts that enabled the Industrial Revolution as he also explores the history of the steam engine.
I personally love Slashdot memes. So much so, that I wrote a slashdot song a couple of years ago (I'm getting better at playing singing BTW) that celebrated every one of them...or at least the ones I could think of.
I'm not going to care, as a business owner, if ultra cheapass wants to mooch wifi. I don't care about the wifi. I care about the sloth who isn't making me any money taking up a chair or a sofa or a table for hours on end.
I'm not a business owner, but a very regular customer for a local Starbucks in my town. I use to go there after my daughter's violin lessons and have a treat, coffee, and some nice father-daughter time while we ate.
This was before a group of scrap-bookers decided that Starbucks was their personal workshop. They take up almost the entire store and parking lot, bring in all their equipment, and (from what I've seen) buy only a few drinks between the group.
I've stopped going to the store and take my girls someplace else. So your moral is true: it isn't wifi, it is the free loaders who have no consideration for other patrons that cost the business owner. At least if I have to have a coffee, there's the drive through...something the little shops probably don't have.
I've opted out of FB, altogether. "I've opted out of FB" (all together)
Another person who uses that Airplane movie reference in a constructive way.
Whenever someone in family says "altogether", everyone--children, teenagers, and adults--repeat the phrase immediately preceding it. Ahh, good times... and often strange stares at restaurants.
This is something I created a few years ago for my team of engineers. I had basically stopped coding at the time and thought I'd share my feelings and observations in my organization on technical/non-technical. Powerpoint is a key contributor to the loss of techiness.
You Know You've Lost that Techy Feeling...
10) Strategy and vision are no longer used to describe development patterns or a pattern recognition system.
9) Your biggest source control issue revolves around which project plan to update
8) PowerPoint is now your tool of choice for mechanical drawings
7) Your biggest resource optimization problem is insuring that everyone's Outlook calendar is free
6) Amazon has stopped recommending "Uber Java for the L33t" and replaced it with "Paradigm shifting for Dummies"
5) You've finally forgotten the "q!" command in VI; or was that the "ctrl-q"; where's my mouse
4) The mythical man month now means anything can be done with enough people
3) You write an all employee email to see if someone can help you take a tab delineated file and change it to CSV. Special points if the reason was to get it into a spreadsheet
2) You do not understand why Dilbert gives his boss such a hard time
1) You no longer cringe, but shake your head in agreement, when someone starts discussing "Driving efficiencies by leveraging our core competencies while eliminating non value add activities in new game changing markets"
With Soyuz, Russians are using the Unix philosophy: do 1 thing, but do it well. NASA's better at the R&D and robotic exploratory missions and more money for that is a good thing.
Interesting how times change. During Apollo, the US was king of manned flight and the Russians were the pioneers in robotic exploration with the Lunokhod program. BTW, a very interesting story on how they designed and all the struggles the team overcame. You'll also see plenty of "inspiration" in the current NASA rovers from the Luna robotic moon explorers.
There is also Sci-Fi animated movie where Japan is separated from other world by some power shield. Same seclusions motives from 19th century.
A bit off topic but I believe the movie you are referring to is: Vexille released in 2007. There are probably others with the same theme but this came to mind since it is a recent Anime.
I thought it was very enjoyable..no Appleseed..but good.
OMG..The real truth is out there. This is just an excuse to have the device shut down during 2012. They didn't want to be responsible for the 2012 Mayan prophecy coming true. It make so much sense now!
Not that I believe that sort of thing but it is the first thought that popped in my head while reading the summary.
Disabling multitasking was done because they didn't want to require swap. If only one app is running, then the amount of RAM available to the active app is fairly constant. This means that you are unlikely to hit out-of-memory conditions on an iPhone. Contrast this with Maemo, where the kernel will randomly decide to kill some of your processes if you run out of memory.
This is probably true and isn't that bad (I remember having to clear memory on my old PDA which was odd since it supposedly hid that from the user) in most cases.
However, I would like to be able to copy/paste between applications without having to start and stop each as I move between them. Since copy/paste is the only real way to move data between most applications, the start and stop and start process gets a bit old after awhile. Perhaps we can have one background task in a new iPhone OS?
I love the American concept of charity, don't give to people who are starving or homeless, give to people who already have jobs.
I don't think they are mutually exclusive. I give to both charity and tip well. Toys for less fortunate, food pantry, clothing donations, and money are all things my family has done. I'm sure that is true of many others.
Many of the people I mentioned do make a living wage but I recognize that the percentage of my salary I have to use for necessities is probably less than others. Who doesn't want a couple extra dollars in their pocket to go to a movie or dinner.
I don't feel that I must tip but I tend to tip rather well. I tip the grocery delivery person (in my area in the states, it is Peapod), the pizza guy, hair care professional, the person who makes my latte, as well as wait staff.
Although I get excellent service because they remember me and appreciate the tips, I think of it more as keeping my "charity" local. I make a very good living and know many people who worked service jobs. They work as hard for far less (usually a real salary not dependent on tips) as I do and an extra $10 in their pocket will be multiplied as they spend it with other local businesses.
Yes this is probably a phenomenon that is only prevalent in the states but I don't feel bad doing it.
My company provides free coffee (the kind that is "fresh" brewed in a machine) that isn't terrible but won't win any awards. They also had Starbucks brewed in the cafeteria for 50 cents. After they raised the price to a $1.50, I decided it was time I do something.
I have a cup that is a single serving french press. I can buy a pound of my favorite blend and it will last a couple of weeks (2 cups a day). The savings is really significant for very little extra effort and the coffee is just the way I like it. Just add grinds, hot water, wait 4 minutes, and press!
I don't care how on topic my post is...I just want everyone to buy a french press...you'll be glad you did.
Second Life was immensely popular with people from all walks of life. They could visit and become who and what they wanted. It was a jointly held fantasy.
There was unique quality of SL that attracted people who wanted to create a new reality. For those who wanted a cool 3D chat program, it probably has lost some of the appeal.
I noticed my oldest daughter likes to chat with people on IMVU. This environment seems to have as much rich avatar capability--clothes, body styles, create your own rooms, etc.-- but is definitely at the core a chat room. She can jump between different rooms quickly and play RP scenarios without any "MMO" trappings.
Just an opinion but I believe different niches of users have found other sites to cater to their needs and this has taken some of SL players.
"I looked at Android development but haven't been able to get the kit up and running on my Mac properly (is it a firewall problem for accessing Android site, versioning problem with Eclipse, wrong SDK or ADT versions? Who knows?) and still find the iPhone SDK and development process superior for me."
ADT/AndroidSDK are based on eclipse, which anyone outside of MS or OSX use and the version info is pretty straight forward (goto the 1.5, 1.6 or 2.0 URLs). The plugin install is standard eclipse--all other plugins (what thousands?) do the same thing, so I doubt you're having firewall issues, but... are you using a proxy (eclipse needs manual setup diue to OSX's non-global net config)?
I'm leaning towards a proxy issue of some sort. I'm behind a proxy; though hard coding this info into tools/android app setup didn't resolve the problem. I have everything ready to go, but no devices setup so I can create a project. I'll probably just need to do the install at home where the setup is more typical.
The XCode process is download and install..done. I think a little more packaging (I walked though three pages of telling me what to download, how to setup, and only brief trouble shooting discussion) would be a great boon for Android newbs.
I've done development for a variety of mobile platforms (even waba for Java on Palm and the god awful VB environment for WinCE back in the day). I've used Eclipse, Netbeans, and IntelliJ for Java development and really am a Java fan. I want to develop on Android and hope I will find it as fruitful and fun as my iPhone work. What I don't get is why not have a download and done method for Android? Sure, it probably is all my fault for missing some instruction someplace.
The ADT/Eclipse paradigm of development is actually more common than OSX/XCode,
No argument, but I want to code not spend a significant amount of time with configuration. I'm just comparing to other experiences: Mobile Toolkit with Netbeans...worked; XCode for iPhone worked. I'll grant you Objective-C would never be my first choice in language...I don't like the way objects inherit, some quirks in scoping, and memory management..but it really isn't too bad.
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I don't see the problem, myself. If I prefer the Google store, I'll use the Google store. If I prefer the Amazon store, I'll use the Amazon store. You might also find features on the Amazon store (like buying an application as a gift for someone else) that don't exist in the Google store.
Competition is a good thing.
What you say is fundamental. I have an iPhone and basically like Apple's store (I also have wrote iPhone applications in the past..niche stuff that doesn't sell all that much and honestly is OLD). However, if I had an Android I think there are many reasons why an Amazon store would be useful:
Just imagine thousands of years from now and the only proof of history is from randomly archived and backed up blogs sites because some super power decided to re-write history along the way to make themselves look better.
I'm not going to say this will not happen and if we have a digital dark ages it will far easier to have only an "approved" history available. However, this is basically been true for all ages of humanity. The Pharaohs only made monuments that extolled the greatness of their accomplishment, battles, or what have you. The shards of pottery we find in burials only have representation of the gods this person and family believed in..not the "other" tribes hated deities. You never get an unbiased view when looking at the major artifacts that survive the ages.
This environment definitely requires a different mindset about quality and compliance. However, many of the technical skills in software and hardware design are the same as other industries. Even the embedded nature of the devices have similarities in other industries.
I'll admit that it seems like a small community with people having friends and previous coworkers in different medical companies. However, it isn't closed community. I personally joined from an enterprise IT company years ago to drive a team making data management products.
The quality and regulatory functions are very specialized and we do significant hiring within and training. Writing 510K documents and compliant quality management systems isn't for the feint of heart. That is only one particular role in building a device.
However, someone with strong background in embedded design (where quality is also important), requirement management and traceability (also important in many environments from consulting, avionics, telecom systems) could be successful in a design role. Risk management is critical to identify hazard and design mitigations but certainly not outside the realm of the rigor found in other industries
This is a Fortune 50 company that has good recruiters, ad placements and a global presence. Your post and another sibling do remind me to follow-up again and push them to research other opportunities to get the job out.
interviews where there are 400+ guys applying for a single job
I'm trying to hire a system designer and project leader in a medical device business. This requires technical experience, ability to do requirements/traceability and risk management in a heavily regulated industry. It is a very challenging role and a great leadership role in a very reputable company. Not exactly an IT or programming job but is definitely a senior technical role.
I have NO candidates in the funnel. The requirements for the job are the minimum and not anything crazy. However, I'm in Milwaukee Wisconsin...so is it a location thing? Where are my 100's of qualified candidates? Right now, H1 or not..I need candidates.
I would normally not mention something like this in an open forum but seemed appropriate. I'm not posting the exact job since I know that's a bit of an abuse. Wish I could though...seems like many good people on /.
I knew that the LP record was dying when in the 80's someone broke into my apartment and stole my rack stereo system (including some of those 100 lb speakers)...but left the turn table.
I mentioned this in another thread a while back, but lolcats could be used and there are plenty of names to use...
Monorail Cat, Basement Cat, Ceiling Cat (is watching you boot), itty bitty OS committee, Serious Cat, and I made you an Mac cookie but I eated it cat...
There's new ones daily!
Personally I always felt that Edison's work on the "Edison Affect" that helped drive the invention of the vacuum tube was far more exciting driving the rise of modern electronics.
I think the light bulb was inevitable and just needed perspiration to get it done. Edison and the many others who made leaps in insight are more interesting with respect to invention and innovation: Guthrie, Flemming, Edison, Lieben, De Forrest.
It is interesting that many of the innovations led to patents that didn't appear to really hamper this new area. Perhaps someone more versed in the area could point out there were many others who where locked out of the market and they would have been more advances prior to the invention of the solid state transistor.
Yes as parent says, all the other films I've heard of and are on DVD. I even saw "The Guild" seasons 1 and 2 via Blockbuster's movies-by-mail service. Obviously, it is much more "known" than this film and is available for purchase today. The "Legend of Neil" is a comedy based on the premise of an ordinary man getting pulled into the original Zelda game. There is a scene which I particularly like where the lead is dragging around all his gear until someone instructs him how to use his "inventory". I'm glad I go to GenCon or I would probably never known of this web series existence.
Back on topic, I don't know Denton. He is likely very well known and has done great things. However, should that give him a pass on any of the acceptance rules for IMDB (right, wrong, or indifferent)? Just because he is in the industry of related industry doesn't mean he should get a listing any more than actors should be handed recording contracts (can this stop, please). If they require a notable production house, it being generally available on DVD or some other outlet, those are the breaks.
As others have said, what is with everyone and their brother trying to do a horror film anyway. Are they cheap and easy? Do they give effects guys a canvas to showcase? I think I've seen a sig on Slashdot about a low-budget horror movie too..are they listed in IMDB?
"Steve"
or "Gummy Bear"..but that is two words.
Please provide some more specific arguments.
So far two pieces of evidence have been presented in this thread, the article on steam engines from the grandparent, and the one on sewing machines, on which I just finished giving my opinion.
The history of the sewing machine as very disappointing. You mention that Wilson had to sell his patents. Without patents, would he have received any compensation at all? Without patents, those that posses the capital would benefit and not necessarily the inventor (assuming he isn't in the employ of those with capital). In the case of Savary pumping machine, would he have made a dime if the property owners (those with the mines) could just use his invention?
It is indeed unfortunate that litigation is expensive and makes it difficult for some to protect their patents. It is indeed unfortunate that today we have patent "trolls" (you might argue Savary's heirs were as well, I suppose). I don't think this means the entire concept is wrong.
I'd also look at Papin, who had key ideas in the area of steam power, but without patronage spent his life trying to scrape by instead of enjoy the fruits of his mental labor:
Papin's career, even more than Hookes, illustrates the challenges faced by the most talented scientists if they lacked an independent source of income. The archtype--innovative talen supported either by patronage (...) or by inheritance. -- "The Most Powerful Idea in the World pg 22
As for the last part of your post, I don't think I'm disagreeing that things may proceed faster.
Please summarize, what is wrong with those two articles? In my view, both of them contain evidence on how patents delayed the industrial revolution, and how things actually worked much better once the patents could be ignored.
This, of course, assumes that the information from the inventors would still be readily available (that is a key aspect of patents) instead of locked up in their file cabinets hoping for someday having the capital to build whatever it is. In some cases, the invention is inevitable and might ultimately be found by multiple people. However I look at Newcomen as a contrary example; he spent ten years of his life experimenting to find ways to stable motion of a machine.
On the subject of rewarding inventors, I believe the profit from a successful invention is reward enough.
This necessitates the inventor having the capital to profit from the invention. Without the patent exclusivity as a collateral, how would this happen? Why would the owner of the means of production cut the inventor in when he could simply take the idea and build it? The bottom line, and this is opinion, we might move faster but the minds that came up with ideas may not have been the same people who profited
Since someone will no doubt reply asking for a citation, here is an article which describes in some detail how patents on early steam engines delayed the industrial revolution in Britain until after they had expired.
Replying to you not from disagreement but as an opportunity to bring up another source with a bit of a different point of view.
Others have suggested that the very existence of patents is what allowed artisans to start making money on ideas instead of property (which was owned by the aristocrats). Patents, in this scenario, actually allowed for the Industrial Revolution to happen. The history of how the concepts of patents and the legal language around them is interesting indeed and even in the early years had characters who also tried to abuse the system.
Personally, I believe they are necessary to reward inventors. Many of the problems are related to how you define an invention, not patents on their own (IMHO). Of course, nothing is without problems, but for constructed "things" patents work quite well and seam a good balanced of time of ownership with publication for the common good.
Sorry no link, but "The Most Powerful Idea in the World" by William Rosen discusses how patents are one of many parts that enabled the Industrial Revolution as he also explores the history of the steam engine.
I personally love Slashdot memes. So much so, that I wrote a slashdot song a couple of years ago (I'm getting better at playing singing BTW) that celebrated every one of them...or at least the ones I could think of.
.. song of epic proportions
Enjoy:I Read It On Slashdot
I'm not going to care, as a business owner, if ultra cheapass wants to mooch wifi. I don't care about the wifi. I care about the sloth who isn't making me any money taking up a chair or a sofa or a table for hours on end.
I'm not a business owner, but a very regular customer for a local Starbucks in my town. I use to go there after my daughter's violin lessons and have a treat, coffee, and some nice father-daughter time while we ate.
This was before a group of scrap-bookers decided that Starbucks was their personal workshop. They take up almost the entire store and parking lot, bring in all their equipment, and (from what I've seen) buy only a few drinks between the group.
I've stopped going to the store and take my girls someplace else. So your moral is true: it isn't wifi, it is the free loaders who have no consideration for other patrons that cost the business owner. At least if I have to have a coffee, there's the drive through...something the little shops probably don't have.
I've opted out of FB, altogether. "I've opted out of FB" (all together)
Another person who uses that Airplane movie reference in a constructive way.
... and often strange stares at restaurants.
Whenever someone in family says "altogether", everyone--children, teenagers, and adults--repeat the phrase immediately preceding it. Ahh, good times
This is something I created a few years ago for my team of engineers. I had basically stopped coding at the time and thought I'd share my feelings and observations in my organization on technical/non-technical. Powerpoint is a key contributor to the loss of techiness.
You Know You've Lost that Techy Feeling...
10) Strategy and vision are no longer used to describe development patterns or a pattern recognition system.
9) Your biggest source control issue revolves around which project plan to update
8) PowerPoint is now your tool of choice for mechanical drawings
7) Your biggest resource optimization problem is insuring that everyone's Outlook calendar is free
6) Amazon has stopped recommending "Uber Java for the L33t" and replaced it with "Paradigm shifting for Dummies"
5) You've finally forgotten the "q!" command in VI; or was that the "ctrl-q"; where's my mouse
4) The mythical man month now means anything can be done with enough people
3) You write an all employee email to see if someone can help you take a tab delineated file and change it to CSV. Special points if the reason was to get it into a spreadsheet
2) You do not understand why Dilbert gives his boss such a hard time
1) You no longer cringe, but shake your head in agreement, when someone starts discussing "Driving efficiencies by leveraging our core competencies while eliminating non value add activities in new game changing markets"
With Soyuz, Russians are using the Unix philosophy: do 1 thing, but do it well. NASA's better at the R&D and robotic exploratory missions and more money for that is a good thing.
Interesting how times change. During Apollo, the US was king of manned flight and the Russians were the pioneers in robotic exploration with the Lunokhod program. BTW, a very interesting story on how they designed and all the struggles the team overcame. You'll also see plenty of "inspiration" in the current NASA rovers from the Luna robotic moon explorers.
There is also Sci-Fi animated movie where Japan is separated from other world by some power shield. Same seclusions motives from 19th century.
A bit off topic but I believe the movie you are referring to is: Vexille released in 2007. There are probably others with the same theme but this came to mind since it is a recent Anime.
I thought it was very enjoyable..no Appleseed..but good.
OMG..The real truth is out there. This is just an excuse to have the device shut down during 2012. They didn't want to be responsible for the 2012 Mayan prophecy coming true. It make so much sense now!
Not that I believe that sort of thing but it is the first thought that popped in my head while reading the summary.
Disabling multitasking was done because they didn't want to require swap. If only one app is running, then the amount of RAM available to the active app is fairly constant. This means that you are unlikely to hit out-of-memory conditions on an iPhone. Contrast this with Maemo, where the kernel will randomly decide to kill some of your processes if you run out of memory.
This is probably true and isn't that bad (I remember having to clear memory on my old PDA which was odd since it supposedly hid that from the user) in most cases.
However, I would like to be able to copy/paste between applications without having to start and stop each as I move between them. Since copy/paste is the only real way to move data between most applications, the start and stop and start process gets a bit old after awhile. Perhaps we can have one background task in a new iPhone OS?
I love the American concept of charity, don't give to people who are starving or homeless, give to people who already have jobs.
I don't think they are mutually exclusive. I give to both charity and tip well. Toys for less fortunate, food pantry, clothing donations, and money are all things my family has done. I'm sure that is true of many others.
Many of the people I mentioned do make a living wage but I recognize that the percentage of my salary I have to use for necessities is probably less than others. Who doesn't want a couple extra dollars in their pocket to go to a movie or dinner.
I don't feel that I must tip but I tend to tip rather well. I tip the grocery delivery person (in my area in the states, it is Peapod), the pizza guy, hair care professional, the person who makes my latte, as well as wait staff.
Although I get excellent service because they remember me and appreciate the tips, I think of it more as keeping my "charity" local. I make a very good living and know many people who worked service jobs. They work as hard for far less (usually a real salary not dependent on tips) as I do and an extra $10 in their pocket will be multiplied as they spend it with other local businesses.
Yes this is probably a phenomenon that is only prevalent in the states but I don't feel bad doing it.
My company provides free coffee (the kind that is "fresh" brewed in a machine) that isn't terrible but won't win any awards. They also had Starbucks brewed in the cafeteria for 50 cents. After they raised the price to a $1.50, I decided it was time I do something.
I have a cup that is a single serving french press. I can buy a pound of my favorite blend and it will last a couple of weeks (2 cups a day). The savings is really significant for very little extra effort and the coffee is just the way I like it. Just add grinds, hot water, wait 4 minutes, and press!
I don't care how on topic my post is...I just want everyone to buy a french press...you'll be glad you did.
Second Life was immensely popular with people from all walks of life. They could visit and become who and what they wanted. It was a jointly held fantasy.
There was unique quality of SL that attracted people who wanted to create a new reality. For those who wanted a cool 3D chat program, it probably has lost some of the appeal.
I noticed my oldest daughter likes to chat with people on IMVU. This environment seems to have as much rich avatar capability--clothes, body styles, create your own rooms, etc.-- but is definitely at the core a chat room. She can jump between different rooms quickly and play RP scenarios without any "MMO" trappings.
Just an opinion but I believe different niches of users have found other sites to cater to their needs and this has taken some of SL players.
"I looked at Android development but haven't been able to get the kit up and running on my Mac properly (is it a firewall problem for accessing Android site, versioning problem with Eclipse, wrong SDK or ADT versions? Who knows?) and still find the iPhone SDK and development process superior for me." ADT/AndroidSDK are based on eclipse, which anyone outside of MS or OSX use and the version info is pretty straight forward (goto the 1.5, 1.6 or 2.0 URLs). The plugin install is standard eclipse--all other plugins (what thousands?) do the same thing, so I doubt you're having firewall issues, but... are you using a proxy (eclipse needs manual setup diue to OSX's non-global net config)?
I'm leaning towards a proxy issue of some sort. I'm behind a proxy; though hard coding this info into tools/android app setup didn't resolve the problem. I have everything ready to go, but no devices setup so I can create a project. I'll probably just need to do the install at home where the setup is more typical.
The XCode process is download and install..done. I think a little more packaging (I walked though three pages of telling me what to download, how to setup, and only brief trouble shooting discussion) would be a great boon for Android newbs.
I've done development for a variety of mobile platforms (even waba for Java on Palm and the god awful VB environment for WinCE back in the day). I've used Eclipse, Netbeans, and IntelliJ for Java development and really am a Java fan. I want to develop on Android and hope I will find it as fruitful and fun as my iPhone work. What I don't get is why not have a download and done method for Android? Sure, it probably is all my fault for missing some instruction someplace.
The ADT/Eclipse paradigm of development is actually more common than OSX/XCode,
No argument, but I want to code not spend a significant amount of time with configuration. I'm just comparing to other experiences: Mobile Toolkit with Netbeans...worked; XCode for iPhone worked. I'll grant you Objective-C would never be my first choice in language...I don't like the way objects inherit, some quirks in scoping, and memory management..but it really isn't too bad.