I'm Spanish, but I've lived in LA, NYC and SF. While NYC and SF are definitely nicer places to visit, I prefer LA to live. For once, people in LA generally acknowledge that their city is ugly, trashy, fake and decadent. Because of that, they don't tend to engage in futile arguments about which city's sights, food, lifestyle and cultural offerings are superior. Sure, there are those people but they'll rarely venture out of Santa Monica or "The Valley (TM)". On the other hand, when I go to a home party in SF, I keep hearing comments that make me cringe. Like this fucking hipster whose puppy fell from a bunk bed (yes..) and broke two legs: "Thank GOD we live in the city and I could find a 24h pet hospital!". Anyway, I won't comment on NYC since you're in Chicago and are probably familiar:).
My point: Ok, go Chicago! I like my cities cheap and uncouth.
Correct. Actually, the only way the iPad can find your location is via IP sourcing or using this method. In fact, companies like Fon could possibly rent their wi-fi hotspot database as a lucrative second business.
I understand, but there are bright sides to this. For once, he'll have proof that he was considered worthy of work in a cutting edge project. Also, would you really want to work for a company that cared so much about a minor mishap like you say?
True, assy as it gets, but Apple already knew the employee. I doubt they give secret devices to random employees without tracking serial numbers. And it had been disconnected via MobileMe, so the device ID wasn't unknown either...
I haven't RTFA, but I work at the software division of a major hardware company, and we're struggling to find suitable candidates for 2 openings in my group. The 2-3 good enough candidates that we met went to other "cooler" companies. This is considering H1b candidates, so I can't imagine how hard it would be to get by doing business without them. The problem is not the idea, it's the implementation of the visa program, which should really be oriented to specialists, not code monkeys for consulting companies.
That's actually a great analogy. I'm afraid Apple might be repeating the same error they made in the 80s by becoming self centered and ignoring the world of openness that was happening around them. Then it was the PC, not it might be Android that puts them back in a small, but admittedly very profitable corner of the market.
Interesting, but in this case, the company has become a commodity to the point that 'twitting' is a mainstream verb. That's very valuable in many ways.
Apple makes a nice amount from app sales, which they control. If an independent framework becomes popular, this opens the door to someone else controlling the flow of money. I don't like either position, but I understand them in their twisted minds.
The hardware fight is tilted towards Android hands down. And still, iPhone/iPad's responsiveness is better, by a matter of milliseconds, or it might be just perception, but everyone I know agrees. I guess it's Java getting in the way?
I guess most users heard about them, but there are a few iPhone/iPad apps that help in reporting these issues, also taking advantage of the devices' geolocation.
I'm Spanish and I believe this to be true. The last published surveys (it is now allowed to publish them too close to election day) gave a slight advantage to the conservative party (PP), but the vote count showed the socialist party (PSOE) ahead by a decent leap. The only significant event to take place in the lapse was the terrorist attack and the ensuing unrest. How exactly did this affect the results? Well, conservatives blame the left for trying to appease the terrorists by voting out a party that strongly opposed them. Liberals argue that it was the terrible handling of the situation by the government that gave the opposition the final advantage. My take: It was the government's fault. If they had handled it with care they could have pushed further ahead in the vote, just like we so often see (also in Spain) that a fearful enemy unifies people around their leaders. Instead, they were quick to blame the wrong guys (ETA, the Basque terrorist organization), which in turn made them look like they were manipulating the events in their profit.
I have no sympathy for the socialist party (much less after 6 years in power), but the conservatives made too many mistakes stupid mistakes in just 3 days, and they're still paying for it. I'm afraid the incompetence of the main parties is going to let fringe groups start crippling in the institutions. May you live interesting times:).
I guess they must have done their market research, also accounting for the initial excitement of new buyers. But if you see their reviews, most of them complain about the price, and I agree. I guess it's overall a good thing that the can pull it. It leaves some room for the rest of us to undercut them.
Pretty close. We don't even qualify as startup, just a bunch of friends with hopes and some spare time. I believe some major developers had access to the machines a few days before, but not us the little guys.
I'm one of 3 in a pretty informal project with friends. We woke up, got some coffee, got in line and spent time chatting with a bunch of interesting people, some of them useful connections for the future. All in all, it was time well spent, fun and productive. Sure, I could have waited till the afternoon, but if your first developed app was going live and you hadn't seen it on the device, you would probably be excited to try it out ASAP.
I was at the Palo Alto store at 6am. I wanted to get hands on an actual device for our app, which was going on sale by the grand opening. Surely enough, about 1/3 of the people in line were other developers in the same situation, and another 1/3 were marketing consultants doing the rounds for attention and clients. I bet the number of typical Apple fans was higher in other stores, though.
Are developers out of their freaking minds? Do they seriously thing that Things is worth paying $19.99? I mean, I can see the utility, but given all the alternatives, do they seriously believe that people are going to pay that much?
Indeed. In Spain, many (good) religious schools that get government money are like public schools on paper, but then use loopholes like demanding a really steep PTA fee from all parents, which in effect turns them into schools for the rich. They seem to be able to have it both ways, at the cost of the people.
Still, I don't think these are unsolvable issues. In places like Sweden (of all places), they're being used with great success.
Someone mentioned GIF vs PNG earlier, the patent on GIF is almost over.
The GIF patent *is* over:The US LZW patent expired on June 20, 2003.[19] The counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expired on June 18, 2004, the Japanese counterpart patents expired on June 20, 2004 and the counterpart Canadian patent expired on July 7, 2004.[19] Consequently, while Unisys has further patents and patent applications relating to improvements to the LZW technique,[19] the GIF format may now be used freely.
The cost of searching for patents whenever you're doing something, anything, really, is a huge burden on any R&D department. By forbidding employees to look at patents, companies make then focus on the important stuff: making things.
Google founders are fairly liberal (they donated money to the No on 8 campaign in California, for example), so I wouldn't be surprised if they had a fondness for Obama and his health care plan. The decision to redirect google.cn to the HK version came a few weeks after the initial announcement, but exactly the day after the passing of the health care bill. This would certainly distract some attention away from the right wing scaremongers at FOX and others, which would in turn help the democrats. The timing is just too neat to be casual. Is it?
PS: Nothing that there's anything wrong with the move, should it be like this. Just idly speculating...
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By the way, according to Wikipedia, Chicago is only the 3rd largest city in the US, significantly behind LA.
I'm Spanish, but I've lived in LA, NYC and SF. While NYC and SF are definitely nicer places to visit, I prefer LA to live. For once, people in LA generally acknowledge that their city is ugly, trashy, fake and decadent. Because of that, they don't tend to engage in futile arguments about which city's sights, food, lifestyle and cultural offerings are superior. Sure, there are those people but they'll rarely venture out of Santa Monica or "The Valley (TM)". On the other hand, when I go to a home party in SF, I keep hearing comments that make me cringe. Like this fucking hipster whose puppy fell from a bunk bed (yes..) and broke two legs: "Thank GOD we live in the city and I could find a 24h pet hospital!". Anyway, I won't comment on NYC since you're in Chicago and are probably familiar :).
My point: Ok, go Chicago! I like my cities cheap and uncouth.
Correct. Actually, the only way the iPad can find your location is via IP sourcing or using this method. In fact, companies like Fon could possibly rent their wi-fi hotspot database as a lucrative second business.
I understand, but there are bright sides to this. For once, he'll have proof that he was considered worthy of work in a cutting edge project. Also, would you really want to work for a company that cared so much about a minor mishap like you say?
True, assy as it gets, but Apple already knew the employee. I doubt they give secret devices to random employees without tracking serial numbers. And it had been disconnected via MobileMe, so the device ID wasn't unknown either...
I haven't RTFA, but I work at the software division of a major hardware company, and we're struggling to find suitable candidates for 2 openings in my group. The 2-3 good enough candidates that we met went to other "cooler" companies. This is considering H1b candidates, so I can't imagine how hard it would be to get by doing business without them. The problem is not the idea, it's the implementation of the visa program, which should really be oriented to specialists, not code monkeys for consulting companies.
Alright, alright, they sound the same to a Spaniard :P.
That's actually a great analogy. I'm afraid Apple might be repeating the same error they made in the 80s by becoming self centered and ignoring the world of openness that was happening around them. Then it was the PC, not it might be Android that puts them back in a small, but admittedly very profitable corner of the market.
Interesting, but in this case, the company has become a commodity to the point that 'twitting' is a mainstream verb. That's very valuable in many ways.
Apple makes a nice amount from app sales, which they control. If an independent framework becomes popular, this opens the door to someone else controlling the flow of money. I don't like either position, but I understand them in their twisted minds.
Except that it's not true. Google provides a very good user experience. It just happens not to screw its developers over.
The hardware fight is tilted towards Android hands down. And still, iPhone/iPad's responsiveness is better, by a matter of milliseconds, or it might be just perception, but everyone I know agrees. I guess it's Java getting in the way?
I guess most users heard about them, but there are a few iPhone/iPad apps that help in reporting these issues, also taking advantage of the devices' geolocation.
I'm Spanish and I believe this to be true. The last published surveys (it is now allowed to publish them too close to election day) gave a slight advantage to the conservative party (PP), but the vote count showed the socialist party (PSOE) ahead by a decent leap. The only significant event to take place in the lapse was the terrorist attack and the ensuing unrest. How exactly did this affect the results? Well, conservatives blame the left for trying to appease the terrorists by voting out a party that strongly opposed them. Liberals argue that it was the terrible handling of the situation by the government that gave the opposition the final advantage. My take: It was the government's fault. If they had handled it with care they could have pushed further ahead in the vote, just like we so often see (also in Spain) that a fearful enemy unifies people around their leaders. Instead, they were quick to blame the wrong guys (ETA, the Basque terrorist organization), which in turn made them look like they were manipulating the events in their profit.
I have no sympathy for the socialist party (much less after 6 years in power), but the conservatives made too many mistakes stupid mistakes in just 3 days, and they're still paying for it. I'm afraid the incompetence of the main parties is going to let fringe groups start crippling in the institutions. May you live interesting times :).
I guess they must have done their market research, also accounting for the initial excitement of new buyers. But if you see their reviews, most of them complain about the price, and I agree. I guess it's overall a good thing that the can pull it. It leaves some room for the rest of us to undercut them.
Pretty close. We don't even qualify as startup, just a bunch of friends with hopes and some spare time. I believe some major developers had access to the machines a few days before, but not us the little guys.
I'm one of 3 in a pretty informal project with friends. We woke up, got some coffee, got in line and spent time chatting with a bunch of interesting people, some of them useful connections for the future. All in all, it was time well spent, fun and productive. Sure, I could have waited till the afternoon, but if your first developed app was going live and you hadn't seen it on the device, you would probably be excited to try it out ASAP.
I was at the Palo Alto store at 6am. I wanted to get hands on an actual device for our app, which was going on sale by the grand opening. Surely enough, about 1/3 of the people in line were other developers in the same situation, and another 1/3 were marketing consultants doing the rounds for attention and clients. I bet the number of typical Apple fans was higher in other stores, though.
Are developers out of their freaking minds? Do they seriously thing that Things is worth paying $19.99? I mean, I can see the utility, but given all the alternatives, do they seriously believe that people are going to pay that much?
Indeed. In Spain, many (good) religious schools that get government money are like public schools on paper, but then use loopholes like demanding a really steep PTA fee from all parents, which in effect turns them into schools for the rich. They seem to be able to have it both ways, at the cost of the people.
Still, I don't think these are unsolvable issues. In places like Sweden (of all places), they're being used with great success.
Someone mentioned GIF vs PNG earlier, the patent on GIF is almost over.
The GIF patent *is* over: The US LZW patent expired on June 20, 2003.[19] The counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expired on June 18, 2004, the Japanese counterpart patents expired on June 20, 2004 and the counterpart Canadian patent expired on July 7, 2004.[19] Consequently, while Unisys has further patents and patent applications relating to improvements to the LZW technique,[19] the GIF format may now be used freely.
The cost of searching for patents whenever you're doing something, anything, really, is a huge burden on any R&D department. By forbidding employees to look at patents, companies make then focus on the important stuff: making things.
Google founders are fairly liberal (they donated money to the No on 8 campaign in California, for example), so I wouldn't be surprised if they had a fondness for Obama and his health care plan. The decision to redirect google.cn to the HK version came a few weeks after the initial announcement, but exactly the day after the passing of the health care bill. This would certainly distract some attention away from the right wing scaremongers at FOX and others, which would in turn help the democrats. The timing is just too neat to be casual. Is it?
PS: Nothing that there's anything wrong with the move, should it be like this. Just idly speculating...
Finally! Bowing to the censors has only harmed Google's reputation in the West. I'm glad to see this happen.
I think it's time the statue of liberty came down and got replaced with something that truly represents the America of today.
A giant IOU check to China?