Not sure if you are from America, but stop signs are a pretty bad idea here. They are used in neighborhoods as a way to slow traffic, so everyone routinely ignores them and rolls through. When you place them in spots that require an actual STOP COMPLETELY EVERY SINGLE TIME people get confused (and I don't blame them when they are used as a YIELD sign half the time).
Your milestone has hardware on par with the 3GS, not the 3G. I have jailbroken my 3G and sure I CAN do background apps but it definitely slows things down (i.e. not something apple would find acceptable). Hell, the 3G only has 128mb ram, thats barely enough for safari.
The thing is I want my computer to be open but don't really care about my phone. My computer is a development machine and I am a power user and programmer. But my phone I want to be simple and intuitive so I can instantly do what I want to do with it.
The iPad is the "locked down Mac" that people here are threatening is to come. I see there being dual product lines, the MacBook Pro's, (maybe iMacs and Macbooks), and Mac Pro's. Then there being iPad-like devices, maybe even coming in a laptop-with-touchscreen form of some sort which run an advanced version of iPhone OS. Give this touchscreen clamshell MacBook/iPad hybrid a faster version of the A4 ARM processor in the iPad and it could easily have 15+ hours of battery life in a form factor the size of the MacBook air. I see this being the second product line available IN ADDITION to the MacBook Pro's.
As someone else said both newbies and power users use OS X. I see Apple differentiating their lines and keeping OS X for their power users/content creators and introducing an iPad-like line of computers for the newbie croud. (lets face it, if Apple made a cheap 3g MacBook Air form factor device running a souped up iPhone OS (adding say printing capabilities, etc.), there are soo many people I could recommend this to (my mom, grandma, etc.)
And hey, would it kill you to write the engine size on the back of your car like we do in Europe...awareness is half the battle!
Lol all that would do is make people buy bigger engines so that everyone knew they could afford a top of the line *insert car here*. Thats why american car companies switched from cubic inches to CC's/liters, they had to lower displacement to make their cars more fuel efficient in the 70's and they didn't want consumers to be like wtf when their new car was half the displacement of their old one.
Heres the thing. Said friend is a high level IT manager at a fortune 500 company. He NEEDS his blackberry with company email to be able to be successful at his job. The company says this is the way you do it. You don't have to be able to access the company exchange server from your blackberry.
So his choice is to not use his blackberry, which in turn results in a massive loss in productivity, which will fall on his shoulders and possibly get him fired. Alternative is to accept their conditions and live with it.
Therein lies the unfairness of at-will employment when dealing with large corporations. The company really wouldn't care that much if they fired someone, but the person would loose the ability to support his/her family. So the company basically can make any rules they want, however unreasonable, and the employee will follow them. (Not saying here that I think there is a better option, just that the current option isn't completely fair)
I disagree. Sure, technically the data goes through company servers, but there are plenty of reasons why that doesn't mean the company should be able to read said data. Here is a perfect example.
For example a friend of mine has a blackberry tied to his company's BBS servers. The blackberry is locked down so that all internet traffic goes through the corporate proxy servers. My friend PAYS FOR HIS OWN WIRELESS SERVICE/BLACKBERRY. (This in itself is a little crazy because he is paying $100/month or whatever and then isn't allowed to even install google maps on it because the company locks down application installs).
So this ruling would be very important for my friend, if say he accessed his gmail account from his PERSONALLY PAID FOR blackberry, which goes through the corporate proxy servers. Should the company really be allowed read his gmail account since he did this? The answer this case is setting is NO which is a great decision.
This is very true, the lines are getting really blurred. For example a friend of mine has a blackberry tied to his company's BBS servers. The blackberry is locked down so that all internet traffic goes through the corporate proxy servers. My friend PAYS FOR HIS OWN WIRELESS SERVICE/BLACKBERRY. (This in itself is a little crazy because he is paying $100/month or whatever and then isn't allowed to even install google maps on it because the company locks down application installs).
So this ruling would be very important for my friend, if say he accessed his gmail account from his PERSONALLY PAID FOR blackberry, which goes through the corporate proxy servers. Should the company really be allowed read his gmail account since he did this? The answer this case is setting is NO which is a great decision.
Source? I really don't think this is true, but I am willing to be proven otherwise. I do know that facebook will grant access to the police, but that is entirely different.
at least on my campus, the wifi can be flakey to get connected to, and while it covers most buildings pretty reliably, between buildings there are plenty of dead spots where the phone would disconnect and possibly be unable to reconnect because of authentication problems
No... just my generation has different priorities. I'd prioritize a cell phone over most other things, including books for classes if it came down to it. It would be much easier to survive in school without textbooks than it would be to survive without a cell phone.
Anyone who says lots of students have survived without cell phones has obviously been out of school for quite a while. Yea, sure I could SURVIVE without a cell phone, but the world is a different place. Most dorms don't even have landline service anymore. EVERYONE I know has a cell phone. Literally. So if you don't mind being the weirdo who no one can get a hold of then sure. But you won't be normal and your social life WILL suffer
Except it does cost them more... a lot more. They don't have a network in canada so they have to pay rogers or whoever the CDMA carrier is in canada to let them use their network
This argument is what will kill HTML5 and ensure a new era of the reign of flash, silverlight, etc. The choices are not h264 or theora. Its h.264 through an open html5 spec, or h264 through silverlight and flash. All major operating systems have support for h264 built in as it is (not to mention all the portable devices with hardware acceleration for it, including now many netbooks). The whole debate is stupid, firefox needs to just use the operating system's built in codecs to play h264. Problem solved.
Being self taught myself, I think the biggest downside is some of the strategies and standards that are taught in the mainstream curriculum (IE: how to properly use the object-oriented model, etc.). Especially when I first started out, my code may get the job done, but it wasn't the cleanest or best approach. Luckily, I think it will come to you in time if you focus on improving your code.
Completely agreed. I'm getting my degree right now in Computer Engineering and being a self-taught programmer, I am finding the programming classes teach a lot in terms of best practices, and how to use the OO model well. I'm sure you could learn these kinds of things yourself, but for me, when I am doing something for myself, I tend to just skip all the "stupid steps" like commenting, etc. and just hack together something that works. It takes discipline to force yourself to do the boring steps while self-teaching.
YOUR GALLONS ARE A DIFFERENT SIZE THAN OURS!!!!! 1 UK MPG 0.833 MPG (US) So your 60mpg minivan is really 60 mpg minivan is really less than 50mpg. And its probably diesel many of which don't meet our emissions requirements because they are stricter than yours. Add that to the fact that its probably the size of one of our compact cars. We american's want way bigger cars. And before you get all elitist about the fact that you have small cars, consider that our average one-way commute is twice yours (quick google search yields UK average daily commute is 8.5 miles compared to 15 in the US)
I recently installed a new stereo in my car, and didn't think it was worth the $20 for the antenna adaptor to enable me to receive FM stations. FM is on its last legs. Sure it will be there for a while for people with old cars with no AUX-in plug, but already most cars in the last 5 years have them.
You say you have driven a manual in traffic... have you done it every single day? My car is a stick and I would never trade it for an auto (at least of the same year, some of the new auto's, especially the dual-clutch automated manuals are looking pretty nice, but way out of my price range), but driving in stop and go traffic is not fun, no question about it. For me its worth it, but if I was the average joe who only wanted a grandpa-mobile car to get from A to B, and didn't care about the fun of driving, why would I want a stick?
There is nothing stopping exactly what you say which is why all this hullabaloo is stupid. Directshow (or whatever it is called now in windows 7), quicktime in mac, and mplayer in linux. And I'm sure third parties would begin distributing builds with VLC built in so 10 year old operating systems (cough Windows XP cough) could be supported without worrying about making sure the correct codecs are installed.
Added bonus would be that hardware acceleration is supported out of the box, in windows 7 and mac at least, because quicktime and win7's codecs support it.
What if said tablet was subsidized by a cell phone company and required a $45/month data plan? That could probably get it down in the $500 netbook range...
Or maybe apple is paying for this... and will leave the site pretty much unchanged except change that "buy now" link to an itunes link. Or possibly even convert the site to "itunes streaming edition" and allow you to buy songs and stream them and then download them to your ipod or regular itunes if you want?
Very true. Craigslist is the new classifieds section for cars (I just bought my car from a craigslist ad actually). But I had to use crazedlist.org to search, because I was willing to drive as far as needed to get the car I wanted. Craigslist's lack of features and resistance to third party addons breeds sites like crazedlist, a complete hack relying on iframes and you turning off referrals in your browser. And crazedlist itself sucks, it just adds an obvious feature that craigslist refuses to add.
Yea, but when ubuntu comes out with a new release, they host the torrent on their own site. They don't say head over to the PIRATE bay for the latest distro. Hell, thepiratebay has pirate in their own name. Its a lot more like the drugdealers.com analogy than the addressbook.com analogy. Sure, some of the drug dealers on drugdealers.com are selling legal drugs like caffeine or alcohol.
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Not sure if you are from America, but stop signs are a pretty bad idea here. They are used in neighborhoods as a way to slow traffic, so everyone routinely ignores them and rolls through. When you place them in spots that require an actual STOP COMPLETELY EVERY SINGLE TIME people get confused (and I don't blame them when they are used as a YIELD sign half the time).
Your milestone has hardware on par with the 3GS, not the 3G. I have jailbroken my 3G and sure I CAN do background apps but it definitely slows things down (i.e. not something apple would find acceptable). Hell, the 3G only has 128mb ram, thats barely enough for safari.
The thing is I want my computer to be open but don't really care about my phone. My computer is a development machine and I am a power user and programmer. But my phone I want to be simple and intuitive so I can instantly do what I want to do with it.
The iPad is the "locked down Mac" that people here are threatening is to come. I see there being dual product lines, the MacBook Pro's, (maybe iMacs and Macbooks), and Mac Pro's. Then there being iPad-like devices, maybe even coming in a laptop-with-touchscreen form of some sort which run an advanced version of iPhone OS. Give this touchscreen clamshell MacBook/iPad hybrid a faster version of the A4 ARM processor in the iPad and it could easily have 15+ hours of battery life in a form factor the size of the MacBook air. I see this being the second product line available IN ADDITION to the MacBook Pro's.
As someone else said both newbies and power users use OS X. I see Apple differentiating their lines and keeping OS X for their power users/content creators and introducing an iPad-like line of computers for the newbie croud. (lets face it, if Apple made a cheap 3g MacBook Air form factor device running a souped up iPhone OS (adding say printing capabilities, etc.), there are soo many people I could recommend this to (my mom, grandma, etc.)
And hey, would it kill you to write the engine size on the back of your car like we do in Europe...awareness is half the battle!
Lol all that would do is make people buy bigger engines so that everyone knew they could afford a top of the line *insert car here*. Thats why american car companies switched from cubic inches to CC's/liters, they had to lower displacement to make their cars more fuel efficient in the 70's and they didn't want consumers to be like wtf when their new car was half the displacement of their old one.
Heres the thing. Said friend is a high level IT manager at a fortune 500 company. He NEEDS his blackberry with company email to be able to be successful at his job. The company says this is the way you do it. You don't have to be able to access the company exchange server from your blackberry.
So his choice is to not use his blackberry, which in turn results in a massive loss in productivity, which will fall on his shoulders and possibly get him fired. Alternative is to accept their conditions and live with it.
Therein lies the unfairness of at-will employment when dealing with large corporations. The company really wouldn't care that much if they fired someone, but the person would loose the ability to support his/her family. So the company basically can make any rules they want, however unreasonable, and the employee will follow them. (Not saying here that I think there is a better option, just that the current option isn't completely fair)
I disagree. Sure, technically the data goes through company servers, but there are plenty of reasons why that doesn't mean the company should be able to read said data. Here is a perfect example.
For example a friend of mine has a blackberry tied to his company's BBS servers. The blackberry is locked down so that all internet traffic goes through the corporate proxy servers. My friend PAYS FOR HIS OWN WIRELESS SERVICE/BLACKBERRY. (This in itself is a little crazy because he is paying $100/month or whatever and then isn't allowed to even install google maps on it because the company locks down application installs).
So this ruling would be very important for my friend, if say he accessed his gmail account from his PERSONALLY PAID FOR blackberry, which goes through the corporate proxy servers. Should the company really be allowed read his gmail account since he did this? The answer this case is setting is NO which is a great decision.
This is very true, the lines are getting really blurred. For example a friend of mine has a blackberry tied to his company's BBS servers. The blackberry is locked down so that all internet traffic goes through the corporate proxy servers. My friend PAYS FOR HIS OWN WIRELESS SERVICE/BLACKBERRY. (This in itself is a little crazy because he is paying $100/month or whatever and then isn't allowed to even install google maps on it because the company locks down application installs).
So this ruling would be very important for my friend, if say he accessed his gmail account from his PERSONALLY PAID FOR blackberry, which goes through the corporate proxy servers. Should the company really be allowed read his gmail account since he did this? The answer this case is setting is NO which is a great decision.
Source? I really don't think this is true, but I am willing to be proven otherwise. I do know that facebook will grant access to the police, but that is entirely different.
With the saw stop tech it can be made stupidly safe. Check this video out. Amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTUOhYcw4ZY
at least on my campus, the wifi can be flakey to get connected to, and while it covers most buildings pretty reliably, between buildings there are plenty of dead spots where the phone would disconnect and possibly be unable to reconnect because of authentication problems
He doesn't need to call Canada, he needs to roam to canada. Huge difference
No... just my generation has different priorities. I'd prioritize a cell phone over most other things, including books for classes if it came down to it. It would be much easier to survive in school without textbooks than it would be to survive without a cell phone.
Anyone who says lots of students have survived without cell phones has obviously been out of school for quite a while. Yea, sure I could SURVIVE without a cell phone, but the world is a different place. Most dorms don't even have landline service anymore. EVERYONE I know has a cell phone. Literally. So if you don't mind being the weirdo who no one can get a hold of then sure. But you won't be normal and your social life WILL suffer
Except it does cost them more... a lot more. They don't have a network in canada so they have to pay rogers or whoever the CDMA carrier is in canada to let them use their network
I'd imagine container formats have far fewer patent issues to worry about compared to compression algorithms.
This argument is what will kill HTML5 and ensure a new era of the reign of flash, silverlight, etc. The choices are not h264 or theora. Its h.264 through an open html5 spec, or h264 through silverlight and flash. All major operating systems have support for h264 built in as it is (not to mention all the portable devices with hardware acceleration for it, including now many netbooks). The whole debate is stupid, firefox needs to just use the operating system's built in codecs to play h264. Problem solved.
Being self taught myself, I think the biggest downside is some of the strategies and standards that are taught in the mainstream curriculum (IE: how to properly use the object-oriented model, etc.). Especially when I first started out, my code may get the job done, but it wasn't the cleanest or best approach. Luckily, I think it will come to you in time if you focus on improving your code.
Completely agreed. I'm getting my degree right now in Computer Engineering and being a self-taught programmer, I am finding the programming classes teach a lot in terms of best practices, and how to use the OO model well. I'm sure you could learn these kinds of things yourself, but for me, when I am doing something for myself, I tend to just skip all the "stupid steps" like commenting, etc. and just hack together something that works. It takes discipline to force yourself to do the boring steps while self-teaching.
YOUR GALLONS ARE A DIFFERENT SIZE THAN OURS!!!!! 1 UK MPG 0.833 MPG (US) So your 60mpg minivan is really 60 mpg minivan is really less than 50mpg. And its probably diesel many of which don't meet our emissions requirements because they are stricter than yours. Add that to the fact that its probably the size of one of our compact cars. We american's want way bigger cars. And before you get all elitist about the fact that you have small cars, consider that our average one-way commute is twice yours (quick google search yields UK average daily commute is 8.5 miles compared to 15 in the US)
I recently installed a new stereo in my car, and didn't think it was worth the $20 for the antenna adaptor to enable me to receive FM stations. FM is on its last legs. Sure it will be there for a while for people with old cars with no AUX-in plug, but already most cars in the last 5 years have them.
You say you have driven a manual in traffic... have you done it every single day? My car is a stick and I would never trade it for an auto (at least of the same year, some of the new auto's, especially the dual-clutch automated manuals are looking pretty nice, but way out of my price range), but driving in stop and go traffic is not fun, no question about it. For me its worth it, but if I was the average joe who only wanted a grandpa-mobile car to get from A to B, and didn't care about the fun of driving, why would I want a stick?
There is nothing stopping exactly what you say which is why all this hullabaloo is stupid. Directshow (or whatever it is called now in windows 7), quicktime in mac, and mplayer in linux. And I'm sure third parties would begin distributing builds with VLC built in so 10 year old operating systems (cough Windows XP cough) could be supported without worrying about making sure the correct codecs are installed.
Added bonus would be that hardware acceleration is supported out of the box, in windows 7 and mac at least, because quicktime and win7's codecs support it.
What if said tablet was subsidized by a cell phone company and required a $45/month data plan? That could probably get it down in the $500 netbook range...
Or maybe apple is paying for this... and will leave the site pretty much unchanged except change that "buy now" link to an itunes link. Or possibly even convert the site to "itunes streaming edition" and allow you to buy songs and stream them and then download them to your ipod or regular itunes if you want?
Very true. Craigslist is the new classifieds section for cars (I just bought my car from a craigslist ad actually). But I had to use crazedlist.org to search, because I was willing to drive as far as needed to get the car I wanted. Craigslist's lack of features and resistance to third party addons breeds sites like crazedlist, a complete hack relying on iframes and you turning off referrals in your browser. And crazedlist itself sucks, it just adds an obvious feature that craigslist refuses to add.
Yea, but when ubuntu comes out with a new release, they host the torrent on their own site. They don't say head over to the PIRATE bay for the latest distro. Hell, thepiratebay has pirate in their own name. Its a lot more like the drugdealers.com analogy than the addressbook.com analogy. Sure, some of the drug dealers on drugdealers.com are selling legal drugs like caffeine or alcohol.