Huh, last I knew most [big company] apps in the apple app store take your location,contacts, and other information for the purposes of sharing with other vendors, aka spam data (pretty much the same stuff). And with the adoption of iAds... And the app approval process has no problem approving and the selling of those apps. And all you need are trojans to the approval process to game it and unlock features to get more critical info like passwords.
The approval process is not there for your security, it's there to maximize Apple's 30% [free-n-clear] take away from developers and to protect its IP/apps. Basically, it's for their security.
Just like any other OSS technology, when IBM adopts it for internal use, they will alter it and end up selling back to businesses,
in bloated, constant maintenance form.
Just look at Notes, Unix, Java, Linux, Informix. They "reinvented them" into the IBM ecosystem, reengineered them with IBM parts and they all ended up being bloat ware versions needing IBM consultants to maintain them. Eclipse is useful, but still an over bloated "framework".
Just sayin.... Firefox has a good chance now of having the same fate. I'm glad I switched over to Chrome.
Pouring (gravity as force) is much different than the ocean, not linear and I'd not be surprise if the gulf waters/oil would float around this "barrier". One can deduct from the experiement that the amount of energy to hold a net to seperate the oil/water would likely be at least the force of gravity... not scalable IMO.
Also, why didn't he just get a real specimen of contaminated gulf water? The experiment is already at risk with him mixing the oil and water. Now nothing represents anything similar/actual conditions in the gulf, just shows that you can separate oil and water, duh.
Nice lab experiment, now go work for a company and make something that will work.
Why all the outrage with this spelling bee == cultural thing?
I mean no one is complaining about the recent influx of Asian women in the Nathan's Hot Dog contest at Coney Island (along with more Asian men in general)? OMG, the INSANITY! What about the kids!......
If it's all about preparing kids to make up their own minds(think for themselves), then I'm for it. And the current options ('Robotic' Indian super spellers or duh-witted American jocks) just don't cut it-- if you look at it, either can't ignore peer pressures of name brands, American Idol or getting an MBA... and just be "themselves", which is the real problem the article should be pointing out.
So the indirect conclusion is if you want a best balance of speed, consistency, coverage and price... in a major city, go T-Mobile. Especially when they get HSPA+ running.
Of course, T-mobile has had it's share of privacy problems or losing data (Sidekick incident).
yep, in these times, which the feds, Obama's admin, BP, the MMS, engineering nationwide, PhDs, etc... which will play the fiddle, take credit and call themselves either heros or superstars. The potential circus with be on order of having the 2004, 2006 and 2008 elections with CES, Google I/O and WWDC and the Superbowl [all] combined and televised on all cable news networks for the next 2 years.
Yeah, all that money put to a preparation plan that will try to accommodate the earth opening up beneath you....
Sure you can engineer a bridge over a river to withstand a 8mag quake, but if that river disappears (i.e. opens up, ground cracks)... all that reinforcement isn't going to do you any good, only good for that politician and business man that lives in DC or the East Coast reaping in the rewards now.
Sure you can prepare for some things, but there's a point where prep doesn't even make logical sense. Anything over 8, especially ground fissures, formulation of new mountains, etc... well just say you can't prep for that.
3rd gen iPod--users with 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, eventually (all different and yes, some owners ignore the ipod upgrade--even when forced--i.e. no syncing).
gen 1, gen 2 iPhone (with 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, etc...) and 3GS.
iPad
Likely gen 4 devices (Ipod and iPhone)
Heck, my old gen 2 ipod is sitting as a paper weight, and my gen 3 ipod touch is still on 3.1... Works fine for me and haven't updated iTunes until they force me to.
With the number of users of the iUniverse, and those that ignore the itunes upgrades for iPod/iPhone/iPad, or don't pay the $9.99 ipod touch firmware updates... I say the iUniverse is just as fragmented as the Android world.
The big difference is I can still develop in Android 1.3 for those who choose not to upgrade and it's easier to code in Android. Where as I can't in the iUniverse (must be on 3.3 w/SL OSX, and likely OS4 with SL OSX+ by the end of the year). All those folks with a gen1/2 iPhones and gen 3 ipods that don't want to upgrade are SOL.... when all they want to do is maybe just to play a freakin song or make a simple phone call.
...pretty much everything today can be stored on a home server in 8yrs.
With distributed technology, cloud servers, and bit torrent, to spend a few million to store a few formats and keycodes on moving tectonic plates seems a bit illogical. Humans didn't do it 10000 years ago and we still figured out what happened back then.
That you trust your company (e.g. Google, Visa, etc...) more with your private information that your gov't (e.g. people you vote for, fed, state, local).
And that it appears consumerism is more important than citizenship.
Yeah, releases were very buggy. it used surplus (i.e. circa 2001) hardware. Only held a battery charge within 4hrs, bad ergonomics/style and s/w baseline that changed every week and couldn't have a decent phone call.
A decent phone call....come on, rock solid calling would have been a win in my book.
I hacked with the wifi drivers to get skype working as that+EDGE would have been livable (in 2007) and the distro didn't understand WPA much better. And Openmoko was manipulated by a corporation, which eventually drop the majority of its support.
Sure, downrank me all you want F/OSS fanboys. But in the end, this is just larger Freerunner. And we know how that effort ended. I want to see something innovative from the community, not another attempt at a free copy/option.
(Former freerunner hacker that crashed and burned)
With the video sped up 50x (or 30x)... not impressed.
Now this
and this or
this... which all are at normal speeds... much more impressive. And all have existed for at least a year...
I'm a believer of OSS, but the above gets a 'no new news here' tag in my book.
If you want to promote your product that lacks a feature people are asking, well begging, for, then call that feature inferior. Typical marketing strategy.
Look, if you're a company that's spending lots of marketing cash and blog speak to bad mouth a technology,
that's a waste your money unless you have a specific agenda. Palm didn't put down the Newton--it knew it was inferior and just let it run its course, which it did.
Apple isn't trying to prove Flash is bad, it is creating a perception that flash is bad since customers are demanding it and Apple technology wasn't designed for it. Period. Ya'll CS gurus 'know' flash is technically bad, but look at Windows XP, it's just as 'bad' and runs 90% of the computers out there (i.e. it does the job). It the tech works, yes we maybe screwed for a few year from perfection, but hey, that's what tech is all about.
"banishment" was coined since it was a pain to get to the annex and the facilities (back 10yrs ago) we crap. It's changed over the years AND a lot of stuff is done there now since the agency's outsourcing to Eagle Alliance--most of the IT/IA side is heading in that type of arrangement due to budget cuts.
And a lot of important stuff was done there from time to time. And the real important stuff? Not at the Fort. That was done somewhere else. Though the fort does have the cool (at least to us techies), lower priority projects.
To the op, FYI, annex by acronym maynot be a good idea (when was your or friend's last LS)?;)
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It depends. Cause Android can be ported to other underlying OSes. It is afterall a hacked up JVM.
Sort of like Linux was the 'better' of Unix. Android is becoming the better of Java (on the mobile/tablet side at least).
"wants to be free or something"
or exploited.
Glass is half full or half empty? Your choice.
This tech is still unproven: they need to try it on new phone models--cause for some reason, every new phone spied that comes out is always burry.
Huh, last I knew most [big company] apps in the apple app store take your location,contacts, and other information for the purposes of sharing with other vendors, aka spam data (pretty much the same stuff). And with the adoption of iAds... And the app approval process has no problem approving and the selling of those apps. And all you need are trojans to the approval process to game it and unlock features to get more critical info like passwords.
The approval process is not there for your security, it's there to maximize Apple's 30% [free-n-clear] take away from developers and to protect its IP/apps. Basically, it's for their security.
AT&T Won't Block Black Hat Eavesdropping Demo at Black Hat conference.
But I'm sure they'll be blocking the wireless hacking demos at DEFCON.
See ya'll there, gotta love these 2 conferences.
with the thing up to your face
Bars don't matter, you'd probably hang up or put the caller on hold with the rumored proximity sensor issues first before dropping the call.
Just like any other OSS technology, when IBM adopts it for internal use, they will alter it and end up selling back to businesses, in bloated, constant maintenance form.
Just look at Notes, Unix, Java, Linux, Informix. They "reinvented them" into the IBM ecosystem, reengineered them with IBM parts and they all ended up being bloat ware versions needing IBM consultants to maintain them. Eclipse is useful, but still an over bloated "framework".
Just sayin.... Firefox has a good chance now of having the same fate. I'm glad I switched over to Chrome.
Nice idea. For those doubting this would work--centrifuge the "towel". That will get the oil 'squeezed' out.
Won't scale.
Pouring (gravity as force) is much different than the ocean, not linear and I'd not be surprise if the gulf waters/oil would float around this "barrier". One can deduct from the experiement that the amount of energy to hold a net to seperate the oil/water would likely be at least the force of gravity... not scalable IMO.
Also, why didn't he just get a real specimen of contaminated gulf water? The experiment is already at risk with him mixing the oil and water. Now nothing represents anything similar/actual conditions in the gulf, just shows that you can separate oil and water, duh.
Nice lab experiment, now go work for a company and make something that will work.
Why all the outrage with this spelling bee == cultural thing?
I mean no one is complaining about the recent influx of Asian women in the Nathan's Hot Dog contest at Coney Island (along with more Asian men in general)? OMG, the INSANITY! What about the kids!......
If it's all about preparing kids to make up their own minds(think for themselves), then I'm for it. And the current options ('Robotic' Indian super spellers or duh-witted American jocks) just don't cut it-- if you look at it, either can't ignore peer pressures of name brands, American Idol or getting an MBA... and just be "themselves", which is the real problem the article should be pointing out.
So the indirect conclusion is if you want a best balance of speed, consistency, coverage and price... in a major city, go T-Mobile. Especially when they get HSPA+ running.
Of course, T-mobile has had it's share of privacy problems or losing data (Sidekick incident).
yep, in these times, which the feds, Obama's admin, BP, the MMS, engineering nationwide, PhDs, etc... which will play the fiddle, take credit and call themselves either heros or superstars. The potential circus with be on order of having the 2004, 2006 and 2008 elections with CES, Google I/O and WWDC and the Superbowl [all] combined and televised on all cable news networks for the next 2 years.
we don't need another hero, just a plugged hole.
Yeah, all that money put to a preparation plan that will try to accommodate the earth opening up beneath you....
Sure you can engineer a bridge over a river to withstand a 8mag quake, but if that river disappears (i.e. opens up, ground cracks)... all that reinforcement isn't going to do you any good, only good for that politician and business man that lives in DC or the East Coast reaping in the rewards now.
Sure you can prepare for some things, but there's a point where prep doesn't even make logical sense. Anything over 8, especially ground fissures, formulation of new mountains, etc... well just say you can't prep for that.
Heck, my old gen 2 ipod is sitting as a paper weight, and my gen 3 ipod touch is still on 3.1... Works fine for me and haven't updated iTunes until they force me to.
With the number of users of the iUniverse, and those that ignore the itunes upgrades for iPod/iPhone/iPad, or don't pay the $9.99 ipod touch firmware updates... I say the iUniverse is just as fragmented as the Android world.
The big difference is I can still develop in Android 1.3 for those who choose not to upgrade and it's easier to code in Android. Where as I can't in the iUniverse (must be on 3.3 w/SL OSX, and likely OS4 with SL OSX+ by the end of the year). All those folks with a gen1/2 iPhones and gen 3 ipods that don't want to upgrade are SOL.... when all they want to do is maybe just to play a freakin song or make a simple phone call.
...pretty much everything today can be stored on a home server in 8yrs.
With distributed technology, cloud servers, and bit torrent, to spend a few million to store a few formats and keycodes on moving tectonic plates seems a bit illogical. Humans didn't do it 10000 years ago and we still figured out what happened back then.
If you are in the business of law (or an attorney), it's about what you can prove with facts, not the truth.
That you trust your company (e.g. Google, Visa, etc...) more with your private information that your gov't (e.g. people you vote for, fed, state, local).
And that it appears consumerism is more important than citizenship.
Crazy times...
Yeah, releases were very buggy. it used surplus (i.e. circa 2001) hardware. Only held a battery charge within 4hrs, bad ergonomics/style and s/w baseline that changed every week and couldn't have a decent phone call.
A decent phone call....come on, rock solid calling would have been a win in my book.
I hacked with the wifi drivers to get skype working as that+EDGE would have been livable (in 2007) and the distro didn't understand WPA much better. And Openmoko was manipulated by a corporation, which eventually drop the majority of its support.
Does the word, OpenMoko come to mind?
Sure, downrank me all you want F/OSS fanboys. But in the end, this is just larger Freerunner. And we know how that effort ended. I want to see something innovative from the community, not another attempt at a free copy/option.
(Former freerunner hacker that crashed and burned)
Note: the TFA is a statement of an ex-president of a network dept. of a european division of a gaming company.
Who declared him an authority on Android? (I'm sure he has a value opinion about gaming on Android, but the OS and market?)
With the video sped up 50x (or 30x)... not impressed.
Now this and this or this... which all are at normal speeds... much more impressive. And all have existed for at least a year...
I'm a believer of OSS, but the above gets a 'no new news here' tag in my book.
"if a Bat is a mammal and can fly can a squirrel"
If it's ever fed squirrels roasted peanuts in central park NYC, then the answer would be Yes.
If you want to promote your product that lacks a feature people are asking, well begging, for, then call that feature inferior. Typical marketing strategy.
Look, if you're a company that's spending lots of marketing cash and blog speak to bad mouth a technology, that's a waste your money unless you have a specific agenda. Palm didn't put down the Newton--it knew it was inferior and just let it run its course, which it did.
Apple isn't trying to prove Flash is bad, it is creating a perception that flash is bad since customers are demanding it and Apple technology wasn't designed for it. Period. Ya'll CS gurus 'know' flash is technically bad, but look at Windows XP, it's just as 'bad' and runs 90% of the computers out there (i.e. it does the job). It the tech works, yes we maybe screwed for a few year from perfection, but hey, that's what tech is all about.
"banishment" was coined since it was a pain to get to the annex and the facilities (back 10yrs ago) we crap. It's changed over the years AND a lot of stuff is done there now since the agency's outsourcing to Eagle Alliance--most of the IT/IA side is heading in that type of arrangement due to budget cuts.
;)
And a lot of important stuff was done there from time to time. And the real important stuff? Not at the Fort. That was done somewhere else. Though the fort does have the cool (at least to us techies), lower priority projects.
To the op, FYI, annex by acronym maynot be a good idea (when was your or friend's last LS)?
And we'll notice a increase of bandwidth during that day.