That bears out what I see when I'm in a city area, which isn't so often these days. Just using my iPhone 3GS sans tethering I'm averaging between 2-5 gigs a month. Last month, however, I had to do everything from the phone (including download of software updates, *and* the iOS 4 firmware)... from the iPhone:
I live (mostly) out in the country away from the madding WiFi crowd. Can you guess how much 3G guys like me are sucking up? It's not 500 meg. Try 20x that. And *not* tethering. At all:
Of *course* they're not 'testers'. Guys like *you* are the real testers, right? And of course the company always hires enough development, right? Beta testers should give your QA team data points to shore up your test cases and scripts in the plan, they ARE NOT substitute or 'free' QA.
'Beta-Testers' are for edge cases, data points and... wait for it.. 'real life'.. They are the frosting on the cake, not the cake.
Because 'real life' is where your baby is going to be USED and not TESTED. Testing = Practice. Testing != Real Life, unless you have a VERY good SQA Manager who understands the customer experience.
Yes I know that you're specifying 'best testing practices' but it's those 'practices' as well as excessive reliance on automation that have companies like MSFT consistently producing buggy POS software.
I'm in a beta program right now, on the 'other side' as a beta tester after a LONG TIME as a tester. Yeah, I remember the litany, 'please use in your everyday workflow on a 'non production' machine. Nobody has time for that, 'outside'. Just like they don't have time to RTFM, do real net sec, or 'conform to a test case. And they certainly don't have the resources to set aside a production machine for 'dedicated testing'.
If you don't have enough edge, negative, or fuzz cases or make your software resilient enough to perform in those worst case, but all to common scenarios, then your baby needs to stay in the lab.
Yeah, Apple pulls this from time to time. Design [esp in the 1st gen] takes a back seat to function. They did this in the first 'Titanium' 'Aluminum' and now 'Unibumper' MacBooks.
They always 'realize their mistake' and the 2nd and 3rd gen MacBook[Pros] improve.
Which is why I just picked up one of the previous gen MBPs for a rather steep discount. NO interest in Apple's betaware.
Way to throw a tantrum there, dude. If you go out on Amazon *now* they are clearing out the previous MacBook *Pros* for a couple hundred more than a *Book*.
I don't understand *why* everyone has to pounce on Apple's betaware. You *know* it will take them 6 months to iron out the bugs on this *new* design.
You *should* be pouncing on the bugfixed, one gen off, will run Snow Leopard anyway when it comes out; MacBook PROs. Lessee, with rebate, $1444? $1644 for top of the previous line? Think!!
Kudos, Larry. Someone with clue. Now that we're in the 00s.....
* Agreed, and duh, Apple is a hardware company. Always will be, unless some idiot flirts with legal clones again. Then we go back to the bad old days of 'is this company going to be around so that my machine is supported / will software companies keep making Mac software or do I have to run a windows box in case Apple folds?
* All the little fanboys are pretty much running OpenStep right now with new chrome. Who'da thunk?
If you REALLY wanna try running HackOSX on a Wind, and you're a hobbyist... well... go to town. I'm perfectly happy with my MacBook Pro
Since we're all 1776 today, at least in the States:
Perish the thought that a subject of the people would even conceive.. conceive! of the notion of doing what the nobility of this fine country do every day.
Clearly this young knave should be made an example of..
We cannot have popular discord while King George is off fighting the Crusades, someone call the Sheriff of Columbia and clap this young churl in irons.
And also the town crier so that the subjects can have a spectacle of it.
**
Seriously, I was also trying for a 'wrapping ourselves in the flag(again); metaphor but it just wouldn't come.
Um, I think you're a little loose on the timeline there.. Reagan was trying to END the cold war by economically breaking the Russians.
The Russians occupied Afghanistan, and the only faction with the 'fight' was the Mujahdeen. [some of whom became the Taliban].
So yes, unused weapons have a LONG shelf life, and yes, the Taliban undoubtedly retained what we sent over there [like Stinger missiles used to shoot down Russian Mil-Hind gunships].
If you really need a perspective on this, Adam Curtis's _The Power of Nightmares_ covers the rise of extremist Islam and the Neo-Cons quite nicely... You should be able to download the video series from Archive.org.
The last thing I have to say is that our [USA] politicians are in LOVE with the 'North African' strategy [from WW II] wherein if we take the fight 'over there' then they percieve, and maybe rightly so, that we won't have a fight 'over here'.
I'm not sure they want to sweat the minor details of personal liberties, censorship, or the economy. They're probably too busy for that.
Bearing in mind that Windoze scares 95% of the population, of *course* you need scary PR pieces like this from the hacks at the Washington Post.
We also need pieces like this to justify the 'security theater' that is the TSA [aka 'Thousands Standing Around'].. as well as the funding needed to train our shiny new USAF 'Cyberspace Force' that stands 'Over All'... *sigh*, well they had to do something with all those 'Missile Techs' now that they don't have any silos to man.
Why *wouldn't* AQ have all this stuff?
We pay $$$$$ to the house of sa'ud, some of that money makes it to Pakistan.
We outsource and train people in that region of the world and expose them to the best tech we have here. Why wouldn't *some* of them have a hobby?
The next thing the Washington Post fearmonkeys will tell us is they use PEX bittorrent, SSH, and twofish crypto.
And they embed marching orders in Flash and Postscript files.
[yawn]
Next!!
I was wondering whether Scalia really flipFlopped on this, because in 2005 he was mumbling much the same thing about Bush's removal of Habeas in the first place:
"Scalia wrote in his minority dissent in the case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that the President does not have the power to suspend habeas corpus by executive decree. Instead, he wrote: "If civil rights are to be curtailed during wartime, it must be done openly and democratically, as the Constitution requires..."
From this article here from 1-2005:
This isn't the rise of geekdom...
It's the rise of pseudo-geekdom. Actually, it's not 'pseudo' but 'neo'.
Neo-Conservatives aren't any more 'Conservative' than 'Neo-Geeks' are Geek.
Unless you like to watch G4TV and wear a lot of Jinx.
..and I like what I have: A jailbroken iPod Touch.
I can read texts in Japanese or English in either Books.app or TextReader.
Books.app does fine with most formats [html, pdb, etc]
TextReader is for those BIG unchaptered texts that I'm too lazy to reformat.
I have choice of any font or doc encoding that the iPod Touch, a mini MacOSX rig, supports.
The 16gig 'Touch is more than enough. Now just get me some non-DRM encumbered data....
Funny. Seeing as I just nuked my MyS account, and pretty much have abandoned Facebook due to all the beacon shizzle this is very apropo.
Pretty much MyS and FB have munged into what I call 'Sleaze API'.. I was getting tired of the constant deluge of 'Status' 'Bulletin' and of course Flash. Honestly I can't tell MyS from FB now.
Flash. The animated gif / midi sound of this age. If there's one thing that's making MyS and FB clunky, there it is.
I'm pretty much at the point where I don't want to 'interact' with FB / MyS or any other 'Spam push' site or technology.
I maintain that the iPhone, even with firmware 1.12 is an insecure buggy piece of crap running on ATT's FAIL [*burp* Edge] network [with a little 'n']. Most of you are probably better off just running 802.11G near a Starbucks, right? Then why put up with a mehRig? The perfect 'G' rig is the iPod Touch.
Vote with your pocketbook and get an iPod Touch anyway, and hack it. I recommend Costco and their 90 day warranty on electronics.
Don't upgrade to 1.13 until the jailbreakers break it. Me? I like having MobileScrobbler, iStumbler, and vt100 on my 'touch. It is a mehPod no more.
The simple point is this: Apple is doing a disservice to their users by intentionally hobbling these rigs. I'm sure Steve will have some 'announcement' at MacWorld about real apps, I'm also sure that I will be as underwhelmed as current iPhone owners are with their unhacked rigs.
I'll echo the other user's sentiments that once hacked, the 'touch is one of the most useful mobile devices I have -ever- owned. The second coming of the Newton done right. And not even done by the Gnomes of Cupertino.
In the end, Apple will just be Apple, and miss an opportunity to absolutely CRUSH the competition. But no, I expect another round of mehPods and mehPhones.
some people hired chinese poor people = The Yakuza.
There's a BIG STORY here that's being avoided. Kind of like those Chinese folks avoiding the press on their way to the back alleys to drop off the PS3s with their bosses.
This wasn't a console launch, this was money laundering on a grand scale with Sony getting a fake launch, and the Yakuza getting to wash 100s of 1000s of yen. So, to Slashdot recap:
* Sony contrives a launch at Bic Camera with a buggy POS console that has been 'pre-discounted'. There's no organization, the police are nowhere to be seen until after the incident, and all the Bic staff can say is 'Please don't push' in Japaneeze even tho' they have Chinese staff. Chaos reigns. Pushing and shoving? Sounds like Chinese & Japanese chimpira [punks]. Employed by you know who.
* The Yakuza and other small time 'Mizu Shobai' operators with excess cash hire a bunch of foreigners to wait in line and buy PS3s for about $180 a head in addition to the price of the unit. 'Hardware only' and meeting 'their bosses' in the alley down from Bic Camera. I bet these bosses have punch perms and loud shirts. And gold chains. And trill their 'r's.
* PS3 is commoditized on Yahoo.jp auctions with a 200% or ungodly more markup. Profit, profit, profit all around. In Japan's 'Keiki warui' economy today, only the politicians and the yakuza have money to throw around enough to make a game console a commodity. And make it they did.
In short, PROFIT. Big winners? The Yakuza, the Mizu Shobai [the sex trade in Japan]; who get to convert their dirty money into legit funds [and profit!], oh, and the politicians that will get bribed next quarter.
Slashdot Mirror
That bears out what I see when I'm in a city area, which isn't so often these days. Just using my iPhone 3GS sans tethering I'm averaging between 2-5 gigs a month. Last month, however, I had to do everything from the phone (including download of software updates, *and* the iOS 4 firmware)... from the iPhone:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leoofborg/4814198808/
Filer.app (formerly Downloader) & 'Downloads.app' are your friend(s).
THANK YOU. I knew that I smelled bullshit.
I live (mostly) out in the country away from the madding WiFi crowd. Can you guess how much 3G guys like me are sucking up? It's not 500 meg. Try 20x that. And *not* tethering. At all:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leoofborg/4814198808/
Lies, damn statistics and all that.
Of *course* they're not 'testers'. Guys like *you* are the real testers, right? And of course the company always hires enough development, right? Beta testers should give your QA team data points to shore up your test cases and scripts in the plan, they ARE NOT substitute or 'free' QA.
'Beta-Testers' are for edge cases, data points and ... wait for it.. 'real life'.. They are the frosting on the cake, not the cake.
Because 'real life' is where your baby is going to be USED and not TESTED. Testing = Practice. Testing != Real Life, unless you have a VERY good SQA Manager who understands the customer experience.
Yes I know that you're specifying 'best testing practices' but it's those 'practices' as well as excessive reliance on automation that have companies like MSFT consistently producing buggy POS software.
I'm in a beta program right now, on the 'other side' as a beta tester after a LONG TIME as a tester. Yeah, I remember the litany, 'please use in your everyday workflow on a 'non production' machine. Nobody has time for that, 'outside'. Just like they don't have time to RTFM, do real net sec, or 'conform to a test case. And they certainly don't have the resources to set aside a production machine for 'dedicated testing'.
If you don't have enough edge, negative, or fuzz cases or make your software resilient enough to perform in those worst case, but all to common scenarios, then your baby needs to stay in the lab.
Opt-in spammers collecting from no-opt spammers. Kind of like that whole programs hacking programs thing from the Matrix.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Also, the CBC [Canadians] are running sensationalist crud on their TV.
Most irritating soundbite from a DHS 'expert':
"Digital Pearl Harbor"
I think they must have run the same quote 3-4 times.
Me? I think the military / DoD is begging for $$$ as usual. What? We didn't bail out the military? Shame!
Yeah, but be fair. MacBookies are for students; students will have access to 'second hand' 'older gen' 'more dependable' video tech.
The next time you go rent equipment for a shoot, what will you go for? Dependable/compatible Firewire/DV or..?
The MacBook{not Pro} is not a 'Pro' or 'Semi-Pro' field machine. It is [now] strictly consumer, and that is the message Apple is sending.
If you wanna go with the big boys, either do research and get the previous MacBookie or get the Pro.
Yeah, Apple pulls this from time to time. Design [esp in the 1st gen] takes a back seat to function. They did this in the first 'Titanium' 'Aluminum' and now 'Unibumper' MacBooks.
They always 'realize their mistake' and the 2nd and 3rd gen MacBook[Pros] improve.
Which is why I just picked up one of the previous gen MBPs for a rather steep discount. NO interest in Apple's betaware.
...which it's probably doing to all those student slash independent filmakers out there.
E tu Canon GL Mini DV cam?
Way to throw a tantrum there, dude. If you go out on Amazon *now* they are clearing out the previous MacBook *Pros* for a couple hundred more than a *Book*.
I don't understand *why* everyone has to pounce on Apple's betaware. You *know* it will take them 6 months to iron out the bugs on this *new* design.
You *should* be pouncing on the bugfixed, one gen off, will run Snow Leopard anyway when it comes out; MacBook PROs. Lessee, with rebate, $1444? $1644 for top of the previous line? Think!!
Kudos, Larry. Someone with clue. Now that we're in the 00s.....
* Agreed, and duh, Apple is a hardware company. Always will be, unless some idiot flirts with legal clones again. Then we go back to the bad old days of 'is this company going to be around so that my machine is supported / will software companies keep making Mac software or do I have to run a windows box in case Apple folds?
* All the little fanboys are pretty much running OpenStep right now with new chrome. Who'da thunk?
If you REALLY wanna try running HackOSX on a Wind, and you're a hobbyist... well... go to town. I'm perfectly happy with my MacBook Pro
So who will be the first to print up and sell t-shirts to support Terry Childs?
Perhaps they can also print the SF VPN usernames and passwords on the back.
Design suggestions welcome.
I know what you're thinking of: the Perl camel. Same deal, you need a mascot.
Easy one: Make the mascot a horse's ass or a jackass.
McCain did worse. He *abstained*.
Do we really want chicken little in the white haus?
And here I was leaning to Obama.. I guess I'll be writing in on the Freak ticket come November.
Since we're all 1776 today, at least in the States:
Perish the thought that a subject of the people would even conceive.. conceive! of the notion of doing what the nobility of this fine country do every day.
Clearly this young knave should be made an example of..
We cannot have popular discord while King George is off fighting the Crusades, someone call the Sheriff of Columbia and clap this young churl in irons.
And also the town crier so that the subjects can have a spectacle of it.
**
Seriously, I was also trying for a 'wrapping ourselves in the flag(again); metaphor but it just wouldn't come.
Um, I think you're a little loose on the timeline there.. Reagan was trying to END the cold war by economically breaking the Russians.
The Russians occupied Afghanistan, and the only faction with the 'fight' was the Mujahdeen. [some of whom became the Taliban].
So yes, unused weapons have a LONG shelf life, and yes, the Taliban undoubtedly retained what we sent over there [like Stinger missiles used to shoot down Russian Mil-Hind gunships].
If you really need a perspective on this, Adam Curtis's _The Power of Nightmares_ covers the rise of extremist Islam and the Neo-Cons quite nicely... You should be able to download the video series from Archive.org.
The last thing I have to say is that our [USA] politicians are in LOVE with the 'North African' strategy [from WW II] wherein if we take the fight 'over there' then they percieve, and maybe rightly so, that we won't have a fight 'over here'.
I'm not sure they want to sweat the minor details of personal liberties, censorship, or the economy. They're probably too busy for that.
1980: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
2000: The enemy of my enemy of my enemy is... my enemy.
Politicians should take up, like, basically Boolean logic, y'know?
Oh noes. Now we know where all those OLPCs went.
MeshNet in the mountains of Pakistan.
That's 9-11 times ten times ten times ten.
Let's round up Negroponte as a 'person of interest' and hold him without cause for 6 years, shall we?
Sorry Nicolas....
[smirk tags=on]
Bearing in mind that Windoze scares 95% of the population, of *course* you need scary PR pieces like this from the hacks at the Washington Post.
We also need pieces like this to justify the 'security theater' that is the TSA [aka 'Thousands Standing Around'].. as well as the funding needed to train our shiny new USAF 'Cyberspace Force' that stands 'Over All'... *sigh*, well they had to do something with all those 'Missile Techs' now that they don't have any silos to man.
That's it. Teach'em DOS and VISTA.
Oh. One more thing. Make the TSA's job easy.
Fly naked.
Eat beans.
Why *wouldn't* AQ have all this stuff? We pay $$$$$ to the house of sa'ud, some of that money makes it to Pakistan. We outsource and train people in that region of the world and expose them to the best tech we have here. Why wouldn't *some* of them have a hobby? The next thing the Washington Post fearmonkeys will tell us is they use PEX bittorrent, SSH, and twofish crypto. And they embed marching orders in Flash and Postscript files. [yawn] Next!!
... that the ruling was *too hasty* and hence was a distortion of the constitution.. not 'open and democratic' enough for his taste.
Of course, this is the same Scalia who thinks that waterboarding is not torture.
Alas, Scalia is a fuckwit.
-Leo [less posting at 4am sans coffeh]
"Scalia wrote in his minority dissent in the case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that the President does not have the power to suspend habeas corpus by executive decree. Instead, he wrote: "If civil rights are to be curtailed during wartime, it must be done openly and democratically, as the Constitution requires..."
From this article here from 1-2005:
First They Came For The Terrorists...
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0110-33.htm
-Leo
..and I like what I have: A jailbroken iPod Touch. I can read texts in Japanese or English in either Books.app or TextReader. Books.app does fine with most formats [html, pdb, etc] TextReader is for those BIG unchaptered texts that I'm too lazy to reformat. I have choice of any font or doc encoding that the iPod Touch, a mini MacOSX rig, supports. The 16gig 'Touch is more than enough. Now just get me some non-DRM encumbered data....
Funny. Seeing as I just nuked my MyS account, and pretty much have abandoned Facebook due to all the beacon shizzle this is very apropo.
Pretty much MyS and FB have munged into what I call 'Sleaze API'.. I was getting tired of the constant deluge of 'Status' 'Bulletin' and of course Flash. Honestly I can't tell MyS from FB now.
Flash. The animated gif / midi sound of this age. If there's one thing that's making MyS and FB clunky, there it is.
I'm pretty much at the point where I don't want to 'interact' with FB / MyS or any other 'Spam push' site or technology.
I maintain that the iPhone, even with firmware 1.12 is an insecure buggy piece of crap running on ATT's FAIL [*burp* Edge] network [with a little 'n']. Most of you are probably better off just running 802.11G near a Starbucks, right? Then why put up with a mehRig? The perfect 'G' rig is the iPod Touch. Vote with your pocketbook and get an iPod Touch anyway, and hack it. I recommend Costco and their 90 day warranty on electronics. Don't upgrade to 1.13 until the jailbreakers break it. Me? I like having MobileScrobbler, iStumbler, and vt100 on my 'touch. It is a mehPod no more. The simple point is this: Apple is doing a disservice to their users by intentionally hobbling these rigs. I'm sure Steve will have some 'announcement' at MacWorld about real apps, I'm also sure that I will be as underwhelmed as current iPhone owners are with their unhacked rigs. I'll echo the other user's sentiments that once hacked, the 'touch is one of the most useful mobile devices I have -ever- owned. The second coming of the Newton done right. And not even done by the Gnomes of Cupertino. In the end, Apple will just be Apple, and miss an opportunity to absolutely CRUSH the competition. But no, I expect another round of mehPods and mehPhones.
some people hired chinese poor people = The Yakuza.
There's a BIG STORY here that's being avoided. Kind of like those Chinese folks avoiding the press on their way to the back alleys to drop off the PS3s with their bosses.
This wasn't a console launch, this was money laundering on a grand scale with Sony getting a fake launch, and the Yakuza getting to wash 100s of 1000s of yen. So, to Slashdot recap:
* Sony contrives a launch at Bic Camera with a buggy POS console that has been 'pre-discounted'. There's no organization, the police are nowhere to be seen until after the incident, and all the Bic staff can say is 'Please don't push' in Japaneeze even tho' they have Chinese staff. Chaos reigns. Pushing and shoving? Sounds like Chinese & Japanese chimpira [punks]. Employed by you know who.
* The Yakuza and other small time 'Mizu Shobai' operators with excess cash hire a bunch of foreigners to wait in line and buy PS3s for about $180 a head in addition to the price of the unit. 'Hardware only' and meeting 'their bosses' in the alley down from Bic Camera. I bet these bosses have punch perms and loud shirts. And gold chains. And trill their 'r's.
* PS3 is commoditized on Yahoo.jp auctions with a 200% or ungodly more markup. Profit, profit, profit all around. In Japan's 'Keiki warui' economy today, only the politicians and the yakuza have money to throw around enough to make a game console a commodity. And make it they did.
In short, PROFIT. Big winners? The Yakuza, the Mizu Shobai [the sex trade in Japan]; who get to convert their dirty money into legit funds [and profit!], oh, and the politicians that will get bribed next quarter.