Apple and Andorid are reinventing the way we look at software, "Apps" to be specific. Who knows where it will really take us - sure desktop software is a different ballgame than mobile, but what are people using more of? Our main "Software" of use has been the web browser as of late (For a majority of people) as well as word processors. Beyond those, what percentage of people use 2-3 other desktop applications?
How many mobile apps do they use?
As someone that writes mobile apps, the process is frustrating. We are seeing a mass dumbing down of the already dumb consumer. Everyone now expects all software to cost $0.99 - be feature packed, and work flawlessly. As anyone that develops software knows, "pick two of those."
'unauthorized usage' means a lot of things. It *could* mean jailbroken, but - to those with a brain - it means the ability to remote wipe your phone, find it if it is stolen, etc. Remote wipe is crucial on the enterprise. While I question the validity of the patent (how long has RIM had remote wipe?), the actions are valid. Jailbreaking is legal, there is nothing Apple can do to that, so get over it.
Free market works great without all the information as well, it is not a requirement for participation or for even the free market to work well - you simply don't do business with them if you don't have all the information or aren't comfortable with the transaction. *THAT* is the free market solution.
There is no need to create "political" action in the case of EULAs, Google, etc - you simply don't use their service - seeing as they "play games" with their terms as you describe it as.
Apple is on a yearly release cycle (For both the major SDK and hardware) - while Android has new devices released every month, hell even more than that - and a SDK that is constantly evolving (Good or bad)
The next year will be the "year of android" but Apple needs to tee up a home run next year (Unless there are unannounced features for the 4th generation iPhone).
Hopefully the iPhone will see some sort of "Services" architecture like Android's SDK - as a developer that is the real "Multitasking" that needs to take place.
How could anyone settle for only $65mil? God I don't think I'd be able to live with that small sum of cash.
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Is for management to have a bunch of meetings and tell everyone what to do! It has worked so well so far.
But seriously, the issue is too much of MGMT sees "design" as a cost variable that can be slashed and money saved. Why waste time "designing" when you can save money doing!
Then again, anyone that knows a good thought out design will save dividends in the long run. But hey, what do us code monkeys know. It is rarely taught in school and if you are lucky enough to work with someone that understands the design process - you will benefit immensely.
Please, how many kids go to school to get a "well rounded education" - it is a nice argument but lets be honest. People go to college because it is the next step and it is required to get a "Professional" job. I can barely recount the actual classes I took that were outside my major, so very well rounded.
Going thousands of dollars into debt so you can have a "well rounded education" is a farce.
It still drives me up the wall how much cash I blew for my undergraduate CS degree. Looking at what I "learned" from my classes and what I taught myself in that period of time, I would have been much better off to have saved the $80K I spent on schooling and self taught. Professors even mocked me for the C# books I was reading when it was still in beta, years later *THAT* pays my bills, in dividends. (We can discuss how bad of a language it is in another thread, just the fact the professors couldn't see through the trees).
While college was a great experience, it is far from something everyone should go to. The fact that many businesses require degrees anymore is just plain stupid.
So far tablets have been "meh" - they have been around for almost a decade now and have gained no traction.
Then Apple comes along and sells a million in a month without even trying. Is it a "power" device - No, it isn't. But, it fits a niche. It sent HP and Microsofts attempts at reinventing the tablet into a tailspin and caused them to be scrapped.
But what niche will the iPad fill? I have one and love it, for a few reasons - but I see it more of a device for my grandparents. They have no real need for a computer and its power. They want to send email, check pictures, and that is about it. Why should the spend $70 a month on Cable Internet when they can spend $15 on 3G for the iPad?
The iPad and the Ink have potiental to become great thin clients as well. Years ago I was looking at the Tough Book "Notepad" thin clients, they were $2000+ EACH and were nothing more than a Citrix client.
We shall see. The tablet market has been reinvented. It will be interesting to see what Android vaporware will come out, I'll love to grab one when it finally does.
Actually it is two fold. They are making the states implement it, but the money they steal from the citizens in the form on national taxes are being used to blackmail the states into implementing the ID. So if the states don't go along with their fascist idea of a national ID, the fed keeps the money and spends it in other states. Thus, your freedom is being sold off for your own taxes.
but i do constantly develop outside of work. Work projects are absolutely BORING, doing things on my own engages my brain, allows me to learn new things, and allows me to create things i like.
I could read books, but I enjoy the architecting a solution to a problem more
I am shocked and appalled that a politician is doing whatever they want, acting like they are better than the proletariat, and taking what they desire. This is America damn it! This is like fighting in the war room!
When I am writing something personal, I always end up over analyzing everything I write. I sit, rewrite, write it again, delete it all write again and it just seems to never end so it sounds "perfect."
At least for my personal life I like face to face because I am forced to be more "genuine" and say what pops into my head.
That is the only thing that bothers me of "home life" entering into work life. Leave your damn children at home. Other than that, we all bring our personal lives to work, work takes up so much of our lives it is bound to happen.
Corn prices are fucking OUT of control. They were ~$2/bushel, but they have gone up a dollar or more since the bush admin enacted the fucking ethanol mandates. Ethanol is highly inefficient when mixed with gas, so you lose efficiency in your MPG, so that causes you to buy more fuel, so it is a nasty little cycle.
My great uncle is a corn farmer, he is salivating at the lips at the prospect the gov't is going to build all of these ethanol plants, a nice payday for him off our backs if it goes through. That is all it is, a payday, it isn't worrying about the environment. Sugar ethanol is much more efficient, 4x much so I believe. We aren't using that because we have subsidies and trade protections for the sugar farmers. HA!
Does it really matter? If there is a life on earth ending event occurring from some asteroid they COULD find, does it matter at all? There is nothing we can do about it anyway. So tell me, what is the big deal.
I'd like to know where in the bill of rights there is a qualifier that says you must be above a certain age to have your god given rights given to you. Yes, they may be under age but they still have every damned right that adults have. This is just the govt's way of creating submissive idiots that don't understand their rights. "We never were able to say what we wanted" will continue into adult hood. Much like how recent high school graduates thought the 1st amendment gave "too much freedom"
Public schooling has created a nation of "do what my gov't says" lemmings.
They fought MP3's for years, they finally "gave in" and implemented restrictive DRM, now they finally may remove it because they think it will "help" sell their product.
Good job fucksticks, if you would have embraced the technology 8 years ago you would possibly have much much better sales right now. You'd think the record industry would learn from past mistakes but no, the same morons keep making the same decisions.
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My favorite is, developer writes the install instructions.
Works great in dev. test. uat. production staging.
Doesn't work in production, because something is configured differently.
Of course, it is the developers fault to not account for it!
Automobiles are 508 compliant!
Next question.
Apple and Andorid are reinventing the way we look at software, "Apps" to be specific. Who knows where it will really take us - sure desktop software is a different ballgame than mobile, but what are people using more of? Our main "Software" of use has been the web browser as of late (For a majority of people) as well as word processors. Beyond those, what percentage of people use 2-3 other desktop applications?
How many mobile apps do they use?
As someone that writes mobile apps, the process is frustrating. We are seeing a mass dumbing down of the already dumb consumer. Everyone now expects all software to cost $0.99 - be feature packed, and work flawlessly. As anyone that develops software knows, "pick two of those."
'unauthorized usage' means a lot of things. It *could* mean jailbroken, but - to those with a brain - it means the ability to remote wipe your phone, find it if it is stolen, etc. Remote wipe is crucial on the enterprise. While I question the validity of the patent (how long has RIM had remote wipe?), the actions are valid. Jailbreaking is legal, there is nothing Apple can do to that, so get over it.
Free market works great without all the information as well, it is not a requirement for participation or for even the free market to work well - you simply don't do business with them if you don't have all the information or aren't comfortable with the transaction. *THAT* is the free market solution.
There is no need to create "political" action in the case of EULAs, Google, etc - you simply don't use their service - seeing as they "play games" with their terms as you describe it as.
Apple is on a yearly release cycle (For both the major SDK and hardware) - while Android has new devices released every month, hell even more than that - and a SDK that is constantly evolving (Good or bad)
The next year will be the "year of android" but Apple needs to tee up a home run next year (Unless there are unannounced features for the 4th generation iPhone).
Hopefully the iPhone will see some sort of "Services" architecture like Android's SDK - as a developer that is the real "Multitasking" that needs to take place.
How could anyone settle for only $65mil? God I don't think I'd be able to live with that small sum of cash.
Is for management to have a bunch of meetings and tell everyone what to do! It has worked so well so far.
But seriously, the issue is too much of MGMT sees "design" as a cost variable that can be slashed and money saved. Why waste time "designing" when you can save money doing!
Then again, anyone that knows a good thought out design will save dividends in the long run. But hey, what do us code monkeys know. It is rarely taught in school and if you are lucky enough to work with someone that understands the design process - you will benefit immensely.
Perhaps you should read the title of the post "Re:Democracy needs smart people"
Please, how many kids go to school to get a "well rounded education" - it is a nice argument but lets be honest. People go to college because it is the next step and it is required to get a "Professional" job. I can barely recount the actual classes I took that were outside my major, so very well rounded.
Going thousands of dollars into debt so you can have a "well rounded education" is a farce.
Going to college doesn't make one smart.
It still drives me up the wall how much cash I blew for my undergraduate CS degree. Looking at what I "learned" from my classes and what I taught myself in that period of time, I would have been much better off to have saved the $80K I spent on schooling and self taught. Professors even mocked me for the C# books I was reading when it was still in beta, years later *THAT* pays my bills, in dividends. (We can discuss how bad of a language it is in another thread, just the fact the professors couldn't see through the trees).
While college was a great experience, it is far from something everyone should go to. The fact that many businesses require degrees anymore is just plain stupid.
So far tablets have been "meh" - they have been around for almost a decade now and have gained no traction. Then Apple comes along and sells a million in a month without even trying. Is it a "power" device - No, it isn't. But, it fits a niche. It sent HP and Microsofts attempts at reinventing the tablet into a tailspin and caused them to be scrapped. But what niche will the iPad fill? I have one and love it, for a few reasons - but I see it more of a device for my grandparents. They have no real need for a computer and its power. They want to send email, check pictures, and that is about it. Why should the spend $70 a month on Cable Internet when they can spend $15 on 3G for the iPad? The iPad and the Ink have potiental to become great thin clients as well. Years ago I was looking at the Tough Book "Notepad" thin clients, they were $2000+ EACH and were nothing more than a Citrix client. We shall see. The tablet market has been reinvented. It will be interesting to see what Android vaporware will come out, I'll love to grab one when it finally does.
Actually it is two fold. They are making the states implement it, but the money they steal from the citizens in the form on national taxes are being used to blackmail the states into implementing the ID. So if the states don't go along with their fascist idea of a national ID, the fed keeps the money and spends it in other states. Thus, your freedom is being sold off for your own taxes.
God bless the government and legalized blackmail
but i do constantly develop outside of work. Work projects are absolutely BORING, doing things on my own engages my brain, allows me to learn new things, and allows me to create things i like.
I could read books, but I enjoy the architecting a solution to a problem more
If you are going to vote for either of those two, you don't really know what being a conservative is. Period.
I am shocked and appalled that a politician is doing whatever they want, acting like they are better than the proletariat, and taking what they desire. This is America damn it! This is like fighting in the war room!
Why not plant some real fucking trees and make a difference instead of this "feel good" marketing shit.
YOu are silly to think the police are under any obligation to protect you.
When I am writing something personal, I always end up over analyzing everything I write. I sit, rewrite, write it again, delete it all write again and it just seems to never end so it sounds "perfect."
At least for my personal life I like face to face because I am forced to be more "genuine" and say what pops into my head.
That is the only thing that bothers me of "home life" entering into work life. Leave your damn children at home. Other than that, we all bring our personal lives to work, work takes up so much of our lives it is bound to happen.
Corn prices are fucking OUT of control. They were ~$2/bushel, but they have gone up a dollar or more since the bush admin enacted the fucking ethanol mandates. Ethanol is highly inefficient when mixed with gas, so you lose efficiency in your MPG, so that causes you to buy more fuel, so it is a nasty little cycle.
My great uncle is a corn farmer, he is salivating at the lips at the prospect the gov't is going to build all of these ethanol plants, a nice payday for him off our backs if it goes through. That is all it is, a payday, it isn't worrying about the environment. Sugar ethanol is much more efficient, 4x much so I believe. We aren't using that because we have subsidies and trade protections for the sugar farmers. HA!
Does it really matter? If there is a life on earth ending event occurring from some asteroid they COULD find, does it matter at all? There is nothing we can do about it anyway. So tell me, what is the big deal.
I'd like to know where in the bill of rights there is a qualifier that says you must be above a certain age to have your god given rights given to you. Yes, they may be under age but they still have every damned right that adults have. This is just the govt's way of creating submissive idiots that don't understand their rights. "We never were able to say what we wanted" will continue into adult hood. Much like how recent high school graduates thought the 1st amendment gave "too much freedom"
Public schooling has created a nation of "do what my gov't says" lemmings.
They fought MP3's for years, they finally "gave in" and implemented restrictive DRM, now they finally may remove it because they think it will "help" sell their product.
Good job fucksticks, if you would have embraced the technology 8 years ago you would possibly have much much better sales right now. You'd think the record industry would learn from past mistakes but no, the same morons keep making the same decisions.