Learn from pre-existing walled gardens and failed projects like Microsoft Passport - let someone else figure out the nitty-gritty of p2p social networking/mashup before working on federation. If you have something better, more open, more relevant, more accessible, then pony up. Google + normal websites just isn't cutting it any more, and hasn't for a while. People don't want to use the Internet to make websites, they want to use it to communicate. You come up with something better than facebook, easier to use, homogenous (to a point), and lets people network with the other 1.2 billion other people on the 'Net.
We all have to remember that China is probably the last remaining "empire" - until very recently (historically), they've been nothing but a feudal civilization, dominated by emperors from afar. It's going to take a generation or two to evolve to something like what Hong Kong enjoyed under British colonial rule.
Okay, you know what, I was once the torch-bearer of Anti-App-Store curmudgeons.
But that ended yesterday - I had a need to replace a $1000 barcode reader/verifier that was destroyed in a flood, downloaded "Code Reader" from the App Store in 45s and had a replacement scanner that does UPC verification in seconds. It's fucking amazing.
Show me where you've been denied or restricted. A $99 license to the store is a smaller price to pay than most embedded platforms have ever enjoyed.
The bigger issue is the restriction to the Mac platform.
$13/mon will get you approximately 15 days of CPU time from AWS. I don't get how they come up with these numbers? And that's not even including bandwidth. Granted, it probably doesn't require a lot of bandwidth to run a tracker or two, but I can't see these numbers being correct - there has to be zero or two missing.
My ideal device is an iPod touch like device that I can use on the go, and fit in my pocket. Then when I need to go data collecting, or need more road-power, I dock it into a tablet or laptop and transfer my apps seamlessly. Then when I get back to the home office, I plug it into my desktop, and get those same apps, seamlessly, without ever having to migrate data.
That's my ideal device.
It's not impossible - it may be impractical - but that's what I want. I'm sick of dealing with all of my computers being different builds of my perfect working environment, with my data scattered all over hell and gone.
Which is why I don't like push-button ignition. If my car ever goes into hyperdrive because of a stuck throttle, I take comfort in knowing I still have a kill switch, and I grew up driving tractors and cars without power steering or power-assist braking, so I can cope.
How can I trust that that push-button ignition will still shut off the car? I know it's conceivable that even a key-start ignition might turn all ignition control over to an ECM, but who's done that?
As an aside and off-topic, when exactly did K5 stop being a living breathing organism? It used to be in my top 3 visit-in-the-morning at all costs sites, but then around '06 it stopped. Slashdot is still the only site I visit nearly every day I'm at a computer, and has been since I signed up.
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around this argument. In one sense, I get the "impoverish yourself" bit, because in some cases, Open Source really can be better. But at the same time, you're not obligated to accept or use my gift, you can regift it or throw it away, but I have not fundamentally altered your ability to do or buy what you want, nor have you LOST anything. That seems highly at odds with a dictatorship.
Remember that you can always turn a sword into a plow and vice versa. So has said father really harmed his sons, or dictated their lives?? Hell they can even trade if one would rather be a warrior than a farmer. Horrible analogy.
Not to disillusion you, but thanks to Bush & Co, the phone company still has a relative monopoly in America. Either we've achieved complete saturation of the market at $100/m unlimited mobile service and $50/m unlimited long-distance, or there's massive collusion going on, because the Big-4 are pretty much spot on in terms of price and service parity.
I had four wisdom teeth and molars taken out in two separate instances.
The first instance took 15 minutes for both, not counting time spent numbing up my gums. 40 minutes from sitting in chair to leaving. It was so painless, that I scheduled the second set to get removed three days before a trip to Hawaii.
The first tooth came out in 30 seconds, the second tooth took 45 minutes and was the most excruciatingly painful experience of my life. They finally had to crack the tooth into about 10 pieces to take it out and did a nasty job on my jaw. I still have pieces of the tooth in my gums three years later. That tooth got infected, and the whole first week of my trip to Hawaii I was sucking down antibiotics, painkillers and anbesol just so I could eat soft food.
So teeth - yeah, you really can't say experience wise what you're going to get. I had three painless extractions and one motherfucker of a tooth that just didn't want to die and let me know it for three whole weeks.
I've tried a lot of smartphones available in the US today. While many are good, and many do things very well (the BlackBerry is king of email, IMHO), almost none compete with the simplicity, the ease of use, the consistency and reliability (software) and featureset of the iPhone. The Droid is close, damn close, but it's not there yet.
Which is odd, because Asurion (they've changed names now, I think) only replaces phones with the identical model. I know, after going through 7 Treo 700Ps I tried to get an upgrade to a blackberry. They won't, they'll just keep giving me refurbished 700Ps.
So I don't get why someone with a 3G will get a 3GS. Makes no sense that the insurance carrier would allow that.
Once a program loads into protected mode, any features offer by your BIOS are pretty much gone - the Kernel is in control. You can't count on anything - I routinely turn my click repeat rate way up.
How FAT is he, really? I'm pushing 400 pounds and I can fit in a Southwest seat without impinging on my neighbors. It's uncomfortable for my prodigous love handles, I suppose, but I manage.
Jumping out of a plane pretty much is the only way of knowing if a chute is packed correctly and OK. You can check and visually inspect, but you can never be 100% certain.
Slashdot Mirror
Learn from pre-existing walled gardens and failed projects like Microsoft Passport - let someone else figure out the nitty-gritty of p2p social networking/mashup before working on federation. If you have something better, more open, more relevant, more accessible, then pony up. Google + normal websites just isn't cutting it any more, and hasn't for a while. People don't want to use the Internet to make websites, they want to use it to communicate. You come up with something better than facebook, easier to use, homogenous (to a point), and lets people network with the other 1.2 billion other people on the 'Net.
We all have to remember that China is probably the last remaining "empire" - until very recently (historically), they've been nothing but a feudal civilization, dominated by emperors from afar. It's going to take a generation or two to evolve to something like what Hong Kong enjoyed under British colonial rule.
Okay, you know what, I was once the torch-bearer of Anti-App-Store curmudgeons.
But that ended yesterday - I had a need to replace a $1000 barcode reader/verifier that was destroyed in a flood, downloaded "Code Reader" from the App Store in 45s and had a replacement scanner that does UPC verification in seconds. It's fucking amazing.
Show me where you've been denied or restricted. A $99 license to the store is a smaller price to pay than most embedded platforms have ever enjoyed.
The bigger issue is the restriction to the Mac platform.
and the rest are members of HOA boards.
Oh. My. Gawd.
Turn the fucking car off. Hit the parking brake. Jam the brake pedal through the floor. Don't call your fucking husband.
$13/mon will get you approximately 15 days of CPU time from AWS. I don't get how they come up with these numbers? And that's not even including bandwidth. Granted, it probably doesn't require a lot of bandwidth to run a tracker or two, but I can't see these numbers being correct - there has to be zero or two missing.
That's what makes the iPad a non-starter for me. No pen input.
My ideal device is an iPod touch like device that I can use on the go, and fit in my pocket. Then when I need to go data collecting, or need more road-power, I dock it into a tablet or laptop and transfer my apps seamlessly. Then when I get back to the home office, I plug it into my desktop, and get those same apps, seamlessly, without ever having to migrate data.
That's my ideal device.
It's not impossible - it may be impractical - but that's what I want. I'm sick of dealing with all of my computers being different builds of my perfect working environment, with my data scattered all over hell and gone.
Actually, she probably would have told you to piss off, her feet hurt, and she wasn't moving.
How can there be an I495 in New York, and also an I495 in Massachusetts?
Which is why I don't like push-button ignition. If my car ever goes into hyperdrive because of a stuck throttle, I take comfort in knowing I still have a kill switch, and I grew up driving tractors and cars without power steering or power-assist braking, so I can cope.
How can I trust that that push-button ignition will still shut off the car? I know it's conceivable that even a key-start ignition might turn all ignition control over to an ECM, but who's done that?
As an aside and off-topic, when exactly did K5 stop being a living breathing organism? It used to be in my top 3 visit-in-the-morning at all costs sites, but then around '06 it stopped. Slashdot is still the only site I visit nearly every day I'm at a computer, and has been since I signed up.
And this is mostly because the mega software companies, for the most part, are based in the United States. Hence the protectionism.
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around this argument. In one sense, I get the "impoverish yourself" bit, because in some cases, Open Source really can be better. But at the same time, you're not obligated to accept or use my gift, you can regift it or throw it away, but I have not fundamentally altered your ability to do or buy what you want, nor have you LOST anything. That seems highly at odds with a dictatorship.
Remember that you can always turn a sword into a plow and vice versa. So has said father really harmed his sons, or dictated their lives?? Hell they can even trade if one would rather be a warrior than a farmer. Horrible analogy.
Not to disillusion you, but thanks to Bush & Co, the phone company still has a relative monopoly in America. Either we've achieved complete saturation of the market at $100/m unlimited mobile service and $50/m unlimited long-distance, or there's massive collusion going on, because the Big-4 are pretty much spot on in terms of price and service parity.
I had four wisdom teeth and molars taken out in two separate instances.
The first instance took 15 minutes for both, not counting time spent numbing up my gums. 40 minutes from sitting in chair to leaving. It was so painless, that I scheduled the second set to get removed three days before a trip to Hawaii.
The first tooth came out in 30 seconds, the second tooth took 45 minutes and was the most excruciatingly painful experience of my life. They finally had to crack the tooth into about 10 pieces to take it out and did a nasty job on my jaw. I still have pieces of the tooth in my gums three years later. That tooth got infected, and the whole first week of my trip to Hawaii I was sucking down antibiotics, painkillers and anbesol just so I could eat soft food.
So teeth - yeah, you really can't say experience wise what you're going to get. I had three painless extractions and one motherfucker of a tooth that just didn't want to die and let me know it for three whole weeks.
Same dentist by the way (US).
I've tried a lot of smartphones available in the US today. While many are good, and many do things very well (the BlackBerry is king of email, IMHO), almost none compete with the simplicity, the ease of use, the consistency and reliability (software) and featureset of the iPhone. The Droid is close, damn close, but it's not there yet.
Which is odd, because Asurion (they've changed names now, I think) only replaces phones with the identical model. I know, after going through 7 Treo 700Ps I tried to get an upgrade to a blackberry. They won't, they'll just keep giving me refurbished 700Ps.
So I don't get why someone with a 3G will get a 3GS. Makes no sense that the insurance carrier would allow that.
My favorite was the guy who put his laptop on top of his car and drove away... sigh.
Once a program loads into protected mode, any features offer by your BIOS are pretty much gone - the Kernel is in control. You can't count on anything - I routinely turn my click repeat rate way up.
And turn that around and say that if there was a site only usable in Safari, you'd find THAT the better product?
How FAT is he, really? I'm pushing 400 pounds and I can fit in a Southwest seat without impinging on my neighbors. It's uncomfortable for my prodigous love handles, I suppose, but I manage.
Jumping out of a plane pretty much is the only way of knowing if a chute is packed correctly and OK. You can check and visually inspect, but you can never be 100% certain.
Okay, I'm being pedantic sorry!
From the DuPont website:
http://www2.dupont.com/FE/en_US/products/FM200_faq.html#1
DuPont(TM) FM-200® is safe for people to breath at normal design concentrations.
Halon might kill you, but FM-200 won't.
Unless all your data lines come in through the same hole in the ground.