with recent events, I have to believe the US Government is hoping that Kim Jong Il dies in the next ten or so years and a slightly less hardlined leader steps up, palatable to both China and the US and the whole debacle ends. Who knows though.
It's starting to work with the US and Cuba, once Castro's truly done and gone, I expect it'll start moving faster towards openness.
Except I've spent shit-tons of time using OTHER peoples iPhones, cumulative days, I've been contemplating writing software for it. Web browsing is marginally better than other phones I've used (zooming is pretty nice), media, contact management and games. Actually getting work done, I'm not sold yet. I'm so used to the Treo keyboard that losing it is like cutting one of my hands off. So yeah, I don't own one, but I've been trying REALLY REALLY hard to like it, because I love nearly everything OS X, especially now that Fusion is available.
Um, not to nit a pick, but isn't lack of experience == ignorance? Wtf? Lol.
Yes, actually, I'll call them to the carpet on it - aforementioned experience or no.
There's a shit-ton of really great Windows software out there, and a crapload of well, crap - that doesn't make Windows any less of a great platform to develop and use.
So yes, I think it's a huge failing on their part, and one of the two reasons their "smartphone" isn't currently residing in my pocket. The other is a keyboardless design.
Fine - Mr. Pedantic (thanks BTW). It's still something I didn't have until I was 21 or so, after five straight years of 8-12+ hours of computing. Could have just been old age, I suppose...
Though each eye is still 20/20, my ability to resolve fine detail with BOTH eyes is definitely getting worse.
I think the fact that not one, but THREE major vendors are spearheading the next generation of Web language is a pretty damn good sign that HTML/DHTML is reaching it's limit.
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I'd put my money on Adobe winning this battle, personally. They just have years of presentation and layout skill under their belts. However Microsoft is just too entrenched to go silently into that good night - so the market will be fractured, just like it was with Flash/Shockwave.
Will your JAR package run on my iPhone? No? Because any decently-written web app out there will. Slowly, mind you, but it runs nonetheless. </quote>
And that's the idiot devs at Apple, for spurning the HUGE market of J2ME for platform control.
It's the number one reason I'm not buying another phone without great J2ME support. I have applications I just won't do on the web - web applications are useless, for example, when your not in a 3G area, and trust me, that's more common still in America than you probably realize.
Altering LED brightness is just an exercise in voltage. This is really easy to see with LED's in series on a breadboard @ say 12V. Plug in 5 LEDs, pull one out, watch brightness go up.
Hey, I didn't say anything about them lasting long.:-)
Actually, if you assume black text on a white screen, then the extra U will be producing LESS electrons. So we should be adopting our English counterparts practices in order to go "green".
If you have an enterprise agreement, you get all the flexibility in configuration you want, but if you are an end user, you're kind of screwed. You buy a Dell Latitude C620 with 2GB of RAM and want to put in another 2GB, and find out you have two 1GB DIMMS installed, and so can only go to 3GB. Shit like this happens all the time with laptops. Apple's doing nothing new or different.
And it still has some of the most annoying anti-spam comment restrictions in place. That's about the most that slashdot has changed for me over the years... no two minutes between comments, no 20 seconds wait period... Even the so-called "new interface" I turned off about a day after it became the default. Gack!
Queen of Spain's patronage of his project caused forth his private investors to pony up and commit. So yes, government support of his project gave Spain the New World... Their's to lose
We've only BEGUN exploring how to build UP, we have barely scratched the surface of our ability to build DOWN. There's an ocean to fill with seafloor-scrapers, and MILES and MILES of bedrock to fill with cities. Claiming we're going to run out of room anytime soon is being naive. Running out of room to grow stuff, maybe, but not places to live.
The small ones you'll never see coming with radar, those are an engineering challenge. There's lots of work in reactive materials and armor to mitigate this problem, and if the pressure vessels you're living in are buried in say a 100m of asteroid, then it's not an issue. The bigger ones you'll see coming weeks and months away if you put half an effort into it. Once you're in space, we should in general stay there. Building infrastructure on another planet just doesn't make sense, long term.
Free rides to and from space are never going to materialize. Then again, trying to economize a "Bethlehem Steel Works" for one of the LaGrange points seems a pretty tough and insurmountable task too.:-/
Yes, but let's not trade one immense gravity well for another. Orbital cities, some semblance of gravity, serious engineering, not just set down on Mars or the Moon. If we need to avoid an asteroid, I'd like the just fire the ion engines for a few days and move my whole "planetoid." That's the best in insurance. That should be our space goal, not going back to the Moon, or Mars.
Except it really doesn't. That price increase never makes it down to the end user. Wal*Mart will take it from you in yearly discounts to your product, but never passes that on to the consumer. It's not just Wal*Mart either. How much markup went on at Linen's and Things and Circuit City before the clearance sales began? It's the same thing.
I've never driven anything BUT an American car (even when I rent, I rent American). Funny how so little of an American car is made in America anymore. Why is that? It can't be just the unions.
You are absolutely right, in any sane world, it should be "cheaper" and "better". It never is though. It's that addage, faster, cheaper, better, pick any two? In my experience, it's not cheaper, and it's not better, and it all comes down to management using H1Bs or outsourcing as ways of lining their pockets at the expense of the company.
Then again, some of the smartest people I have *EVER* worked with have been H1B holders.
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with recent events, I have to believe the US Government is hoping that Kim Jong Il dies in the next ten or so years and a slightly less hardlined leader steps up, palatable to both China and the US and the whole debacle ends. Who knows though.
It's starting to work with the US and Cuba, once Castro's truly done and gone, I expect it'll start moving faster towards openness.
Now imagine that shit in your lungs.
Except I've spent shit-tons of time using OTHER peoples iPhones, cumulative days, I've been contemplating writing software for it. Web browsing is marginally better than other phones I've used (zooming is pretty nice), media, contact management and games. Actually getting work done, I'm not sold yet. I'm so used to the Treo keyboard that losing it is like cutting one of my hands off. So yeah, I don't own one, but I've been trying REALLY REALLY hard to like it, because I love nearly everything OS X, especially now that Fusion is available.
Um, not to nit a pick, but isn't lack of experience == ignorance? Wtf? Lol.
Yes, actually, I'll call them to the carpet on it - aforementioned experience or no.
There's a shit-ton of really great Windows software out there, and a crapload of well, crap - that doesn't make Windows any less of a great platform to develop and use.
So yes, I think it's a huge failing on their part, and one of the two reasons their "smartphone" isn't currently residing in my pocket. The other is a keyboardless design.
Fine - Mr. Pedantic (thanks BTW). It's still something I didn't have until I was 21 or so, after five straight years of 8-12+ hours of computing. Could have just been old age, I suppose...
Though each eye is still 20/20, my ability to resolve fine detail with BOTH eyes is definitely getting worse.
I think the fact that not one, but THREE major vendors are spearheading the next generation of Web language is a pretty damn good sign that HTML/DHTML is reaching it's limit.
Silverlight
Air
JavaFX
I'd put my money on Adobe winning this battle, personally. They just have years of presentation and layout skill under their belts. However Microsoft is just too entrenched to go silently into that good night - so the market will be fractured, just like it was with Flash/Shockwave.
Will your JAR package run on my iPhone? No? Because any decently-written web app out there will. Slowly, mind you, but it runs nonetheless.
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And that's the idiot devs at Apple, for spurning the HUGE market of J2ME for platform control.
It's the number one reason I'm not buying another phone without great J2ME support. I have applications I just won't do on the web - web applications are useless, for example, when your not in a 3G area, and trust me, that's more common still in America than you probably realize.
I never had an astigmatism until I started using computers 8-12 hours a day...
I've taken a 5 LED series on a breadboard, and dialed the voltage from 12V to 5, watching them go from superbright to no-light at all.
LEDs can be brightness controlled by simply varying voltage. Period.
Altering LED brightness is just an exercise in voltage. This is really easy to see with LED's in series on a breadboard @ say 12V. Plug in 5 LEDs, pull one out, watch brightness go up.
:-)
Hey, I didn't say anything about them lasting long.
Actually, if you assume black text on a white screen, then the extra U will be producing LESS electrons. So we should be adopting our English counterparts practices in order to go "green".
I pretty much live in the dark and only turn on the lights for company and reading. I routinely get by with 40w reading bulbs and 5 watt night lights.
I only turn on the lights for company or cleaning.
What vendor DOESN'T do this?
Dell, HP, Lenovo(IBM) they all do it.
If you have an enterprise agreement, you get all the flexibility in configuration you want, but if you are an end user, you're kind of screwed. You buy a Dell Latitude C620 with 2GB of RAM and want to put in another 2GB, and find out you have two 1GB DIMMS installed, and so can only go to 3GB. Shit like this happens all the time with laptops. Apple's doing nothing new or different.
And it still has some of the most annoying anti-spam comment restrictions in place. That's about the most that slashdot has changed for me over the years... no two minutes between comments, no 20 seconds wait period... Even the so-called "new interface" I turned off about a day after it became the default. Gack!
Get off my lawn!
Queen of Spain's patronage of his project caused forth his private investors to pony up and commit. So yes, government support of his project gave Spain the New World... Their's to lose
We've only BEGUN exploring how to build UP, we have barely scratched the surface of our ability to build DOWN. There's an ocean to fill with seafloor-scrapers, and MILES and MILES of bedrock to fill with cities. Claiming we're going to run out of room anytime soon is being naive. Running out of room to grow stuff, maybe, but not places to live.
Who financed Columbus' voyage? Yup, King of Spain.
Everyone else thought he was a fraking lunatic - everyone knew the Earth was Flat.
The small ones you'll never see coming with radar, those are an engineering challenge. There's lots of work in reactive materials and armor to mitigate this problem, and if the pressure vessels you're living in are buried in say a 100m of asteroid, then it's not an issue. The bigger ones you'll see coming weeks and months away if you put half an effort into it. Once you're in space, we should in general stay there. Building infrastructure on another planet just doesn't make sense, long term.
:-/
Free rides to and from space are never going to materialize. Then again, trying to economize a "Bethlehem Steel Works" for one of the LaGrange points seems a pretty tough and insurmountable task too.
Yes, but let's not trade one immense gravity well for another. Orbital cities, some semblance of gravity, serious engineering, not just set down on Mars or the Moon. If we need to avoid an asteroid, I'd like the just fire the ion engines for a few days and move my whole "planetoid." That's the best in insurance. That should be our space goal, not going back to the Moon, or Mars.
Yeah, but that just applies to the Pacific! Mine applies to the Global everything. On the Internet even! :-D
Global Climate Oscillation! I like that one. Heard it here first folks!
Except it really doesn't. That price increase never makes it down to the end user. Wal*Mart will take it from you in yearly discounts to your product, but never passes that on to the consumer. It's not just Wal*Mart either. How much markup went on at Linen's and Things and Circuit City before the clearance sales began? It's the same thing.
I've never driven anything BUT an American car (even when I rent, I rent American). Funny how so little of an American car is made in America anymore. Why is that? It can't be just the unions.
You are absolutely right, in any sane world, it should be "cheaper" and "better". It never is though. It's that addage, faster, cheaper, better, pick any two? In my experience, it's not cheaper, and it's not better, and it all comes down to management using H1Bs or outsourcing as ways of lining their pockets at the expense of the company.
Then again, some of the smartest people I have *EVER* worked with have been H1B holders.
Touche!