I agree, and it's stupid that Apple even does this.
For many years, Palm has allowed developers to get in and really do what they want. Granted, it's not the easiest platform to develop on, but you could do what you wanted if you put the effort in (well, except to spawn 8 threads of the same task or open up 5 TCP/IP ports...;) ). Most of the time though, it was plenty enough to solve most problems if one realized "gee, this is a handheld that is just serving as a standalone data collector, maybe I DON'T need this to be multi-threaded" or whatnot.
But, however did they deal with all these kids in basements hacking on their OS? Simple. They created a freaking standard. A document that explained the right and wrong way to present the user experience. And to get your application Palm certified, it had to meet certain requirements, quality, security, GUI, etc.
I did, I missed that part. Thank you for bringing it up, while the Slashdot people decided that it wasn't worth putting into their summary or making it clear it was only an option.
Cheap doesn't mean free, and right now, it's perfectly free for me to fill out a ballot. But, the article apparently says that while the summary does not, so it's probably cool.
I know a lot of guys with grad degrees in the tech field who are making as much as guys with BA's (or less in some cases). It looks impressive on a resume, but there isn't an automatic payoff like with the medical or legal professions. Unless someone wants to develop their own product or do research for a major corporation, there's little reason to spend 3-4 more years and come out. Guys with BA's have been out for a few years and already have industry experience under their belts, and that's worth a whole lot more in the consulting business than a thesis paper on "the practical applications of sight tracking optics in regards to voice activated GUI systems", unless that's the main product of the company you're trying to get in with.
But I know a few companies offhand that will hire a PhD on the spot...but those companies don't really make anything nor do they pay very much. They are patent houses.
But for those who cannot afford cell phones or cellular service, it kind of leaves them out of the voting process. I'd have a hard time calling a country like that "Democratic" or even a Republic.
With such obvious intentional corporate sabotage. What this means, is that real estate agents who carry WM, Palm, and Blackberry phones around right now will just continue to do so...if they buy the iPhone, it's only purpose will be for personal use (if that).
Because of that, this firmly places the iPhone in the realm of "toy phone". I've been developing mobile enterprise applications for years, and the prerequisites for such are a productive development environment to create extensive custom applications, ability to work directly with the phone's hardware (in certain cases, such as being able to automate turning the phone on/off to automatically synchronize data with their remote user accounts), acceptable battery life, etc. Just because the phone is a hot phone on the market, doesn't mean it's acceptable to use for work...I've worked for companies that took a pass on the Motorola Q, the Motorola RAZR, and other phones that were popular at the time mainly because they just couldn't do as much as the aforementioned smartphones. Some companies won't even touch Blackberries or Palms because they barely make the cut.
The iPhone had a lot of promise for the enterprise market...but Apple is doing a tremendous job of killing it. The sad thing is that most people issued WM phones would gladly opt for just being able to carry an iPhone. These people are frequently mobile sales people, and they will always take an opportunity to brag about their phones to their contacts. The potential to take a lot of market space is right there, but Apple has decided to drop the ball.
Technically superior doesn't mean anything if it can't get REAL market penetration, and it's not going to make it past the early adopter phase and really hold on strong without strong enterprise and development support. Palm extended their original OS's lifetime considerably by investing in their developers...they are still selling Palm OS phones to this day to people who have certain apps they really like and cannot do without (and don't want to deal with a WM version).
Ha ha, chances are he was making an app that had a screen capture function.
Anyone who has ever taken a screen cap of a video would know that the problem with your joke is that you've probably never taken a screen capture of a video playing in a video player in Windows. When you notice that the video isn't fixed to the active video player window, you suddenly realize that doesn't work so well.
There's a reason why there is a screen capture option in Windows Media Player, it's not there because Microsoft figured no one would ever use the print screen key.
The first online sausage party! Classic.
Suddenly, all the men playing with women's avatars suddenly turn into men, and all the 12 year old boys flirting with the 14 year old boys turn very red and log out.
I could see something like that going over really well in Guild Wars, heh
Could be, though ZiffDavis is years behind the times on this story.
I've been getting interviews from Palm almost every few months now for the last year and a half to work on their Linux-based OS (generally, it ends up in me not wanting to relocate for the salary offered, or someone else wanting the job a lot more by agreeing to lower salary requirements). The last one was for a guy to come in and do compatibility bug fixing/testing, which sounded mostly like post-alpha, pre-beta or even beta testing type work.
All of these social networking sites are just fads and when something that looks better comes along everyone will abandon myspace/facebook/whatever and start aggregating friends somewhere else. Maybe, maybe not. Never underestimate the power of laziness. There are a lot of users on myspace that would need to have their computer physically removed from them before they decide to switch to something else. Even if it's technically inferior, the amount of myspace users is pretty impressive. On top of that, a lot of bands apparently hate hiring web developers...being able to turn out a myspace page in minutes to host their music with nearly no web development skill is something that is very enticing to musicians. And with that, go the kids following said bands. It used the music scene to draw a bunch of people in, and those people drew in most of their friends, etc. I'm from a family of 7 people, and 6 of us have myspace pages. I'm the only one who has a website, and I still have to have a myspace page because my MOM figured it out and only wants to talk to me that way now.
The only people that will move on are 1. kids that think they're too cool for myspace, and 2. child molesters looking for services that are less secured. Well, unless myspace start wiping out a LOT of legit profiles, starts charging cash to keep a page up, they have technical outages for 12 hours a day, or something like that.
That said, Rupert Murdoch turned out to get a pretty good deal after all.
Bah, the series died when they got rid of the command line translator and the old EGA graphics. They only made the first two that way. I learned how to type "climb tree" and "throw rock" SO fast, it scared people.
Read the post again. They're not replacing javascript with Flash, for heaven's sake. They're using an engine that is also used for flash, but that doesn't mean they're actually replacing javascript for flash.
That's like if someone were to release a game that used the Valve engine, and someone else were to respond "Holy cow, you're making Half-Life!"
From what I can see, you had problems with the old systems, so you are recommending that people keep their old systems, or bring in new hardware that runs software that isn't even still supported by the manufacturer?
What the real problem looks like is that the company didn't define EXACTLY what they wanted to begin with. They brought in some consultants, who probably didn't have all the requirements they needed, and they probably implemented a cookie cutter solution because it seemed to meet requirements and they were probably just following Microsoft standards (many consultant firms that Microsoft partners are MCSEs and such, and that's just how they roll). The problem there seems entirely one of extremely bad communication, outdated design, a lack of up-to-date functional knowledge of the technologies being applied, and seriously lacking requirements.
For example, when I was looking for my current apartment, I wanted to see all available apartments on craigslist that were within sane walking distance from where I worked. By mashing up google maps and craigslist, you get a pushpins on the map type of view, without having to grab 30 or so and search them individually. Saved me a lot of time and a heck of a lot of web searches.
One could apply the same thing to trying to find the closest veterinarian, closest hospital, bike repair shop, etc. Closest shoe store that sells some line of shoes that you like. Heck, you could take that and combine it with Cityguide/Citysearch descriptions or reviews, and you could make an interactive nightlife map a whole lot faster, and with probably a lot less plagiarism, than making one from scratch.
It's just a way of tying together various services and making something that serves a more specific purpose. That's all it is. There's no reason to whine about how the world is leaving you behind.
10,000 cameras is a whole lot of boring dead air on film in order to find one case of someone committing a crime. Chances are, too, most people know where the cameras are, and are careful to do things out of clear sight. It takes a whole lot of people a lot of time to go through that much tape and not miss anything. I'd have thought most folks would have learned all that by now.
The soldiers there "know" these are bad guys, and treat them that way, regardless of who they are. You ask how I know that? So, a U.S. soldier at Guantanamo is asked to impersonate an unruly detainee for a drill. Unfortunately, the soldiers sent in to subdue him aren't told it's a drill. He ends up with brain damage and seizures. [cbsnews.com] The soldiers don't "know" that these are bad guys, they are told that they are over and over again. Their commanders in turn are told the same story, and are told to tell their subordinates that the prisoners are all bad. The military system requires a degree of brainwashing in order to uphold the system. It gets truly bad when you lower your psychological standards, however, because when you reinforce prejudice and violent tendencies already, the end result is a soldier that cannot distinguish between right and wrong. This is considered psychosis. This is why you end up with soldiers raping girls and murdering their families, with soldiers torturing prisoners. You don't have to order them to commit atrocities, you reinforce their already psychologically deviant behavior by simply telling them that all these prisoners want to do is kill Americans, and bingo...you have a ready and willing torturer that will take the fall for the system when/if the press catches on.
It happens frequently that they block genuine keys. The WGA system is horribly designed, and barely functional. And it's much worse in Vista.
I've seen some computers where you could install from a backup copy of a windows XP disk, use the same key that the system previously used, and it would work fine...and on other systems, that simply wasn't the case, even if you used the original disks. You'd invalidate your key just from reinstalling on a clean drive! It's a complete mess, and you got to really wonder how much it really serves M$ in the long run to play hardball with users like that, especially ones that actually PAID (and we all know that for most people, it's certainly not cheap) for their product.
I agree, and it's unfortunate. As a developer of software for mobile devices, who has been stuck doing Windows Mobile.NET stuff just to pay his rent the past couple years, I've been salivating at the dream of having a compact version of mono running on Linux based phones. I'm personally sick of developing apps on CE. There's always something about CE, with every version, that really annoys me and makes my job take much longer than it should.
I don't think, from the outlandish number of enterprise applications that have been targeted at.NET and C# the past few years, I don't think linux could really make much headway in the mobile arena without being easy enough to port standing.NET code to. Companies would consider doing a.NET to Mono port, but it would take an unbelievably obvious (as in, a Linux phone that instantly takes over 50 percent of the mainstream market in a few months) to make companies consider reverse engineering their.NET C# apps in order to make a C++ Linux version.
No, it's not a zeolite AFAIC. Zeolites are more like "containment bubbles" that soak up radioactive waste, whereas this new mineral apparently nullifies it? Maybe it breaks down in water and its compounds bond with the radioactive waste, leaving it inert. Purportedly, it somehow nullifies radiation, but that isn't explained at all in that article. I'm no chemist or geologist, I've always had more than a passing interest in the fields, but I may have the terminology only at a layman's level there.
It sounds like those scientists went to the media a little too early, though.
Well, if I were getting my tax payer's dollar out of them, then yes, they should probably have software that works on all platforms. Obviously, to spy on citizens properly, they would need to infect 100% of the computer systems out there.
Like I should feel fine with the government using my tax dollars to allow the FBI to be lazy!
I'd have to say that at least partially, this might be politically inspired. With the trends towards anti-piracy in the US, I really doubt that people outside the US are thrilled with the notion that the US government can effectively snoop on anything that passes through our networks. By the time Japan can build their own network, the majority of people are probably going to be using data lines for their voice, too...and replacing all of that with one that they can defend from outside spying is probably going to become very enticing to many countries. Unless, of course, the US government wakes the hell up and cuts this fascist crap out. Nationalization of the internet is going to really hurt international free trade.
TV Stations need to understand that Wikipedia, and any other web service is NOT their own personal plaything, for them to run "experiments" on. Investigative journalism is one thing, but destructive journalism is quite another and is certainly illegal. That's like me walking into your business, pulling out one of your file cabinets, and tossing the contents across the floor because I wanted to see how fast your secretary could scramble to reorganize the files. Sorry if you can't "turn that into a report" on "how fast the Wikipedia community corrects bad info"...if that's even what they intended in the first place.
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I agree, and it's stupid that Apple even does this.
;) ). Most of the time though, it was plenty enough to solve most problems if one realized "gee, this is a handheld that is just serving as a standalone data collector, maybe I DON'T need this to be multi-threaded" or whatnot.
For many years, Palm has allowed developers to get in and really do what they want. Granted, it's not the easiest platform to develop on, but you could do what you wanted if you put the effort in (well, except to spawn 8 threads of the same task or open up 5 TCP/IP ports...
But, however did they deal with all these kids in basements hacking on their OS? Simple. They created a freaking standard. A document that explained the right and wrong way to present the user experience. And to get your application Palm certified, it had to meet certain requirements, quality, security, GUI, etc.
I did, I missed that part. Thank you for bringing it up, while the Slashdot people decided that it wasn't worth putting into their summary or making it clear it was only an option.
Cheap doesn't mean free, and right now, it's perfectly free for me to fill out a ballot. But, the article apparently says that while the summary does not, so it's probably cool.
I know a lot of guys with grad degrees in the tech field who are making as much as guys with BA's (or less in some cases). It looks impressive on a resume, but there isn't an automatic payoff like with the medical or legal professions. Unless someone wants to develop their own product or do research for a major corporation, there's little reason to spend 3-4 more years and come out. Guys with BA's have been out for a few years and already have industry experience under their belts, and that's worth a whole lot more in the consulting business than a thesis paper on "the practical applications of sight tracking optics in regards to voice activated GUI systems", unless that's the main product of the company you're trying to get in with.
But I know a few companies offhand that will hire a PhD on the spot...but those companies don't really make anything nor do they pay very much. They are patent houses.
But for those who cannot afford cell phones or cellular service, it kind of leaves them out of the voting process. I'd have a hard time calling a country like that "Democratic" or even a Republic.
With such obvious intentional corporate sabotage. What this means, is that real estate agents who carry WM, Palm, and Blackberry phones around right now will just continue to do so...if they buy the iPhone, it's only purpose will be for personal use (if that).
Because of that, this firmly places the iPhone in the realm of "toy phone". I've been developing mobile enterprise applications for years, and the prerequisites for such are a productive development environment to create extensive custom applications, ability to work directly with the phone's hardware (in certain cases, such as being able to automate turning the phone on/off to automatically synchronize data with their remote user accounts), acceptable battery life, etc. Just because the phone is a hot phone on the market, doesn't mean it's acceptable to use for work...I've worked for companies that took a pass on the Motorola Q, the Motorola RAZR, and other phones that were popular at the time mainly because they just couldn't do as much as the aforementioned smartphones. Some companies won't even touch Blackberries or Palms because they barely make the cut.
The iPhone had a lot of promise for the enterprise market...but Apple is doing a tremendous job of killing it. The sad thing is that most people issued WM phones would gladly opt for just being able to carry an iPhone. These people are frequently mobile sales people, and they will always take an opportunity to brag about their phones to their contacts. The potential to take a lot of market space is right there, but Apple has decided to drop the ball.
Technically superior doesn't mean anything if it can't get REAL market penetration, and it's not going to make it past the early adopter phase and really hold on strong without strong enterprise and development support. Palm extended their original OS's lifetime considerably by investing in their developers...they are still selling Palm OS phones to this day to people who have certain apps they really like and cannot do without (and don't want to deal with a WM version).
Ha ha, chances are he was making an app that had a screen capture function.
Anyone who has ever taken a screen cap of a video would know that the problem with your joke is that you've probably never taken a screen capture of a video playing in a video player in Windows. When you notice that the video isn't fixed to the active video player window, you suddenly realize that doesn't work so well.
There's a reason why there is a screen capture option in Windows Media Player, it's not there because Microsoft figured no one would ever use the print screen key.
The first online sausage party! Classic. Suddenly, all the men playing with women's avatars suddenly turn into men, and all the 12 year old boys flirting with the 14 year old boys turn very red and log out. I could see something like that going over really well in Guild Wars, heh
Could be, though ZiffDavis is years behind the times on this story.
I've been getting interviews from Palm almost every few months now for the last year and a half to work on their Linux-based OS (generally, it ends up in me not wanting to relocate for the salary offered, or someone else wanting the job a lot more by agreeing to lower salary requirements). The last one was for a guy to come in and do compatibility bug fixing/testing, which sounded mostly like post-alpha, pre-beta or even beta testing type work.
The only people that will move on are 1. kids that think they're too cool for myspace, and 2. child molesters looking for services that are less secured. Well, unless myspace start wiping out a LOT of legit profiles, starts charging cash to keep a page up, they have technical outages for 12 hours a day, or something like that.
That said, Rupert Murdoch turned out to get a pretty good deal after all.
Bah, the series died when they got rid of the command line translator and the old EGA graphics. They only made the first two that way. I learned how to type "climb tree" and "throw rock" SO fast, it scared people.
Well, I should say officially, "The Source" engine instead of the Valve engine.
Read the post again. They're not replacing javascript with Flash, for heaven's sake. They're using an engine that is also used for flash, but that doesn't mean they're actually replacing javascript for flash.
That's like if someone were to release a game that used the Valve engine, and someone else were to respond "Holy cow, you're making Half-Life!"
From what I can see, you had problems with the old systems, so you are recommending that people keep their old systems, or bring in new hardware that runs software that isn't even still supported by the manufacturer?
What the real problem looks like is that the company didn't define EXACTLY what they wanted to begin with. They brought in some consultants, who probably didn't have all the requirements they needed, and they probably implemented a cookie cutter solution because it seemed to meet requirements and they were probably just following Microsoft standards (many consultant firms that Microsoft partners are MCSEs and such, and that's just how they roll). The problem there seems entirely one of extremely bad communication, outdated design, a lack of up-to-date functional knowledge of the technologies being applied, and seriously lacking requirements.
It does have its uses.
For example, when I was looking for my current apartment, I wanted to see all available apartments on craigslist that were within sane walking distance from where I worked. By mashing up google maps and craigslist, you get a pushpins on the map type of view, without having to grab 30 or so and search them individually. Saved me a lot of time and a heck of a lot of web searches.
One could apply the same thing to trying to find the closest veterinarian, closest hospital, bike repair shop, etc. Closest shoe store that sells some line of shoes that you like. Heck, you could take that and combine it with Cityguide/Citysearch descriptions or reviews, and you could make an interactive nightlife map a whole lot faster, and with probably a lot less plagiarism, than making one from scratch.
It's just a way of tying together various services and making something that serves a more specific purpose. That's all it is. There's no reason to whine about how the world is leaving you behind.
10,000 cameras is a whole lot of boring dead air on film in order to find one case of someone committing a crime. Chances are, too, most people know where the cameras are, and are careful to do things out of clear sight. It takes a whole lot of people a lot of time to go through that much tape and not miss anything. I'd have thought most folks would have learned all that by now.
It happens frequently that they block genuine keys. The WGA system is horribly designed, and barely functional. And it's much worse in Vista.
I've seen some computers where you could install from a backup copy of a windows XP disk, use the same key that the system previously used, and it would work fine...and on other systems, that simply wasn't the case, even if you used the original disks. You'd invalidate your key just from reinstalling on a clean drive! It's a complete mess, and you got to really wonder how much it really serves M$ in the long run to play hardball with users like that, especially ones that actually PAID (and we all know that for most people, it's certainly not cheap) for their product.
I agree, and it's unfortunate. As a developer of software for mobile devices, who has been stuck doing Windows Mobile .NET stuff just to pay his rent the past couple years, I've been salivating at the dream of having a compact version of mono running on Linux based phones. I'm personally sick of developing apps on CE. There's always something about CE, with every version, that really annoys me and makes my job take much longer than it should.
.NET and C# the past few years, I don't think linux could really make much headway in the mobile arena without being easy enough to port standing .NET code to. Companies would consider doing a .NET to Mono port, but it would take an unbelievably obvious (as in, a Linux phone that instantly takes over 50 percent of the mainstream market in a few months) to make companies consider reverse engineering their .NET C# apps in order to make a C++ Linux version.
I don't think, from the outlandish number of enterprise applications that have been targeted at
Weirdly, it reminds me a lot of cpanel.
No, it's not a zeolite AFAIC. Zeolites are more like "containment bubbles" that soak up radioactive waste, whereas this new mineral apparently nullifies it? Maybe it breaks down in water and its compounds bond with the radioactive waste, leaving it inert. Purportedly, it somehow nullifies radiation, but that isn't explained at all in that article. I'm no chemist or geologist, I've always had more than a passing interest in the fields, but I may have the terminology only at a layman's level there.
It sounds like those scientists went to the media a little too early, though.
Well, if I were getting my tax payer's dollar out of them, then yes, they should probably have software that works on all platforms. Obviously, to spy on citizens properly, they would need to infect 100% of the computer systems out there.
Like I should feel fine with the government using my tax dollars to allow the FBI to be lazy!
Or should I add, anti-terrorism paranoia as well.
I'd have to say that at least partially, this might be politically inspired. With the trends towards anti-piracy in the US, I really doubt that people outside the US are thrilled with the notion that the US government can effectively snoop on anything that passes through our networks. By the time Japan can build their own network, the majority of people are probably going to be using data lines for their voice, too...and replacing all of that with one that they can defend from outside spying is probably going to become very enticing to many countries. Unless, of course, the US government wakes the hell up and cuts this fascist crap out. Nationalization of the internet is going to really hurt international free trade.
TV Stations need to understand that Wikipedia, and any other web service is NOT their own personal plaything, for them to run "experiments" on. Investigative journalism is one thing, but destructive journalism is quite another and is certainly illegal. That's like me walking into your business, pulling out one of your file cabinets, and tossing the contents across the floor because I wanted to see how fast your secretary could scramble to reorganize the files. Sorry if you can't "turn that into a report" on "how fast the Wikipedia community corrects bad info"...if that's even what they intended in the first place.