Funny coincidence, last night I got an entire email inbox full of friend requests from spam bots. About 7 before my spam filter auto-blacklisted MySpace. I was impressed, its been years since I got one of those (or logged into MySpace). So if by people you mean robots then evidently yes, "people" still use MySpace.
Ewe no whoms viewpoint's doesn't Carry much wait? Annoying little peons that go around correcting people's spelling or grammatical errors on internet forums.
I do remember NeXT, I learned most of what I know about computers on a 25 MHz NeXT Station Color. With a triangular external speaker, a 400 MB HDD, and giant black laser printer.
My father still has two of them in his office, mostly as keepsakes.
I actually use Mac to this day because I never learned anything about Windows. I had a machine (133 MHz Pentium) that ran Windows 95 back in college but all I used it for was writing papers in Word (or maybe WordPerfect, IDK) and playing Starcraft.
NeXT was ultimately a success once it got bought by Apple. NeXTStep became the foundation for all Apple OSs, Steve got his original company back, pulled it from out of the grave, and now it's the thriving more so then any time in its history. Its building shiny glass temple after shiny glass temple to itself, and producing the sexiest hardware out there. He won, at least enough for one man's lifetime.
Looking at the title of the summary: "Devs Bet Big On Android Over Apple's iOS"
Then look at the statistics quoted:
Long Term: 59% Android, 35% Apple, and 6% other (undecided, supports both, or neither)
Short Term: 76% Apple
I hardly call that "betting big" on Android. Personally I'll "bet big" that Apple gradually relaxes out of its "walled garden" approach, Google will drift toward higher standards for its market place apps... and ultimately whoever designs (or supports) the shiniest phones will win. Slashdotter's sometimes forget, hardware aesthetics often are the deciding factor.
No other asshole has said this so I might as well be the one.
You are going to die, your parents are going to die, your friends are going to die, your children are going to die. The troops are going to die.
They will die of cancer, they will die in car accidents, they will die of heart disease, they will die of more exotic ailments. They will die of IUDs or bullets or RPGs. Everyone dies.
The United State of America will eventually die. It's a young and influential country, but it still has a shelf life.
What doesn't necessarily die are principles and ideals. You are right that it is a fantasy, but fantasies of years past become the realities of tomorrows to come. The United States has always been far from perfect. You could even make the case its contributed little to society as a whole. But to the extent that it can hold up those principals and ideals (a free press, not burning books, distribution of fact), is the measure that it will be judged by. Not by our children, or our children's children, but by thousands of generations to come, long after the institution of the United States has morphed into something else.
I was just joking about that at work the other day. The original quote was something like: the internet isn't a dump truck its more like a series of tubes. We reasoned you could just as accurately describe a dump truck as a series of tubes as you could the internet. Likewise: a dog, a plant, a person... we came up with quite a list.
Not to mention PCI compliance. If you are handling your customer's credit card info you better have a lot of time and money on you hands to make sure that info is secure. Paypal, Google, Amazon, and a few others take care of all that for you. I recently had to implement a payment option to replace our merchant account. We wanted to go with Google, only to find out that everything we wanted was still in the "experimental" stage (not fully implemented, no customer support, minimal documentation), not even beta. In the end we had to go with Paypal. We've been using Paypal's basic services for 7 years without any real issues, and we found that implementing their more powerful payment services was relatively painless (so far).
The other thing is: Having had experience with other merchant account providers and payment gateways, it's not like they are any better. I've been involved in lawsuits where the merchant account people "just couldn't get their computer system to deposit the money" (they lost). You see Paypal in the news now and again, but I've seen the shit their competitors pull, and they're no better. That's why we have courts.
Its not really possible to run out of beer money if you are willing to stoop low enough. St. Ides and Steel Reserve have you covered. You can buy a 40oz of either in NYC for less then $2. Both have high alcohol content and both taste like they took the water that collected in a dumpster and fermented it. In the suburbs you can get a 6 pack of Steel Reserve Tallboys for $1.75.
The whole "wealthy people drink more" theory is bullshit in my opinion. I used to live in the ghetto in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and in NYC. Every day you'd see people lining up to get their beer, MD 20/20, Boons Farm, bottom shelf gin (I recommend London Tower: $8 a handle in Phily), etc. When I lived in Manhattan, not so much. Now I live in Palm Beach and the liquor stores are mostly empty.
The wealthier you are the better you drink and the more you do it in public (at a bar), but I bet you do it less often.
I really, really wish Apple would stop with this iOS bullshit. I love OS X, I grew up using a NeXT. I really want to like Apple and its products, but they are making it really hard. While I've never felt the need to jailbreak an iPhone (its just a fucking phone), the iPad is a great piece of hardware with a piss-poor OS. My company could use about a dozen of them, so long as we can wipe iOS off them and install something useful.
Yeah a ram disk or virtual machine is defintely way more secure, as well as using proxies or TOR to disguise your IP address (confusing Geo-location databases), forged browser signatures, and a few other things I can't think of right now. Assuming you are committing acts of international espionage, working undercover for the NSA, or simply know that MLB is after you, you should definitely be taking those precautions.
The thing is, my understanding is that "privacy mode" is really just for not having your porn links show up in your browser history, should your S/O or Mom not approve of you viewing such material. It also saves you potential embarrassment when you open up a new tab in Safari or Chrome and it gives you a grid of thumbnails of recently viewed sites. I think Gregg Keizer grossly overestimates what people expect when they click the "private" button. They aren't clicking it to view sites that require SSL certificates, they are clicking it to view sites who's title tag is "Slut fucked by guy" or "Sexy trinity anal part1" and shows up in the browser history as such. Most just use the privacy mode so their S/O or Mom doesn't stumble across those links while looking up that article they read yesterday about "How to plan the perfect wedding" or "Is internet addiction destroying your family?".
Oh I wish, I wish, I wish... unfortunately it's not so. If you wind up on pretty much any web project you're going to have to be fluent in PHP. Nasty, spaghetti-coded PHP generally. Even if your job is just to replace it with something better that's easy to build on, you still need to read the PHP and translate it into something sensible like Python.
Europe has endured far more terrorism then North America (since we are talking continents here). The IRA, the Basque Separatist Movement, Al Qaeda bombings all over the place, Libyan Attacks in Rome and Vienna, Lockerbie, just to name a few. Though really that point is completely irrelevant.
The first terrorist bombing in NYC occurred on September 16, 1920 on the corner of Wall Street and Broad Street. It was a "horse drawn wagon bomb" which instantly killed 38 people and seriously wounded 400 more (which given it was 1920 probably meant they just died slower). If you go to the JP Morgan building you can still see the holes the dynamite propelled metal shrapnel tore in the building, they never repaired it.
At the time they handled it as a crime, nothing more, despite the fact that political pamphlets calling for the release of political prisoners were found nearby and the bombing was believed to have been tied to a group which had been distributing letter bombs to politicians for at least a year prior. They didn't go to "war on terror". They didn't use the incident to justify flagrantly violating the constitution. Imagine if they had though. What sort of country would we live in now if they had?
Ok, the original AC poster was making a joke about "buzz" by intentionally confusing Symbian with Sybian. This whooshed over the head of gyrogeerloose but at least a few mods got it. I added to the AC's joke with the "not exactly an operating system" and "no insight on COBAL", since the Sybian is mostly used by adult actresses, who's duties don't usually involve coding. Then another AC (that got modded down to Troll) made a quip about anal use, implying I was a homosexual.
I decided to roll with the punches and since the thread is actual about the mobile operating system Symbian, which competes with Apple's iOS I took a snipe at Apple (the reamed bit). You then made a snarky remark about Steve Jobs not being up to it, which made me assume that you were getting what was being batted about. Then I responded with several double-entandras (sp?): "stones", "dickish", "hardware that's pathetically underwhelming", and "release".
Sorry for the confusion, I thought we were on the same page. Things like subtle humor get lost over the net sometimes.
True. iOS 4 really proved that the 3G really didn't have the stones to run Flash or multitask. As dickish as Jobs is being, he wasn't lying when he said his hardware was pathetically underwhelming. The iPhone 4 might change that, it's release was received quite enthusiastically after all.
Well that is comforting; listening to my Aunt or Slashdot it's kinda shocking libraries are still legal. I'm not the sort to just roll over, but getting into a 1st Amendment court battle frankly scares the shit out of me. I both make (my own) and market (other people's) art that really run the razor's edge of violating other peoples copyrights (for practically no money), its good to know that "fair use" is still something that exists, despite what we hear.
The problem is you don't really have to be convicted of a crime to be thrown in jail, have your property confiscated, or have your life ruined. My aunt is a criminal defense attorney. She defends people the government (US not Italian) has declared potential criminals. According to her, unless you are a very wealthy individual, simply being accused of a serious crime will either land you in jail for a while, ruin you financially, or most likely both. If you have a generous family they might be able to sell a house to keep you out of jail on bail (assuming you are declared innocent). In the end, most people plea bargain, which usually results in some sort of parole arrangement where their every move is monitored by a bunch of thugs that got all Cs in high school.
The DMCA makes even knowing that number a crime. Publishing it here even more so. Though I doubt you will, you could spend the rest of your life and every penny you will ever make convincing a series of judges that the First Amendment supersedes the DMCA.
I'm not saying this is right. I'm specifically saying its wrong.
While the sybian is overpriced, it does seem to be the "go to" gadget (I'm not sure I would call it an "operating system") within its class. Personally I don't really see the appeal, but there would seem to be a lot of women that disagree. Though you're right in the observation that none of them probably have much insight on the topic of COBOL.
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I apologize for being an ass, I guess I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I know its the internet and you don't have to apologize, but I am sorry.
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I'm sure you can build a shitty little computer system for $500. My mother can build a shitty little computer system for $500 (including monitor). Do you think that's a talent? I built the first machine that made me more then $100,000 for less then $10.
Can you build it so thin?
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But he wasn't so bad. I don't get your point. You have to have an evil dictator, so don't you want one who isn't too bad?
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Funny coincidence, last night I got an entire email inbox full of friend requests from spam bots. About 7 before my spam filter auto-blacklisted MySpace. I was impressed, its been years since I got one of those (or logged into MySpace). So if by people you mean robots then evidently yes, "people" still use MySpace.
A little late to the party aren't you.
Ewe no whoms viewpoint's doesn't Carry much wait? Annoying little peons that go around correcting people's spelling or grammatical errors on internet forums.
I do remember NeXT, I learned most of what I know about computers on a 25 MHz NeXT Station Color. With a triangular external speaker, a 400 MB HDD, and giant black laser printer.
My father still has two of them in his office, mostly as keepsakes.
I actually use Mac to this day because I never learned anything about Windows. I had a machine (133 MHz Pentium) that ran Windows 95 back in college but all I used it for was writing papers in Word (or maybe WordPerfect, IDK) and playing Starcraft.
NeXT was ultimately a success once it got bought by Apple. NeXTStep became the foundation for all Apple OSs, Steve got his original company back, pulled it from out of the grave, and now it's the thriving more so then any time in its history. Its building shiny glass temple after shiny glass temple to itself, and producing the sexiest hardware out there. He won, at least enough for one man's lifetime.
Looking at the title of the summary: "Devs Bet Big On Android Over Apple's iOS"
Then look at the statistics quoted:
Long Term: 59% Android, 35% Apple, and 6% other (undecided, supports both, or neither)
Short Term: 76% Apple
I hardly call that "betting big" on Android. Personally I'll "bet big" that Apple gradually relaxes out of its "walled garden" approach, Google will drift toward higher standards for its market place apps... and ultimately whoever designs (or supports) the shiniest phones will win. Slashdotter's sometimes forget, hardware aesthetics often are the deciding factor.
That comment was way too long just like TFA. I only read a quarter of the way through before I got distracted.
No other asshole has said this so I might as well be the one.
You are going to die, your parents are going to die, your friends are going to die, your children are going to die. The troops are going to die.
They will die of cancer, they will die in car accidents, they will die of heart disease, they will die of more exotic ailments. They will die of IUDs or bullets or RPGs. Everyone dies.
The United State of America will eventually die. It's a young and influential country, but it still has a shelf life.
What doesn't necessarily die are principles and ideals. You are right that it is a fantasy, but fantasies of years past become the realities of tomorrows to come. The United States has always been far from perfect. You could even make the case its contributed little to society as a whole. But to the extent that it can hold up those principals and ideals (a free press, not burning books, distribution of fact), is the measure that it will be judged by. Not by our children, or our children's children, but by thousands of generations to come, long after the institution of the United States has morphed into something else.
I was just joking about that at work the other day. The original quote was something like: the internet isn't a dump truck its more like a series of tubes. We reasoned you could just as accurately describe a dump truck as a series of tubes as you could the internet. Likewise: a dog, a plant, a person... we came up with quite a list.
Not to mention PCI compliance. If you are handling your customer's credit card info you better have a lot of time and money on you hands to make sure that info is secure. Paypal, Google, Amazon, and a few others take care of all that for you. I recently had to implement a payment option to replace our merchant account. We wanted to go with Google, only to find out that everything we wanted was still in the "experimental" stage (not fully implemented, no customer support, minimal documentation), not even beta. In the end we had to go with Paypal. We've been using Paypal's basic services for 7 years without any real issues, and we found that implementing their more powerful payment services was relatively painless (so far).
The other thing is: Having had experience with other merchant account providers and payment gateways, it's not like they are any better. I've been involved in lawsuits where the merchant account people "just couldn't get their computer system to deposit the money" (they lost). You see Paypal in the news now and again, but I've seen the shit their competitors pull, and they're no better. That's why we have courts.
At least he was truly nuts. He didn't act on anyone's behalf, and only a very few would agree with him. He was a martyr only to his own broken mind.
Its not really possible to run out of beer money if you are willing to stoop low enough. St. Ides and Steel Reserve have you covered. You can buy a 40oz of either in NYC for less then $2. Both have high alcohol content and both taste like they took the water that collected in a dumpster and fermented it. In the suburbs you can get a 6 pack of Steel Reserve Tallboys for $1.75.
The whole "wealthy people drink more" theory is bullshit in my opinion. I used to live in the ghetto in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and in NYC. Every day you'd see people lining up to get their beer, MD 20/20, Boons Farm, bottom shelf gin (I recommend London Tower: $8 a handle in Phily), etc. When I lived in Manhattan, not so much. Now I live in Palm Beach and the liquor stores are mostly empty.
The wealthier you are the better you drink and the more you do it in public (at a bar), but I bet you do it less often.
I really, really wish Apple would stop with this iOS bullshit. I love OS X, I grew up using a NeXT. I really want to like Apple and its products, but they are making it really hard. While I've never felt the need to jailbreak an iPhone (its just a fucking phone), the iPad is a great piece of hardware with a piss-poor OS. My company could use about a dozen of them, so long as we can wipe iOS off them and install something useful.
Yeah a ram disk or virtual machine is defintely way more secure, as well as using proxies or TOR to disguise your IP address (confusing Geo-location databases), forged browser signatures, and a few other things I can't think of right now. Assuming you are committing acts of international espionage, working undercover for the NSA, or simply know that MLB is after you, you should definitely be taking those precautions.
The thing is, my understanding is that "privacy mode" is really just for not having your porn links show up in your browser history, should your S/O or Mom not approve of you viewing such material. It also saves you potential embarrassment when you open up a new tab in Safari or Chrome and it gives you a grid of thumbnails of recently viewed sites. I think Gregg Keizer grossly overestimates what people expect when they click the "private" button. They aren't clicking it to view sites that require SSL certificates, they are clicking it to view sites who's title tag is "Slut fucked by guy" or "Sexy trinity anal part1" and shows up in the browser history as such. Most just use the privacy mode so their S/O or Mom doesn't stumble across those links while looking up that article they read yesterday about "How to plan the perfect wedding" or "Is internet addiction destroying your family?".
Avoid PHP. It's not worth learning anymore.
Oh I wish, I wish, I wish... unfortunately it's not so. If you wind up on pretty much any web project you're going to have to be fluent in PHP. Nasty, spaghetti-coded PHP generally. Even if your job is just to replace it with something better that's easy to build on, you still need to read the PHP and translate it into something sensible like Python.
Also. Java? Really?
Europe has endured far more terrorism then North America (since we are talking continents here). The IRA, the Basque Separatist Movement, Al Qaeda bombings all over the place, Libyan Attacks in Rome and Vienna, Lockerbie, just to name a few. Though really that point is completely irrelevant.
The first terrorist bombing in NYC occurred on September 16, 1920 on the corner of Wall Street and Broad Street. It was a "horse drawn wagon bomb" which instantly killed 38 people and seriously wounded 400 more (which given it was 1920 probably meant they just died slower). If you go to the JP Morgan building you can still see the holes the dynamite propelled metal shrapnel tore in the building, they never repaired it.
At the time they handled it as a crime, nothing more, despite the fact that political pamphlets calling for the release of political prisoners were found nearby and the bombing was believed to have been tied to a group which had been distributing letter bombs to politicians for at least a year prior. They didn't go to "war on terror". They didn't use the incident to justify flagrantly violating the constitution. Imagine if they had though. What sort of country would we live in now if they had?
Ok, the original AC poster was making a joke about "buzz" by intentionally confusing Symbian with Sybian. This whooshed over the head of gyrogeerloose but at least a few mods got it. I added to the AC's joke with the "not exactly an operating system" and "no insight on COBAL", since the Sybian is mostly used by adult actresses, who's duties don't usually involve coding. Then another AC (that got modded down to Troll) made a quip about anal use, implying I was a homosexual.
I decided to roll with the punches and since the thread is actual about the mobile operating system Symbian, which competes with Apple's iOS I took a snipe at Apple (the reamed bit). You then made a snarky remark about Steve Jobs not being up to it, which made me assume that you were getting what was being batted about. Then I responded with several double-entandras (sp?): "stones", "dickish", "hardware that's pathetically underwhelming", and "release".
Sorry for the confusion, I thought we were on the same page. Things like subtle humor get lost over the net sometimes.
You're the one that didn't get the joke.
Yeah, that is it. Its pretty shocking that hasn't been overturned yet.
True. iOS 4 really proved that the 3G really didn't have the stones to run Flash or multitask. As dickish as Jobs is being, he wasn't lying when he said his hardware was pathetically underwhelming. The iPhone 4 might change that, it's release was received quite enthusiastically after all.
Well that is comforting; listening to my Aunt or Slashdot it's kinda shocking libraries are still legal. I'm not the sort to just roll over, but getting into a 1st Amendment court battle frankly scares the shit out of me. I both make (my own) and market (other people's) art that really run the razor's edge of violating other peoples copyrights (for practically no money), its good to know that "fair use" is still something that exists, despite what we hear.
Indeed, better to just get an iPhone. While it's also overpriced, getting reamed by Apple is actually trendy these days; much simpler too.
The problem is you don't really have to be convicted of a crime to be thrown in jail, have your property confiscated, or have your life ruined. My aunt is a criminal defense attorney. She defends people the government (US not Italian) has declared potential criminals. According to her, unless you are a very wealthy individual, simply being accused of a serious crime will either land you in jail for a while, ruin you financially, or most likely both. If you have a generous family they might be able to sell a house to keep you out of jail on bail (assuming you are declared innocent). In the end, most people plea bargain, which usually results in some sort of parole arrangement where their every move is monitored by a bunch of thugs that got all Cs in high school.
The DMCA makes even knowing that number a crime. Publishing it here even more so. Though I doubt you will, you could spend the rest of your life and every penny you will ever make convincing a series of judges that the First Amendment supersedes the DMCA.
I'm not saying this is right. I'm specifically saying its wrong.
While the sybian is overpriced, it does seem to be the "go to" gadget (I'm not sure I would call it an "operating system") within its class. Personally I don't really see the appeal, but there would seem to be a lot of women that disagree. Though you're right in the observation that none of them probably have much insight on the topic of COBOL.
I apologize for being an ass, I guess I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I know its the internet and you don't have to apologize, but I am sorry.
I'm sure you can build a shitty little computer system for $500. My mother can build a shitty little computer system for $500 (including monitor). Do you think that's a talent? I built the first machine that made me more then $100,000 for less then $10.
Can you build it so thin?
But he wasn't so bad. I don't get your point. You have to have an evil dictator, so don't you want one who isn't too bad?