Absolutely. They could teach us a lot. They would probably tell us that their planet did adopt the Martian Climate Summit resolution. But unfortunately the mammal's flatulent emissions were not taxed at a high enough rate to cancel out the anal footprint. A heavier tax burden would have surely enabled them to control their atmosphere's methane pollution.
AT&T is essentially putting the spotlight on it's weakest link by drawing so much attention to this trial. Now everybody will be educated on exactly what's wrong with AT&T today.
Seriously, does anybody really think that government is made up of the country's smartest people? That being said, why do some people think it's a great idea vote people into office who will tax us to come up with these half-witted "solutions" that don't even make any noticeable difference?
.NET developers will enjoy the foundation the same way PHP devs enjoy all the PHP-based freebies out there. Who knows, some PHP devs will realize that.NET websites compile down to a DLL which can be handed over to a customer to host in their own datacenter. No more awkward sales pitches about how we can't give you the code or the database. You just have to trust your data with us and our datacenter (oh, and pay for our services now and till forever).
There's a niche out there. Some companies need to have the code and db running in their own data center. PHP shops are scared their code will get stolen or worse, get cut out of the revenue loop after the initial project is finished.
.NET isn't a scripting language. And you don't have to give anybody your code if the customer wants to host your software themselves.
Or just use Java and JSP, right? Yea if you want to do 10X the work for a much less elegant solution. ASP.NET is actually really slick. Of course, you can't just start on Day 1 with a fully implemented Joomla site. But it's definitely the way to go if you're truly doing something new.
Exactly. This project is simply a case study on how to build a web application on top of the most obscure infrastructure imaginable. That must be why there aren't many posts yet. All the bleeding-edge early-adopter \. flame-stokers were recruited for FlightCaster and are under NDAs.
To all the replies that said the the difference between the two is obvious, I completely agree. One is of Bush and the other is of Obama. That, and the Time Mag image is a drawing while the poster was photo edited in Photoshop. Other than that, both were in very bad taste. Even in the posts to the gp everybody wants to defend what Time did.
It's just weird that that kind of blatant bias comes from people who claim to be giving equal treatment. The double-standard is alive and well.
It is interesting that when Time did this very thing to a photo of Bush our unbiased main-stream media thought it was thought-provoking and no censorship or wrist-slapping was encouraged.
With all due respect to the parent, the non-government-owned companies who build submarines, aircraft carriers and other nuclear powered vessels are not government owned or run. They are 100% non-government-owned free market capitalistic companies. They play by the rules that govern what it takes to get a government contract in the free market. They have built credibility in their field. And they only bid on projects that their non-government-employed board of directors deem that they can turn into a profitable endeavor. Electric Boat, General Dynamics, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, and every other military contractor are all owned by United States citizens (not a single share owned by the US government).
Unfortunately this post will be modded down because of the tone that nuclear powered vessels are not built by the US government (implying that companies owned by "free marketers" are the ones to credit for the US Navy's nuclear success).
I think that the best way to promote wide-spread browser standards on the web is for us all to give Microsoft our support and money when they promise that they will work hard to standardize the web. Microsoft has a history of thinking selflessly. And after all, Windows is on 90% of the world's computers. So who better to make sure that the changes get put into effect? Of course you'll always have the non-conformist Linux nuts.
I also believe in passing laws so the US government can force tax money from your paycheck because they promise that they will do something about climate change. They've always been really good about delivering on their promises. And only the government can force people to do the right thing. Of course you'll always have those pesky idiots who think they have a right to do whatever they want with the money they earn.
There is really no other solution that has a chance of working. Now imagine if the US Government and Microsoft got together to solve all the worlds problems!
Counteroffers are pointless. The idea is that your current company will offer you more. The catch is that if you accept you are the disloyal employee who's IP will be transferred ASAP just before they are cut out for good.
In IT you have to jump ship, with a zero day notice and no counter offers entertained.
So more A-10s putting more ordance where the infantry needs it seems a better deal than F-22's holding air superiority over a non-existant enemy air force. IMHO
Why the hell do you think it's non-existent? Because they don't dare to fly against the USAF. Then we bomb the hell out of them sitting on the tarmac. And how's the A-10 going to be able to focus on it's mission if it's got to fight off all the enemy fighters because we didn't build enough F-22 air-superiority fighters (news flash: the F-15s will wear out someday soon)? I've got huge love for the A-10. I used to live in a city that had an A-10 air base. It was very cool. But having less than 200 F-22s to handle air superiority for the 1,500+ F-35 air to ground fighters the USAF will eventually have seems like a small number to me.
I don't think many people on/. realize how significant it is that the F-22 represents a hot manufacturing production line at full capacity. This rarely happens. Remember all the cool "X" planes that millions/billions were spent on developing that never made it to the "Operational" status and not more than a few prototypes were ever developed?
Most of the time there were good reasons for scraping the X planes. But with the F-22 we have an amazing plan that delivers on all of its promises AND it has reached operational status AND the production line is still hot, cranking them out at full capacity. It's taken this program 20+ years to get to this point. Let's build as many of these plans as we can while the opportunity is at hand.
Are you so short-sighted to believe that we should just quit the F-22 and get a new cheaper "6th gen" plan rolling of the production lines in a few years? Keep dreaming! These things take decades to happen. And when they do don't cut the legs out from under the entire effort!
And why don't they attach a mini-wind farm to it as well to harness energy from the wind? And then put solar panels all over the exterior of the ship to harness the solar power. This would save so much money! Shoot, we could do this with all the Navy surface vessels! Then the entire US Navy us could be permanently anchored just off the US coast and sell the excess power back to power companies! Heck I think this is a Green initiative that Russia, China and all the terrorists would even support!
What is involved in developing an application for the iPhone? Even just a simple Hello World app. What OS, programming language, IDE, emulator etc must you use to do the actual development?
Also, any overall comments on unexpected difficulties and/or surprisingly nice aspects are welcome as well. Thanks!
MS has always had an ace in the hole that no other company has figured out so far. Make it easy and profitable for software developers. Ever heard of VB? How about VBA? How about.NET? DirectX? Visual Studio? MS makes it very appealing to write an app with MS technology.
Apple? Everything is a major pain in the ass for developers when compared to the simplicity of developing for Windows.
Google? Let's face it, even Java developers admit now that.NET is far superior, slick and better supported (and isn't getting kicked to the curb by it's creators). Google is still sticking with Java because it's the next best thing that isn't anchored to the evil MS.
And btw, even the iPhone is a pain to develop for. The only reason we've seen 50,000 new apps being written for it since it came out is because you can actually make money writing a simple iFart application. Once developers are required to write useful apps that actually have some complexity the developers will start longing for the simplicity and power of the MS development stack again.
Yea, I feel so stimulated! How long will it take to finish? When will we be able to find out where all the trillions have gone? What are the chances the new Recover.gov will be available during Obama's first term?
Yea, it's good that Apple will finally have some competition. Now the iPhone/MacBook crowd who only use their computer for dicking around on the Internet and checking email will have another choice that doesn't involve paying for the Apple logo.
Of course without that logo you won't be officially in the club anymore. But since allegiance to Google's latest innovations has the same anti-MS/elitist vibe can't we create a new Apple Club "Associate Member" status?
Yea, it's good that Apple will finally have some competition. Now the iPhone/MacBook crowd who only use their computer for dicking around on the Internet will have another choice that doesn't involve paying for the Apple logo.
Of course without that logo you won't be officially in the club anymore. But since allegiance to Google's latest innovations has the same anti-MS/elitist vibe can't we create a new Apple Club "Associate Member" status?
We should hunt them to near-extinction. Then they'll get put on the extinction list and all tuna fishing will be banned. Then my roommate will have to find a different terrible-smelling food to eat. . . in mass quantities . . . EVERY evening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I wonder how many times he used the foster girls without their permission.
Absolutely. They could teach us a lot. They would probably tell us that their planet did adopt the Martian Climate Summit resolution. But unfortunately the mammal's flatulent emissions were not taxed at a high enough rate to cancel out the anal footprint. A heavier tax burden would have surely enabled them to control their atmosphere's methane pollution.
AT&T is essentially putting the spotlight on it's weakest link by drawing so much attention to this trial. Now everybody will be educated on exactly what's wrong with AT&T today.
What rock did you just crawl out from under?
or government in general...
Seriously, does anybody really think that government is made up of the country's smartest people? That being said, why do some people think it's a great idea vote people into office who will tax us to come up with these half-witted "solutions" that don't even make any noticeable difference?
.NET developers will enjoy the foundation the same way PHP devs enjoy all the PHP-based freebies out there. Who knows, some PHP devs will realize that .NET websites compile down to a DLL which can be handed over to a customer to host in their own datacenter. No more awkward sales pitches about how we can't give you the code or the database. You just have to trust your data with us and our datacenter (oh, and pay for our services now and till forever).
.NET isn't a scripting language. And you don't have to give anybody your code if the customer wants to host your software themselves.
There's a niche out there. Some companies need to have the code and db running in their own data center. PHP shops are scared their code will get stolen or worse, get cut out of the revenue loop after the initial project is finished.
Or just use Java and JSP, right? Yea if you want to do 10X the work for a much less elegant solution. ASP.NET is actually really slick. Of course, you can't just start on Day 1 with a fully implemented Joomla site. But it's definitely the way to go if you're truly doing something new.
So they basically claim they have a patent on the one-to-many Foreign Key?
Exactly. This project is simply a case study on how to build a web application on top of the most obscure infrastructure imaginable. That must be why there aren't many posts yet. All the bleeding-edge early-adopter \. flame-stokers were recruited for FlightCaster and are under NDAs.
I did a google search for "time magazine joker bush cover" and this was nested under the 1st result:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/03/obama-joker-poster-starts-outrage-bush-joker-poster-not-so-much
To all the replies that said the the difference between the two is obvious, I completely agree. One is of Bush and the other is of Obama. That, and the Time Mag image is a drawing while the poster was photo edited in Photoshop. Other than that, both were in very bad taste. Even in the posts to the gp everybody wants to defend what Time did.
It's just weird that that kind of blatant bias comes from people who claim to be giving equal treatment. The double-standard is alive and well.
It is interesting that when Time did this very thing to a photo of Bush our unbiased main-stream media thought it was thought-provoking and no censorship or wrist-slapping was encouraged.
With all due respect to the parent, the non-government-owned companies who build submarines, aircraft carriers and other nuclear powered vessels are not government owned or run. They are 100% non-government-owned free market capitalistic companies. They play by the rules that govern what it takes to get a government contract in the free market. They have built credibility in their field. And they only bid on projects that their non-government-employed board of directors deem that they can turn into a profitable endeavor. Electric Boat, General Dynamics, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, and every other military contractor are all owned by United States citizens (not a single share owned by the US government).
Unfortunately this post will be modded down because of the tone that nuclear powered vessels are not built by the US government (implying that companies owned by "free marketers" are the ones to credit for the US Navy's nuclear success).
I think that the best way to promote wide-spread browser standards on the web is for us all to give Microsoft our support and money when they promise that they will work hard to standardize the web. Microsoft has a history of thinking selflessly. And after all, Windows is on 90% of the world's computers. So who better to make sure that the changes get put into effect? Of course you'll always have the non-conformist Linux nuts.
I also believe in passing laws so the US government can force tax money from your paycheck because they promise that they will do something about climate change. They've always been really good about delivering on their promises. And only the government can force people to do the right thing. Of course you'll always have those pesky idiots who think they have a right to do whatever they want with the money they earn.
There is really no other solution that has a chance of working. Now imagine if the US Government and Microsoft got together to solve all the worlds problems!
Nope GW is a fact (as well as Global Cooling). The question is whether it is man-made or just natural climate cycles.
Counteroffers are pointless. The idea is that your current company will offer you more. The catch is that if you accept you are the disloyal employee who's IP will be transferred ASAP just before they are cut out for good.
In IT you have to jump ship, with a zero day notice and no counter offers entertained.
So more A-10s putting more ordance where the infantry needs it seems a better deal than F-22's holding air superiority over a non-existant enemy air force. IMHO
Why the hell do you think it's non-existent? Because they don't dare to fly against the USAF. Then we bomb the hell out of them sitting on the tarmac. And how's the A-10 going to be able to focus on it's mission if it's got to fight off all the enemy fighters because we didn't build enough F-22 air-superiority fighters (news flash: the F-15s will wear out someday soon)? I've got huge love for the A-10. I used to live in a city that had an A-10 air base. It was very cool. But having less than 200 F-22s to handle air superiority for the 1,500+ F-35 air to ground fighters the USAF will eventually have seems like a small number to me.
I don't think many people on /. realize how significant it is that the F-22 represents a hot manufacturing production line at full capacity. This rarely happens. Remember all the cool "X" planes that millions/billions were spent on developing that never made it to the "Operational" status and not more than a few prototypes were ever developed?
Most of the time there were good reasons for scraping the X planes. But with the F-22 we have an amazing plan that delivers on all of its promises AND it has reached operational status AND the production line is still hot, cranking them out at full capacity. It's taken this program 20+ years to get to this point. Let's build as many of these plans as we can while the opportunity is at hand.
Are you so short-sighted to believe that we should just quit the F-22 and get a new cheaper "6th gen" plan rolling of the production lines in a few years? Keep dreaming! These things take decades to happen. And when they do don't cut the legs out from under the entire effort!
And why don't they attach a mini-wind farm to it as well to harness energy from the wind? And then put solar panels all over the exterior of the ship to harness the solar power. This would save so much money! Shoot, we could do this with all the Navy surface vessels! Then the entire US Navy us could be permanently anchored just off the US coast and sell the excess power back to power companies! Heck I think this is a Green initiative that Russia, China and all the terrorists would even support!
What is involved in developing an application for the iPhone? Even just a simple Hello World app. What OS, programming language, IDE, emulator etc must you use to do the actual development?
Also, any overall comments on unexpected difficulties and/or surprisingly nice aspects are welcome as well. Thanks!
MS has always had an ace in the hole that no other company has figured out so far. Make it easy and profitable for software developers. Ever heard of VB? How about VBA? How about .NET? DirectX? Visual Studio? MS makes it very appealing to write an app with MS technology.
.NET is far superior, slick and better supported (and isn't getting kicked to the curb by it's creators). Google is still sticking with Java because it's the next best thing that isn't anchored to the evil MS.
Apple? Everything is a major pain in the ass for developers when compared to the simplicity of developing for Windows.
Google? Let's face it, even Java developers admit now that
And btw, even the iPhone is a pain to develop for. The only reason we've seen 50,000 new apps being written for it since it came out is because you can actually make money writing a simple iFart application. Once developers are required to write useful apps that actually have some complexity the developers will start longing for the simplicity and power of the MS development stack again.
Yea, I feel so stimulated! How long will it take to finish? When will we be able to find out where all the trillions have gone? What are the chances the new Recover.gov will be available during Obama's first term?
Maybe if Google partners with Microsoft we'll finally get decent everything support.
Yea, it's good that Apple will finally have some competition. Now the iPhone/MacBook crowd who only use their computer for dicking around on the Internet and checking email will have another choice that doesn't involve paying for the Apple logo. Of course without that logo you won't be officially in the club anymore. But since allegiance to Google's latest innovations has the same anti-MS/elitist vibe can't we create a new Apple Club "Associate Member" status?
Yea, it's good that Apple will finally have some competition. Now the iPhone/MacBook crowd who only use their computer for dicking around on the Internet will have another choice that doesn't involve paying for the Apple logo.
Of course without that logo you won't be officially in the club anymore. But since allegiance to Google's latest innovations has the same anti-MS/elitist vibe can't we create a new Apple Club "Associate Member" status?
We should hunt them to near-extinction. Then they'll get put on the extinction list and all tuna fishing will be banned. Then my roommate will have to find a different terrible-smelling food to eat. . . in mass quantities . . . EVERY evening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey! Lay off of Obama. Or ACORN will bust your kneecaps.