Oh and the worst was Independence Day when they upload a "virus" to what would be a totally unknown operating system.
Here's a copy of the review of Independence Day I wrote for Netflix:
"Hey, I've got it! I'll write a computer virus that runs under a completely unknown operating system written by an extraterrestrial intelligence I know nothing about and which, in turn, runs on an alien hardware technology I've never even seen. Then, when I'm done, I'll just hook my laptop up to that alien hardware (which, conveniently, just happens have compatible I/O hardware) and upload to it! Give me a couple of hours..."
Oh, yeah, for sure...
2 out of 4 people found it helpful. The other two were obviously not nerds.
Not every family had the money for those toys back then..
That's for sure. I remember my Atari 800--2 external 5-1/4" floppy drives, a RS-232 serial adapter interface, a big, big 48KB of RAM--$1200, no monitor included. Ow.
It's funny, when its in their favor, Apple fanboys here talk about the iPhone outselling every other phone (though it's not)... they talk about it being so amazingly popular in the market, and of the huge demand...
When it's not, they say "Look around, we're just a little fish in a big pond!"...
Huh? Where did you get that? I see nothing in the OP that makes such a statement at all. All it says is this:
The first thing you have to prove in a tying case is that Apple has market power.
He or she is saying that that is the first thing that will have to be proved, not that Apple doesn't have market power.
You need to stop letting your ideology get in the way of your reading comprehension. None of this stuff matters all that much beyond the boundaries of Slashdot.
Correction: the $99 yearly fee for iPhone development is for the signing key needed to distribute apps, not strictly for access to the App Store. You do get that as well, though.
You can write completely free apps for the iPhone using XCode too. Sure you have to join the developer program, but $99 a year for tools is cheap compared any equivalent flash tools.
Oh, yeah, certainly. And the tools are actually a free download, the yearly fee is strictly for access to the App Store. The limitation for apps built in this way is that you have to distribute them via Apple's App Store. That's the one advantage to building Web apps--you can distribute them freely on the Web.
In any case, either sort of iPhone development is way cheaper than Flash ($599 for the authoring tools) or WiMo development, where not only do you have to buy the tools ($799 for Visual Studio) and pay a $99 yearly fee, you have to pay a $99 application fee for each app you wish to distribute in addition to the 30% cut Microsoft takes.
My farm is highly illegal anyway, and I've seen a few state police choppers flying overhead lately
Man, don't you just hate it when that happens? Fuckin' Facebook Police. And where's that forty acres and a mule FB promised us when we joined up anyway?
(No joke, back in my misspent youth I made my living as a producer of non-approved herbal supplements up in Oregon. Fairly lucrative, enough for a comfortable if simple lifestyle, but I finally gave it up for exactly those reasons--I knew it was only a matter of time before I got caught.)
That would have held a lot more weight with me if you'd been brave and certain enough of your convictions to post without hiding behind anonymity.
And, if you'd actually, you know, read my comment, you would have noticed I'm not defending them being there in the first place. Also, if you weren't a troll, you would have been aware that there's a difference between what the Nazis did and a lawful order in combat.
Mistakes happen in war, which is one of thousands of very good reasons not to engage in it. I will match my life-long opposition to war with anyone else's.
Oh, and by the way, are you sure you're not just saying this because I wouldn't visit your farm, then dumped you on Facebook? Like I I told you, it's not you, it's me.
You do have a point. I guess I'm worried about the veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars experiencing the same demonization that happened to Vietnam vets. Speaking as someone who was actively involved in the anti-war movement of the Sixties and Seventies, that's the single aspect of the entire endeavor I'm not proud of.
You're right that they volunteered, but they did it either out of a sense of patriotism--possibly misplaced patriotism, but patriotism none the less--or economic necessity. I know a number of young people who joined up because they had no other prospects. BTW, I agree that some sort of compulsory national service is called for, but only if there's an option for non-military service allowed.
As far as young American men and women having no moral involvement, that's a tough call. The thing is, there's a reason beyond mere physical strength and endurance that compels the military to chose young people and that's the fact that human brains aren't fully developed until about age 25. Young people haven't yet acquired either the life experience or synapses to make wise judgements on fine points of morality. That's why young people do the dumb stuff they do, and why they deserve at least a little bit of slack in this case.
Not fair to attack the individuals. They're regular people just doing what they're trained (and ordered) to do.
If, on the other hand you want to go after the political policies that put the individuals in that position in the first place, be my guest. I'm with you on that.
You seem to be missing the entire point of this sub-thread, then changing it's direction to make your own, entirely different point.
I'm not saying that Jobs isn't an arrogant dick--I sure as hell couldn't work for him--only that a post complaining about his treatment of his daughter isn't relevant to this thread.
I can't claim to hang with the same crowd as CEOs of large, successful corporations but I've met and occasionally worked with a few in the past, mostly by random chance. With only a couple of exceptions, they all exhibited a degree of of megalomaniacal dickishness. It seems to come with the position. If one were to exclude buying a service or product on the basis of the personal behavior of the CEO of the company that developed it, he or she might have go live in a cave.
Several previously-announced tablet projects have been canceled now and the reason should be obvious. Before it's release, everyone was predicting that the iPad was going to be priced around $1000. Many companies felt that they could release a competing product that could undercut that price and started designing hardware. When it turned out that the price of the iPod was half of what it was expected to be, suddenly those $800 (or whatever) tablets became pointless. The companies had two choices: drop the price to $499, which would have meant losing money on each unit, or drop the project. The smart thing to do was obvious.
Okay, so he has been a dick in his personal life. That has nothing to do with the topic. If you found out that Linus kicked his dog* would you stop using Linux? Or, if you're a Windows user, it's a well-known fact that Steve Ballmer has a violent temper which sometimes manifests itself through flying furniture (he's also a terrible dancer but, then again, so is Steve Wozniac). Is that enough to make you stop using Windows?
Lots of people have personality flaws. Hell, everybody has personality flaws, including you and I. That's life, get over it.
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Oh and the worst was Independence Day when they upload a "virus" to what would be a totally unknown operating system.
Here's a copy of the review of Independence Day I wrote for Netflix:
2 out of 4 people found it helpful. The other two were obviously not nerds.
Risque or naughty, maybe. Still, the guy should have been paying more attention to his job.
That shit was funny for a while but now it's just annoying. Give it up, dude.
" and could offer scientists more insight into the red planet's make-up"
A planet full of Republicans?
I always liked this one.
Not every family had the money for those toys back then..
That's for sure. I remember my Atari 800--2 external 5-1/4" floppy drives, a RS-232 serial adapter interface, a big, big 48KB of RAM--$1200, no monitor included. Ow.
Thanks. Interesting.
The above is a valid English sentence and a poignant example of how difficult it is to parse language without knowledge of semantics.
Although it's either lacking in punctuation or using non-standard capitalization.
Then again, maybe he's invoking both the large mammal and the eponymous city in New York?
After all, it's how the RDF makes fanbois out of everybody who comes too close to His Jobsness. Who is going to investigate that?
These guys. And no one will be expecting it.
It's funny, when its in their favor, Apple fanboys here talk about the iPhone outselling every other phone (though it's not)... they talk about it being so amazingly popular in the market, and of the huge demand...
When it's not, they say "Look around, we're just a little fish in a big pond!"...
Huh? Where did you get that? I see nothing in the OP that makes such a statement at all. All it says is this:
He or she is saying that that is the first thing that will have to be proved, not that Apple doesn't have market power.
You need to stop letting your ideology get in the way of your reading comprehension. None of this stuff matters all that much beyond the boundaries of Slashdot.
Correction: the $99 yearly fee for iPhone development is for the signing key needed to distribute apps, not strictly for access to the App Store. You do get that as well, though.
You can write completely free apps for the iPhone using XCode too. Sure you have to join the developer program, but $99 a year for tools is cheap compared any equivalent flash tools.
Oh, yeah, certainly. And the tools are actually a free download, the yearly fee is strictly for access to the App Store. The limitation for apps built in this way is that you have to distribute them via Apple's App Store. That's the one advantage to building Web apps--you can distribute them freely on the Web.
In any case, either sort of iPhone development is way cheaper than Flash ($599 for the authoring tools) or WiMo development, where not only do you have to buy the tools ($799 for Visual Studio) and pay a $99 yearly fee, you have to pay a $99 application fee for each app you wish to distribute in addition to the 30% cut Microsoft takes.
My farm is highly illegal anyway, and I've seen a few state police choppers flying overhead lately
Man, don't you just hate it when that happens? Fuckin' Facebook Police. And where's that forty acres and a mule FB promised us when we joined up anyway?
(No joke, back in my misspent youth I made my living as a producer of non-approved herbal supplements up in Oregon. Fairly lucrative, enough for a comfortable if simple lifestyle, but I finally gave it up for exactly those reasons--I knew it was only a matter of time before I got caught.)
It's interesting, during the current screaming over our national debt, to remember that our country was born in debt, to the French.
I think that calls for a re-naming of a certain foreign-themed fast food menu item. As in "Gimme a Big Mac and a large order of Debt Fries, please."
Yeah, if I'd read TFA more carefully, I would have noticed that this thing is designed to be deployed over a LAN, not the Internet. My bad.
That would have held a lot more weight with me if you'd been brave and certain enough of your convictions to post without hiding behind anonymity.
And, if you'd actually, you know, read my comment, you would have noticed I'm not defending them being there in the first place. Also, if you weren't a troll, you would have been aware that there's a difference between what the Nazis did and a lawful order in combat.
Mistakes happen in war, which is one of thousands of very good reasons not to engage in it. I will match my life-long opposition to war with anyone else's.
it can simultaneously send and control thousands non-intrusive agents
Anyone else out there find this statement just a bit worrisome?
Oh, and by the way, are you sure you're not just saying this because I wouldn't visit your farm, then dumped you on Facebook? Like I I told you, it's not you, it's me.
You do have a point. I guess I'm worried about the veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars experiencing the same demonization that happened to Vietnam vets. Speaking as someone who was actively involved in the anti-war movement of the Sixties and Seventies, that's the single aspect of the entire endeavor I'm not proud of.
You're right that they volunteered, but they did it either out of a sense of patriotism--possibly misplaced patriotism, but patriotism none the less--or economic necessity. I know a number of young people who joined up because they had no other prospects. BTW, I agree that some sort of compulsory national service is called for, but only if there's an option for non-military service allowed.
As far as young American men and women having no moral involvement, that's a tough call. The thing is, there's a reason beyond mere physical strength and endurance that compels the military to chose young people and that's the fact that human brains aren't fully developed until about age 25. Young people haven't yet acquired either the life experience or synapses to make wise judgements on fine points of morality. That's why young people do the dumb stuff they do, and why they deserve at least a little bit of slack in this case.
Not fair to attack the individuals. They're regular people just doing what they're trained (and ordered) to do.
If, on the other hand you want to go after the political policies that put the individuals in that position in the first place, be my guest. I'm with you on that.
So, what's his key binding for deploying airstrikes?
control-alt-delete
You seem to be missing the entire point of this sub-thread, then changing it's direction to make your own, entirely different point.
I'm not saying that Jobs isn't an arrogant dick--I sure as hell couldn't work for him--only that a post complaining about his treatment of his daughter isn't relevant to this thread.
I can't claim to hang with the same crowd as CEOs of large, successful corporations but I've met and occasionally worked with a few in the past, mostly by random chance. With only a couple of exceptions, they all exhibited a degree of of megalomaniacal dickishness. It seems to come with the position. If one were to exclude buying a service or product on the basis of the personal behavior of the CEO of the company that developed it, he or she might have go live in a cave.
Several previously-announced tablet projects have been canceled now and the reason should be obvious. Before it's release, everyone was predicting that the iPad was going to be priced around $1000. Many companies felt that they could release a competing product that could undercut that price and started designing hardware. When it turned out that the price of the iPod was half of what it was expected to be, suddenly those $800 (or whatever) tablets became pointless. The companies had two choices: drop the price to $499, which would have meant losing money on each unit, or drop the project. The smart thing to do was obvious.
Sure, that's fine and makes perfect sense. But the post I was responding to was a complaint about Jobs's personal life.
Okay, so he has been a dick in his personal life. That has nothing to do with the topic. If you found out that Linus kicked his dog* would you stop using Linux? Or, if you're a Windows user, it's a well-known fact that Steve Ballmer has a violent temper which sometimes manifests itself through flying furniture (he's also a terrible dancer but, then again, so is Steve Wozniac). Is that enough to make you stop using Windows?
Lots of people have personality flaws. Hell, everybody has personality flaws, including you and I. That's life, get over it.
* Hypothetical example, I'm not claiming he does.