I'm pretty much at the point where I'm sick of arguing about what is not even coding style anymore, it's formatting style. This can now be done by any decent IDE. If the code is not in a format you can read, press a button. For bonus points, have it put into a standard format at commit time do allow diffs to work properly. Concentrate on the important things, like badly _written_ code.
I'm hoping the big change comes as corporations replace IE6. Moving to IE8 puts them in almost the same position they're in now 5 years down the road with respect to standards compliance, tie-in to the OS, etc, but it seems that's what most are doing. Perhaps some of them will have learned something.
Actually, no. It used to be that I didn't read the articles. From there I progressed to not reading the summary... not reading the comments was just the next logical step.
Android remains an open OS, but what some phone manufacturers are doing is very bad (fused ROMS, locked bootloaders). I'm hoping word spreads and people avoid those phones.
I'm assuming that by "and it had actually been changed" you mean that they changed, not that you did before them. If you had the password left as it's initial value, they set this for you, and the change they made did the same, just to a more secure value. If they changed your password even though you had already done it, my apologies, as that ain't right. I would hope that if you changed your password to a custom value, they have no way to change anything on your router.
Apple has historically been very slow in patching exploits. There have been Java VM exploits and others that they've about a year behind the curve on. I think the issue only received the attention it got because of media hype. Overall, I think patches for exploits should be made available to everyone as soon as they're ready like Linux does. Doing ''scheduled" updates like Microsoft does is ridiculous, as is carriers being involved in sending out updates to the Android OS.
Sadly there are reasons a wallpaper application would actually require full internet access, such as loading new pictures, etc. The fact it's a wallpaper application is not really that relevant, it could have been anything. I'm not sure of the depth of review at Apple, but I'm fairly sure the same thing could be slipped through without too much trouble. Poorly behaved applications are going to appear from time to time on any platform.
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It does sound like there will be a setting that can be changed, but the default is silent install.
Good thing too. The fact that it's illegal to kill them is the only thing keeping a significant number of people alive.
So? How did I do?
If it was a little more arrogant and terse, it could be one of Steve's emails.
Well, I'm glad that's settled. Most of us have some reformatting to do, so it may be a little quiet around here for a while.
I'm pretty much at the point where I'm sick of arguing about what is not even coding style anymore, it's formatting style. This can now be done by any decent IDE. If the code is not in a format you can read, press a button. For bonus points, have it put into a standard format at commit time do allow diffs to work properly. Concentrate on the important things, like badly _written_ code.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought that if you improved on a patent, you could get a patent on the improvement. Is this not the case anymore?
I thought "It Just Works" was describing iOS 4 on the 3G ...
In iPad use, the state of New York took top honors.
Honors? Please.
I'm hoping the big change comes as corporations replace IE6. Moving to IE8 puts them in almost the same position they're in now 5 years down the road with respect to standards compliance, tie-in to the OS, etc, but it seems that's what most are doing. Perhaps some of them will have learned something.
Actually, no. It used to be that I didn't read the articles. From there I progressed to not reading the summary ... not reading the comments was just the next logical step.
Android remains an open OS, but what some phone manufacturers are doing is very bad (fused ROMS, locked bootloaders). I'm hoping word spreads and people avoid those phones.
I'm terribly sorry, I thought Apple "Just Works". Turns out that's true with iOS 4 on the 3G, but in a different way.
They included it so people would buy new hardware would be my guess.
I'm assuming that by "and it had actually been changed" you mean that they changed, not that you did before them. If you had the password left as it's initial value, they set this for you, and the change they made did the same, just to a more secure value. If they changed your password even though you had already done it, my apologies, as that ain't right. I would hope that if you changed your password to a custom value, they have no way to change anything on your router.
computers and other devices are simply magic.
Why wouldn't they; some of them are even advertised that way.
Apple has historically been very slow in patching exploits. There have been Java VM exploits and others that they've about a year behind the curve on. I think the issue only received the attention it got because of media hype. Overall, I think patches for exploits should be made available to everyone as soon as they're ready like Linux does. Doing ''scheduled" updates like Microsoft does is ridiculous, as is carriers being involved in sending out updates to the Android OS.
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Sadly there are reasons a wallpaper application would actually require full internet access, such as loading new pictures, etc. The fact it's a wallpaper application is not really that relevant, it could have been anything. I'm not sure of the depth of review at Apple, but I'm fairly sure the same thing could be slipped through without too much trouble. Poorly behaved applications are going to appear from time to time on any platform.
Simply put, over-provisioning is relatively harmless while under-provisioning is very bad.
So, Google is Evil because they release a useful tool that slimy people are abusing?
No desk space required ... but it will probably retain most of the disadvantages of other trackpads while adding a bit more usability.
everything added after that is entirely up to him or her.
... well, unless it's porn, flash, or anything programmable ... currently.
I'd like to think that as well, but they do seem to enjoy it.
I find it amazing that he's lasted this long. The man has a bit of a history as a public relations problem.
Sorry, I keep say Gnome Desktop when I mean Gnome Shell. Gnome shell uses a very similar approach with desktop windows.