What's needed is a Nobel Prize for Computing that recognizes important contributions to advances in digital technology.
Linus should win that, though probably after Tim Berners Lee, Jef Raskin, Douglas Englebart and others who've made as important contributions as Linus receive it first.
Sometimes the goal isn't trying to use an iPhone like a desktop computer.
For example, part of my job in the next year will be to get an inventory system that makes heavy use of barcodes to work with an iPhone. If I could get a bluetooth barcode scanner to act as a keyboard wedge and go through standard bluetooth keyboard functionality, it would save me the trouble of having the learn the hardware access API.
Nowhere does the article say "Jailbroken", even though the worm only targets jailbroken, non-officially sanctioned stuff that lives outside Apple's cage. This is an open and shut case of Apple's hardware getting blamed for something the hobbyist hack community does. An IT manager who's considering brining iPhone's into the business might read the article, not go the extra mile to find out the exploit's for jailbroken phones only, decide that iPhones are not secure enough yet, and go with a blackberry or something else.
I think Oracle's target market are the web 2.0 cowboys who originally went with MySQL, grew up and realized they needed something more robust, and are currently tied to MySQL because those other alternatives would break their extremely MySQL-specific code. If Oracle can provide a flawless backwards compatibility layer for MySQL, they'd have an edge over the other guys.
As a student with ADD, a math related learning disability, and problems with fine motor coordination (which prevents lots of copious legible hand writing), I found math and sciences classes taught with Chalk talk to be almost unbearable.
-- I could barely pay attention to the professor when two people behind me were discussing their previous night's experiences at the bar. I had nothing to refer to later when I was in the quiet of my own dorm room.
-- I spent all my time reduplicating the teacher's efforts of writing stuff down on the chalkboard instead of learning. This was especially difficult because for me writing was so slow.
-- Most professors can't understand that the massively mutable and non-linear world whiteboard and dry-erase marker doesn't immediately translate into the unerasable, immutable, and linear world of pen, ink, and paper. You can't easily record "write equation, erase half to show why it's wrong, and then rewrite correct half" on pen and paper. And BTW, my notebook isn't 16' long.
-- Being already starved of useful examples in my math textbooks, all the crucial examples I needed being lost of chalk talk pretty much 86'ed my chances of going for a CS degree.
Chalk talk would have been wonderful if the audio were dutifully recorded and the gradual procedures of marker strokes and half-erases were electronically transcribed and made available for later download by students such as myself. But this rarely happened in my experience.
Crapware: A piece of software with the unmistakable stench of uselessness, non-standardness, effort-reduplication, needless self-promotion, incompleteness, and some windows programmer in Taiwan who really should have known better.
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They're saving that for really racy ad where linux is the middleware that joins Mac and PC.
"I'm a mac" (Justin Long touches himself)
"I'm a PC" (John Hodgeman touches himself)
When you take into account the mindless sex-doll career of the character Molly, Sasha Grey is an apt choice for the part.
Then we'd be safe from wiping each other out but we'd be f*##ed when the 6-mile wide asteroid decided to pay us a visit.
What's needed is a Nobel Prize for Computing that recognizes important contributions to advances in digital technology.
Linus should win that, though probably after Tim Berners Lee, Jef Raskin, Douglas Englebart and others who've made as important contributions as Linus receive it first.
Playboy Says Breast Implants Could Control Brain Implants by 2025.
2012 is when mankind artificially induces a supernova to make more uranium to combat the shortage in 2013.
And that's why Spain will never get to host the world Dreidel championships.
Whatever. Call me back when it can split into five lions.
Sometimes the goal isn't trying to use an iPhone like a desktop computer.
For example, part of my job in the next year will be to get an inventory system that makes heavy use of barcodes to work with an iPhone. If I could get a bluetooth barcode scanner to act as a keyboard wedge and go through standard bluetooth keyboard functionality, it would save me the trouble of having the learn the hardware access API.
Is like a multi-billion dollar Harold and Kumar movie.
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29250/1023/
Nowhere does the article say "Jailbroken", even though the worm only targets jailbroken, non-officially sanctioned stuff that lives outside Apple's cage. This is an open and shut case of Apple's hardware getting blamed for something the hobbyist hack community does. An IT manager who's considering brining iPhone's into the business might read the article, not go the extra mile to find out the exploit's for jailbroken phones only, decide that iPhones are not secure enough yet, and go with a blackberry or something else.
I think Oracle's target market are the web 2.0 cowboys who originally went with MySQL, grew up and realized they needed something more robust, and are currently tied to MySQL because those other alternatives would break their extremely MySQL-specific code. If Oracle can provide a flawless backwards compatibility layer for MySQL, they'd have an edge over the other guys.
As a student with ADD, a math related learning disability, and problems with fine motor coordination (which prevents lots of copious legible hand writing), I found math and sciences classes taught with Chalk talk to be almost unbearable.
-- I could barely pay attention to the professor when two people behind me were discussing their previous night's experiences at the bar. I had nothing to refer to later when I was in the quiet of my own dorm room.
-- I spent all my time reduplicating the teacher's efforts of writing stuff down on the chalkboard instead of learning. This was especially difficult because for me writing was so slow.
-- Most professors can't understand that the massively mutable and non-linear world whiteboard and dry-erase marker doesn't immediately translate into the unerasable, immutable, and linear world of pen, ink, and paper. You can't easily record "write equation, erase half to show why it's wrong, and then rewrite correct half" on pen and paper. And BTW, my notebook isn't 16' long.
-- Being already starved of useful examples in my math textbooks, all the crucial examples I needed being lost of chalk talk pretty much 86'ed my chances of going for a CS degree.
Chalk talk would have been wonderful if the audio were dutifully recorded and the gradual procedures of marker strokes and half-erases were electronically transcribed and made available for later download by students such as myself. But this rarely happened in my experience.
"...use the LHC to distill vodka. It makes terrible vodka...."
3. An official OpenOffice Snuggie that's worn at OpenOffice conventions.
There's an app for that.
Finally some vindication for those in the tinfoil hats.
Two pockets is overpriced. Half a pocket would buy you the entire Highlander franchise.
The list only covers snake oil. Cloud computing falls under the category of "vendor's magic beans".
Crapware: A piece of software with the unmistakable stench of uselessness, non-standardness, effort-reduplication, needless self-promotion, incompleteness, and some windows programmer in Taiwan who really should have known better.
In my experience, every Windows OEM machine is on some level its own platform.
Obama's in New South Wales
Cause DSL sucks, and so does cable
He said "can you fix my bandwidth?"
Execs just smiled and handed him a vegemite sandwich
Balloon boy was a hoax. The real child in the crater was baby superman.
Buy a mac mini and hook a bicycle + generator up to it. Runs your server and burns off yesterday's donuts.