In the US at least, the Wii U's release was a bit poorly timed, perhaps. Sure, the holiday season is a great time to launch, but given the current financial situation, the uncertainty in the markets at the end of 2012, and the strain people were already putting on themselves to make sure they could be where they need to be and get other gifts left higher-priced items like the U out of the budget.
Personally, I loved my Wii dearly until I sold it - and I only sold it knowing I'd be buying a U soon enough. I'm still not sure when that will be, but certainly before I even consider a 720 or PS4 or whatever comes out next.
Nonononono you're doing it wrong. They win - they either get their settlement from their lawsuit = $$$ & publicity. Or, they win - the court declares that such copyright claims on something that someone creates, promotes, and shares with the world (in one form or another), is not covered by copyright law. If the latter is the case, then the torrents they help distribute aren't any more in violation than the CPIAC.
As an avid EnyoJS developer, what can you say to the folks over at Sencha? I'm not baiting, but I've always heard mixed opinions about them while never having any trouble from them myself (except that the mods are generally really irritated). Has Enyo benefitted from some of the ideas in ExtJS (dataviews, stores, readers/proxies/etc)? Does there seem to be animosity towards them from the free community?
Frameworks like...jQuery? ExtJS? Vanilla JS? (I know I know). But really, Enyo has taken many baby steps to get to where it is, but it feels like it's coming in late. I've spent years learning jQuery and a couple more learning ExtJS, I have no desire to continue to give Enyo a try when it's been since the TouchPad launch that I've been going back to it, time and time again, in hopes that it matures to a good stable point. It's getting there now, judging that the Showcase doesn't barf on desktop Chrome, but then again it was always on the iPhone that components could and should have been polished but weren't. And, I mean "polished" in a very light sense: action sheets that don't go off the screen; repeaters that work; simple JSON-P examples that return some kind of data. They're getting there, and I commend their effort, I just hope it turns out to be well-spent time working on this project instead of working on improving much more mature, already existing frameworks.
Good luck guys, my hope is seeing a decent competitor to Sencha - sorry jQ, I love you and all, but get with it. UI and Mobile are...neat, but even Twitter Bootstrap's subtle improvements and accessories to jQuery make it a tough sell.
Perhaps, but according to data, they've committed about as much code, while Google has had far more authors working on it. Google also updates Chrome much more frequently, so it's no surprise that they're overtaking Apple on the WebKit development. Chrome updates come in constantly, Safari gets updated just a couple more times that iOS a year, maybe. Apple is focused in many places and it seems that they don't extend their hiring and recruitment nearly as much as Google - it's great when your company supplies 3x the developers to WebKit of Apple, but Apple's focus is making more money from hardware and OS X, not making sure the myriad Android browsers all render kind of in the same way kind of (but not really - minor point releases of 2.3 break on small bits of a project I recently worked on - mobile Safari on the other hand was golden across all testing platforms of iPhone and iPad).
This is something odd I see in my work life constantly - people putting together checklists, tasks sheets, bug tickets (with screenshots???), in Excel spreadsheets. It's really, really odd.
No, and I'm not sure where he's from - I live in the US and none of the banks I've used in the last maybe 5 years have mandated IE 6 - at least not to the public. I worked for Big Ol' Bank for a spat and, up until recently, IE6 was the "must be compatible with" browser of choice, although not the only that we could use. So, our internal sites worked great on modern browsers, and maintained functionality in IE6 thanks to some good JS libraries and sacrificing some data-intensive tasks for people who couldn't get clearance to download a new browser. They've since done a push to install Windows 7 across the enterprise, but who knows when that will be done.
Mod parent up. iOS is a single platform, but new releases (major, point, all) are adopted relatively quickly, and support long lines on the hardware end. Android, however, is slow moving in upgrade adoption - while ICS or JB might have security fixes, most devices are stuck on Gingerbread with no apparent upgrade path from vendors. And, even when Google release major updates, and even if your phone is very capable, odds are you're locked out of doing anything yourself by the manufacturer (or in some cases by your carrier - gf's Xperia had "Untrusted Apps" disabled and locked from being enabled, that's an AT&T "feature").
Touché - I had hastily assigned the ability to sudo to the ability to login as root. And, just tested, it does not set the same as root in OSX. So...Windows, at least XP and Vista. Where's my hat? *begins eating*
And Linux, just as OSX and Windows, often assigns the root password to the first user's password - OEMs used to add their own passwords (at least on some Windows boxes I've used), but it seems they stopped after there was a bunch of "WTF is an Administrator Password? Try Kitties123" I'm thankful for it when I work on someone else's computer, while simultaneously cringing that an entire machine is at the mercy of "stormclouds1"
Still, security ultimately falls on the user - to make an OS stronger we inevitably must make the user smarter, but let's keep throwing firewalls, anit-virus, and ad-block at them until at least they have a computer, even if they don't know what it does or why they haven't seen strange pop ups in months (how many frickin times can you advise someone to at least use a different browser, or less malware-laden porn site?)
That doesn't solve the problem, though - more and more people are using Linux on a regular basis, and while they are shielded from a good majority of threats seen on Windows, it doesn't meant that 1) there isn't spyware that can affect them and 2) that they would know how to lock down their systems just because they have an OS more capable of being finely-tuned and locked down. Don't mistake a great tool for a great carpenter.
Looks awfully like this here thing http://getpebble.com/ but I was only going off the look from the photo in the first link. Still, it's a poor showing on their part to not have anything to...show. I hope Pebble goes better, or at least something decent in both price and and function.
Also, if they were rude, you should have just gone away - don't give them the time or exposure; just let them be dicks and lose everyone's respect.
Let's get real here: "A significant percentage maybe but not a majority" yet you only reference three drugs in the list. Opioids is a little low, but consider the availability of opioids in general - very controlled, hard to cultivate illicitly (at least inside the US I would think) etc etc etc. But, let's do the numbers:
* Weed | 13.7% + Cannabis | 3.6% + Hash | 3.4% + Seeds | 1.5% = 22.2% or a litte more than 1/5 ** Prescription | 7.3% + Drugs | 9.0% + Benzos | 4.9% + Stimulants | 1.2% + Pills | 1.9% + Steroids, PEDs | 1.5% + Opioids | 1.4% = 26.2% so more than 1/4 Cocaine | 2.6% + MDMA (ecstasy) | 1.6% + Blotter (LSD) | 1.8% + Heroin | 1.5% + DMT | 1.4% = 8.9% - marginal, but important
In total, we're looking at ~ 57.3% for illicit drugs. That's a majority, for sure, but since it's not even a total 100% represented up there, I guess I just did all this for nothing. Still, it's def illegal by and large - I almost guarantee 100% that whatever they have to sell is either 1) illegal in the first place 2) illegal if you are not prescribed (and still illegal to obtain if it's not through a pharmacist) or 3) illegal to sell if you are not an authorized retailed (books, digital goods, etc).
*I'm grouping hash in there because, all in all, it's the same thing, just concentrated. Seeds are most likely weed seeds, but if you feel like it's unfair to group them then pot is at 20.7% ** LBRH, Prescription, Drugs, Pills, etc - there are no clearly defined lines in this particular out-of-context table, but I'm going to assume these all fall into the "can be legal but, generally, are considered illicit" - drugs that CAN be prescribed (and pot can, in certain places), but are likely for sale here for the explicit purpose of selling them to people who do not have the proper documentation to obtain or use them legally.
Speaking of High School...I was once threatened with expulsion, had to file a police report, and have my mom come in to talk to the principal because I downloaded public-domain clips of police chases for a report at school. My teacher saw them one day and approved it, and then the next had me taken in for breaching the computer/internet access policy we all had to sign. I had to explain that, due to the loose language of "you may not download any content to school computers" that they should immediately disconnect every computer from the internet, or at least forbid browsing, as every page view "downloads" data to the computer, thus making EVERY user of the internet in the entire district in violation of the policy. Plus it put them in a bind that the teacher saw exactly what I was doing and did nothing about it until another student found the videos the next morning.
They thought they had a computer hacker on their hands and treated me as such. Too bad when we did start testing the network for holes - we found plenty and kept our mouths shut and our found holes open.
But that's the problem - it needs to be a hole that ANY developer can walk through, so not really a hole but a policy change. Unless it plays out for any and all, then I don't think it's a Bad Thing that M$ is paying the same rates. Again, I'm all for reforming the 70/30 cut, but it needs to happen for every player, not just the big boys.
A number of posters here are concerned that this is an overreach of Government, but I'd have to say that this is just what the companies had coming. In the long run, the "advantage" of blasting a commercial is probably NOT benefiting the advertisers - all it does is annoy consumers and leads to one of several outcomes:
- The consumer gets frustrated and complains to the FCC
- The consumer gets frustrated and drops TV for a streaming alternative (avoiding many of the Cable commercials)
- The consumer gets frustrated and DVRs everything (skipping commercials completely)
- The consumer gets frustrated and mutes during commercials (again, the advertiser loses here)
- The consumer deals with it but still has disdain for the commercial's content (advertiser loses a potential customer because who people don't like being yelled at)
All in all, this does advertisers a favor. If they weren't caught up trying to be the loudest out there, they would probably have more success getting people to watch the damn ads. Whenever a loud one comes on when I'm hanging out with people it's a serious of "Ah!!"s "WTF!?"s and groans that culminate in a muting or pausing to do something else and skip the ads later.
This is essentially what already happens on TV and radio networks that break the FCC rules on indecent language. I worked at a college radio station, and the going was "try not to let any swear words slip on the air - either from your mouth or from a CD. If you do and the FCC is listening, we can be fined $[insane amount]." Larger networks or shows can predict what that will cost and go ahead and pay the fines to the broadcaster in order to have "unedited" content hit the airwaves, although I think there are certain words that are absolutely a no-go.
A good thing to have in this Act, and I'm only assuming it's not in there because tl;dr, is to have penalties for repeat offenders so that a system of pay-to-play-(very-loudly) won't crop up - of course, that means limiting the amount of fines coming in to the FCC and thus will likely not happen.
But I can understand telling Microsoft to "shut up and take it" in this situation - unless they're lobbying for better rates for ALL developers and not just trying to push their weight around to get a better one-off deal with Apple, then they need to shut up and take it and play by the same unfair rules as everyone else who wants to be in on the iOS market.
Mod parent up! Same goes for construction workers (at least when I was growing up). I'd go to the sites with my dad and most of the guys working had thermoses in-hand, hopefully with coffee inside...
So...the CLI doesn't make itself useful for visual tasks? Color me surprised as shit - here I was about to Photoshop Beiber's face on a naked dude in my console! Silly me!
And any task that can be done in the GUI, if it can be done in the CLI, will probably be faster in the CLI (and easier to automate). Since most of this is dealing with server administration and not video editing, I suggest you take your hand off of your keyboard, ball it in a fist, and put it somewhere useful.
In today's age nobody really "needs" the desk phone, but they're fairly convenient. Sure, I can IM a co-worker or walk to their desk, but when I don't want to get up but the only good way to explain what's going is with my mouth words, then the desk phone is perfect. And don't forget the ease of using inter-office extensions to call people - easy to remember and recall later when you're all crowded around one desk and need to call IT to restart a service or grant permissions. Conference calls are easier to take with a speaker instead of a mobile IMO...I took one from home the other day on my iPhone and had to eventually Bluetooth the sound through my TouchPad so that I could hear the damn call on the speaker (and no way I'm holding up my mobile for an hour+ to my ear).
Again - need? No. But am I glad I have one? Absolutely.
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In the US at least, the Wii U's release was a bit poorly timed, perhaps. Sure, the holiday season is a great time to launch, but given the current financial situation, the uncertainty in the markets at the end of 2012, and the strain people were already putting on themselves to make sure they could be where they need to be and get other gifts left higher-priced items like the U out of the budget.
Personally, I loved my Wii dearly until I sold it - and I only sold it knowing I'd be buying a U soon enough. I'm still not sure when that will be, but certainly before I even consider a 720 or PS4 or whatever comes out next.
Nonononono you're doing it wrong. They win - they either get their settlement from their lawsuit = $$$ & publicity. Or, they win - the court declares that such copyright claims on something that someone creates, promotes, and shares with the world (in one form or another), is not covered by copyright law. If the latter is the case, then the torrents they help distribute aren't any more in violation than the CPIAC.
As an avid EnyoJS developer, what can you say to the folks over at Sencha? I'm not baiting, but I've always heard mixed opinions about them while never having any trouble from them myself (except that the mods are generally really irritated). Has Enyo benefitted from some of the ideas in ExtJS (dataviews, stores, readers/proxies/etc)? Does there seem to be animosity towards them from the free community?
Frameworks like...jQuery? ExtJS? Vanilla JS? (I know I know). But really, Enyo has taken many baby steps to get to where it is, but it feels like it's coming in late. I've spent years learning jQuery and a couple more learning ExtJS, I have no desire to continue to give Enyo a try when it's been since the TouchPad launch that I've been going back to it, time and time again, in hopes that it matures to a good stable point. It's getting there now, judging that the Showcase doesn't barf on desktop Chrome, but then again it was always on the iPhone that components could and should have been polished but weren't. And, I mean "polished" in a very light sense: action sheets that don't go off the screen; repeaters that work; simple JSON-P examples that return some kind of data. They're getting there, and I commend their effort, I just hope it turns out to be well-spent time working on this project instead of working on improving much more mature, already existing frameworks.
Good luck guys, my hope is seeing a decent competitor to Sencha - sorry jQ, I love you and all, but get with it. UI and Mobile are...neat, but even Twitter Bootstrap's subtle improvements and accessories to jQuery make it a tough sell.
Perhaps, but according to data, they've committed about as much code, while Google has had far more authors working on it. Google also updates Chrome much more frequently, so it's no surprise that they're overtaking Apple on the WebKit development. Chrome updates come in constantly, Safari gets updated just a couple more times that iOS a year, maybe. Apple is focused in many places and it seems that they don't extend their hiring and recruitment nearly as much as Google - it's great when your company supplies 3x the developers to WebKit of Apple, but Apple's focus is making more money from hardware and OS X, not making sure the myriad Android browsers all render kind of in the same way kind of (but not really - minor point releases of 2.3 break on small bits of a project I recently worked on - mobile Safari on the other hand was golden across all testing platforms of iPhone and iPad).
This is something odd I see in my work life constantly - people putting together checklists, tasks sheets, bug tickets (with screenshots???), in Excel spreadsheets. It's really, really odd.
No, and I'm not sure where he's from - I live in the US and none of the banks I've used in the last maybe 5 years have mandated IE 6 - at least not to the public. I worked for Big Ol' Bank for a spat and, up until recently, IE6 was the "must be compatible with" browser of choice, although not the only that we could use. So, our internal sites worked great on modern browsers, and maintained functionality in IE6 thanks to some good JS libraries and sacrificing some data-intensive tasks for people who couldn't get clearance to download a new browser. They've since done a push to install Windows 7 across the enterprise, but who knows when that will be done.
The biggest install base for Android is what, Honeycomb? Shit.
Try an earlier version, oh hmm ah, Gingerbread.
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Mod parent up. iOS is a single platform, but new releases (major, point, all) are adopted relatively quickly, and support long lines on the hardware end. Android, however, is slow moving in upgrade adoption - while ICS or JB might have security fixes, most devices are stuck on Gingerbread with no apparent upgrade path from vendors. And, even when Google release major updates, and even if your phone is very capable, odds are you're locked out of doing anything yourself by the manufacturer (or in some cases by your carrier - gf's Xperia had "Untrusted Apps" disabled and locked from being enabled, that's an AT&T "feature").
but that is NOT root's password.
Touché - I had hastily assigned the ability to sudo to the ability to login as root. And, just tested, it does not set the same as root in OSX. So...Windows, at least XP and Vista. Where's my hat? *begins eating*
And Linux, just as OSX and Windows, often assigns the root password to the first user's password - OEMs used to add their own passwords (at least on some Windows boxes I've used), but it seems they stopped after there was a bunch of "WTF is an Administrator Password? Try Kitties123" I'm thankful for it when I work on someone else's computer, while simultaneously cringing that an entire machine is at the mercy of "stormclouds1"
Still, security ultimately falls on the user - to make an OS stronger we inevitably must make the user smarter, but let's keep throwing firewalls, anit-virus, and ad-block at them until at least they have a computer, even if they don't know what it does or why they haven't seen strange pop ups in months (how many frickin times can you advise someone to at least use a different browser, or less malware-laden porn site?)
That doesn't solve the problem, though - more and more people are using Linux on a regular basis, and while they are shielded from a good majority of threats seen on Windows, it doesn't meant that 1) there isn't spyware that can affect them and 2) that they would know how to lock down their systems just because they have an OS more capable of being finely-tuned and locked down. Don't mistake a great tool for a great carpenter.
Looks awfully like this here thing http://getpebble.com/ but I was only going off the look from the photo in the first link. Still, it's a poor showing on their part to not have anything to ...show. I hope Pebble goes better, or at least something decent in both price and and function.
Also, if they were rude, you should have just gone away - don't give them the time or exposure; just let them be dicks and lose everyone's respect.
Let's get real here: "A significant percentage maybe but not a majority" yet you only reference three drugs in the list. Opioids is a little low, but consider the availability of opioids in general - very controlled, hard to cultivate illicitly (at least inside the US I would think) etc etc etc. But, let's do the numbers:
* Weed | 13.7% + Cannabis | 3.6% + Hash | 3.4% + Seeds | 1.5% = 22.2% or a litte more than 1/5
** Prescription | 7.3% + Drugs | 9.0% + Benzos | 4.9% + Stimulants | 1.2% + Pills | 1.9% + Steroids, PEDs | 1.5% + Opioids | 1.4% = 26.2% so more than 1/4
Cocaine | 2.6% + MDMA (ecstasy) | 1.6% + Blotter (LSD) | 1.8% + Heroin | 1.5% + DMT | 1.4% = 8.9% - marginal, but important
In total, we're looking at ~ 57.3% for illicit drugs. That's a majority, for sure, but since it's not even a total 100% represented up there, I guess I just did all this for nothing. Still, it's def illegal by and large - I almost guarantee 100% that whatever they have to sell is either 1) illegal in the first place 2) illegal if you are not prescribed (and still illegal to obtain if it's not through a pharmacist) or 3) illegal to sell if you are not an authorized retailed (books, digital goods, etc).
*I'm grouping hash in there because, all in all, it's the same thing, just concentrated. Seeds are most likely weed seeds, but if you feel like it's unfair to group them then pot is at 20.7%
** LBRH, Prescription, Drugs, Pills, etc - there are no clearly defined lines in this particular out-of-context table, but I'm going to assume these all fall into the "can be legal but, generally, are considered illicit" - drugs that CAN be prescribed (and pot can, in certain places), but are likely for sale here for the explicit purpose of selling them to people who do not have the proper documentation to obtain or use them legally.
Speaking of High School...I was once threatened with expulsion, had to file a police report, and have my mom come in to talk to the principal because I downloaded public-domain clips of police chases for a report at school. My teacher saw them one day and approved it, and then the next had me taken in for breaching the computer/internet access policy we all had to sign. I had to explain that, due to the loose language of "you may not download any content to school computers" that they should immediately disconnect every computer from the internet, or at least forbid browsing, as every page view "downloads" data to the computer, thus making EVERY user of the internet in the entire district in violation of the policy. Plus it put them in a bind that the teacher saw exactly what I was doing and did nothing about it until another student found the videos the next morning.
They thought they had a computer hacker on their hands and treated me as such. Too bad when we did start testing the network for holes - we found plenty and kept our mouths shut and our found holes open.
I don't think it's that ACs are impervious to humor, it's that it wasn't that humorous (IMHO)
But that's the problem - it needs to be a hole that ANY developer can walk through, so not really a hole but a policy change. Unless it plays out for any and all, then I don't think it's a Bad Thing that M$ is paying the same rates. Again, I'm all for reforming the 70/30 cut, but it needs to happen for every player, not just the big boys.
A number of posters here are concerned that this is an overreach of Government, but I'd have to say that this is just what the companies had coming. In the long run, the "advantage" of blasting a commercial is probably NOT benefiting the advertisers - all it does is annoy consumers and leads to one of several outcomes:
- The consumer gets frustrated and complains to the FCC
- The consumer gets frustrated and drops TV for a streaming alternative (avoiding many of the Cable commercials)
- The consumer gets frustrated and DVRs everything (skipping commercials completely)
- The consumer gets frustrated and mutes during commercials (again, the advertiser loses here)
- The consumer deals with it but still has disdain for the commercial's content (advertiser loses a potential customer because who people don't like being yelled at)
All in all, this does advertisers a favor. If they weren't caught up trying to be the loudest out there, they would probably have more success getting people to watch the damn ads. Whenever a loud one comes on when I'm hanging out with people it's a serious of "Ah!!"s "WTF!?"s and groans that culminate in a muting or pausing to do something else and skip the ads later.
This is essentially what already happens on TV and radio networks that break the FCC rules on indecent language. I worked at a college radio station, and the going was "try not to let any swear words slip on the air - either from your mouth or from a CD. If you do and the FCC is listening, we can be fined $[insane amount]." Larger networks or shows can predict what that will cost and go ahead and pay the fines to the broadcaster in order to have "unedited" content hit the airwaves, although I think there are certain words that are absolutely a no-go.
A good thing to have in this Act, and I'm only assuming it's not in there because tl;dr, is to have penalties for repeat offenders so that a system of pay-to-play-(very-loudly) won't crop up - of course, that means limiting the amount of fines coming in to the FCC and thus will likely not happen.
But I can understand telling Microsoft to "shut up and take it" in this situation - unless they're lobbying for better rates for ALL developers and not just trying to push their weight around to get a better one-off deal with Apple, then they need to shut up and take it and play by the same unfair rules as everyone else who wants to be in on the iOS market.
Mod parent up! Same goes for construction workers (at least when I was growing up). I'd go to the sites with my dad and most of the guys working had thermoses in-hand, hopefully with coffee inside...
So...the CLI doesn't make itself useful for visual tasks? Color me surprised as shit - here I was about to Photoshop Beiber's face on a naked dude in my console! Silly me!
And any task that can be done in the GUI, if it can be done in the CLI, will probably be faster in the CLI (and easier to automate). Since most of this is dealing with server administration and not video editing, I suggest you take your hand off of your keyboard, ball it in a fist, and put it somewhere useful.
(Your mouth, duh).
In today's age nobody really "needs" the desk phone, but they're fairly convenient. Sure, I can IM a co-worker or walk to their desk, but when I don't want to get up but the only good way to explain what's going is with my mouth words, then the desk phone is perfect. And don't forget the ease of using inter-office extensions to call people - easy to remember and recall later when you're all crowded around one desk and need to call IT to restart a service or grant permissions. Conference calls are easier to take with a speaker instead of a mobile IMO...I took one from home the other day on my iPhone and had to eventually Bluetooth the sound through my TouchPad so that I could hear the damn call on the speaker (and no way I'm holding up my mobile for an hour+ to my ear).
Again - need? No. But am I glad I have one? Absolutely.
Lynx in a browser? Wait, isn't that like having a Hot Wheel in a Ferrari?