I'm sure it's been said, but, this "news" is so ridiculous that I'm fighting looking at the comments so that I can try to peruse the other headlines.
Of course tablets aren't threatening to PCs.
Tablets aren't threatening to smart phones.
Tablets aren't threatening to anyone.
There's a market for them, there's a market for PCs, and a market for toasters that can tweet - some things will come and go in technology and some will stay until a truly great solution replaces them.
Yay.
And I'm gonna read the comments, ooooohhhh yeah
I know I know, getting your hands on one won't be as easy as going to Best Buy et al. and grabbing one from the shelves, but it does do all of the requested tasks (running ubuntu with X11 in a card right now). "Rooting" is as trivial as getting to the hidden Developer app and flipping a switch to turn Developer Mode on. A little install of Preware and you're good to go. I don't believe it voids the warranty, although the process or some of the software you end up installing (Govnah, for instance) may indeed void your warranty.
All in all, I've been impressed with the TP's speed, WebOS's UI and the community that exists around the TP - very nice people and knowledgeable.
you just need to add your styles, template, and business-specific logic and you're done.
and then I saw this:
Being a.NET dev
Now, I've only used a couple PHP frameworks and only done anything with one particular CMS (don't even remember what it was). But when I think of a framework, I think of staying out of the way. Something like CodeIgnitor or Kohana (personal favorite right now). When I think of CMS I think biiiiiggggggg. That doesn't mean they don't have a place, but if you're goal is something complex in functionality and simple in design, then a framework is the perfect middleground between From Scratch and Too Big to Handle.
If your approach to every project is "There's a CMS for that!" then you are probably doing it wrong.
Asshole! I just clicked that and saw about 10 articles...I'll be bankrupt and thus am sueing you, assuming you read this reply without paying me of course.
I think he means small amounts of logic - think of menus, save game storage, network play - the underlying structural logic may not gave to be altered, but smaller logic yes.
And on graphics, again it comes to menus, load screens: raster images in general, but if your game renders through a common API in-game, you're fine (I assume, IANGBFBMS (I Am Not Getting Butt Fucked By Micro$oft), but I digress)
Small tweaks across a similarish platform are nothing compared to complete rewrites/most of the code rewrites - still I thing Sony+google for mobile phone and gaming is a Good Idea.
Speaking as someone who has partaken in piracy from time to time, I see your argument a lot. While piracy may be bad in the sense that you're stealing from hard working individuals, supposedly, I can guarantee to you that almost every show I've seen in the last 6 years, every CD I have purchased, every movie I paid to see or own or rent, would not have seen my hard earned cash without piracy first. It's the truth. I wouldn't have listened to nearly any of the artists I do now without piracy as I would have heard one or two tracks and not bought the CD - the Big Music industry ruined that for me when I paid for CDs because of singles on the radio to find that the whole CD was crap, save for that one song. Now I can know if a CD is good or not before devoting my money to it. I pay to go see bands that need my money and otherwise wouldn't have seen it because of piracy. I paid for videogames I may have been apprehensive about buying because of piracy. Piracy is almost the wrong word for it, really.
As another quick example - this past weekend I ran across some blog posts talking about an iPhone app called TouchOSC. Cost: $4.99. I pirated it with Installulous and gave it a test drive. At first I didn't know how I was going to make good use of this app. Then I ran across a program for OSX called OSCulator. Cost: Minimum $19, Preferred: $39. Also, they distribute a trial. After playing with the two, I've decided that tomorrow's paycheck is going to pay for a copy of both. While I could pirate both, I believe the developers deserve my money because they have created quality products, and no matter how many videos or demos of the two you could show me online, if I hadn't been able to run them in my setup and know how they are relevant to MY work flow, I wouldn't dream of forking over $35 (I plan to pay $30 for OSCulator).
And indeed there may be better services out there than what Google provides - I've used Bing before and I just can't stand it, granted it has been a while. I'm also a little biased as we switched to them for geotagging at work and there coords just aren't on, making my life a little harder from time to time.
As for Hotmail, maybe I would give it another chance as again it has been a LONG time since I've used it. It was a little upsetting to see that they deleted my aunt's entire mail box due to inactivity - she doesn't have a computer and rarely needs to use e-mail, but when she does it is for important things like maintaining her artist tour website's payments and such, and while we eventually found the info we needed via other methods, it's also kind of silly to not allow some kind of retention beyond 30 days (last I checked). This also happened with another relative who rarely used his Hotmail account but found that an important e-mail he needed had been deleted along with everything else due to inactivity - I'm not saying they shouldn't have printed these things out or written them down somewhere, but I'm also not agreeing with the policy's narrow window for inactivity.
What works for you is fine, what works for me is fine - my point was that if you don't want X company looking at what you're doing in their service, DON'T USE IT. Period.
Seriously, Google provides "free" services at the expense of providing them with information about where you go, what you're interested in, etc, so that they can turn a profit and keep their services "free." You don't like it? Don't have a Google account. Don't want site-to-site tracking? Use NoScript et al, a proxy, Tor, whatever you want to keep yourself anonymous.
I completely agree that privacy is an issue that most people could use more education on, but this isn't an area for the gov't to step in to - it's an area for consumers to better educate themselves about how their online actions correlate to a company's using of that information and how to mitigate that data consumption. If I didn't want Google in my e-mail, I wouldn't have it with GMail - simple as that. If I didn't want them knowing that I enjoy Chinese food, I'd use the yellow pages. If I don't want Google knowing what I'm searching for, I'll use Bing! (/sarcasm, I'd never ever ever use Bing).
The choice is yours, the choice should always be yours, and the government should not be involved.
No, the part about what you say online staying online for all to see, forever. OK, so we can all be more connected to eachother? Huzzah! I'm more suspicious of the person whom I know little about or has a "clean slate" than a person who is open with who they were and what they've done in the past if they can also show that they've changed or if it's obvious that they were young/drunk/joking/acting a "fool." That shows that they're human, for one, and hopefully that reflects the same thing back on me. People are going to be dumb, silly, funny, horrible, weird people, and I like that much more than human husks wearing ties and suits, saying the right words and never letting anyone know of their past, their present, or their hopes for the future.
Back in the day we used to mount buttons in extra face plates. We would wire them to the hardware volume control pins on put soundblaters and then wire the others to the parallel port based on a schematic we found that would let us use the buttons to control WinAmp, launch applications etc... I know your question was perhaps more focused on the bay space ielf but don't forget Fun With Faceplates!
But, it can make you appear smart - how many athletes get praised for their quick thinking on the field or their genius in going with that off-sides kick that suddenly got the game tied? Other people and event settings redefine genius - a physicist wouldn't last a second playing hockey but a hockey player wouldn't be able to do squat in a lab, yet each will be praised for their intellect and skills in their respective fields.
Just curious, which method and phone/os? I tried 1 and 2 over and over along with rebooting, restoring to backup, full restore etc but then #3 worked out of the blue.
How would this work? Can they technically purchase a whole project? What's to stop the community from forking? What would buying up a project that runs on donations and user support really consist of other than giving the owners large sums of $$ for publicly available code?
Randy: "Steve? Steve? Mr. Jobs?"... Jobs: "Yes?" Randy: "This is Randy Marsh, Stan's dad. Look Steve, my son has school tomorrow can you please just come out of the closet? What did you say to him?" Stan: "I told him that jailbreaking is legal now." Randy: "Ooooooooooh, this is gonna take a while."
And I am ALL for that. Taxation sucks, sure, but so does going to your dealer's house, in the middle of downtown, at 2 am, with security cameras and pit bulls watching Water World (really...wtf?) with 5 ganster motherfuckers counting cash. I'll pay tax any day to NEVER have to do that again. I love America but goddamn we have some dumb laws that push people to HAVE to use shady sources to get pot.
A friend once told me about an interesting loophole: you can claim illegal drug sales on your taxes and expenses (like driving) and the gov't won't do shit - the IRS wants your money and they can't get it if you're in a prison. They want their share of your income, no matter how you get it.
Please, learn your pot history in America. You see, when hemp became popular in America, it presented a threat to big lumber (and thus paper) and, to a lesser degree, cotton. But paper and lumber stood the most to lose - you can make stronger rope, better paper, and more wipable TP for shit's sake (lol) with hemp than wood. Thus, the paper industry fought hard - sure a field of marijuana could be cultivated year after year with little effect to the land, and trees took far longer to be as nice to the soil, but there was investment. Notice the financial crisis? (Yes, it is still going on). Too many people (or just the right few people) have invested a lot of money in the financial system - anyone with half a brain sees the need for actual reform, but those with more than half a pocket full of cash will do what they want.
For shit's sake: the America Medical Associated testified to the benefits, or at least the lack of risk, of marijuana and it got schedule 1 status - drugs that have no potential benefits - either medicinal, scientific or recreational - and should be deemed dangerous if not deadly. I don't think it's been rescheduled since, though i could be wrong.
The company I'm at now had an interesting review process: I sat in a cubicle with the two lead developers. One asked me matter-of-fact questions: what would you do in x situation? What is your proficiency with the Linux command-line? How long have you used PHP and how have you used it? Have you ever configured a server? The other programmer, however, had some more interesting questions - bringing up ridiculous scenarios that had simple answers, yet the question itself was laden with red herrings to make you really think about it.
After this interview process, it came time to do a couple quick programming tests: fizz/buzz is a standard here, just to make sure you're sane. There is also a simple "Build an HTML form that submits here, do x y and z with the returned data." Simple tests are usually the best, as we have a sort of wall of shame for people who did not have any clue what they were doing. Example: One person asked if they could install Dreamweaver so he could do the Fizz Buzz. Another wrote in the comments to his HTML form test: " <!--another API i dont know. Lets see if this gets the job done --!>
These are the people you don't want to hire. I understand you're looking for something perhaps more rigorous, but a set of simple, common sense tests is a great starting point. Have them grep a file for a pattern - did they use and/or understand regular expressions? Did they use them when they didn't need to? How about making an.htaccess file that does some basic functionality. Have them create a table with an auto_increment'ing ID and write a form/PHP page to store information in it (and see if they know about basic data sanitizing). And of course, Fizz Buzz!
Weed out the incompetents/overachievers and then take a few for a test run - make sure they understand and conform to your coding standards, make sure they have the ability to learn and understand your processes (how your MVC works, a general understanding or willingness to learn your DB structure, etc).
This is not communist propaganda, Obama isn't a terrorist, and O'Reilly doesn't know everything. Those are facts, I'm pretty sure I just bolstered your own beliefs:P
Um...what? The RIAA isn't that hard-up for cash, though they could be eventually. Right now they are fine - every victory in court deters people like my mom from burning a CD, and so they get a little fear in. But as time progresses, the RIAA won't be able to sustain on these legal winnings, but at least they have J. Beiber right? Right? RIGHT? HIS MUSIC IS SO GOOD THAT I'LL PAY FOR IT TWICE! LONG LIVE THE RIAA! LONG LIVE THE (lack of) REVOLUTION!
I think all tattoos should hopefully mean something to the person wearing them, so my advice here would be not to take any advice on what to get or not to get. Listen to your heart (herp derp) and get something that really speaks to you or who you are or the things you love. Just getting a tattoo that fits into your lifestyle well doesn't mean you're going to like it 50 years down the road, or that it will even mean anything to you at that point.
Slashdot Mirror
streaming is the solution!
See? Cloud is a viable option.
Delete your porn
The rest of your personal data will fit on a floppy.
I'm sure it's been said, but, this "news" is so ridiculous that I'm fighting looking at the comments so that I can try to peruse the other headlines. Of course tablets aren't threatening to PCs. Tablets aren't threatening to smart phones. Tablets aren't threatening to anyone. There's a market for them, there's a market for PCs, and a market for toasters that can tweet - some things will come and go in technology and some will stay until a truly great solution replaces them. Yay. And I'm gonna read the comments, ooooohhhh yeah
I know I know, getting your hands on one won't be as easy as going to Best Buy et al. and grabbing one from the shelves, but it does do all of the requested tasks (running ubuntu with X11 in a card right now). "Rooting" is as trivial as getting to the hidden Developer app and flipping a switch to turn Developer Mode on. A little install of Preware and you're good to go. I don't believe it voids the warranty, although the process or some of the software you end up installing (Govnah, for instance) may indeed void your warranty.
All in all, I've been impressed with the TP's speed, WebOS's UI and the community that exists around the TP - very nice people and knowledgeable.
First I saw:
and then I saw this:
Now, I've only used a couple PHP frameworks and only done anything with one particular CMS (don't even remember what it was). But when I think of a framework, I think of staying out of the way. Something like CodeIgnitor or Kohana (personal favorite right now). When I think of CMS I think biiiiiggggggg. That doesn't mean they don't have a place, but if you're goal is something complex in functionality and simple in design, then a framework is the perfect middleground between From Scratch and Too Big to Handle.
If your approach to every project is "There's a CMS for that!" then you are probably doing it wrong.
Asshole! I just clicked that and saw about 10 articles...I'll be bankrupt and thus am sueing you, assuming you read this reply without paying me of course.
I think he means small amounts of logic - think of menus, save game storage, network play - the underlying structural logic may not gave to be altered, but smaller logic yes.
And on graphics, again it comes to menus, load screens: raster images in general, but if your game renders through a common API in-game, you're fine (I assume, IANGBFBMS (I Am Not Getting Butt Fucked By Micro$oft), but I digress)
Small tweaks across a similarish platform are nothing compared to complete rewrites/most of the code rewrites - still I thing Sony+google for mobile phone and gaming is a Good Idea.
Speaking as someone who has partaken in piracy from time to time, I see your argument a lot. While piracy may be bad in the sense that you're stealing from hard working individuals, supposedly, I can guarantee to you that almost every show I've seen in the last 6 years, every CD I have purchased, every movie I paid to see or own or rent, would not have seen my hard earned cash without piracy first. It's the truth. I wouldn't have listened to nearly any of the artists I do now without piracy as I would have heard one or two tracks and not bought the CD - the Big Music industry ruined that for me when I paid for CDs because of singles on the radio to find that the whole CD was crap, save for that one song. Now I can know if a CD is good or not before devoting my money to it. I pay to go see bands that need my money and otherwise wouldn't have seen it because of piracy. I paid for videogames I may have been apprehensive about buying because of piracy. Piracy is almost the wrong word for it, really.
As another quick example - this past weekend I ran across some blog posts talking about an iPhone app called TouchOSC. Cost: $4.99. I pirated it with Installulous and gave it a test drive. At first I didn't know how I was going to make good use of this app. Then I ran across a program for OSX called OSCulator. Cost: Minimum $19, Preferred: $39. Also, they distribute a trial. After playing with the two, I've decided that tomorrow's paycheck is going to pay for a copy of both. While I could pirate both, I believe the developers deserve my money because they have created quality products, and no matter how many videos or demos of the two you could show me online, if I hadn't been able to run them in my setup and know how they are relevant to MY work flow, I wouldn't dream of forking over $35 (I plan to pay $30 for OSCulator).
not sure though, so don't quote me.
Do what now?
And indeed there may be better services out there than what Google provides - I've used Bing before and I just can't stand it, granted it has been a while. I'm also a little biased as we switched to them for geotagging at work and there coords just aren't on, making my life a little harder from time to time.
As for Hotmail, maybe I would give it another chance as again it has been a LONG time since I've used it. It was a little upsetting to see that they deleted my aunt's entire mail box due to inactivity - she doesn't have a computer and rarely needs to use e-mail, but when she does it is for important things like maintaining her artist tour website's payments and such, and while we eventually found the info we needed via other methods, it's also kind of silly to not allow some kind of retention beyond 30 days (last I checked). This also happened with another relative who rarely used his Hotmail account but found that an important e-mail he needed had been deleted along with everything else due to inactivity - I'm not saying they shouldn't have printed these things out or written them down somewhere, but I'm also not agreeing with the policy's narrow window for inactivity.
What works for you is fine, what works for me is fine - my point was that if you don't want X company looking at what you're doing in their service, DON'T USE IT. Period.
Move along.
Seriously, Google provides "free" services at the expense of providing them with information about where you go, what you're interested in, etc, so that they can turn a profit and keep their services "free." You don't like it? Don't have a Google account. Don't want site-to-site tracking? Use NoScript et al, a proxy, Tor, whatever you want to keep yourself anonymous.
I completely agree that privacy is an issue that most people could use more education on, but this isn't an area for the gov't to step in to - it's an area for consumers to better educate themselves about how their online actions correlate to a company's using of that information and how to mitigate that data consumption. If I didn't want Google in my e-mail, I wouldn't have it with GMail - simple as that. If I didn't want them knowing that I enjoy Chinese food, I'd use the yellow pages. If I don't want Google knowing what I'm searching for, I'll use Bing! (/sarcasm, I'd never ever ever use Bing).
The choice is yours, the choice should always be yours, and the government should not be involved.
Not the whole "changing your name" part.
No, the part about what you say online staying online for all to see, forever. OK, so we can all be more connected to eachother? Huzzah! I'm more suspicious of the person whom I know little about or has a "clean slate" than a person who is open with who they were and what they've done in the past if they can also show that they've changed or if it's obvious that they were young/drunk/joking/acting a "fool." That shows that they're human, for one, and hopefully that reflects the same thing back on me. People are going to be dumb, silly, funny, horrible, weird people, and I like that much more than human husks wearing ties and suits, saying the right words and never letting anyone know of their past, their present, or their hopes for the future.
Back in the day we used to mount buttons in extra face plates. We would wire them to the hardware volume control pins on put soundblaters and then wire the others to the parallel port based on a schematic we found that would let us use the buttons to control WinAmp, launch applications etc... I know your question was perhaps more focused on the bay space ielf but don't forget Fun With Faceplates!
But, it can make you appear smart - how many athletes get praised for their quick thinking on the field or their genius in going with that off-sides kick that suddenly got the game tied? Other people and event settings redefine genius - a physicist wouldn't last a second playing hockey but a hockey player wouldn't be able to do squat in a lab, yet each will be praised for their intellect and skills in their respective fields.
Just curious, which method and phone/os? I tried 1 and 2 over and over along with rebooting, restoring to backup, full restore etc but then #3 worked out of the blue.
If you're doing this and getting the purple background of death (just hangs and doesn't install) try this:
Method 1
-Click Home
-Double-click Home to bring up running apps
-Click and hold on Safari
-Close Safari, try again
Method 2
-Go to Settings->Safari
-Clear cache, history, cookies (some reported clearing History IN Safari to work)
-Try again
Method 3 (only thing that worked for me)
-Go to jailbreakme.modmyi.com instead of jailbreakme.com (just a mirror)
3GS 4.0.1
How would this work? Can they technically purchase a whole project? What's to stop the community from forking? What would buying up a project that runs on donations and user support really consist of other than giving the owners large sums of $$ for publicly available code?
I mean, Jesus IS my co-pilot...
Randy: "Steve? Steve? Mr. Jobs?" ...
Jobs: "Yes?"
Randy: "This is Randy Marsh, Stan's dad. Look Steve, my son has school tomorrow can you please just come out of the closet? What did you say to him?"
Stan: "I told him that jailbreaking is legal now."
Randy: "Ooooooooooh, this is gonna take a while."
My regards to Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker
And I am ALL for that. Taxation sucks, sure, but so does going to your dealer's house, in the middle of downtown, at 2 am, with security cameras and pit bulls watching Water World (really...wtf?) with 5 ganster motherfuckers counting cash. I'll pay tax any day to NEVER have to do that again. I love America but goddamn we have some dumb laws that push people to HAVE to use shady sources to get pot.
A friend once told me about an interesting loophole: you can claim illegal drug sales on your taxes and expenses (like driving) and the gov't won't do shit - the IRS wants your money and they can't get it if you're in a prison. They want their share of your income, no matter how you get it.
sponsored by America's cotton growers.
Please, learn your pot history in America. You see, when hemp became popular in America, it presented a threat to big lumber (and thus paper) and, to a lesser degree, cotton. But paper and lumber stood the most to lose - you can make stronger rope, better paper, and more wipable TP for shit's sake (lol) with hemp than wood. Thus, the paper industry fought hard - sure a field of marijuana could be cultivated year after year with little effect to the land, and trees took far longer to be as nice to the soil, but there was investment. Notice the financial crisis? (Yes, it is still going on). Too many people (or just the right few people) have invested a lot of money in the financial system - anyone with half a brain sees the need for actual reform, but those with more than half a pocket full of cash will do what they want.
For shit's sake: the America Medical Associated testified to the benefits, or at least the lack of risk, of marijuana and it got schedule 1 status - drugs that have no potential benefits - either medicinal, scientific or recreational - and should be deemed dangerous if not deadly. I don't think it's been rescheduled since, though i could be wrong.
The company I'm at now had an interesting review process: I sat in a cubicle with the two lead developers. One asked me matter-of-fact questions: what would you do in x situation? What is your proficiency with the Linux command-line? How long have you used PHP and how have you used it? Have you ever configured a server? The other programmer, however, had some more interesting questions - bringing up ridiculous scenarios that had simple answers, yet the question itself was laden with red herrings to make you really think about it.
After this interview process, it came time to do a couple quick programming tests: fizz/buzz is a standard here, just to make sure you're sane. There is also a simple "Build an HTML form that submits here, do x y and z with the returned data." Simple tests are usually the best, as we have a sort of wall of shame for people who did not have any clue what they were doing. Example: One person asked if they could install Dreamweaver so he could do the Fizz Buzz. Another wrote in the comments to his HTML form test: "
<!--another API i dont know. Lets see if this gets the job done --!>
<form action="testMe">
<form textfield = "username">
</form>
These are the people you don't want to hire. I understand you're looking for something perhaps more rigorous, but a set of simple, common sense tests is a great starting point. Have them grep a file for a pattern - did they use and/or understand regular expressions? Did they use them when they didn't need to? How about making an .htaccess file that does some basic functionality. Have them create a table with an auto_increment'ing ID and write a form/PHP page to store information in it (and see if they know about basic data sanitizing). And of course, Fizz Buzz!
Weed out the incompetents/overachievers and then take a few for a test run - make sure they understand and conform to your coding standards, make sure they have the ability to learn and understand your processes (how your MVC works, a general understanding or willingness to learn your DB structure, etc).
This is not communist propaganda, Obama isn't a terrorist, and O'Reilly doesn't know everything. Those are facts, I'm pretty sure I just bolstered your own beliefs :P
Um...what? The RIAA isn't that hard-up for cash, though they could be eventually. Right now they are fine - every victory in court deters people like my mom from burning a CD, and so they get a little fear in. But as time progresses, the RIAA won't be able to sustain on these legal winnings, but at least they have J. Beiber right? Right? RIGHT? HIS MUSIC IS SO GOOD THAT I'LL PAY FOR IT TWICE! LONG LIVE THE RIAA! LONG LIVE THE (lack of) REVOLUTION!
I think all tattoos should hopefully mean something to the person wearing them, so my advice here would be not to take any advice on what to get or not to get. Listen to your heart (herp derp) and get something that really speaks to you or who you are or the things you love. Just getting a tattoo that fits into your lifestyle well doesn't mean you're going to like it 50 years down the road, or that it will even mean anything to you at that point.