ColdFusion used to be great. When it was just owned by Allaire. Then MacroMedia walks into the picture, buys Allaire and starts putting out buggy ColdFusion releases. Then Adobe buys MacroMedia and people thought they would handle ColdFusion better, but soon found out that all they really were doing was cramming Flash in it to make it even buggier and bloated.
I love CFML, but I haven't used Adobe's ColdFusion in over 2 years. Railo and BlueDragon for me.
Being inefficient means that the politicians can easily hide what they're spending our money on. I seriously doubt this will gain any traction within the government. Then again, with potential cost over-runs and kick-backs to implement such a plan, who know? Political greed seems to get some things done.
So you would rather have everyone wait for them to "approve" it in 3-5 years, tell people to start using it and then find out that there's problems with real-world use. At which point they have to go back to "debating" how to fix the problems, which might takes another 3-5 years.
Unfortunately, you have to get people to start using it. Better to start finding out about "problems" now before the draft is finalized. As long as people are putting in "safe" fall-backs, then this really isn't a problem. I don't see it as extra work, since I was already having to do this for IE6 anyways.
My guess, airlines are complaining about this. They've been sitting on this technology for awhile, but now someone created a cool little app that uses this technology and they are making a profit off it. Airlines are just pissed that they aren't getting a piece of the action.
So what do they do, they complain to the government and get them to outlaw the public from using this tech and shut down any possible competition. After a little while, start selling your own app and charge a premium for it.
Sound familiar? Do you remember "caller id"? Used to be you could just go to Radio Shack and puchase a little box you could hook up to your phone and you didn't have to pay the phone company a darned thing to use it. But then the tel-co's started complaining (or telling their paid for politicians to do so) and eventually put a stop to it. After that, they then turned around and started making this a paid "service", but it was crippled (To allow telemarketers, politicians, and basically anyone to block the caller ID).
Ahhh... the beauty of the free market. It's only free, after you bought yourself some politicians.
If you are in the U.S. and you want change, and I really mean serious change, then you have the power to make a difference. All it takes is for you to do a little bit of research and maybe 30 minutes of your time to VOTE. The biggest problem is that we have these two parties who are totally out of touch and/or basically just don't give a rats ass, about the citizens.
Make a change and do the following:
Don't just vote for the republicans and just don't vote for the democrats, this time try to find some independant candidates (Trust me, they are out there. Big media just doesn't want you to know about them)
Don't be fooled by the parties marketing. It's marketing, it's supposed to razzle-dazzle you, it's not real.
Find an independant candidate who you can relate with and vote for them.
Don't buy into the hype that a vote against the Republican/Democratic party is akin to throwing away your vote.
Research your candidates, if they have money, then ask where did they get that money from?
Try to persuade your friends and family to do the same.
Sure, your guy might not make it in, but hopefully you can sleep better at night and send a message to these scummy politicians that we are fed up.
Personally, I think this is going to be a larger issue as time goes on. Right now, it's more of an annoyance with advertisers and marketing companies, but who's to say that in the near future some other companies don't start providing apps that track users for other reasons.
Could you imagine a company that provides location data for your ex-spouse, or perhaps girlfriend or boyfriend, or even your children? I know this is kind of tin-foil hat paranoia, but I think the recent problems with things like the Google Buzz fiasco, here, here and here, show that good intentions can sometimes have bad consequence.
Weather it be Google, Apple, MS or whomever, they need to enforce policies and procedures that to ensure that their user's personal data is protected. Yeah, its a walled garden, but I think its a neccessary walled garden. I don't mind companies using my location data, but only if I know of it and have approved of it.
Unfortunately, it doesn't have anything to do with what developers WANT to do or WHERE they prefer to program, because at the end of the day (for most developers) it all boils down to making some sort of income on the work they do. To do this they have to go where the customers are spending money on their apps and/or where the customers are viewing their ads.
Instead of believing articles like this, I think it's wiser to find a particular niche thats lacking on a mobile device or find something that can be implemented better and create it. If your app fulfills either of these scenerios, then you will make a profit.
What f$*!!ing moron thought it was a good idea to do this, anyway. I was always under the assumption that critical system were not connected to the internet.
You know, I was talking with some friends about this the other day, and we were speculating that the KGB and the SS probably were created in the same way "Homeland Security" was. i.e. "We need these guys to save our country" type of B.S. Unfortunately, none of us are up on our history.
Do you know the history of the KGB? Was it created for this purpose originally? Just curious.
Exactly... The only reason Obama choose Biden was because of his deep pockets (filled by the **AA's).
Make a difference in the coming elections! Don't vote Republican, don't vote Democrat. It's about time we clean house and get rid of the bought and paid for politicians!!!!
What are you talking about, the **AA is GOVERNMENT now. Let me refresh you memory:
Gershengorn, a partner with RIAA-firm Jenner & Block, represented the labels against Grokster (.pdf) and will be in charge of the DOJ Federal Programs Branch. That’s the unit that just told a federal judge the Obama administration supports monetary damages as high as $150,000 per purloined music track on a peer-to-peer file sharing program.
Donald Verrilli, associate deputy attorney general — the No. 3 in the DOJ, who unsuccessfully urged a federal judge to uphold the $222,000 file sharing verdict against Jammie Thomas.
Tom Perrilli, as Verrilli’s former boss, the Justice Department’s No. 2 argued in 2002 that internet service providers should release customer information to the RIAA even without a court subpoena.
Brian Hauck, counsel to associate attorney general, worked on the Grokster case on behalf of the record labels.
Ginger Anders, assistant to the solicitor general, litigated on the Cablevision case.
You know, I was wondering if these bug fixes bleed over into Webkit, which Apple's Safari would not doubt benefit from. So maybe they are already doing something like this.
It's only fair that if you are "subsidizing" an industry because of claims of "lost profit", then said company should open up their books so the public can see what losses they are talking about. And I guarantee that ain't going to happen.
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ColdFusion used to be great. When it was just owned by Allaire. Then MacroMedia walks into the picture, buys Allaire and starts putting out buggy ColdFusion releases. Then Adobe buys MacroMedia and people thought they would handle ColdFusion better, but soon found out that all they really were doing was cramming Flash in it to make it even buggier and bloated.
I love CFML, but I haven't used Adobe's ColdFusion in over 2 years. Railo and BlueDragon for me.
Gee, so Apple has banned you from writing iPhone apps? Gosh, that sucks.
Being inefficient means that the politicians can easily hide what they're spending our money on. I seriously doubt this will gain any traction within the government. Then again, with potential cost over-runs and kick-backs to implement such a plan, who know? Political greed seems to get some things done.
So you would rather have everyone wait for them to "approve" it in 3-5 years, tell people to start using it and then find out that there's problems with real-world use. At which point they have to go back to "debating" how to fix the problems, which might takes another 3-5 years.
Unfortunately, you have to get people to start using it. Better to start finding out about "problems" now before the draft is finalized. As long as people are putting in "safe" fall-backs, then this really isn't a problem. I don't see it as extra work, since I was already having to do this for IE6 anyways.
I see you 2 and raise you another 2.
Well whoever sews this thing together, I'm going to feel a lot safer if it has a "Inspected by #13" sticker on it.
My guess, airlines are complaining about this. They've been sitting on this technology for awhile, but now someone created a cool little app that uses this technology and they are making a profit off it. Airlines are just pissed that they aren't getting a piece of the action.
So what do they do, they complain to the government and get them to outlaw the public from using this tech and shut down any possible competition. After a little while, start selling your own app and charge a premium for it.
Sound familiar? Do you remember "caller id"? Used to be you could just go to Radio Shack and puchase a little box you could hook up to your phone and you didn't have to pay the phone company a darned thing to use it. But then the tel-co's started complaining (or telling their paid for politicians to do so) and eventually put a stop to it. After that, they then turned around and started making this a paid "service", but it was crippled (To allow telemarketers, politicians, and basically anyone to block the caller ID).
Ahhh... the beauty of the free market. It's only free, after you bought yourself some politicians.
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Kudos to you sir or madam.
No, no... the rumor is all wrong. MS is trying to buy "A Second Life".
Unfortunately, didn't Gates & Ballmer sell their souls' to the Devil along time ago?
I've said this before and I'll keep saying it...
If you are in the U.S. and you want change, and I really mean serious change, then you have the power to make a difference. All it takes is for you to do a little bit of research and maybe 30 minutes of your time to VOTE. The biggest problem is that we have these two parties who are totally out of touch and/or basically just don't give a rats ass, about the citizens.
Make a change and do the following:
Sure, your guy might not make it in, but hopefully you can sleep better at night and send a message to these scummy politicians that we are fed up.
Personally, I think this is going to be a larger issue as time goes on. Right now, it's more of an annoyance with advertisers and marketing companies, but who's to say that in the near future some other companies don't start providing apps that track users for other reasons.
Could you imagine a company that provides location data for your ex-spouse, or perhaps girlfriend or boyfriend, or even your children? I know this is kind of tin-foil hat paranoia, but I think the recent problems with things like the Google Buzz fiasco, here, here and here, show that good intentions can sometimes have bad consequence.
Weather it be Google, Apple, MS or whomever, they need to enforce policies and procedures that to ensure that their user's personal data is protected. Yeah, its a walled garden, but I think its a neccessary walled garden. I don't mind companies using my location data, but only if I know of it and have approved of it.
Gee, I hope while they are at it, they can make sure they can track all the content, every citizen and device that get's "plugged" into the internet.
Hopefully, they are bringing in the vast collective knowledge of the **IA's to ensure that the rest of the world is represented as well.
Unfortunately, it doesn't have anything to do with what developers WANT to do or WHERE they prefer to program, because at the end of the day (for most developers) it all boils down to making some sort of income on the work they do. To do this they have to go where the customers are spending money on their apps and/or where the customers are viewing their ads.
Instead of believing articles like this, I think it's wiser to find a particular niche thats lacking on a mobile device or find something that can be implemented better and create it. If your app fulfills either of these scenerios, then you will make a profit.
God Bless America!. Even in science, we can solve any problem by just shooting at it.
Jesus Christ, you mean they're not!?!?
What f$*!!ing moron thought it was a good idea to do this, anyway. I was always under the assumption that critical system were not connected to the internet.
Holy Moly, I'm not going to sleep well tonight.
You know, I was talking with some friends about this the other day, and we were speculating that the KGB and the SS probably were created in the same way "Homeland Security" was. i.e. "We need these guys to save our country" type of B.S. Unfortunately, none of us are up on our history.
Do you know the history of the KGB? Was it created for this purpose originally? Just curious.
Accepte? Our new Master are the French?
Just because you came up with a new name for it, its still "censorship".
Maybe they should call it "High Fructose Information Sugar" and people won't notice.
With that kind of logic every executive working at MicroSoft should be in Jail.
Exactly... The only reason Obama choose Biden was because of his deep pockets (filled by the **AA's).
Make a difference in the coming elections!
Don't vote Republican, don't vote Democrat. It's about time we clean house and get rid of the bought and paid for politicians!!!!
What are you talking about, the **AA is GOVERNMENT now. Let me refresh you memory:
Source Obama Taps 5th RIAA Lawyer to Justice Dept
Lack of social skills.
I don't see what the problem is. They should be able to change the name...
High Fructose Corn Sugar.
Now if they want to drop the "High Fructose" part, then that's going to be a problem.
You know, I was wondering if these bug fixes bleed over into Webkit, which Apple's Safari would not doubt benefit from. So maybe they are already doing something like this.
Zzzzzzzzzz....
It's only fair that if you are "subsidizing" an industry because of claims of "lost profit", then said company should open up their books so the public can see what losses they are talking about. And I guarantee that ain't going to happen.