the only thing they lament is the utter lack of apps.
It's a catch-22. No users means no app developers. No app developers means no apps. No apps means no users.
Android figured out how to break out of that by competing in price and open-ness (open source, cyanogen, etc.). Microsoft? They could have enabled all those legacy x86 apps to run on RT with an x86 emulation layer for ARM. They could have let developers write against the native APIs in fact, to make code porting easy.
Instead, they not only chose to lock everything down, but also price it at the point where nobody was even remotely interested. And then on top of all that, they decided to muck with an interface that most people could use blindfolded by now. Had they just put an ARM version of Windows 7 on a tablet and sold that for $200, it would've taken off.
A low-cost, lightweight, long-life Windows 7 tablet would've been awesome, especially for IT pros. A pricey Windows 8 tablet not so much.
Me too. The tidal forces it creates makes Earth a far more diverse place. And interestingly enough, there are biological rythms based on it. There are no other planets in our solar system with such a significant moon.
What makes you think the FBI can't just issue a NSL against these people and get all the "metadata" they need to establish association? Or that they haven't already?
I like getting "thank-you gifts", but I rather donate to the EFF directly than screw a bunch of authors over by getting their books for free. If I want the humble bundle, I'll buy it separately.
It also separates the reading from the writing. When accessing a variable directly, you don't know if your code is necessarily reading from the variable, writing to it, or both (actually, because of passing by references in Java, there's a high chance of both). Simple bugs like = vs == can turn into a side-effect nightmare without the layer of protection a getter/setter affords.
Even in Java, where you're not always able to tell if the routine has side effects, at least with getter and setter wrappers, you can determine the intention of the routine. This is especially true if you didn't write the code but is tasked to debug it, and true even otherwise, as it's very common to write something and then forget what you're trying to do with it a few weeks or months down the line.
Not to the "rich" but to the powerful. Google's Larry and Sergy are rich. Oracle's Ellison is rich. Microsoft's Gates and Allen are rich. Jobs was rich.
But they're not the powerful. Government contractors, in particular defense contractors like Cheney's Haliburton's friends are powerful. People in the oil industry are powerful. People in the entertainment industry are powerful. The people running the banks, in particular the entertainment banks, are all-powerful.
There's a difference, and it's an important distinction to make. Wealth leads to power, but only if it's used to gain power. Tech people use their wealth to primarily gain toys (except maybe Ellison, but even his clout is limited to his own domain). Other people use it to gain power.
Most people are surprised by how intelligent ancient humans were because in their mind, they begin with the fallacy that people today (i.e. themselves) are more intelligent than people ten, twelve, fifteen thousand years ago. This in and of itself is an extrapolation from the certainty that they are smarter than their parents and grandparents.
Work hard, and maybe some day in the future I will no longer advise my customers and friends to avoid US services.
You shouldn't. The U.S. has been doing this very thing since the 19th century. If you think that this is going to change in 10, 15, even 50 years, then read up on U.S. history and think again.
Nobody cares about the little fry. It's only the people with big stakes in the big corporations that matter.
If your retirement fund disappears overnight, boo hoo for you. If some corporate exec doesn't land his multi-million dollar deal, someone's going to make it right.
This is true. HP "went" ten, fifteen years ago since they hired Carly Fiorina as CEO. You can argue that they imploded from the dot-com bust, but I think their downfall began much, much earlier. They squandered the Compaq acquisition and the Palm acquisition. They pretty much put a bunch of holes in their foot and are hobbling along right now into obscurity.
At this point, bringing in Steve Ballmer could do no more harm than has already been done.
I understand throwing things around can be a really effective method of punching holes in walls and destroying windows. Things like say, chairs for example.
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Maybe editing is tougher than it looks ;)
Which is why there are job titles named, appropriately, editors.
the only thing they lament is the utter lack of apps.
It's a catch-22. No users means no app developers. No app developers means no apps. No apps means no users.
Android figured out how to break out of that by competing in price and open-ness (open source, cyanogen, etc.). Microsoft? They could have enabled all those legacy x86 apps to run on RT with an x86 emulation layer for ARM. They could have let developers write against the native APIs in fact, to make code porting easy.
Instead, they not only chose to lock everything down, but also price it at the point where nobody was even remotely interested. And then on top of all that, they decided to muck with an interface that most people could use blindfolded by now. Had they just put an ARM version of Windows 7 on a tablet and sold that for $200, it would've taken off.
A low-cost, lightweight, long-life Windows 7 tablet would've been awesome, especially for IT pros. A pricey Windows 8 tablet not so much.
The universe is big. Very big. And old. Very old.
smash two stars together
I hear they pay a lot for baby pictures.
Me too. The tidal forces it creates makes Earth a far more diverse place. And interestingly enough, there are biological rythms based on it. There are no other planets in our solar system with such a significant moon.
How about just peter.pan.london? Or if you really want to get creative, peterpan.statue.london.
chairs.chairs.chairs
What makes you think the FBI can't just issue a NSL against these people and get all the "metadata" they need to establish association? Or that they haven't already?
I like getting "thank-you gifts", but I rather donate to the EFF directly than screw a bunch of authors over by getting their books for free. If I want the humble bundle, I'll buy it separately.
C is also used as a scripting language, as is Perl and sh/bash. They're not crappy in the least.
It also separates the reading from the writing. When accessing a variable directly, you don't know if your code is necessarily reading from the variable, writing to it, or both (actually, because of passing by references in Java, there's a high chance of both). Simple bugs like = vs == can turn into a side-effect nightmare without the layer of protection a getter/setter affords.
Even in Java, where you're not always able to tell if the routine has side effects, at least with getter and setter wrappers, you can determine the intention of the routine. This is especially true if you didn't write the code but is tasked to debug it, and true even otherwise, as it's very common to write something and then forget what you're trying to do with it a few weeks or months down the line.
Yeah, I use that feature in Emacs all the time.
Obviously, NASA needs a bigger budget.
Alternatively, 30 days in jail for the lawyer in charge.
FTFY.
Not to the "rich" but to the powerful. Google's Larry and Sergy are rich. Oracle's Ellison is rich. Microsoft's Gates and Allen are rich. Jobs was rich.
But they're not the powerful. Government contractors, in particular defense contractors like Cheney's Haliburton's friends are powerful. People in the oil industry are powerful. People in the entertainment industry are powerful. The people running the banks, in particular the entertainment banks, are all-powerful.
There's a difference, and it's an important distinction to make. Wealth leads to power, but only if it's used to gain power. Tech people use their wealth to primarily gain toys (except maybe Ellison, but even his clout is limited to his own domain). Other people use it to gain power.
Obligatory xkcd.
Duh?
Most people are surprised by how intelligent ancient humans were because in their mind, they begin with the fallacy that people today (i.e. themselves) are more intelligent than people ten, twelve, fifteen thousand years ago. This in and of itself is an extrapolation from the certainty that they are smarter than their parents and grandparents.
Work hard, and maybe some day in the future I will no longer advise my customers and friends to avoid US services.
You shouldn't. The U.S. has been doing this very thing since the 19th century. If you think that this is going to change in 10, 15, even 50 years, then read up on U.S. history and think again.
Nobody cares about the little fry. It's only the people with big stakes in the big corporations that matter.
If your retirement fund disappears overnight, boo hoo for you. If some corporate exec doesn't land his multi-million dollar deal, someone's going to make it right.
Actually, this is true of all big multi-national investment banks. Look at Barclays, UBS, etc.
We will bleed the ground red, white, and blue with those who oppose our peace-efforts!
FTFY.
But it sounds mighty Californian.
This is true. HP "went" ten, fifteen years ago since they hired Carly Fiorina as CEO. You can argue that they imploded from the dot-com bust, but I think their downfall began much, much earlier. They squandered the Compaq acquisition and the Palm acquisition. They pretty much put a bunch of holes in their foot and are hobbling along right now into obscurity.
At this point, bringing in Steve Ballmer could do no more harm than has already been done.
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I understand throwing things around can be a really effective method of punching holes in walls and destroying windows. Things like say, chairs for example.
Does he also quack like a duck?