Actually, it narrows it down to bad code and/or changing web site design - you've not ruled out the possibility that the demands of previously-working sites are also increasing.
A company called Layar, based in Amsterdam, is working on products that take augmented reality in a slightly different direction. They provide a platform that allows anyone to build an AR app
TFS meant to say:
Check out my new product. It's great. I need publicity. Seriously, come now and get it. kthxbai
can't really stand up for someone that posts utter dribble online then whines about not getting that professional job they want because they aren't professional..
Years and years ago, back in the stone ages before Facebook, you were expected to maintain your reputation if you wanted to get ahead - both at work and in your personal life. It was well understood that if you were out drunk in public every night, you were not going to enjoy the same opportunities for advancement as someone who's attending community functions, going to the communal deity worship on weekends, etc. Though it's fallen out of fashion, in many cases you couldn't advance too far without a spouse and children to prove you were a stable member of the community.
While some of those social restrictions have eased, a lot more is present than most people realize. So when you start acting like a jackass with your online persona (which is, in fact, an increasingly significant part of your real-world reputation - and justifiably so) of course it will affect your opportunities at work or with new employers.
I don't understand the mindset that makes people oblivious to this.
Wow, this is corporate stupidity at its finest. How exactly will this make more people subscribe?
Do you have the full picture? Do you know what conversations have been going on for the past year (since they reserved the domain name)?
The only reason for this is that the CEO is freaked out about a stock drop and is overreacting.
Of course. Because the CEO who brought the company into its market-leading position suddenly just freaked out and lost his mind.
If anything this move will force more people to drop the DVD service as they will lose they que and no one will like having to pay 2 separate bills from same company.
Unless, of course, this is a precursor to splitting it off into a separate company. Or any of a half dozen other reasons for the move.
ay to go Netflix you just make a small problem much bigger by overreacting
That's a perfectly logical explanation in absence of all the facts. Thanks for that keen and insightful analysis!
I have a feeling that their stock is going to tank today.
Probably. And *that* will be the kneejerk reaction from stockholders with your mindset - about as well-considered as your post, though potentially much more expensive in the long term.
What I know is that Netflix didn't get to be where it is by luck, and it didn't happen overnight. It's probably pretty logical to assume that the CEO is not in the habit of making rash, reactionary decisions.
You are falling for the fallacy that the CEO has a clue while in fact he is a complete moron.
A major rate hike is only done by a complete and utter moron. You do smaller less noticeable hikes over time where people do not notice it. They would not have lost HALF the people that left if Netflix's leadership had any clue at all on how to run a business.
So how's your your multi-billion dollar business doing these days?
They probably did, until they had some serious competition. They've actually been making some significant strides in developer relations - but there is plenty of room for improvement (the biggest gripe I have is lack of detailed developer-level release notes for new/updated SDKs...). The various SDKs are all free for download, and are all well-documented.
HTML5 developers actually have it pretty good - easier testing, simpler (but capable) open source API, lots of examples.
It's not as bad as most people tend to make out. If you're a Java developer, the biggest problems are: - the phone platform is still tied to J2ME (though with the new QNX phones on the horizon that will no longer be true) - the lack of UI tools. (You've got to be comfortable making a UI programmatically, which a lot of folks aren't. I tend to like it better, but I understand that I'm not the norm these days). - the biggest challenge is knowing how to find the information - there is a TON of free, RIM-provided documentation for the BB platform; but it's not discoverable. - required to use eclipse - which is a personal preference, but I liked netbeans better...
On the other hand, you have APIs that let you do almost anything you can imagine on the phone. iPhone doesn't come close; and Android does provide most of the same capability but it's also not as straightforward to implement the same capabilities.
You mean like it was three years ago? The dev tools have been free for even longer than that - though signing your app did carry a one time fee - first 200, then 100, then 20, now nothing. As of last year they no longer charge for submitting to app world which makes them cheaper than iOS's 99$ annual.fee and required OSX license.
Seems to me what they need to fix is the erroneous perceptions people have around the entire process.
Seriously?what little pieces? Did you try downloading the sdk, using the privided hello world template, and building it?
For me that's all it took; and one extra step to set up signing keys for deployment to devices.
And here is the most important thing - if it was not that simple did you take as long as it took you to post here... to provide them feedback? As a participant in the beta, that's all they ask of you. Otherwise they would have no reason to run a private beta at all.
I have known four people who were able to get access after receiving that email just by explaining their situation. I was able to get access for BBSSH dev just by asking, before the beta was even announced; so while your point is valid (they are shooting themselves in the feet) you definitely havenothing to lose by asking.
Video games help train your memory and coordination, we've known this since Mega Man. Attaching a title to this kind of obviousness is just product placement disguised as science.
Similarly, your statement only tells us what we all already know, and what is even hinted strongly at in TFA itself. Posting to inform us of this obvious truth is just karma whoring disguised as participation in a community.
Erm, great - so where's that 100% compatible version of the CLR and libraries that can seamlessly run any.Net app built making use of the 'official' libraries on windows, linux & unix (x86, x86-64, ARM variants of both),
Oh, right. Java is still the only place to get that. If you build using standard.Net 3+ libraries, you're limited to Windows platforms. At least you'll get ARM architecture back under Windows 8...
The CLR and CIL specs were submitted for standardization for PR purposes only. If they (and the libraries to support full CLR compatibility) ever somehow get fully implemented on another platform, it will only be a happy coincidence - not part of Microsoft's plan for them.
If you buy a book on how to use JIRA, you deserve to be parted with your money.
On the other hand it's nice to see packt reviewers are listeningto the complaints and including the bad as well as the good, while giving it a score that accurately reflects both.
Oh wait. That must have been in the *other* reality.
You sound like gp personally insulted you. He didn't. . For the record, in over a decade no such hole has been found - the closest example was a quickly patched exploit in the non-java webkit browser. Considering the historical and current userbase size for of bb device, you can be sure that it's not for lack of trying.
As far as malicious apps - well yeah. It's trivially easy to do that on any patform,because then you're exploiti g the user and not the platform. In order for a platform to be useful, it must provide developers with a means of accessing phone data and interacting with phone components. In the case of BB at least the smart user is given granular control if he wants it., as opposed to the "approve everything the app wants or do without" security of Android. (with that said, most users don'tuse that feature- and so are equally susceptible on any platform)
I don't know about you but I can think about the word "giraffe" without visualizing a giraffe. i suspect similar would apply here (to play devil's advocate...)
Something where if you take a shovel, and dig, you can dig up rocks, and other bits-- or even bury loot, or build a house out of ambient materials, and have it be persistent.
Yeah, that'd be awesome. A game where you could mine and craft all kinds of stuff... what to call it...
I don't know about you but I would call it "Nethack"
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Yes this is absolutely true - but I was replying specifically in the context of the amount withheld from income. If the SS tax did not exist, the vast majority of employers would pocket the difference and not give a 6.2% raise to all employees. In other words, that 6.2% is a tax on the employer's payroll - not on on the employee's paycheck.
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There is rewriting on both sides and your own post is only part of the truth. Let's look at the actual numbers:
Debt at start of Regan's presidency:826 bn (based on 9/30/79 prior to Reagan assuming office) Debt at end of Regan's presidency: 2300 bn
Debt at start of Clinton's presidency: 3600 bn Debt at end of Clinton's presidency: 5600 bn
Reagan did indeed triple the debt, adding 1.5tn -- yet he did not add as much debt as Clinton did (2tn); and Clinton increased the debt year over year in spite of the the budget surplus.
I'm not saying that it's good or bad - I'm coming to realize that I don't yet understand enough of macroeconomics to have an opinion - but it seems to me that using phrases like "tripling the national debt" is rather misleading in comparison to subsequent Presidencies, even if technically accurate.
The other thing that's interesting to me is the number of people who think that Clinton lowered the debt (I've even seen this implied in mainstream media) when the opposite is true. Presumably there were reasons - again, I am realizing don't understand enough to judge them - but budget surplus != reducing debt.
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Not to mention the fact that social security is what opened the door to taxing wages on labor.
This is just factually incorrect. Income tax first began in 1862 to fund the Civil War; and since the 16th amendment in 1916 it's been a permanent part of the landscape. Social security was enacted in 1935. While SS may have paved the way for direct wage/payroll withholdings, income tax was an established fact well before that point.
It is the definition of evil to take that step and then a few generations laters say "well, we're not going to deliver on our promise of a pension but we're still going to take 30% of your check every week." Don't want Social Security? Then figure out a way to run the government without taxing wages.
First, that's a damned weird definition of evil. Second, 30% of your check isn't collected to guarantee a pension - 4.2% of it is. The rest of it is collected to fund local, state, federal governments and medicare.
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Actually, it narrows it down to bad code and/or changing web site design - you've not ruled out the possibility that the demands of previously-working sites are also increasing.
TFS said:
A company called Layar, based in Amsterdam, is working on products that take augmented reality in a slightly different direction. They provide a platform that allows anyone to build an AR app
TFS meant to say:
Check out my new product. It's great. I need publicity. Seriously, come now and get it. kthxbai
can't really stand up for someone that posts utter dribble online then whines about not getting that professional job they want because they aren't professional..
Years and years ago, back in the stone ages before Facebook, you were expected to maintain your reputation if you wanted to get ahead - both at work and in your personal life. It was well understood that if you were out drunk in public every night, you were not going to enjoy the same opportunities for advancement as someone who's attending community functions, going to the communal deity worship on weekends, etc. Though it's fallen out of fashion, in many cases you couldn't advance too far without a spouse and children to prove you were a stable member of the community.
While some of those social restrictions have eased, a lot more is present than most people realize. So when you start acting like a jackass with your online persona (which is, in fact, an increasingly significant part of your real-world reputation - and justifiably so) of course it will affect your opportunities at work or with new employers.
I don't understand the mindset that makes people oblivious to this.
Nonetheless... The domain name alone makes it clear it's been something in the works for a while - not a kneejerk response as OP seems to believe.
Wow, this is corporate stupidity at its finest. How exactly will this make more people subscribe?
Do you have the full picture? Do you know what conversations have been going on for the past year (since they reserved the domain name)?
The only reason for this is that the CEO is freaked out about a stock drop and is overreacting.
Of course. Because the CEO who brought the company into its market-leading position suddenly just freaked out and lost his mind.
If anything this move will force more people to drop the DVD service as they will lose they que and no one will like having to pay 2 separate bills from same company.
Unless, of course, this is a precursor to splitting it off into a separate company. Or any of a half dozen other reasons for the move.
ay to go Netflix you just make a small problem much bigger by overreacting
That's a perfectly logical explanation in absence of all the facts. Thanks for that keen and insightful analysis!
I have a feeling that their stock is going to tank today.
Probably. And *that* will be the kneejerk reaction from stockholders with your mindset - about as well-considered as your post, though potentially much more expensive in the long term.
What I know is that Netflix didn't get to be where it is by luck, and it didn't happen overnight. It's probably pretty logical to assume that the CEO is not in the habit of making rash, reactionary decisions.
You are falling for the fallacy that the CEO has a clue while in fact he is a complete moron.
A major rate hike is only done by a complete and utter moron. You do smaller less noticeable hikes over time where people do not notice it. They would not have lost HALF the people that left if Netflix's leadership had any clue at all on how to run a business.
So how's your your multi-billion dollar business doing these days?
They probably did, until they had some serious competition. They've actually been making some significant strides in developer relations - but there is plenty of room for improvement (the biggest gripe I have is lack of detailed developer-level release notes for new/updated SDKs...). The various SDKs are all free for download, and are all well-documented.
HTML5 developers actually have it pretty good - easier testing, simpler (but capable) open source API, lots of examples.
It's not as bad as most people tend to make out. If you're a Java developer, the biggest problems are:
- the phone platform is still tied to J2ME (though with the new QNX phones on the horizon that will no longer be true)
- the lack of UI tools. (You've got to be comfortable making a UI programmatically, which a lot of folks aren't. I tend to like it better, but I understand that I'm not the norm these days).
- the biggest challenge is knowing how to find the information - there is a TON of free, RIM-provided documentation for the BB platform; but it's not discoverable.
- required to use eclipse - which is a personal preference, but I liked netbeans better...
On the other hand, you have APIs that let you do almost anything you can imagine on the phone. iPhone doesn't come close; and Android does provide most of the same capability but it's also not as straightforward to implement the same capabilities.
You mean like it was three years ago? The dev tools have been free for even longer than that - though signing your app did carry a one time fee - first 200, then 100, then 20, now nothing. As of last year they no longer charge for submitting to app world which makes them cheaper than iOS's 99$ annual.fee and required OSX license.
Seems to me what they need to fix is the erroneous perceptions people have around the entire process.
Seriously?what little pieces? Did you try downloading the sdk, using the privided hello world template, and building it?
For me that's all it took; and one extra step to set up signing keys for deployment to devices.
And here is the most important thing - if it was not that simple did you take as long as it took you to post here... to provide them feedback? As a participant in the beta, that's all they ask of you. Otherwise they would have no reason to run a private beta at all.
I have known four people who were able to get access after receiving that email just by explaining their situation. I was able to get access for BBSSH dev just by asking, before the beta was even announced; so while your point is valid (they are shooting themselves in the feet) you definitely havenothing to lose by asking.
Why must it be today that I have no modpoints?
Apparently, for your own good and the good of the /. readership.
Video games help train your memory and coordination, we've known this since Mega Man. Attaching a title to this kind of obviousness is just product placement disguised as science.
Similarly, your statement only tells us what we all already know, and what is even hinted strongly at in TFA itself. Posting to inform us of this obvious truth is just karma whoring disguised as participation in a community.
Erm, great - so where's that 100% compatible version of the CLR and libraries that can seamlessly run any .Net app built making use of the 'official' libraries on windows, linux & unix (x86, x86-64, ARM variants of both),
Oh, right. Java is still the only place to get that. If you build using standard .Net 3+ libraries, you're limited to Windows platforms. At least you'll get ARM architecture back under Windows 8...
The CLR and CIL specs were submitted for standardization for PR purposes only. If they (and the libraries to support full CLR compatibility) ever somehow get fully implemented on another platform, it will only be a happy coincidence - not part of Microsoft's plan for them.
It's just the weekly Packt Press feature.
Depending on which definition of free you mean: free jira licensesare given to OSS projects.
If you buy a book on how to use JIRA, you deserve to be parted with your money.
On the other hand it's nice to see packt reviewers are listeningto the complaints and including the bad as well as the good, while giving it a score that accurately reflects both.
Oh wait. That must have been in the *other* reality.
You sound like gp personally insulted you. He didn't. . For the record, in over a decade no such hole has been found - the closest example was a quickly patched exploit in the non-java webkit browser. Considering the historical and current userbase size for of bb device, you can be sure that it's not for lack of trying.
As far as malicious apps - well yeah. It's trivially easy to do that on any patform,because then you're exploiti g the user and not the platform. In order for a platform to be useful, it must provide developers with a means of accessing phone data and interacting with phone components. In the case of BB at least the smart user is given granular control if he wants it., as opposed to the "approve everything the app wants or do without" security of Android. (with that said, most users don'tuse that feature- and so are equally susceptible on any platform)
I don't know about you but I can think about the word "giraffe" without visualizing a giraffe. i suspect similar would apply here (to play devil's advocate...)
I get the impression you may be frustrated about the lack of a docking station for your Nook Color.
Eh? The majority of the US debt (~68%) is owned by he US. Next troll please.
VOD has raised recently to $15/shot. (No pun intended.) Cheaper to actually subscribe somewhere and get HD videos to serve up on the PS3.
Something where if you take a shovel, and dig, you can dig up rocks, and other bits-- or even bury loot, or build a house out of ambient materials, and have it be persistent.
Yeah, that'd be awesome. A game where you could mine and craft all kinds of stuff... what to call it...
I don't know about you but I would call it "Nethack"
Yes this is absolutely true - but I was replying specifically in the context of the amount withheld from income. If the SS tax did not exist, the vast majority of employers would pocket the difference and not give a 6.2% raise to all employees. In other words, that 6.2% is a tax on the employer's payroll - not on on the employee's paycheck.
There is rewriting on both sides and your own post is only part of the truth. Let's look at the actual numbers:
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo4.htm
Debt at start of Regan's presidency:826 bn (based on 9/30/79 prior to Reagan assuming office)
Debt at end of Regan's presidency: 2300 bn
Debt at start of Clinton's presidency: 3600 bn
Debt at end of Clinton's presidency: 5600 bn
Reagan did indeed triple the debt, adding 1.5tn -- yet he did not add as much debt as Clinton did (2tn); and Clinton increased the debt year over year in spite of the the budget surplus.
I'm not saying that it's good or bad - I'm coming to realize that I don't yet understand enough of macroeconomics to have an opinion - but it seems to me that using phrases like "tripling the national debt" is rather misleading in comparison to subsequent Presidencies, even if technically accurate.
The other thing that's interesting to me is the number of people who think that Clinton lowered the debt (I've even seen this implied in mainstream media) when the opposite is true. Presumably there were reasons - again, I am realizing don't understand enough to judge them - but budget surplus != reducing debt.
Not to mention the fact that social security is what opened the door to taxing wages on labor.
This is just factually incorrect. Income tax first began in 1862 to fund the Civil War; and since the 16th amendment in 1916 it's been a permanent part of the landscape. Social security was enacted in 1935. While SS may have paved the way for direct wage/payroll withholdings, income tax was an established fact well before that point.
It is the definition of evil to take that step and then a few generations laters say "well, we're not going to deliver on our promise of a pension but we're still going to take 30% of your check every week." Don't want Social Security? Then figure out a way to run the government without taxing wages.
First, that's a damned weird definition of evil. Second, 30% of your check isn't collected to guarantee a pension - 4.2% of it is. The rest of it is collected to fund local, state, federal governments and medicare.
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Using that logic, everybody should get a headache when watching a 3d display for the first time. (I didn't, but I know others who do.)