Well, that's the method of testing (using water jets) for IPx9 rating, but practically, it just means you can go diving or swim deep without worrying about your watch.
You can swim (not scuba dive) with it, and the battery lasts more than 3 days. Various notification features are the most useful for me, and the ability to create my own watchface without much difficulty (I'm a programmer). I'd take Moto 360, LG G Watch R, and even Apple Watch more seriously if they could beat the battery life of Pebble, and get at least IP69 rating.
Where else would you find people deeply committed as people in free software community? I think this type of tribalism comes with territory, and one of consequential driving forces behind free software movement. We are talking about at least the sweat equity, and the investment of identity -- which are both valuable human assets. Just look at small, infrequent punches that Linux throws at others. We forgive him because he's been a part of significant history, but it becomes harder and louder as you deal with those who may not be as talented or fortunate.
It's just a nod to the attribute it blatantly discloses by being merely territorial, which is common characteristic of large corporations turning lackadaisical on creativity. This has been somewhat of a common, historical trend since mid 1800s, so I don't know where you're spotting ignorance. If you're nitpicking about G's contribution to mobile OS platform and whatnot, then I have nothing to argue with you.
It may be a hasty call, but it almost sounds like a complaint of someone starting to go down on a slope at the late maturation stage of one of our titans.
I think you'd get a fresh perspective on how little time that was compare to the amount of time young minds are spending on online FPS/RPG/MMORG games across the world. I once tried to tabulate it only for Counter Strike 'bout a decade ago or so, and I was simply blown away by the "mind-waste" that was going on, I'm sure it's even bigger now.
ditto. I've initiated my own two cents of effort... starting with OpenID, but then it almost feels like reinventing wheels when Google APIs offer so much through the cloud.. (slap myself on the face: SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!) wake up! This is a war. Yes, independent P2P independent, but social websites across the web. The new generation of social web will once again be decentralized, but then you still need a control server, and once again you have a cloud... no, no, no... yes, yes, yes... sorry, folks for a tidbit of stream of consciousness on this comment... it's indeed an arduous task to yourself rational while trying to stay up nights to create an independent/social website that can be easily packaged for average users...
And I'd like to add that all this talk of "middle class," economics, and especially wealth are overtly subjective topics. Even the word freedom used by many here seems to jump around all over the place--losing its essential meaning. I don't want to get philosophical here, but "eating bitterness" has been going on for thousands of years for "regular" people, so that's nothing new. Even people in the upper echelon always complain about their "bitter" situations. And economic prosperity that is talked of here and elsewhere in the media seems to gauge against the decadent culture that American has created in abusing the same word, freedom, by making it a license to [fill in the blank]. I think Plato's warning on democracy is more relevant to the U.S. than Aristotle's praise of it. Truly, we sound like a fat pig squealing to the rest of the world when we talk of democratic freedom, when we have effectively lost the understanding of the words like great, legacy, or even the very word, democracy, because we are implicitly speaking of the Great American Legacy of Democracy even though we ourselves have lost our own [C. S. Lewis'] proverbial chest.
Upon reading the article more carefully, it looks like it was mostly administrative configuration problems. Take a look at what he's saying:
If I copied the site to a new server, it broke. If I moved it to a different directory, it broke. If I tried to tweak the primary navigation, the page layout blew up. If I disabled a JavaScript function, suddenly all the images stopped loading
Merely copying a site to another server won't do, you need to make sure you have correct extensions, and hopefully, the developer was conscientious enough to allow for easier relocation of the site so you can just change some settings on just one file rather than do a full-blown hunt throughout the code.
Tweaking the primary navigation also heavily depends on the architectural design of the website.
In summary, I think the developer just did a poor job of doing some basic designing prior to the creation of the website. Therefore, I think the article is just a big complaint to write something before the drop time for his article.
I'm afraid you're comparing apples and oranges here. Educate yourself on hard facts such as specs on these phones and you will come away little more enlightened than you already are using Jobs' money machine.
WiMax is supposedly much faster than what Sprint's infrastructure is capable of right now, so I think some decision makers at Sprint are being dimwits for thinking that masses of people are going to pay that much for a rather dim service that is only available in limited areas.
They will be a source of knowledge, studies, research and tools in how to keep itself alive rather than be at the forefront of the technology. I don't understand why you would want more red tape and not less? I think this is a ludicrous idea, especially coming from a supposedly intellectual on the net. Progress has been made admittedly both by commercial, entrepreneurial efforts as well as cooperative efforts of people who are genuinely passionate about this stuff. You throw a government in there, and the hearts of all this highly idealized and motivated individuals will freeze over unless we have a reformed perception of the role of the government in this type of thing. Don't you remember the recent public reaction to gov't agencies having mere "access," albeit hidden, to our private information? And they (such as CIA/FBI) aren't even in the business of sharing information with others or selling our private information like Facebook is.
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The new popularism around entitlement for the betterment of one's own convenience or laziness has been around since they invented computers, it's no surprise.
Did anyone mention outsourcing yet? We have literally millions in India forging themselves to be the next in line for Infosys or for some outsourced programming job.
Better yet, you could make them calculate the orbital plane of all celestial bodies. Just give them 6 orbital variables (aka elements/parameters), and let them have fun. And add to this, an old DOS machine, and a GW-BASIC interpreter, and simple equations for plotting 3D on computer screen, and they will have a blast. Hint: start with 10 RANDOMIZE TIMER:SCREEN 1 -- that will give you 320x200 screen, plenty to plot the whole solar system!
A real smart person would've known this and disregarded IQ scores long ago, but some people with high IQ scores may have propped up their self-respect with the results and probably neglected to nurture their smarts...
This again comes from the fact that both Windows and Mac OS X releases are properly tested and maintained and tend to be in more professional quality.
But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts? It shouldn't be impossible, unless of course, commercial projects are maintained more professionally.
I wonder if it'd be possible to create a testing platform utilizing virtual machines with user-submitted images of ROM or a soft-snapshot of their hardwares. This way we could have a global "virtual" test lab that would surpass Microsoft's or Apple's. I'm sure there is already a process model for testing among few users, but I think if we could simplify the actual testing process and widen the test user base, it would significantly help to reduce heart burns during initial rollouts.
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Well, that's the method of testing (using water jets) for IPx9 rating, but practically, it just means you can go diving or swim deep without worrying about your watch.
You can swim (not scuba dive) with it, and the battery lasts more than 3 days. Various notification features are the most useful for me, and the ability to create my own watchface without much difficulty (I'm a programmer). I'd take Moto 360, LG G Watch R, and even Apple Watch more seriously if they could beat the battery life of Pebble, and get at least IP69 rating.
They would effectively kill their lucrative IP clauses in their CAFTA, NAFTA, FAFTA, WAFTA, AAFTA, BAFTA, DAFTA agreements.
...making the open source landscape inferior by doing a piss poor job of merely maintaining java code and its community.
Where else would you find people deeply committed as people in free software community? I think this type of tribalism comes with territory, and one of consequential driving forces behind free software movement. We are talking about at least the sweat equity, and the investment of identity -- which are both valuable human assets. Just look at small, infrequent punches that Linux throws at others. We forgive him because he's been a part of significant history, but it becomes harder and louder as you deal with those who may not be as talented or fortunate.
especially if you're sitting on a rotating chair while holding it right in front of your face all day in a sound chamber.... poor guy.
It's just a nod to the attribute it blatantly discloses by being merely territorial, which is common characteristic of large corporations turning lackadaisical on creativity. This has been somewhat of a common, historical trend since mid 1800s, so I don't know where you're spotting ignorance. If you're nitpicking about G's contribution to mobile OS platform and whatnot, then I have nothing to argue with you.
Steve wants something, AT&T makes a quick response. Something bad happens, AT&T makes a quick reaction. Anything good happens, AT&T makes a claim.
It may be a hasty call, but it almost sounds like a complaint of someone starting to go down on a slope at the late maturation stage of one of our titans.
I think you'd get a fresh perspective on how little time that was compare to the amount of time young minds are spending on online FPS/RPG/MMORG games across the world. I once tried to tabulate it only for Counter Strike 'bout a decade ago or so, and I was simply blown away by the "mind-waste" that was going on, I'm sure it's even bigger now.
ditto. I've initiated my own two cents of effort... starting with OpenID, but then it almost feels like reinventing wheels when Google APIs offer so much through the cloud.. (slap myself on the face: SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!) wake up! This is a war. Yes, independent P2P independent, but social websites across the web. The new generation of social web will once again be decentralized, but then you still need a control server, and once again you have a cloud... no, no, no... yes, yes, yes... sorry, folks for a tidbit of stream of consciousness on this comment... it's indeed an arduous task to yourself rational while trying to stay up nights to create an independent/social website that can be easily packaged for average users...
And I'd like to add that all this talk of "middle class," economics, and especially wealth are overtly subjective topics. Even the word freedom used by many here seems to jump around all over the place--losing its essential meaning. I don't want to get philosophical here, but "eating bitterness" has been going on for thousands of years for "regular" people, so that's nothing new. Even people in the upper echelon always complain about their "bitter" situations. And economic prosperity that is talked of here and elsewhere in the media seems to gauge against the decadent culture that American has created in abusing the same word, freedom, by making it a license to [fill in the blank]. I think Plato's warning on democracy is more relevant to the U.S. than Aristotle's praise of it. Truly, we sound like a fat pig squealing to the rest of the world when we talk of democratic freedom, when we have effectively lost the understanding of the words like great, legacy, or even the very word, democracy, because we are implicitly speaking of the Great American Legacy of Democracy even though we ourselves have lost our own [C. S. Lewis'] proverbial chest.
Well, actually, there is a potential for more "solid" quantum states, http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0011/0011269v1.pdf. But you're mostly right, although we could both be mostly wrong at most of times.
Merely copying a site to another server won't do, you need to make sure you have correct extensions, and hopefully, the developer was conscientious enough to allow for easier relocation of the site so you can just change some settings on just one file rather than do a full-blown hunt throughout the code. Tweaking the primary navigation also heavily depends on the architectural design of the website. In summary, I think the developer just did a poor job of doing some basic designing prior to the creation of the website. Therefore, I think the article is just a big complaint to write something before the drop time for his article.
I'm afraid you're comparing apples and oranges here. Educate yourself on hard facts such as specs on these phones and you will come away little more enlightened than you already are using Jobs' money machine.
WiMax is supposedly much faster than what Sprint's infrastructure is capable of right now, so I think some decision makers at Sprint are being dimwits for thinking that masses of people are going to pay that much for a rather dim service that is only available in limited areas.
They will be a source of knowledge, studies, research and tools in how to keep itself alive rather than be at the forefront of the technology. I don't understand why you would want more red tape and not less? I think this is a ludicrous idea, especially coming from a supposedly intellectual on the net. Progress has been made admittedly both by commercial, entrepreneurial efforts as well as cooperative efforts of people who are genuinely passionate about this stuff. You throw a government in there, and the hearts of all this highly idealized and motivated individuals will freeze over unless we have a reformed perception of the role of the government in this type of thing. Don't you remember the recent public reaction to gov't agencies having mere "access," albeit hidden, to our private information? And they (such as CIA/FBI) aren't even in the business of sharing information with others or selling our private information like Facebook is.
The new popularism around entitlement for the betterment of one's own convenience or laziness has been around since they invented computers, it's no surprise.
It's called a private office... and a mindset with a lot of imaginations that develop over time.
Did anyone mention outsourcing yet? We have literally millions in India forging themselves to be the next in line for Infosys or for some outsourced programming job.
Better yet, you could make them calculate the orbital plane of all celestial bodies. Just give them 6 orbital variables (aka elements/parameters), and let them have fun. And add to this, an old DOS machine, and a GW-BASIC interpreter, and simple equations for plotting 3D on computer screen, and they will have a blast. Hint: start with 10 RANDOMIZE TIMER:SCREEN 1 -- that will give you 320x200 screen, plenty to plot the whole solar system!
That's the idea--keep the government fat and happy at the expense of American companies.
A real smart person would've known this and disregarded IQ scores long ago, but some people with high IQ scores may have propped up their self-respect with the results and probably neglected to nurture their smarts...
This again comes from the fact that both Windows and Mac OS X releases are properly tested and maintained and tend to be in more professional quality.
But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts? It shouldn't be impossible, unless of course, commercial projects are maintained more professionally.
I wonder if it'd be possible to create a testing platform utilizing virtual machines with user-submitted images of ROM or a soft-snapshot of their hardwares. This way we could have a global "virtual" test lab that would surpass Microsoft's or Apple's. I'm sure there is already a process model for testing among few users, but I think if we could simplify the actual testing process and widen the test user base, it would significantly help to reduce heart burns during initial rollouts.
Sounds like a laissez-faire parenting (or schooling) on steroids.