Going to keep the identity kinda vague here but I can say that I'm a high-ish level executive for a company that provides cloud services similar to Amazon and I will tell you first hand that we NEVER ever ever would spy or collect data on our customers. It would be a disaster and far more trouble than it's worth. Most mainstream platforms (VMware, OpenStack, whatever you choose) don't even provide facilities for reading on-disk customer data in a true cloud environment easily; I guess if you really wanted to you could start pulling raw blocks off of a SAN and dig around, but it would be a serious pain. Even if it were easy, I can't see a compelling reason to eavesdrop on customers, plus there are likely legal ramifications.
"I've decided to install only apps that won't become obsolete merely because of the developer's whim or lack of interest. With the exception of games, which I don't deem essential for work, I don't want to install potential abandonware even if they cost the pauperly sum of $0.00."
Why are you so angry at people that give you stuff for free? Your tone is really unappreciative; developers often make OSS for FREE.
The way this is written is so absurdly biased; if you want to promote Android devices, just come out and say it. Don't use some arbitrary statistic to promote your agenda. That's like blaming the former CEO of Lexus for making a desirable vehicle that is prone to theft as a result of its desirability or popularity.
People are casually forgetting that Google introduced the option to DRM your apps with Jelly Bean and beyond. This is a problem that has essentially been fixed, especially as manufacturers roll out the new version of Android (which is the real problem with Android: that might never happen in the case of many phones). It's a year out probably before lots of people are actually running Jelly Bean, but the process has begun.
Was just sharing a personal experience. It seems to me that you had more of an aspie meltdown than anyone. Maybe try the same benzos I take? They're great for keeping you calm and making you way less of a prick. Be well, you cocksucker.
At the risk of sounding like a pretentious prick, I had exceptional scores on tests, got invited to gifted and talented programs, and scored near-genius levels when I had a [real, not online] IQ test conducted as a child. Also I'M CRAZY AS SHIT. I take a mood stabilizer, an antidepressant, a benzodiazepine (3x day on the benzos, for serious) and Ritalin. Fortunately through the miracle of modern pharmaceuticals, I'm a somewhat healthy productive citizen, but it is hard. Even still my mind races with worst case scenarios, etc. and I always find new and and ever increasingly inventive ways to throw my brain into a frenzy over something completely stupid or erroneous; it's typically shit I can't control. Just saying is all... Forgive my self-absorption.
Ballmer consistently and repeatedly talks out of his ass. Somebody needs to put a lid on this guy because the company is clearly directionless with him at the helm. I've used Windows Phone and it is indeed polished and a step in the right direction, but with this guy running the show, who knows what the fuck is going to happen. He has a history of making delusional, sensational claims that ultimately make him look like a crybaby who is ill-equipped to actually compete. If Windows Phone would have come out and been feature complete at the beginning, more people would have bought it and we likely wouldn't be having this argument. Windows Phone 7 itself is solid, but the market has decided. There are two clear winners: Android and iOS.
Of note, I am an iOS AND Android user. I have an iPad and a Xoom, a G2 and an iPhone 4S. I am not loyal to one platform. I love the polish and reliability of iOS and the open nature of Android. This is not me advocating any platform in particular, just me pointing out that Ballmer is an asshat and it was a poor decision to put him in charge.
Typically organizations will bring in a consultant when they have a short-term problem that they want to solve, or just need extra hands for a big project. Now even though they're paying their contractors "twice" what they pay their employees, they are only getting money. Working as a contractor means you don't get health insurance plans, retirement, etc. Additionally, you're only bringing these folks in for (hopefully) a limited period of time, after which time they move on. So really in the end, it's pretty close to being the same money-wise.
Maybe this "watchdog" group should watch something meaningful. Everyone knows contractors make a bunch of money, but there's more to it than just the money.
There's actually a lot to be gained from taking from and contributing to open source. There are so many great products out there based on open source software. Red Hat is poised to be a billion dollar company this year, and Apple's growth has been meteoric after the rise of OS X and iOS, both of which have kernels rooted in open source. Even though a lot of these big companies have evil tendencies, a commitment to open source can be a healthy way to integrate robust technologies without having to spend a fortune developing something new and proprietary which could ultimately fail anyway. Additionally, it gives something back to the enthusiast community, and many freelance open source contributors get to sharpen their skills as a hobby at home, which makes them valuable to the companies for which they work (mostly high-tech sector). It's a win-win for everyone and I'm excited to see another company realize the value of open source.
First off, not all of the drugs listed are antipsychotics. Second, a lot of people need these drugs. Humans have evolved to wake up with the sun, and go to sleep not too long after sunset. Now we stay up all night. Naturally, that's going to make you a little bit crazy. 10,000 years ago, we didn't eat lots of carbs or ingest loads of chemicals, we ate natural fruits, veggies, and meat. Most of us now don't have to worry about hunting or foraging, and now that the desperate struggle for survival is over for many of us, we have time to look inward and think about thoughts and emotions. I don't know about you guys, but any time I have time to look inward and deal with emotions, I go a little bit bananas. That's why we need an unnatural solution in many cases to help us cope with this incredibly unnatural world. It's not worth freaking out over; take a Xanax and chill:-).
The first time I loaded the page, I honestly thought that the page didn't load right; that something was wrong with my browser/connection. THAT'S how bad it is.
And like Firewire-400 and USB. Remember, Apple was the first to come out with those as well and a big driving force behind their adoption. Never count Apple out. At this point, if they want to make something into a standard, they will whether you like it or not. HTML5 video anyone? Nobody cared before the iPad.
When I watched this my head nearly exploded. The mayor had to do what he had to do to keep Twitter in his city. Consider this: if they had just let Twitter move somewhere else, lots of jobs would be terminated. These are all employees who live in the city, purchase things and pay sales tax, pay income taxes and a whole host of other taxes levied. All of the equipment, much of which is probably purchased locally, would be purchased elsewhere. Contractors who service their equipment would have fewer clients, their office space would be unoccupied, and so on and so on and so on. Over all, it's probably a net gain for the city. $22 million a year less in revenue. Big deal in the grand scheme of things. Twitter is big, and it's getting bigger. Kudos to the mayor for being so forward thinking.
Taiwan: quit trolling and mind your own fucking business.
I'm actually glad this is happening. This demonstrates that wikileaks has an ulterior agenda (I can't really speculate what it is) because if they were really that concerned about free dissemination of information and actually getting whatever this stuff is out to everyone, they'd RAR it up and stick it on The Pirate Bay. Anyone else find this suspicious?
Jobs also criticized the Android Marketplace, pointing out that there are at least three other app stores being launched by vendors, causing confusion for users and work for developers. "This is gonna be a mess for both users and developers,"
Yes, because people have proven that having more than one drug store, supermarket, or fast food chain inevitably disorients them and fouls up their lives. Oh, wait.
I really do like my Apple products, but not for the reasons Jobs pushes; more like in spite of his ideas. I'd love another store, particularly one where Jobs Judeo-Christian mores aren't pushed upon me; or, conversely, if Apple's store stopped insisting that apps have to work they way they think they should, or that apps "can't duplicate functionality." I'm hugely fond my my iPad, but the idea that it would be less useful to me if there were more than one app store available to me... that's just wrong.
It doesn't make sense for Ford to be making both cars and trucks. It means they have to have at least two separate lines for most of the components. They should just merge the two concepts.
They did, along with other automakers. It's called a crossover, an SUV built on a car frame usually from a sedan in the company's lineup. They're increasingly popular.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossover_(automobile)
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He said quad *socket* not quad-core
Guy will be dead within a year
But if history is any indicator, there's a pretty good chance that someone will get arrested for disclosing this
Going to keep the identity kinda vague here but I can say that I'm a high-ish level executive for a company that provides cloud services similar to Amazon and I will tell you first hand that we NEVER ever ever would spy or collect data on our customers. It would be a disaster and far more trouble than it's worth. Most mainstream platforms (VMware, OpenStack, whatever you choose) don't even provide facilities for reading on-disk customer data in a true cloud environment easily; I guess if you really wanted to you could start pulling raw blocks off of a SAN and dig around, but it would be a serious pain. Even if it were easy, I can't see a compelling reason to eavesdrop on customers, plus there are likely legal ramifications.
"I've decided to install only apps that won't become obsolete merely because of the developer's whim or lack of interest. With the exception of games, which I don't deem essential for work, I don't want to install potential abandonware even if they cost the pauperly sum of $0.00." Why are you so angry at people that give you stuff for free? Your tone is really unappreciative; developers often make OSS for FREE.
Does this mean Windows Phone will actually support VPN?
The way this is written is so absurdly biased; if you want to promote Android devices, just come out and say it. Don't use some arbitrary statistic to promote your agenda. That's like blaming the former CEO of Lexus for making a desirable vehicle that is prone to theft as a result of its desirability or popularity.
Instead of thinking. "Wow, this is cool.." I thought, "Apple is going to sue the developer into the poor house..."
The operative word being "some"
People are casually forgetting that Google introduced the option to DRM your apps with Jelly Bean and beyond. This is a problem that has essentially been fixed, especially as manufacturers roll out the new version of Android (which is the real problem with Android: that might never happen in the case of many phones). It's a year out probably before lots of people are actually running Jelly Bean, but the process has begun.
I like you.
Was just sharing a personal experience. It seems to me that you had more of an aspie meltdown than anyone. Maybe try the same benzos I take? They're great for keeping you calm and making you way less of a prick. Be well, you cocksucker.
At the risk of sounding like a pretentious prick, I had exceptional scores on tests, got invited to gifted and talented programs, and scored near-genius levels when I had a [real, not online] IQ test conducted as a child. Also I'M CRAZY AS SHIT. I take a mood stabilizer, an antidepressant, a benzodiazepine (3x day on the benzos, for serious) and Ritalin. Fortunately through the miracle of modern pharmaceuticals, I'm a somewhat healthy productive citizen, but it is hard. Even still my mind races with worst case scenarios, etc. and I always find new and and ever increasingly inventive ways to throw my brain into a frenzy over something completely stupid or erroneous; it's typically shit I can't control. Just saying is all... Forgive my self-absorption.
Ballmer consistently and repeatedly talks out of his ass. Somebody needs to put a lid on this guy because the company is clearly directionless with him at the helm. I've used Windows Phone and it is indeed polished and a step in the right direction, but with this guy running the show, who knows what the fuck is going to happen. He has a history of making delusional, sensational claims that ultimately make him look like a crybaby who is ill-equipped to actually compete. If Windows Phone would have come out and been feature complete at the beginning, more people would have bought it and we likely wouldn't be having this argument. Windows Phone 7 itself is solid, but the market has decided. There are two clear winners: Android and iOS. Of note, I am an iOS AND Android user. I have an iPad and a Xoom, a G2 and an iPhone 4S. I am not loyal to one platform. I love the polish and reliability of iOS and the open nature of Android. This is not me advocating any platform in particular, just me pointing out that Ballmer is an asshat and it was a poor decision to put him in charge.
Typically organizations will bring in a consultant when they have a short-term problem that they want to solve, or just need extra hands for a big project. Now even though they're paying their contractors "twice" what they pay their employees, they are only getting money. Working as a contractor means you don't get health insurance plans, retirement, etc. Additionally, you're only bringing these folks in for (hopefully) a limited period of time, after which time they move on. So really in the end, it's pretty close to being the same money-wise. Maybe this "watchdog" group should watch something meaningful. Everyone knows contractors make a bunch of money, but there's more to it than just the money.
There's actually a lot to be gained from taking from and contributing to open source. There are so many great products out there based on open source software. Red Hat is poised to be a billion dollar company this year, and Apple's growth has been meteoric after the rise of OS X and iOS, both of which have kernels rooted in open source. Even though a lot of these big companies have evil tendencies, a commitment to open source can be a healthy way to integrate robust technologies without having to spend a fortune developing something new and proprietary which could ultimately fail anyway. Additionally, it gives something back to the enthusiast community, and many freelance open source contributors get to sharpen their skills as a hobby at home, which makes them valuable to the companies for which they work (mostly high-tech sector). It's a win-win for everyone and I'm excited to see another company realize the value of open source.
First off, not all of the drugs listed are antipsychotics. Second, a lot of people need these drugs. Humans have evolved to wake up with the sun, and go to sleep not too long after sunset. Now we stay up all night. Naturally, that's going to make you a little bit crazy. 10,000 years ago, we didn't eat lots of carbs or ingest loads of chemicals, we ate natural fruits, veggies, and meat. Most of us now don't have to worry about hunting or foraging, and now that the desperate struggle for survival is over for many of us, we have time to look inward and think about thoughts and emotions. I don't know about you guys, but any time I have time to look inward and deal with emotions, I go a little bit bananas. That's why we need an unnatural solution in many cases to help us cope with this incredibly unnatural world. It's not worth freaking out over; take a Xanax and chill :-).
The first time I loaded the page, I honestly thought that the page didn't load right; that something was wrong with my browser/connection. THAT'S how bad it is.
And like Firewire-400 and USB. Remember, Apple was the first to come out with those as well and a big driving force behind their adoption. Never count Apple out. At this point, if they want to make something into a standard, they will whether you like it or not. HTML5 video anyone? Nobody cared before the iPad.
"Why don't you have a seat over there"
When I watched this my head nearly exploded. The mayor had to do what he had to do to keep Twitter in his city. Consider this: if they had just let Twitter move somewhere else, lots of jobs would be terminated. These are all employees who live in the city, purchase things and pay sales tax, pay income taxes and a whole host of other taxes levied. All of the equipment, much of which is probably purchased locally, would be purchased elsewhere. Contractors who service their equipment would have fewer clients, their office space would be unoccupied, and so on and so on and so on. Over all, it's probably a net gain for the city. $22 million a year less in revenue. Big deal in the grand scheme of things. Twitter is big, and it's getting bigger. Kudos to the mayor for being so forward thinking.
Taiwan: quit trolling and mind your own fucking business.
I'm actually glad this is happening. This demonstrates that wikileaks has an ulterior agenda (I can't really speculate what it is) because if they were really that concerned about free dissemination of information and actually getting whatever this stuff is out to everyone, they'd RAR it up and stick it on The Pirate Bay. Anyone else find this suspicious?
Yes, because people have proven that having more than one drug store, supermarket, or fast food chain inevitably disorients them and fouls up their lives. Oh, wait.
I really do like my Apple products, but not for the reasons Jobs pushes; more like in spite of his ideas. I'd love another store, particularly one where Jobs Judeo-Christian mores aren't pushed upon me; or, conversely, if Apple's store stopped insisting that apps have to work they way they think they should, or that apps "can't duplicate functionality." I'm hugely fond my my iPad, but the idea that it would be less useful to me if there were more than one app store available to me... that's just wrong.
Jobs is a Buddhist.
God bless my Nexus One. This is actually WORSE than the iPhone. Motorola, you've lost a customer for life.
It doesn't make sense for Ford to be making both cars and trucks. It means they have to have at least two separate lines for most of the components. They should just merge the two concepts.
They did, along with other automakers. It's called a crossover, an SUV built on a car frame usually from a sedan in the company's lineup. They're increasingly popular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossover_(automobile)