I know what you mean. I'm working on an app that doesn't need much horsepower and would like it to be available on the iPad 1 so that people could put old ones they have laying around to good use. But Apple isn't making it easy to support older device so I'll probably have to make it iOS 7+ only.:-(
That's just it though -- business people don't read code! You're making the developers lives harder in order to cater to a situation that never happens.
"It's a bit like BT in the UK, but without the customer dedication, commitment to upgrades or ethics, fairness, and sense of social responsibility of its management team"
Maybe because when someone breaks into your house and you need it you don't want the batteries in your guns fingerprint print scanner to be dead or have time for it to boot up.
"which ultimately leaves the movie about the events that transpire rather than the characters involved in them"
I'm sick and tired of movie critics who think a movie should only be about the characters. Any story and two major pieces: the characters AND the plot. Without the plot, the characters don't change. Without facing the crisis (brought to them via the plot) they don't grow and become the interesting characters that they are.
Without a plot the characters are just sitting around doing nothing.
Before J. J. Abrams was given the reins to Star Trek, you had expressed interest in doing something with the franchise. Can you give us an idea of the direction you might have taken it or some of the things you would have done?
When the tax code is so complicated that you need to create Star Trek parodies to explain it to the people implementing it, it might be too complicated.
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The emails...they're coming from inside the prison!
simplistic, clumsy, with limited reflex-based gaming choices at best.
I think I'm going to go play some Tetris...
This is the same city that banned Happy Meals. They should just get the city to ban Google/Apple buses.
UPDATE PhoneList
SET KillPhoneIndicator = "Y"
Oops. Forgot the WHERE clause
I know what you mean. I'm working on an app that doesn't need much horsepower and would like it to be available on the iPad 1 so that people could put old ones they have laying around to good use. But Apple isn't making it easy to support older device so I'll probably have to make it iOS 7+ only. :-(
Never trust a programer who can spel.
Won't the poor be hit hardest by this?
The same way you did it before the metadata was available.
That's just it though -- business people don't read code! You're making the developers lives harder in order to cater to a situation that never happens.
Try writing the COBOL version over and over everyday and you'll get tired of it pretty quickly.
I agree that we should try to make things simple. But I also think that COBOL's verbosity gets in the way of that. For example, I find:
For i = 1 to 100
' Do work here
Next
to be simpler and easier to understand than
PERFORM VARYING WS-I FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL WS-I = 100
* DO WORK HERE
END PERFORM
You know why there aren't a lot of women in IT now, right? It's because after Grace Hopper unleashed COBOL, we're been leery about letting them in.
(It's a joke! Claim down.)
"It's a bit like BT in the UK, but without the customer dedication, commitment to upgrades or ethics, fairness, and sense of social responsibility of its management team"
So, it's like AT&T then.
'Netflix might say, "I'll pay in order to make sure that my subscriber might receive the best possible transmission of this movie."'"
And where does Netflix get it's money? Oh, that's right, from it's customers.
Maybe because when someone breaks into your house and you need it you don't want the batteries in your guns fingerprint print scanner to be dead or have time for it to boot up.
"which ultimately leaves the movie about the events that transpire rather than the characters involved in them"
I'm sick and tired of movie critics who think a movie should only be about the characters. Any story and two major pieces: the characters AND the plot. Without the plot, the characters don't change. Without facing the crisis (brought to them via the plot) they don't grow and become the interesting characters that they are.
Without a plot the characters are just sitting around doing nothing.
So if California would lower their tax rate they could get at least a piece of the money instead of none of it.
The problem with Segways is that they're too expensive.
"It's pretty sad when someone can't even work up the reading comprehension to grasp the story from a short summary."
Have you ever tried to read Slashdot summaries?
Perhaps the FAA isn't the best one to be in charge of the air traffic control system.
Lets just get rid of California
Before J. J. Abrams was given the reins to Star Trek, you had expressed interest in doing something with the franchise. Can you give us an idea of the direction you might have taken it or some of the things you would have done?
When the tax code is so complicated that you need to create Star Trek parodies to explain it to the people implementing it, it might be too complicated.
The summary should mention that Guy Kawasaki now works for Google: http://www.businessinsider.com/guy-kawasaki-joins-google-as-an-advisor-2013-2
Ever heard of a botnet? The spammer's won't be the ones paying the taxes.