Carriers don't "lose money" when they "subsidize" your cellphone. Carriers use their ability to buy large quantities of phones to gain a price advantage that they can then leverage into convincing rubes... excuse me, customers, into signing multi-year contracts for voice/text/data plans.
Yes, the phone manufacturer gets paid for the phone, often ahead of time, but your contract is worth considerably more than either the cost of the cellphone or the services that the carrier provides.
Carriers have no incentive to keep you happy once you've signed your contract until such time as your contract runs out. Then they wave another "subsidized phone" and perhaps throw in some inconsequential benefit to get you to renew.
You are a small insignificant part of their customer base and if you become too much of a hassle or too expensive, then they will be just as happy to see you go.
It would probably be because most of the other Top 10 languages have been at (or near) the Top 10 for years, while Objective C has jumped up from #39 a year ago.
Now Tiobe's methodology may be crap overall, but it is measuring a big sea-change... not a change you'll probably like, but eventually you'll realize that the world rarely goes out of its way to please you.
I think the original comment was a shot at Dan Quayle not McGrew... for misspelling potatos (Dan Quayle added an "e" to singular potato, mcgrew removed "e" from plural potatoes... hence, "It's ok Dan, you can use 'Es' this time.").
See what you think is a Van Dyke isn't one, if you want to be technical.
The Van Dyke was a goatee plus a waxed, curled moustache. Along the way, the popularity of curled moustaches declined and the term Van Dyke came to mean any goatee with almost any kind of moustache (but no sideburns or other cheek hair). Now, the term for the mock "Van Dyke" (that you favour) has begun to collapse into the generic term goatee, which may or may include a moustache.
And language moves ever forward... or backwards... or sideways.
What... like MS Excel or Word? It must be the Ribbon Bar that requires all that processing power...
Jeez man, needing a faster processor to do practically the same thing 10 years later is the theme of the microcomputer revolution!
Particularly insulting since both velcro and Tang predate the Space program (they were only popularized as a result their use by NASA, neither were invented for the Space program).
They may be smart, they may even be brilliant, but computer science at elite institutions has frak-all to do with software development.
At best, they will be good newbs, at worst, entitled newbs who are convinced they know it all.
Maybe you missed it but it's been a while since developers were allowed to build their own apps without requiring Apple's approval. Yeah there is a cap, but I'm sure 100 copies will fill your need.
The Standard and Enterprise Programs allow you to share your application with up to 100 other iPhone or iPod touch users with Ad Hoc distribution. Share your application through email or by posting it to a web site or server..
Yeah, those who follow closely the evolution of technology also said it would happen in 1979-1990.
Those who closely follow the evolution of technology are a bunch of know-nothing blowhards who can't get over the fact that Omni magazine stopped publishing.
In the Universe where the LHC didn't cause a temporal-spatial anomaly, John de Lancie was Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation but in our universe where time is going in the counter-entropic direction, Q will have been appeared-ing in SG1 and it will have going to be a documentary.
Look, if you aren't willing to brush up on complex multi-negative English expressions, then I don't think we are going to be able to have a sensible discussion.
No such luck... the registration requirements don't apply to Canadians, but Canadians still need to present passports, fill out customs form, etc.
I'm pretty sure a non-Canadian going through Canada to the US still has the same requirements that the non-Canadian had in their home country.
And with an attitude like that, don't think we don't appreciate that you don't travel.
BTW, what could you possibly be including in North America that makes it 5+ times bigger than Europe? South America too?
You need to re-read Foundation, Seldon makes predictions about his chances of being executed, Dornick's chance for an acquittal, the probability of the Emperor being overthrown if Seldon is killed, etc etc.
A mistake? Pretty big one to make at the beginning of the book.
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Hmmm ... so you're thinking in terms of a space elevator, but more horizontal and less spacey? Amirite?
Carriers don't "lose money" when they "subsidize" your cellphone. Carriers use their ability to buy large quantities of phones to gain a price advantage that they can then leverage into convincing rubes ... excuse me, customers, into signing multi-year contracts for voice/text/data plans.
Yes, the phone manufacturer gets paid for the phone, often ahead of time, but your contract is worth considerably more than either the cost of the cellphone or the services that the carrier provides.
Carriers have no incentive to keep you happy once you've signed your contract until such time as your contract runs out. Then they wave another "subsidized phone" and perhaps throw in some inconsequential benefit to get you to renew.
You are a small insignificant part of their customer base and if you become too much of a hassle or too expensive, then they will be just as happy to see you go.
I really hate my cable company, do you want to try another analogy?
It would probably be because most of the other Top 10 languages have been at (or near) the Top 10 for years, while Objective C has jumped up from #39 a year ago.
Here you can see the change in Tiobe's ratings for Objective C over time:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Objective-C.html
Compared to other languages like Java:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Java.html
Perl:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Perl.html
or PHP:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/PHP.html
That is a significant change.
Now Tiobe's methodology may be crap overall, but it is measuring a big sea-change ... not a change you'll probably like, but eventually you'll realize that the world rarely goes out of its way to please you.
I think the original comment was a shot at Dan Quayle not McGrew ... for misspelling potatos (Dan Quayle added an "e" to singular potato, mcgrew removed "e" from plural potatoes ... hence, "It's ok Dan, you can use 'Es' this time.").
But it does make it so.
See what you think is a Van Dyke isn't one, if you want to be technical.
The Van Dyke was a goatee plus a waxed, curled moustache. Along the way, the popularity of curled moustaches declined and the term Van Dyke came to mean any goatee with almost any kind of moustache (but no sideburns or other cheek hair). Now, the term for the mock "Van Dyke" (that you favour) has begun to collapse into the generic term goatee, which may or may include a moustache.
And language moves ever forward ... or backwards ... or sideways.
::pssttt:: it's a bit quibbly but Hawaii was a territory back then .... it became a state in 1959.
There were small bombarding incidents on the mainland in WW2 too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_North_America_during_World_War_II#Japanese_operations
Pure speculation on my part, but it is quite a coincidence that the following all happened at the same time ...
You forgot to include the volcano ash cloud ...
Hey, I often make jingoistic Soviet Russia jokes, you insensitive clod!
It's even less, the HTML, Javascript and CSS are all gzip compressed ... that 800KB would be once it was uncompressed by the client.
Even worse, Apple has a microscopic-to-non-existant share of the rotary dial phone market ... even the highly lucrative novelty sector!!!!
What ... like MS Excel or Word? It must be the Ribbon Bar that requires all that processing power ...
Jeez man, needing a faster processor to do practically the same thing 10 years later is the theme of the microcomputer revolution!
Particularly insulting since both velcro and Tang predate the Space program (they were only popularized as a result their use by NASA, neither were invented for the Space program).
Computer Science != Software Development
They may be smart, they may even be brilliant, but computer science at elite institutions has frak-all to do with software development. At best, they will be good newbs, at worst, entitled newbs who are convinced they know it all.
Maybe you missed it but it's been a while since developers were allowed to build their own apps without requiring Apple's approval. Yeah there is a cap, but I'm sure 100 copies will fill your need.
Ad Hoc Distribution
The Standard and Enterprise Programs allow you to share your application with up to 100 other iPhone or iPod touch users with Ad Hoc distribution. Share your application through email or by posting it to a web site or server..
Yeah, those who follow closely the evolution of technology also said it would happen in 1979-1990. Those who closely follow the evolution of technology are a bunch of know-nothing blowhards who can't get over the fact that Omni magazine stopped publishing.
In the Universe where the LHC didn't cause a temporal-spatial anomaly, John de Lancie was Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation but in our universe where time is going in the counter-entropic direction, Q will have been appeared-ing in SG1 and it will have going to be a documentary.
Look, if you aren't willing to brush up on complex multi-negative English expressions, then I don't think we are going to be able to have a sensible discussion.
No such luck ... the registration requirements don't apply to Canadians, but Canadians still need to present passports, fill out customs form, etc.
I'm pretty sure a non-Canadian going through Canada to the US still has the same requirements that the non-Canadian had in their home country.
And with an attitude like that, don't think we don't appreciate that you don't travel. BTW, what could you possibly be including in North America that makes it 5+ times bigger than Europe? South America too?
Try:
define: "duck typing"
You'll be pleased to hear that the English Wikipedia page doesn't mention frogs.
You need to re-read Foundation, Seldon makes predictions about his chances of being executed, Dornick's chance for an acquittal, the probability of the Emperor being overthrown if Seldon is killed, etc etc. A mistake? Pretty big one to make at the beginning of the book.
That must have taken a lot of monkeys.
Pigeons, son, Google uses pigeons.
Blogging Pigeon Beowulf Cluster
Oh Noes!!! What effect will that have on PigeonRank ?