Thing is, they agreed not to track me when I inquired about their service. It's in my HTTP headers.
If they chose to go ahead and do business with me anyway, I don't need to read their TOS or EULA. If they really want me to read those, they need to withhold service until I do.
Don't be daft. I could walk into my office and ask who knows what CC is and after dealing with the multiple "carbon copy!" answers there'd be around 3 out of 40 people that would know.
You missed the part where a third of my income is taken from me and wasted on shit like this. No, I do not want a tax rise to pay for some cunt called Jeremy to ignore science.
Ooh, please. Can you link to double-blind research that proves any of this?
No seriously - there's a $1m prize waiting to be claimed. I'm not trying to laugh or use heavy-handed irony, I'm just waiting to see some fucking evidence.
So show some, or stop fucking trolling with your bullshit.
You can't spend your way out of a recession when you're already over budget by tens of billions because the fuckwit Labour party increased public spending far above Government revenues even when the economy was good.
It's going to take a couple of decades to pay off that level of debt so please, don't vote the cunts back in to run it up even higher. I'm hoping to retire one day.
If the hospital sticks a pretty label on a bottle of tap water and utilises the placebo effect then it's a worthwhile treatment and will add benefit.
If the hospital prescribes a branded bottle of tap water that costs the NHS £480 a bottle then it's fraudulent and I'd be looking for links between the "manufacturer" and Jeremy Cunt*
*Yes, that's the name used to introduce him on BBC Radio 4
Again, this approach is not suitable or appropriate for a multi-user environment. Stop trying to discredit numbers that apply to a more complex scenario than the one you enjoy.
So you can't reset your password, but you have no costs with re-imaging hard drives?
You've just confirmed that you never ever forget your password. Work for an organisation with more than one employee, and promise that everybody will maintain your impressive record.
Your personal experiences do not translate into a complex multi-user environment.
I reckon for most people (outside of finance/defence/govt etc) it's overkill
For most people it possibly is. In Financial Services it's an excellent way to prevent the regulator fining you (for far more than the cost of installing/managing it) due to data loss.
You also need to factor in the reputational cost of losing sensitive customer data, whatever industry you're in.
Seriously sensitive data is rare within an organisation, but large volumes of any data tends to have significant value - otherwise people wouldn't pay the costs of collating and maintaining it.
I have no fewer than six different space suit designs appropriate for Mars and wearable by humans. I also have a couple for Reticulans but I can't make them, just trade for them.
I don't use or want Mono. I was bemused at him trying to create it.
But hey. It's his time. It's his choice. It's his life and just because he chose a different route to you doesn't mean he sold out.
It sure as shit didn't make him a quisling.
Just what the fuck is your personal hang-up that you take offence at people working on stuff that interests them? Seriously, I'm confused as hell. Why does it matter to you? How has it stopped you focussing on the projects you want to progress?
I wouldn't. I look at my screen while I'm typing. If I'm typing on my screen, I can't look at my screen without seeing the keyboard.
Input is different to output. It's possible to use the same device for each, but it's not optimal and it's a compromise that I don't have to make when I'm sat at home.
When I'm out and about the convenience of carrying a single small device outweighs the inconvenience of the clumsier typing mechanism, but it is an inconvenience and it isn't my preferred approach for textual entry.
The mouse is a more interesting option, but I'd rather be sat a reasonable distance from my screen - right now it's a full arm's reach away. That's not comfortable to touch, and touchscreen technology is still not as accurate as a mouse-click. So again, I'd rather have a device nearer to me that doesn't cause physical pain to use for more than twenty minutes.
Don't get me wrong. A table-sized touchscreen would be nice - but I wouldn't use a 32" monitor whether it's a touchscreen or not, and I certainly wouldn't abandon my keyboard or mouse to go touchscreen with the current state of the technology.
Note that the underlying OS is completely irrelevant; it's the form factor and physical usability that cause the problems.
Are you serious when you say you can type out real emails, like the ones for work, from an iPad keyboard?
Hmm. You can't?
I send personal emails (up to several "pages" in length) from my touchscreen _phone_ that's harder to type on than a tablet (but does have haptic feedback).
Most work emails are "Ok, see you at ten" or "Be aware that will be available on Tuesday" or "Here's the diagram I promised you". Not exactly demanding to type - why do you think managers get by with a blackberry?
Given the tools, most "consumers" I know do things like photo editing, video editing, DJing/mixing, building databases (as in, collections of data) and other creative/complex activities.
Where do you think all those youtube videos come from? Who makes all those game mods? Why is Flickr so successful?
Professional development will tend to take place on efficient kit. Why are you assuming that all development is professional?
People code for fun. They tend to have a tablet with them, so it's an alternative to reading a book, watching a film or playing a game - all activities for which dedicated devices tend to be more optimal.
If someone's sat on the Tube updating their program then a full-sized desktop is not a practical option.
Let's see your tablet run complex database I/O code tests.
Yes, please, lets. Because otherwise I can't be sure that it'll run those complex database I/O activities. My automated test suites finish in seconds, and a complex comprehensive one-off suite of tests is something I can leave running while I eat lunch.
Oh and perhaps you should go read that slashdot story about how iOS apps are like a slot machine that the vast majority of developers don't win (make money) on and then go buy a PC.
Erm. You replied to someone that admitted carrying around a non-iOS device. And again, you're assuming that there's a monetary incentive to programming.
So again: some people program for fun. Some people get paid for it. The sweet spot is the intersect of the two, but that doesn't invalidate either side.
I've never had the luxury of even a 1080p screen when developing professionally.
That doesn't mean it's not good - it's always nice to have more screen real-estate - but don't pretend it's necessary.
IDEs benefit from enough space to show stuff around the edges of the code/design window, but as long as you're efficient working with tabs, you can get by with anything as low as 1280x1024.
(That assumes your eyesight can cope)
The Transformer Pad Infinity is more powerful and has a better screen than almost every computer I've professionally developed on. It's got a better keyboard than at least one of them too. Sure, it's far behind current state of the art for PCs, but it's not that far behind the dev boxes many companies still buy for their developers.
They tend to offer management capabilities for handling all of the files needed for complex software projects, coding accelerators (possibly including code generation, automated refactoring, access to libraries, form/UI creation, etc), a flexible and supportive editor (usually offering code completion, easy/powerful search capabilities, type lookups, etc) and optimise the build process (on-the-fly compilation/generation, "smart" recompile/linking, etc) and integration with code repositories, build platforms, test environments (including automated testing) and code quality checking (including prettification, error detection, automated coding standards, etc).
They don't actually enable you to create anything you can't get done with a terminal window and a command line compiler. They just make it quicker and easier.
Examples: Microsoft Visual Studio (the leading "I want to program for Windows" IDE) Eclipse (the leading "I want to program" IDE) AIDE (the leading "I want to program natively on my android device" IDE)
I'd quote a MacOS example but I'm not sure which is the current favourite.
Uhm, no. There's nothing stopping Apple from installing Android on the iPhone 5.
Are you a fucking imbecile? dotHecates point is that the walled garden is Apple's way of trying to reduce churn by making it harder for customers to switch to another manufacturer.
So Apple installing Android on their next device would defeat that point entirely, including alienating all of the people that bought into the existing walled garden.
While ostensibly you're correct in that the technology exists for Apple to choose to install Android on the next telephone they produce, you're demonstrating a level of naivety that leaves me aghast. They don't want to. They perceive no advantage in doing so. They've adopted this closed and abusive model explicitly to fuck over their customers.
It's nice that you've taken a more reasonable approach and focussed on providing value rather than lock-in, but don't assume Apple (or Google) have any intention of being equally considerate.
Hmm. I liked San Diego when I visited. Bristol's quite nice. Nottingham's actually lovely, it's just the council that's shit. Austin's fantastic. Aalborg felt like home.
There are actually quite a few nice places. But not Grimsby. It's fucking grim.
I find plenty to do outside of London, but I will acknowledge that there's a cultural bias to the capital in addition to the increased employment opportunities.
However, there are theatres in most (all?) reasonable sized towns, opera houses across the country, various cinemas, clubs galore, more sports outside of the capital than in it, countless festivals and other countryside events, and actual countryside which all by itself is lovely to visit.
(Comically for me a walk in London is a diverting and interesting day out, because I get to see strange and unusual people in what is often a fairly closed environment)
Both of my major social hobbies (i.e. not reading, computer gaming or "drunken arguments on the internet") are far easier to follow outside of London than in. One requires desolate tracts of countryside and the other is far easier to get to and available more nights of the week in (each of the) cities such as Nottingham, Manchester, Bristol and Cardiff than in London.
Of course, that may be because I picked up hobbies I could do locally. If I lived in London I'd have picked something else, so there is a degree of selection bias involved.
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Thing is, they agreed not to track me when I inquired about their service. It's in my HTTP headers.
If they chose to go ahead and do business with me anyway, I don't need to read their TOS or EULA. If they really want me to read those, they need to withhold service until I do.
Don't be daft. I could walk into my office and ask who knows what CC is and after dealing with the multiple "carbon copy!" answers there'd be around 3 out of 40 people that would know.
You missed the part where a third of my income is taken from me and wasted on shit like this. No, I do not want a tax rise to pay for some cunt called Jeremy to ignore science.
Ooh, please. Can you link to double-blind research that proves any of this?
No seriously - there's a $1m prize waiting to be claimed. I'm not trying to laugh or use heavy-handed irony, I'm just waiting to see some fucking evidence.
So show some, or stop fucking trolling with your bullshit.
You can't spend your way out of a recession when you're already over budget by tens of billions because the fuckwit Labour party increased public spending far above Government revenues even when the economy was good.
It's going to take a couple of decades to pay off that level of debt so please, don't vote the cunts back in to run it up even higher. I'm hoping to retire one day.
If the hospital sticks a pretty label on a bottle of tap water and utilises the placebo effect then it's a worthwhile treatment and will add benefit.
If the hospital prescribes a branded bottle of tap water that costs the NHS £480 a bottle then it's fraudulent and I'd be looking for links between the "manufacturer" and Jeremy Cunt*
*Yes, that's the name used to introduce him on BBC Radio 4
Cunt, already widely known in Britain as corrupt, silly little man, is just pissing on the wreckage.
Sorry, you've lost me. Lansley or Hunt (or both)?
Yeah, a fine return on the £3000/term it's costing you to be there.
Again, this approach is not suitable or appropriate for a multi-user environment. Stop trying to discredit numbers that apply to a more complex scenario than the one you enjoy.
So you can't reset your password, but you have no costs with re-imaging hard drives?
You've just confirmed that you never ever forget your password. Work for an organisation with more than one employee, and promise that everybody will maintain your impressive record.
Your personal experiences do not translate into a complex multi-user environment.
I reckon for most people (outside of finance/defence/govt etc) it's overkill
For most people it possibly is. In Financial Services it's an excellent way to prevent the regulator fining you (for far more than the cost of installing/managing it) due to data loss.
You also need to factor in the reputational cost of losing sensitive customer data, whatever industry you're in.
Seriously sensitive data is rare within an organisation, but large volumes of any data tends to have significant value - otherwise people wouldn't pay the costs of collating and maintaining it.
I have no fewer than six different space suit designs appropriate for Mars and wearable by humans. I also have a couple for Reticulans but I can't make them, just trade for them.
UFO Afterlight: underrated :)
He thinks like a sell-out quisling
I don't use or want Mono. I was bemused at him trying to create it.
But hey. It's his time. It's his choice. It's his life and just because he chose a different route to you doesn't mean he sold out.
It sure as shit didn't make him a quisling.
Just what the fuck is your personal hang-up that you take offence at people working on stuff that interests them? Seriously, I'm confused as hell. Why does it matter to you? How has it stopped you focussing on the projects you want to progress?
I wouldn't. I look at my screen while I'm typing. If I'm typing on my screen, I can't look at my screen without seeing the keyboard.
Input is different to output. It's possible to use the same device for each, but it's not optimal and it's a compromise that I don't have to make when I'm sat at home.
When I'm out and about the convenience of carrying a single small device outweighs the inconvenience of the clumsier typing mechanism, but it is an inconvenience and it isn't my preferred approach for textual entry.
The mouse is a more interesting option, but I'd rather be sat a reasonable distance from my screen - right now it's a full arm's reach away. That's not comfortable to touch, and touchscreen technology is still not as accurate as a mouse-click. So again, I'd rather have a device nearer to me that doesn't cause physical pain to use for more than twenty minutes.
Don't get me wrong. A table-sized touchscreen would be nice - but I wouldn't use a 32" monitor whether it's a touchscreen or not, and I certainly wouldn't abandon my keyboard or mouse to go touchscreen with the current state of the technology.
Note that the underlying OS is completely irrelevant; it's the form factor and physical usability that cause the problems.
Are you serious when you say you can type out real emails, like the ones for work, from an iPad keyboard?
Hmm. You can't?
I send personal emails (up to several "pages" in length) from my touchscreen _phone_ that's harder to type on than a tablet (but does have haptic feedback).
Most work emails are "Ok, see you at ten" or "Be aware that will be available on Tuesday" or "Here's the diagram I promised you". Not exactly demanding to type - why do you think managers get by with a blackberry?
I disagree.
Given the tools, most "consumers" I know do things like photo editing, video editing, DJing/mixing, building databases (as in, collections of data) and other creative/complex activities.
Where do you think all those youtube videos come from?
Who makes all those game mods?
Why is Flickr so successful?
That makes me wince.
His point is that the vagina is lined with razor blades.
Sure, you might get lucky and have a fantastic and fulfilling experience. But you might not.
Professional development will tend to take place on efficient kit. Why are you assuming that all development is professional?
People code for fun. They tend to have a tablet with them, so it's an alternative to reading a book, watching a film or playing a game - all activities for which dedicated devices tend to be more optimal.
If someone's sat on the Tube updating their program then a full-sized desktop is not a practical option.
Let's see your tablet run complex database I/O code tests.
Yes, please, lets. Because otherwise I can't be sure that it'll run those complex database I/O activities. My automated test suites finish in seconds, and a complex comprehensive one-off suite of tests is something I can leave running while I eat lunch.
Oh and perhaps you should go read that slashdot story about how iOS apps are like a slot machine that the vast majority of developers don't win (make money) on and then go buy a PC.
Erm. You replied to someone that admitted carrying around a non-iOS device. And again, you're assuming that there's a monetary incentive to programming.
So again: some people program for fun. Some people get paid for it. The sweet spot is the intersect of the two, but that doesn't invalidate either side.
I've never had the luxury of even a 1080p screen when developing professionally.
That doesn't mean it's not good - it's always nice to have more screen real-estate - but don't pretend it's necessary.
IDEs benefit from enough space to show stuff around the edges of the code/design window, but as long as you're efficient working with tabs, you can get by with anything as low as 1280x1024.
(That assumes your eyesight can cope)
The Transformer Pad Infinity is more powerful and has a better screen than almost every computer I've professionally developed on. It's got a better keyboard than at least one of them too. Sure, it's far behind current state of the art for PCs, but it's not that far behind the dev boxes many companies still buy for their developers.
ide : Integrated Development Environment
They tend to offer management capabilities for handling all of the files needed for complex software projects, coding accelerators (possibly including code generation, automated refactoring, access to libraries, form/UI creation, etc), a flexible and supportive editor (usually offering code completion, easy/powerful search capabilities, type lookups, etc) and optimise the build process (on-the-fly compilation/generation, "smart" recompile/linking, etc) and integration with code repositories, build platforms, test environments (including automated testing) and code quality checking (including prettification, error detection, automated coding standards, etc).
They don't actually enable you to create anything you can't get done with a terminal window and a command line compiler. They just make it quicker and easier.
Examples:
Microsoft Visual Studio (the leading "I want to program for Windows" IDE)
Eclipse (the leading "I want to program" IDE)
AIDE (the leading "I want to program natively on my android device" IDE)
I'd quote a MacOS example but I'm not sure which is the current favourite.
Uhm, no. There's nothing stopping Apple from installing Android on the iPhone 5.
Are you a fucking imbecile? dotHecates point is that the walled garden is Apple's way of trying to reduce churn by making it harder for customers to switch to another manufacturer.
So Apple installing Android on their next device would defeat that point entirely, including alienating all of the people that bought into the existing walled garden.
While ostensibly you're correct in that the technology exists for Apple to choose to install Android on the next telephone they produce, you're demonstrating a level of naivety that leaves me aghast. They don't want to. They perceive no advantage in doing so. They've adopted this closed and abusive model explicitly to fuck over their customers.
It's nice that you've taken a more reasonable approach and focussed on providing value rather than lock-in, but don't assume Apple (or Google) have any intention of being equally considerate.
Hmm. I liked San Diego when I visited. Bristol's quite nice. Nottingham's actually lovely, it's just the council that's shit. Austin's fantastic. Aalborg felt like home.
There are actually quite a few nice places. But not Grimsby. It's fucking grim.
You can tell a Samsung phone isn't iOS, and it's not gonna be easy for Samsung to have a phone actually equal to Apple's products for half the price.
No, but Samsung do have a couple of phones that are better and still compete on price.
Or haven't you noticed that the Galaxy S III has sold out across America since the jury made up its verdict?
I find plenty to do outside of London, but I will acknowledge that there's a cultural bias to the capital in addition to the increased employment opportunities.
However, there are theatres in most (all?) reasonable sized towns, opera houses across the country, various cinemas, clubs galore, more sports outside of the capital than in it, countless festivals and other countryside events, and actual countryside which all by itself is lovely to visit.
(Comically for me a walk in London is a diverting and interesting day out, because I get to see strange and unusual people in what is often a fairly closed environment)
Both of my major social hobbies (i.e. not reading, computer gaming or "drunken arguments on the internet") are far easier to follow outside of London than in. One requires desolate tracts of countryside and the other is far easier to get to and available more nights of the week in (each of the) cities such as Nottingham, Manchester, Bristol and Cardiff than in London.
Of course, that may be because I picked up hobbies I could do locally. If I lived in London I'd have picked something else, so there is a degree of selection bias involved.