Their software's been an issue for years but the hardware's solid. I've only had one Nokia die on me (phone or battery) and that's the one that got submerged in chocolate trifle.
I'd explain more, but what happens in the bedroom...
Apple is paranoid that you'll using it for something they didn't specifically intend.
Which oddly didn't make it into the article's list of gripes, but continues to be the single biggest reason I refuse to buy one.
I want to be able to use my devices for whatever the fuck I want. I connect my phone as a USB device and copy files to/from it. I install software from websites. I visits sites that use Flash even.
Steve Jobs made a lot of money but he's dead now. Why is his monopolistic anti-competitiveness continuing to cripple Apple devices?
The $599.00 android tablets are $200.00 overpriced. You CAN NOT charge apple prices for non apple product unless it is 200% better than the apple product.
That'll be why Asus can't make their $599 android tablets fast enough to keep up with demand.
I'm not saying it's 200% better than the apple product, but they certainly can charge $599 and sell every unit they make the day it hits the shop.
Except that nobody is buying android tablets because of their price point.
Some people are buying android tablets because they're under $200. Some people would be buying android tablets at $599 if they could just find one in stock. Some people are buying android tablets at $400 because those tablets are meeting their needs.
Choice is a great thing, and you have no valid points.
That is like Kia selling the new Optima for $86,500 and hoping you dont notice it's not a BMW.
No, it's like BMW selling the new M6 for $86,500 and you buying a $90k Mercedes because of the marketing and proclaiming that BMWs are all shit, overpriced and nobody buys them.
Sure, but if I'm going in the same direction for many miles I don't need a map anyway. If I'm going to turn left, then right, then left, left again, veer right, go straight for a bit then turn right, the roads in front of me right now aren't all that much use.
If I want a 2D or 3D visualisation of the road in front of me then I'm not using a map, I'm using a navigation aid. Many GPS systems offer this and it's a great feature, but it's not a map.
need to keep it a shared secret between client and server
Two issues. One is that it's the server that you're trying to keep the private information safe from.
The other is that the client is.. a client. Your code is running in an untrusted environment. It is vulnerable. It can be examined and understood. Haven't you heard of reverse engineering?
Only in raw cash terms. Factor in things like the money that would've been spent seeking alternate entertainment, the TV revenues from televised poker, the free drinks provided by a casino.. Net it all out and there's a benefit.
I agree completely. What would be better is a job in a venue that provides entertainment to the masses, give them a way of taking a risk and enjoying the chance of a big reward while putting on a show, giving them free drinks and letting them feel special for the evening.
What should we call this venue? Is the word 'Casino' available?
Just because some people are too fucking stupid to realise the percentages favour the house, or lack the control to stop before they get hurt doesn't make the whole venture immoral or wrong. There's no fraud taking place, there's nobody forcing people to withdraw their life savings and head inside, there's just an opportunity for people to spend a little money having fun.
I kind of guess both posters sleep pretty well at night. I know I would.
Hmm. Maybe if you're managing shelf stackers you can do that.
Tell creative people, "I want this done" and walk off, and you'll get a mix of - exactly what you asked for, which wont be anything like what you want or need - something that's approximately what you asked for, in the right spirit, but that isn't what you need or want - something that's nothing to do with what you asked for, what you actually want or what you need
That's not necesssarily the fault of the creative person; it's usually the fault of the person asking, for being insufficiently precise, for changing their mind, for not knowing about or correctly predicting changing circumstances, for not know what they wanted in the first place.
Ongoing dialogue and interactive feedback is usually the answer, and for that reason I expect regular contact with my boss. I could move to another office but I don't; I sit next to him, and when working with other managers I'll go and join them, or ask their teams to join me.
"JFDI" gets _something_ done, but rarely the right thing.
. The ones that have broad applicability (like the NEC) are very inexpensive (under $100 new, even cheaper used).
$100 is a week's food and entertainment for some people. Sorry, for some families. You think that's fair to charge that just so that they can know the law?
It's the law. THE LAW. Do not demand that people respect and obey it - at pain of criminal prosecution, and all that entails - then refuse to let them know what it is.
Shit, you want to know what the law is in the UK? It's on the fucking Internet: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ There. That wasn't hard.
A degree is reputation. It tells someone who doesn't know you from Jack that you accomplished something, and that what you accomplished is being acknowledged by someone (entity) that you *do* know.
Spoken like someone without a degree.
A degree is irrelevant. The experience you gain while getting the degree matters far more.
This is why a degree from a British university counts far more than a degree from an Indian one. The Indian one could (and maybe even does) have an identical curriculum, I'm sure it has an equivalent academic standard in the exams. But it doesn't come with a British university education, which includes the extra-curricular activities, the ethos, approaches and expectations involved.
I had a job interview on Friday. The interviewer was interested in what I did at University. Not the degree - that's on my CV - but the other stuff that I did. I left university over 17 years ago; it's still being used as a measure of my approach to life.
The academic qualification I got? Useful, sure, but given the chance again I'd still take those three years even without the certificate at the end.
someone who has been professionally developing software (communications/networking/real-time/OS) for nearly 40 years
Good. The blase requirement for a Degree in Computer Science on so many job adverts is an insult to people that know their stuff. I hope you never miss out on a job because of that unnecessary bias.
Or possibly he's a hard working professional that values his occasional downtime and finds obtusive intrusive extremely stressful, leading to actions he wouldn't normal consider.
That doesn't mean he isn't an ass, but try living under media scrutiny and see how you hold up.
Which is clearly just full of shit, because in the workplace most powerpoint documents are a handy accessible form of information transfer intended to standalone with no need for presentation.
You may indeed present the material, but you do so briefly and covering shit that's not on the powerpoint so that people get context and greater understanding. Then let them take the doc away with them for future reference and further information.
It's an information rich world out there, most people don't have perfect recall and most people will read through a 12 page powerpoint rather than try and read the 40 page written document it's summarising.
But hey, even TED talks often use powerpoint, and some of those speakers are truly fantastic.
I think we disagree then on the moral position of recording the private actions of someone else in a shared personal space.
If you're not in the room you share with me, I have full expectation of privacy. I understand completely that you may return at any point and end that expectation, but having a webcam running all the time - without notification - transgresses acceptable bounds to me.
Note to all college students in shared rooms: Cover the webcam prior to doing anything:)
You have absolutely no right to privacy from the person sharing your living space.
Nonsense. If they search your belongings, that's an invasion of privacy. If they record you when they're not in the room, that breaks various laws in various countries.
I mean you have lived in a dorm I'm assuming? You know there are two different people living in the same space, with no separations, dividing walls, or anything like that?
Of course. Which is why I know it's easy to retain personal space in such circumstances, why I know it's important to establish and retain boundaries, and why privacy is harder to achieve and thus more important.
Filming the sexual encounter was wrong, but the guy lived in a dorm. That's just part of the dorm experience.
It shouldn't be.
Living in a dorm doesn't exempt your right to privacy or permit other people to be complete cunts.
I'd also say the same about the stupid boys who taunted you in high school. Punched in the face as well.
I went to a school that would suspend you for punching someone in the face, whatever the provocation. But everyone in that school had parents in the military, where violence is a necessary part of the job and people understand the need for constraint.
Do you want to punch me now that I'm taunting your lack of self-control? Do you realise how fast you'd be arrested for assault? Why the fuck should doing it in school or a dorm be any fucking different?
Steal my wallet because I'm gay or steal my wallet because you want what's inside - what is the difference to me, my wallet is still stolen.
And tomorrow, am I going to steal your wallet again?
If I'm after your money, no, I stole it today. If I'm targeting you because you're different to me, yes, I'm going to cause you that additional pain even though there's no benefit to me.
The difference to you is that you get your wallet stolen, and someone that isn't gay doesn't. Why would that ever be right?
Understand your audience. Work out what they're going to be interested in.
Don't tell them bandwidth stats. Tell them who is using your site, how much, what for, and then use that to explain the bandwidth patterns and usage. The fact that peak bandwidth usage is at 5-7pm and hits X is relevant to business people, and X should be pages/minute not mbps. That you can also note that each page is on average Y in size means you can correlate page views to bandwidth, and also demonstrate opportunities to improve site performance by reducing the size of key frequently accessed pages.
So suddenly one boring stat has become an insight into your customers, your site, the implications of various design choices and an opportunity to improve.
That's relevant, that's interesting to a professional audience, and that's adding value to the organisation.
That says more about you and Illinois than SXSW. Shit, there's a constant stream of news about what's happening there and I don't even live on the same continent.
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crap phones like Nokia
Their software's been an issue for years but the hardware's solid. I've only had one Nokia die on me (phone or battery) and that's the one that got submerged in chocolate trifle.
I'd explain more, but what happens in the bedroom...
Apple is paranoid that you'll using it for something they didn't specifically intend.
Which oddly didn't make it into the article's list of gripes, but continues to be the single biggest reason I refuse to buy one.
I want to be able to use my devices for whatever the fuck I want. I connect my phone as a USB device and copy files to/from it. I install software from websites. I visits sites that use Flash even.
Steve Jobs made a lot of money but he's dead now. Why is his monopolistic anti-competitiveness continuing to cripple Apple devices?
The $599.00 android tablets are $200.00 overpriced. You CAN NOT charge apple prices for non apple product unless it is 200% better than the apple product.
That'll be why Asus can't make their $599 android tablets fast enough to keep up with demand.
I'm not saying it's 200% better than the apple product, but they certainly can charge $599 and sell every unit they make the day it hits the shop.
Except that nobody is buying android tablets because of their price point.
Some people are buying android tablets because they're under $200. Some people would be buying android tablets at $599 if they could just find one in stock. Some people are buying android tablets at $400 because those tablets are meeting their needs.
Choice is a great thing, and you have no valid points.
That is like Kia selling the new Optima for $86,500 and hoping you dont notice it's not a BMW.
No, it's like BMW selling the new M6 for $86,500 and you buying a $90k Mercedes because of the marketing and proclaiming that BMWs are all shit, overpriced and nobody buys them.
Sure, but if I'm going in the same direction for many miles I don't need a map anyway. If I'm going to turn left, then right, then left, left again, veer right, go straight for a bit then turn right, the roads in front of me right now aren't all that much use.
If I want a 2D or 3D visualisation of the road in front of me then I'm not using a map, I'm using a navigation aid. Many GPS systems offer this and it's a great feature, but it's not a map.
You do realise that having a regular direction on a map correspond to 'up' became a convention due to its significant actual navigational value?
The fact it's "North" is indeed arbitrary. It could've been "West", "South" or "Which way is Mecca".
A constant reference point however is pretty much fucking essential if you're reading the map.
erm. I disable rotation on my maps. In games, in cars, when I'm out in the field.
It's possibly that field training that causes it. Map based navigation gets bloody silly if you stand on the wrong side of the map.
58k years is only around $81m on Amazon's compute cloud, and this is highly parallelisable.
Get access to a botnet and it's nearly free. Get access to a thousand Nvidia graphics cards and you can process this in a month.
need to keep it a shared secret between client and server
Two issues. One is that it's the server that you're trying to keep the private information safe from.
The other is that the client is.. a client. Your code is running in an untrusted environment. It is vulnerable. It can be examined and understood. Haven't you heard of reverse engineering?
cuntbook.com resolves to 174.122.148.34
It is a zero sum game
Only in raw cash terms. Factor in things like the money that would've been spent seeking alternate entertainment, the TV revenues from televised poker, the free drinks provided by a casino.. Net it all out and there's a benefit.
completely fuck people over
I agree completely. What would be better is a job in a venue that provides entertainment to the masses, give them a way of taking a risk and enjoying the chance of a big reward while putting on a show, giving them free drinks and letting them feel special for the evening.
What should we call this venue? Is the word 'Casino' available?
Just because some people are too fucking stupid to realise the percentages favour the house, or lack the control to stop before they get hurt doesn't make the whole venture immoral or wrong. There's no fraud taking place, there's nobody forcing people to withdraw their life savings and head inside, there's just an opportunity for people to spend a little money having fun.
I kind of guess both posters sleep pretty well at night. I know I would.
Hmm. Maybe if you're managing shelf stackers you can do that.
Tell creative people, "I want this done" and walk off, and you'll get a mix of
- exactly what you asked for, which wont be anything like what you want or need
- something that's approximately what you asked for, in the right spirit, but that isn't what you need or want
- something that's nothing to do with what you asked for, what you actually want or what you need
That's not necesssarily the fault of the creative person; it's usually the fault of the person asking, for being insufficiently precise, for changing their mind, for not knowing about or correctly predicting changing circumstances, for not know what they wanted in the first place.
Ongoing dialogue and interactive feedback is usually the answer, and for that reason I expect regular contact with my boss. I could move to another office but I don't; I sit next to him, and when working with other managers I'll go and join them, or ask their teams to join me.
"JFDI" gets _something_ done, but rarely the right thing.
. The ones that have broad applicability (like the NEC) are very inexpensive (under $100 new, even cheaper used).
$100 is a week's food and entertainment for some people. Sorry, for some families. You think that's fair to charge that just so that they can know the law?
It's the law. THE LAW. Do not demand that people respect and obey it - at pain of criminal prosecution, and all that entails - then refuse to let them know what it is.
Shit, you want to know what the law is in the UK? It's on the fucking Internet: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/
There. That wasn't hard.
A degree is reputation. It tells someone who doesn't know you from Jack that you accomplished something, and that what you accomplished is being acknowledged by someone (entity) that you *do* know.
Spoken like someone without a degree.
A degree is irrelevant. The experience you gain while getting the degree matters far more.
This is why a degree from a British university counts far more than a degree from an Indian one. The Indian one could (and maybe even does) have an identical curriculum, I'm sure it has an equivalent academic standard in the exams. But it doesn't come with a British university education, which includes the extra-curricular activities, the ethos, approaches and expectations involved.
I had a job interview on Friday. The interviewer was interested in what I did at University. Not the degree - that's on my CV - but the other stuff that I did. I left university over 17 years ago; it's still being used as a measure of my approach to life.
The academic qualification I got? Useful, sure, but given the chance again I'd still take those three years even without the certificate at the end.
someone who has been professionally developing software (communications/networking/real-time/OS) for nearly 40 years
Good. The blase requirement for a Degree in Computer Science on so many job adverts is an insult to people that know their stuff. I hope you never miss out on a job because of that unnecessary bias.
Brand is an ass who thinks he's above the law.
Or possibly he's a hard working professional that values his occasional downtime and finds obtusive intrusive extremely stressful, leading to actions he wouldn't normal consider.
That doesn't mean he isn't an ass, but try living under media scrutiny and see how you hold up.
I hope they had permission to do so.
People don't need permission to photograph you. It's their camera and light belongs to nobody.
Does that man that people are toys, because that would explain a lot.
Oh yes. Play with them. Especially the pretty ones.
(Observe all appropriate initiation protocols or you may get hurt)
Which is clearly just full of shit, because in the workplace most powerpoint documents are a handy accessible form of information transfer intended to standalone with no need for presentation.
You may indeed present the material, but you do so briefly and covering shit that's not on the powerpoint so that people get context and greater understanding. Then let them take the doc away with them for future reference and further information.
It's an information rich world out there, most people don't have perfect recall and most people will read through a 12 page powerpoint rather than try and read the 40 page written document it's summarising.
But hey, even TED talks often use powerpoint, and some of those speakers are truly fantastic.
I think we disagree then on the moral position of recording the private actions of someone else in a shared personal space.
If you're not in the room you share with me, I have full expectation of privacy. I understand completely that you may return at any point and end that expectation, but having a webcam running all the time - without notification - transgresses acceptable bounds to me.
Note to all college students in shared rooms: Cover the webcam prior to doing anything :)
You have absolutely no right to privacy from the person sharing your living space.
Nonsense. If they search your belongings, that's an invasion of privacy. If they record you when they're not in the room, that breaks various laws in various countries.
I mean you have lived in a dorm I'm assuming? You know there are two different people living in the same space, with no separations, dividing walls, or anything like that?
Of course. Which is why I know it's easy to retain personal space in such circumstances, why I know it's important to establish and retain boundaries, and why privacy is harder to achieve and thus more important.
Filming the sexual encounter was wrong, but the guy lived in a dorm. That's just part of the dorm experience.
It shouldn't be.
Living in a dorm doesn't exempt your right to privacy or permit other people to be complete cunts.
I'd also say the same about the stupid boys who taunted you in high school. Punched in the face as well.
I went to a school that would suspend you for punching someone in the face, whatever the provocation. But everyone in that school had parents in the military, where violence is a necessary part of the job and people understand the need for constraint.
Do you want to punch me now that I'm taunting your lack of self-control? Do you realise how fast you'd be arrested for assault? Why the fuck should doing it in school or a dorm be any fucking different?
Steal my wallet because I'm gay or steal my wallet because you want what's inside - what is the difference to me, my wallet is still stolen.
And tomorrow, am I going to steal your wallet again?
If I'm after your money, no, I stole it today.
If I'm targeting you because you're different to me, yes, I'm going to cause you that additional pain even though there's no benefit to me.
The difference to you is that you get your wallet stolen, and someone that isn't gay doesn't. Why would that ever be right?
"I caught that damn bitch sleeping with ..."
Suddenly there's a gender bias involved.
Understand your audience. Work out what they're going to be interested in.
Don't tell them bandwidth stats. Tell them who is using your site, how much, what for, and then use that to explain the bandwidth patterns and usage. The fact that peak bandwidth usage is at 5-7pm and hits X is relevant to business people, and X should be pages/minute not mbps. That you can also note that each page is on average Y in size means you can correlate page views to bandwidth, and also demonstrate opportunities to improve site performance by reducing the size of key frequently accessed pages.
So suddenly one boring stat has become an insight into your customers, your site, the implications of various design choices and an opportunity to improve.
That's relevant, that's interesting to a professional audience, and that's adding value to the organisation.
I live in Illinois and didn't know what SXSW was
That says more about you and Illinois than SXSW. Shit, there's a constant stream of news about what's happening there and I don't even live on the same continent.