Well an obvious way is to complain if you're an Apple customer. Honestly, companies behave this way because a lot of very ridiculous minority groups raise a HUGE fuss against stuff like this on TV, or in the AppStore or whatnot. But the majority of people who could care less, or simply think parents should look at the ratings before handing it to their kids? They don't bother to raise a fuss. They shrug and move on. So yes, buying android is a solution (and a decent one at that, after all, taking away money from the bottom line is a hugely important tactic in getting companies to act in the way we the consumer's would like), but let them know WHY you're buying Android and are no longer a Apple customer.
So seriously, e-mail Tim Cook and say this is not how you want the AppStore on the device you paid for run.
No amount of money (And $1k is nothing when talking product development), guarantees returns. So in this case, Apple rejecting the concepts is just another risk to add onto the list.
If it's the straw that breaks the camel's back, then pick a different platform to develop the concept for. Except every other platform carries it's own risks and benefits.
The catch is that while sites like/. are full of people who are vocal about caring, most of the customer base just simply doesn't. Hell, I highly doubt it's actually 18 million people. Given that for instance I'd be counted in that number, except I don't jailbreak my current device. I only jailbreak older devices just to mess with it. Plus a lot of those are going to be the same people jailbreaking multiple devices.
But lets assume for a second there really are 18 million customers who jailbreak: Then those 18 million customers should tell Apple. If all 18 million customers legitimately (I mean, don't spam, be polite) emailed Tim Cook asking for Apple to add a "Root" mode on the phones, you might just get policy change.
But no, people mess around with it because it's available, but very few seem to make purchase decisions based on it's availability. Apple is going to close these security holes, because they are security holes that are now known to everyone.
Does it matter? Honestly, let EA go the way of the Dodo trying to figure it out. It will open a void for indie's and small company's that simply get no marketing right now because everyone wants to talk about EA and Ubisoft instead of all the good DRM free games out there.
To enforce it you need people to stop buying crap like that. But given that SimCity has been selling hugely apparently, despite the horrible reviews and the protestations.
See, I don't like any of that stuff either... so I didn't -BUY- it.
You want to protest this stuff, then do it. Don't buy it, don't steal it, it's entertainment, you seriously don't need it to survive or even to enjoy the day. There are other things to do. Support the companies that show respect to you and tell the other companies to screw off that they can't have your money or your eyeballs.
Honestly the list of good uses of 3D in apps is quite limited. There's certain apps that cry out for the ability to do 3D rendering such as games, or science apps, but the reason it doesn't "take off" is because good 3D is -hard-. Remember the vast majority of the web doesn't look all that nice or well designed even in 2D. Adding 3D models to everyone's tumblr blogs isn't really going to accomplish anything. The groups that need 3D rendering abilities to fill their needs will already do what they need to for it, whether that's Flash, native apps, or whatnot.
Yeah, in that sense twitter can certainly be used semi-anonymously. But one should remember that it is still effectively a gigantic public forum (As is/.), and no matter the name you're using, if you talk about things directly related to your life (Such as employment) you may identifiable.
As the grandparent post said, the real name policy is not the issue here though. Facebook is simply not the place for anonymous or private chatter. It's a site that should at all times, real name policy or not, be treated as a massive public forum. Not using Facebook is absolutely a solution, and even if you DO you use Facebook, you should stay aware that everything on it may as well be public information.
So in that sense it's not the place to post about issues in your life. There's other, anonymous and/or private places for that.
Google+, Twitter, and Facebook, real names or not, are not the best places for anonymous or private discussion. As long as people keep that in mind and remember it, then the whole world is a safer place.
On the flip side, the Pebble watch (http://getpebble.com) was also funded on Kickstarter, and last news I saw said that the first batches were arriving for backers.
If I was a shareholder I'd be rather pissed off if they tried selling off the one division that seems to be making any progress. If they want to break up, then at least do the world a favor and just spin them off as a separate company entirely. Perhaps than, entertainment can move away from having to rely on other pieces of the MS ecosystem. Might even increase sales of XBox more if they weren't tied to MS so tightly any longer.
But selling them to Sony? Way to kill two platforms with one stone, might as well just burn the shareholders cash.
Apple's %30 is less about making money from what I've seen (This is also substantiated by SEC reports) and more about customer support management. Remember, those of us here on/. are perfectly capable of knowing that when we buy app from Vendor B, and it's billing breaks, that it's not Apple's fault, but Vendor B's. For most consumers that is simply not the case though, they buy the wrong thing from Vendor B and the charge gets messed up? They're not even going to look up that company's phone number, they're going to call Apple and complain about the charge. Who can't do anything because it didn't even run through their system. A whole lot of people -still- don't realize that their ISP isn't the whole Internet, that their Dell isn't every computer, and that their iPhone and everything on it wasn't produced by Apple.
So we get this, where every charge runs through their system.
On the flip side, people who do their subscriptions through web apps should damn well know where they went to buy, since they had to literally type in the company's name in some fashion (Google search, the URL bar, SOMETHING) to reach the checkout cart.
I've got running IPv6 working just fine here, but I almost never go to ipv6.google.com. So unless Google has it set to check and auto-redirect I'd think I usually end up hitting the IPv4 servers, as would most people I'd imagine.
On that note, to help their traffic reports, anyone have a good way to force the browser search bars and such to redirect to the ipv6 versions of Google's servers?
Back in the days before my own company, I never minded coding tests like this. If they're done right the 45 minutes should be more than enough time to complete the test. I don't remember running across any where time was the actual issue.
There is nothing naive about thinking that "We the People", should maybe be a bit more concerned with the actions of our government. Not just during election years, and not only when the bill threatens our precious entertainment. There's plenty of other bills that should have had equally strong responses, that were basically ignored as inevitable. Heck, look at this complete laziness on the part of the Senate as it is. Yet we toss our hands up in the air and declare how we know how useless politicians are. As a form of acceptance. People -do- write, call, email, and pester their representatives. But mostly it's just a hum to them. A quiet hum in the background that's easily ignored. SOPA/PIPA showed that we the employers of these people -CAN- make enough noise to be heard.
Namco's "Isaac Newton's Gravity" puzzler, she worked through all 100 of the puzzles over about a one year period, with only the occasional help from me. Minecraft PE, which now that she's older she's getting more into the desktop version instead, but when she was younger I could set her up in creative mode, and it would act simply as an infinite lego set for her. (She also adores real legos as well)
Neither may seem like straight up math or science, but she's picked up some surprisingly well thought out ideas about physics and architecture from both.
The Montessorrium apps, like Intro to Math (and Intro to Letters) she got a huge amount of use from, which while just basic as the names would imply was good around that age.
DragonBox+ is awesome and I highly recommend it, even to adults. It's basically a series of algebraic puzzles, using cards that start off not as numbers.
When she got curious about elements, we picked up the Nova Elements app, which answered her questions at the time pretty well.
Most of the rest of the items we've picked up for her for the iPad haven't been specifically science or math based, though a lot of book style apps. She's a big fan of Curious George, the Bartleby Buttons book/apps, and anything about DIsney's Cars. The new Reading Rainbow app has been great too, as it came out just as she was really starting to read on her own, so it's given her a lot of material to easily choose from.
Heck, I would LOVE to see 3 security settings. I keep my phone locked with a reasonable length password, but there's a definite tradeoff between security and convenience. I've wondered for ages why I can't actually have 3 settings:
Apps that are accessible no matter what with no password or anything. I mean honestly, I don't even care if someone uses the calculator on my phone. There's a number of apps I'd drop in here for use at any time.
Apps that require a simple pin. I for instance would put apps that require data usage in this, but don't actually have personal data. But don't need anyone who potentially gets ahold of my phone wasting my battery on burning through costly minutes/data without at least some effort (A pin would slow them down enough that if it was actually stolen I could very likely have already noticed and erased the phone), Turning the phone off and on should also require this at a minimum.
Apps that require a strong password. Banking apps, the web browser, anything that I feel contains personal data. Most of these apps probably also contain their own strong password requirements, and I don't mind having to enter a password to get to the app, to enter a password to verify the service.
While there'd be something to be said for more levels than this, I'd say 3 is something that pretty much anyone could wrap their heads around with a minimal amount of instruction if needed.
Rather than having them copy the output. Give them each a different set of art assets, and have them each turn out an original work using the lessons -taught and shown- by the example. Then there's no copying, and they might actually learn something.
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Well an obvious way is to complain if you're an Apple customer. Honestly, companies behave this way because a lot of very ridiculous minority groups raise a HUGE fuss against stuff like this on TV, or in the AppStore or whatnot. But the majority of people who could care less, or simply think parents should look at the ratings before handing it to their kids? They don't bother to raise a fuss. They shrug and move on. So yes, buying android is a solution (and a decent one at that, after all, taking away money from the bottom line is a hugely important tactic in getting companies to act in the way we the consumer's would like), but let them know WHY you're buying Android and are no longer a Apple customer.
So seriously, e-mail Tim Cook and say this is not how you want the AppStore on the device you paid for run.
feedback
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
support
http://www.apple.com/support/mac/app-store/
And I'm sure anyone on this site can find Tim Cook's email without too much trouble. If you can't then why are you on /.?
No amount of money (And $1k is nothing when talking product development), guarantees returns. So in this case, Apple rejecting the concepts is just another risk to add onto the list.
If it's the straw that breaks the camel's back, then pick a different platform to develop the concept for. Except every other platform carries it's own risks and benefits.
The catch is that while sites like /. are full of people who are vocal about caring, most of the customer base just simply doesn't. Hell, I highly doubt it's actually 18 million people. Given that for instance I'd be counted in that number, except I don't jailbreak my current device. I only jailbreak older devices just to mess with it.
Plus a lot of those are going to be the same people jailbreaking multiple devices.
But lets assume for a second there really are 18 million customers who jailbreak: Then those 18 million customers should tell Apple. If all 18 million customers legitimately (I mean, don't spam, be polite) emailed Tim Cook asking for Apple to add a "Root" mode on the phones, you might just get policy change.
But no, people mess around with it because it's available, but very few seem to make purchase decisions based on it's availability. Apple is going to close these security holes, because they are security holes that are now known to everyone.
Does it matter? Honestly, let EA go the way of the Dodo trying to figure it out. It will open a void for indie's and small company's that simply get no marketing right now because everyone wants to talk about EA and Ubisoft instead of all the good DRM free games out there.
To enforce it you need people to stop buying crap like that. But given that SimCity has been selling hugely apparently, despite the horrible reviews and the protestations.
See, I don't like any of that stuff either... so I didn't -BUY- it.
You want to protest this stuff, then do it. Don't buy it, don't steal it, it's entertainment, you seriously don't need it to survive or even to enjoy the day. There are other things to do. Support the companies that show respect to you and tell the other companies to screw off that they can't have your money or your eyeballs.
Actually, sounds almost exactly like what I'd think was the beginnings of the Borg.
Honestly the list of good uses of 3D in apps is quite limited. There's certain apps that cry out for the ability to do 3D rendering such as games, or science apps, but the reason it doesn't "take off" is because good 3D is -hard-. Remember the vast majority of the web doesn't look all that nice or well designed even in 2D. Adding 3D models to everyone's tumblr blogs isn't really going to accomplish anything. The groups that need 3D rendering abilities to fill their needs will already do what they need to for it, whether that's Flash, native apps, or whatnot.
Yeah, in that sense twitter can certainly be used semi-anonymously. But one should remember that it is still effectively a gigantic public forum (As is /.), and no matter the name you're using, if you talk about things directly related to your life (Such as employment) you may identifiable.
As the grandparent post said, the real name policy is not the issue here though. Facebook is simply not the place for anonymous or private chatter. It's a site that should at all times, real name policy or not, be treated as a massive public forum. Not using Facebook is absolutely a solution, and even if you DO you use Facebook, you should stay aware that everything on it may as well be public information.
So in that sense it's not the place to post about issues in your life.
There's other, anonymous and/or private places for that.
Google+, Twitter, and Facebook, real names or not, are not the best places for anonymous or private discussion. As long as people keep that in mind and remember it, then the whole world is a safer place.
On the flip side, the Pebble watch (http://getpebble.com) was also funded on Kickstarter, and last news I saw said that the first batches were arriving for backers.
If I was a shareholder I'd be rather pissed off if they tried selling off the one division that seems to be making any progress. If they want to break up, then at least do the world a favor and just spin them off as a separate company entirely. Perhaps than, entertainment can move away from having to rely on other pieces of the MS ecosystem. Might even increase sales of XBox more if they weren't tied to MS so tightly any longer.
But selling them to Sony? Way to kill two platforms with one stone, might as well just burn the shareholders cash.
Apple's %30 is less about making money from what I've seen (This is also substantiated by SEC reports) and more about customer support management. Remember, those of us here on /. are perfectly capable of knowing that when we buy app from Vendor B, and it's billing breaks, that it's not Apple's fault, but Vendor B's. For most consumers that is simply not the case though, they buy the wrong thing from Vendor B and the charge gets messed up? They're not even going to look up that company's phone number, they're going to call Apple and complain about the charge. Who can't do anything because it didn't even run through their system. A whole lot of people -still- don't realize that their ISP isn't the whole Internet, that their Dell isn't every computer, and that their iPhone and everything on it wasn't produced by Apple.
So we get this, where every charge runs through their system.
On the flip side, people who do their subscriptions through web apps should damn well know where they went to buy, since they had to literally type in the company's name in some fashion (Google search, the URL bar, SOMETHING) to reach the checkout cart.
I've got running IPv6 working just fine here, but I almost never go to ipv6.google.com. So unless Google has it set to check and auto-redirect I'd think I usually end up hitting the IPv4 servers, as would most people I'd imagine.
On that note, to help their traffic reports, anyone have a good way to force the browser search bars and such to redirect to the ipv6 versions of Google's servers?
Back in the days before my own company, I never minded coding tests like this. If they're done right the 45 minutes should be more than enough time to complete the test. I don't remember running across any where time was the actual issue.
This is one of those things I've wanted to try doing since I was a kid, but simply never had the space for. Time to buy a few acres out somewhere.
Does it also cover scanning, adding a signature in photoshop, and then e-mailing? Oh crap, wait! Gotta patent this fast!
There is nothing naive about thinking that "We the People", should maybe be a bit more concerned with the actions of our government. Not just during election years, and not only when the bill threatens our precious entertainment. There's plenty of other bills that should have had equally strong responses, that were basically ignored as inevitable. Heck, look at this complete laziness on the part of the Senate as it is. Yet we toss our hands up in the air and declare how we know how useless politicians are. As a form of acceptance. People -do- write, call, email, and pester their representatives. But mostly it's just a hum to them. A quiet hum in the background that's easily ignored. SOPA/PIPA showed that we the employers of these people -CAN- make enough noise to be heard.
That the public doesn't turn out to protest every horrible bill that way. Pretty sure the patriot act could have used that kind of response.
File a lien against them, and make sure you inform Dun and Bradstreet of the lien.
Because, even beyond disclosure. It makes sense to have the person in charge of your companies Social Network, to be using -it-, not your competitors.
Best way to develop a good product, is make the developers eat their own dog food and use it.
If the media companies can't figure out that charging people to view ads is no longer a workable business model, well then... can't help 'em.
Namco's "Isaac Newton's Gravity" puzzler, she worked through all 100 of the puzzles over about a one year period, with only the occasional help from me.
Minecraft PE, which now that she's older she's getting more into the desktop version instead, but when she was younger I could set her up in creative mode, and it would act simply as an infinite lego set for her. (She also adores real legos as well)
Neither may seem like straight up math or science, but she's picked up some surprisingly well thought out ideas about physics and architecture from both.
The Montessorrium apps, like Intro to Math (and Intro to Letters) she got a huge amount of use from, which while just basic as the names would imply was good around that age.
DragonBox+ is awesome and I highly recommend it, even to adults. It's basically a series of algebraic puzzles, using cards that start off not as numbers.
When she got curious about elements, we picked up the Nova Elements app, which answered her questions at the time pretty well.
Most of the rest of the items we've picked up for her for the iPad haven't been specifically science or math based, though a lot of book style apps. She's a big fan of Curious George, the Bartleby Buttons book/apps, and anything about DIsney's Cars. The new Reading Rainbow app has been great too, as it came out just as she was really starting to read on her own, so it's given her a lot of material to easily choose from.
Heck, I would LOVE to see 3 security settings. I keep my phone locked with a reasonable length password, but there's a definite tradeoff between security and convenience. I've wondered for ages why I can't actually have 3 settings:
Apps that are accessible no matter what with no password or anything. I mean honestly, I don't even care if someone uses the calculator on my phone. There's a number of apps I'd drop in here for use at any time.
Apps that require a simple pin. I for instance would put apps that require data usage in this, but don't actually have personal data. But don't need anyone who potentially gets ahold of my phone wasting my battery on burning through costly minutes/data without at least some effort (A pin would slow them down enough that if it was actually stolen I could very likely have already noticed and erased the phone), Turning the phone off and on should also require this at a minimum.
Apps that require a strong password. Banking apps, the web browser, anything that I feel contains personal data. Most of these apps probably also contain their own strong password requirements, and I don't mind having to enter a password to get to the app, to enter a password to verify the service.
While there'd be something to be said for more levels than this, I'd say 3 is something that pretty much anyone could wrap their heads around with a minimal amount of instruction if needed.
Rather than having them copy the output. Give them each a different set of art assets, and have them each turn out an original work using the lessons -taught and shown- by the example. Then there's no copying, and they might actually learn something.
Not sure about if it's their own implementation or not, but it IS very easy to move to a new device.
They provide a serial number in the app, and a recover code. Simply entering both on the new mobile device and you've got a clone of the original.