Maybe you were frustrated because you are a programmer. From the basic information you provided about your experience that cause is as good as the other. But I do agree that it was really hard to use it was ALMOST intuitive and that is way more frustrating that knowing that you have to read a huge book to get it. The idea that the designer apparently thought it could just be figured out and didn't provide the kind of resources you'd really need.
The reason it was hard to use is because it was web based with local components in Java. That made the GUI slow and limited.
Opensourcing it would be the first step in turning it into a standalone IDE that will be more usable. Two features I could think off off the top of my head that would improve it immeasurably are copy/paste and autocomplete lists that would make building common functions faster.
BTW, in case anyone doesn't know, App Inventor was based on codeblocks.
Copper too.
I used to do some volunteer work for a charity in Oz that took old PC's and refurbished them for thrid world nations (Indonesia, Cambodia) so a lot of old tech still gets used but when companies do drives like this, it's almost always to get the precious metals out of them (normally after they've been shipped to a place that isn't ROHS compliant).
My WinMo6.1 phone does it out of the box. It's built into the OS
So do most Android phones. The tethering API has been included since 2.2 and HTC Sense has had it built in since 2.1.
If you're getting bent over by your phone company it's not your handsets fault (unless your handset was built for that purpose, which makes them an accessory).
...and, yes, I'd wear John Wayne Gacy's sweater, if it were clean, I needed a sweater, and it at-least-sorta fit.
Why do most serial killers have the same middle name?
John Wayne Berkowitz,
Theodore Wayne Kaczynski.
Timothy Wayne McVeigh.
Charles Wayne Whitman.
Charles Wayne Manson.
Richard Wayne Ramirez.
George Wayne Bush (couldn't help that one, the dubya has to stand for something)?
We live in a post-9/11 world. We have to forfeit some of our rights in order to fight the terrorists. If you're not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to fear. Think of the children.
Vote Palin 2012.
We live in a post Genghis Khan world, we have to forfeit the rights to ride a horse in order to prevent another Genghis Khan from ever happening again. Slaughter every horsie you see, even if you think it's just a pony.
Not American so I dont need to make some thinly veiled political statement.
The most loved sci-fi shows Star Trek, Dr. Who were famous for not so great special effects. Special effects do not good sci-fi make unless great stories, good acting and good scripts are there too.
Star Trek... [brief pause] Good acting?
Even with the original Dr Who's the acting wasn't that great, but the stories in ST and DW were great, truly engrossing. The [original] Star Wars trilogy had a very compelling story and also had quite good whilst having good SFX for the time, Babylon 5 fell into this category too, despite some really cringe-worthy acting the story managed to save the entire series. The later series of Star Trek had decent SFX but seriously began to suck at the story telling part.
Watch the original moves, they hold up very well even after 30 years.
Of course they hold up, they were an original idea, not a constantly recycled one remade year after year. In addition to that the make up was very well done.
And the fact hat Apple is choosing to beat Android into submission with them, rather than make a superior product, is very telling indeed.
That's not a fact. That's an opinion. An argument can be made that Apple is making the superior product and beating down Android/Google with patents
Uh, the fact they need to beat down on their competitors is a very, very compelling argument against Apple having the superior product.
If the Ipad was truly so superior to the tablet Samsung produces then it would not need to use the courts to artificially stifle competition because to do so is a very expensive operation which is not needed when the competitors are unable to compete. These suits targeting Samsung are nothing less then an attempt to force Samsung out of the market, Apple did not ask for license fees, they went straight to the ITC to as for a ban.
What does a superior product need with a law suit?
Apple, HTC, Google, and Microsoft would still be in buisness. They make money by selling products protected by copyright.
Selling products that are more expensive due to license fees which add no real value to the product and the cost of potential patent suits discourages the development and deployment of new ideas.
I have mixed feelings about this one. I think it is fair to expect Verizon's union workers to contribute money towards their healthcare costs. Just about every other employer makes their employees do so.
If employee's should be forced to contribute to their company provided health insurance...
What is the difference to paying a tax that provides universal health care?
Answer: The tax will cost less.
Signed, An Australian.
Right. Every sysadmin is a special snowflake. [rolls eyes]
You're very good at missing the point.
There are no average sysadmins because you cannot define an average due to the huge number of variables involved.
I'm sorry for not pointing that out, I thought you'd be able to figure it out on your own from the other parts of my post.
All of which is true, none of which changes the fact that in every job, there a few people who are very good at the job, a few who are very bad, and a whole bunch in the middle
In the middle of what?
Is John the Linux sysadmin a bad sysadmin because he doesn't understand FISMO roles yet can configure Sendmail in his sleep. Or Bob the Windows sysadmin bad because he cant even navigate *nix command lines yet understands the deepest, darkest parts of Exchange.
Who is the average sysadmin?
It's a very large field and people have very specialised skillets. Which is why you hire the best man for the job, rather then trying to figure out a median and be happy with it. Yes I know, not everyone does this, but that's their problem.
Yes. Of course, stastically, the good sysadmin is more likely than market share would suggest to be running the mac server, because good sysadmins have a tendency to avoid windows wherever possible...
A good sysadmin can make anything secure and usable. They literally turn lead into gold (server iron into revenue).
But a good syadmin will avoid Mac because they make it so difficult to do anything useful with them. Want to avoid Windows, he deploys Linux, want an expensive proprietary solution, he'll have the IBM Rep on speed dial, "only another $40K for a system P processor card, a bargain sir".
Only a bad sysadmins are fanboys and make things harder on themselves.
Sounds like South Africa's crime problem is good and cleared up. Maybe if they can arrest someone from 4chan the place will finally be safer than the more tepid warzones of the world...
FTA:
The police confiscated goods of around R100 000 (14000 USD).
Coppers have to eat you know, China, street thugs don't earn that much.
(probably US$15,000 now with the way the USD is going).
Yes, of course. But the relevant question for businesses deciding what kind of server setup to use is,
Security is a conscious process, it doesn't matter what OS you use as long as that process is kept conscious. Contrary to what Apple and the Security Industry say, no software is inherently secure or more secure then the others, security is entirely dependent on your (the sysadmins) procedures and awareness.
As for which OS for business, that's a decision to be made according to the needs of the business.
"If this system is looked after by an average sysadmin, how secure will it be relative to our other choices?"
There is no such thing as an average sysadmin.
Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses, the good sysadmins identify their own weaknesses. The poor syadmins ignore them. Good sysadmins adapt to changing environments, poor sysadmins change environments to suit them.
As I'll remind you the next time this comes up. Macs do fail and dont always work, next we'll deal with the myth of inherent security.
It really sucks when your own propaganda is used against you.
BTW, Windows updates dont fail as badly as this. Have not done so for years. The difference is when an update with Windows or Linux buggers up the drivers, I can get the original driver from Nvidia/Inte/AMD and fix it myself.
I'd argue that both are closed source and therefor, by definition, their security can not be determined.
I wont argue that, but it is beside the point.
Put an incompetent nincompoop in charge of a Linux server and you should consider it as insecure as the most unpatched NT4 box. Security is done by people, not programs.
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Maybe you were frustrated because you are a programmer. From the basic information you provided about your experience that cause is as good as the other. But I do agree that it was really hard to use it was ALMOST intuitive and that is way more frustrating that knowing that you have to read a huge book to get it. The idea that the designer apparently thought it could just be figured out and didn't provide the kind of resources you'd really need.
The reason it was hard to use is because it was web based with local components in Java. That made the GUI slow and limited.
Opensourcing it would be the first step in turning it into a standalone IDE that will be more usable. Two features I could think off off the top of my head that would improve it immeasurably are copy/paste and autocomplete lists that would make building common functions faster.
BTW, in case anyone doesn't know, App Inventor was based on codeblocks.
Here's a warning:
If you have the throttle wide open while in neutral while driving up a hill, you will go nowhere and probably damage your car.
If he hasn't got the brake on, he'll be going backwards.
And what do you mean by probably?
Looks like you can buy USB peripherals through the apple store with an apple gift card.
They give you a $20 gift card, but the cheapest item you can buy with it is $60.
Apple are expensive for Australia.
Australia is a lot more expensive then the US.
Last year I bought a laptop that cost $3000. Clevo. It works awesome and plays even the most newest games in full detail. What would I get for it?
My laptops get handed down to the extended family. In a month someone's getting a Lenovo R400 that's still in very good nick.
Nothing, all they want is the gold on the boards.
Copper too. I used to do some volunteer work for a charity in Oz that took old PC's and refurbished them for thrid world nations (Indonesia, Cambodia) so a lot of old tech still gets used but when companies do drives like this, it's almost always to get the precious metals out of them (normally after they've been shipped to a place that isn't ROHS compliant).
When I first read the headline, my thought was "Wow, I didn't know Sun even had a server line called Flare".
And I didn't know flares were back in fashion.
My WinMo6.1 phone does it out of the box. It's built into the OS
So do most Android phones. The tethering API has been included since 2.2 and HTC Sense has had it built in since 2.1.
If you're getting bent over by your phone company it's not your handsets fault (unless your handset was built for that purpose, which makes them an accessory).
If they're turning to [drinking] urine.
So, the article was about American beer.
...and, yes, I'd wear John Wayne Gacy's sweater, if it were clean, I needed a sweater, and it at-least-sorta fit.
Why do most serial killers have the same middle name?
John Wayne Berkowitz,
Theodore Wayne Kaczynski.
Timothy Wayne McVeigh.
Charles Wayne Whitman.
Charles Wayne Manson.
Richard Wayne Ramirez.
George Wayne Bush (couldn't help that one, the dubya has to stand for something)?
We live in a post-9/11 world. We have to forfeit some of our rights in order to fight the terrorists. If you're not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to fear. Think of the children.
Vote Palin 2012.
We live in a post Genghis Khan world, we have to forfeit the rights to ride a horse in order to prevent another Genghis Khan from ever happening again. Slaughter every horsie you see, even if you think it's just a pony.
Not American so I dont need to make some thinly veiled political statement.
Star Trek... [brief pause] Good acting?
Even with the original Dr Who's the acting wasn't that great, but the stories in ST and DW were great, truly engrossing. The [original] Star Wars trilogy had a very compelling story and also had quite good whilst having good SFX for the time, Babylon 5 fell into this category too, despite some really cringe-worthy acting the story managed to save the entire series. The later series of Star Trek had decent SFX but seriously began to suck at the story telling part.
Of course they hold up, they were an original idea, not a constantly recycled one remade year after year. In addition to that the make up was very well done.
That's not a fact. That's an opinion. An argument can be made that Apple is making the superior product and beating down Android/Google with patents
Uh, the fact they need to beat down on their competitors is a very, very compelling argument against Apple having the superior product.
If the Ipad was truly so superior to the tablet Samsung produces then it would not need to use the courts to artificially stifle competition because to do so is a very expensive operation which is not needed when the competitors are unable to compete. These suits targeting Samsung are nothing less then an attempt to force Samsung out of the market, Apple did not ask for license fees, they went straight to the ITC to as for a ban.
What does a superior product need with a law suit?
Selling products that are more expensive due to license fees which add no real value to the product and the cost of potential patent suits discourages the development and deployment of new ideas.
Net result, we the customers, lose.
I have mixed feelings about this one. I think it is fair to expect Verizon's union workers to contribute money towards their healthcare costs. Just about every other employer makes their employees do so.
If employee's should be forced to contribute to their company provided health insurance...
What is the difference to paying a tax that provides universal health care?
Answer: The tax will cost less.
Signed,
An Australian.
Silently standing and clapping hands -- that brings passive-aggressive behavior to the whole new level!
The summary said "stand there, and clap".
Maybe a large number of them are infected with chlamydia.
You're very good at missing the point.
There are no average sysadmins because you cannot define an average due to the huge number of variables involved.
I'm sorry for not pointing that out, I thought you'd be able to figure it out on your own from the other parts of my post.
In the middle of what?
Is John the Linux sysadmin a bad sysadmin because he doesn't understand FISMO roles yet can configure Sendmail in his sleep. Or Bob the Windows sysadmin bad because he cant even navigate *nix command lines yet understands the deepest, darkest parts of Exchange.
Who is the average sysadmin?
It's a very large field and people have very specialised skillets. Which is why you hire the best man for the job, rather then trying to figure out a median and be happy with it. Yes I know, not everyone does this, but that's their problem.
Yes. Of course, stastically, the good sysadmin is more likely than market share would suggest to be running the mac server, because good sysadmins have a tendency to avoid windows wherever possible...
A good sysadmin can make anything secure and usable. They literally turn lead into gold (server iron into revenue).
But a good syadmin will avoid Mac because they make it so difficult to do anything useful with them. Want to avoid Windows, he deploys Linux, want an expensive proprietary solution, he'll have the IBM Rep on speed dial, "only another $40K for a system P processor card, a bargain sir".
Only a bad sysadmins are fanboys and make things harder on themselves.
Sounds like South Africa's crime problem is good and cleared up. Maybe if they can arrest someone from 4chan the place will finally be safer than the more tepid warzones of the world...
FTA:
The police confiscated goods of around R100 000 (14000 USD).
Coppers have to eat you know, China, street thugs don't earn that much.
(probably US$15,000 now with the way the USD is going).
Yes, of course. But the relevant question for businesses deciding what kind of server setup to use is,
Security is a conscious process, it doesn't matter what OS you use as long as that process is kept conscious. Contrary to what Apple and the Security Industry say, no software is inherently secure or more secure then the others, security is entirely dependent on your (the sysadmins) procedures and awareness.
As for which OS for business, that's a decision to be made according to the needs of the business.
"If this system is looked after by an average sysadmin, how secure will it be relative to our other choices?"
There is no such thing as an average sysadmin.
Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses, the good sysadmins identify their own weaknesses. The poor syadmins ignore them. Good sysadmins adapt to changing environments, poor sysadmins change environments to suit them.
It 's not friggin' magic.
As I'll remind you the next time this comes up. Macs do fail and dont always work, next we'll deal with the myth of inherent security.
It really sucks when your own propaganda is used against you.
BTW, Windows updates dont fail as badly as this. Have not done so for years. The difference is when an update with Windows or Linux buggers up the drivers, I can get the original driver from Nvidia/Inte/AMD and fix it myself.
They dont happen to Macs because Mac's Just Work(TM).
Mac users dont need to wait for a stable update like Wintel users.
I'd argue that both are closed source and therefor, by definition, their security can not be determined.
I wont argue that, but it is beside the point.
Put an incompetent nincompoop in charge of a Linux server and you should consider it as insecure as the most unpatched NT4 box. Security is done by people, not programs.
Windows server looked after by a good sysadmin == secure.
Mac server looked after by bad sysadmin == insecure.
As always, it's up to the people running it. Is any OS inherently secure, no, definitely not when there is a complete idiot looking after it.
This isn't the first time this has happened.
Lies,
Mac's "Just Work(TM)"
The reason for having limited hardware is that Macs dont have driver issues like Wintel boxes.
That's no moon...
Because the bloody IAU reclassified it as a dwarf moon or "Lunaoid".