Do you mean to say that Microsoft is now going to force developers to publish through its app store and nothing else?
This appears correct.
I did not know that. Citation needed please.
From this InformationWeek article [informationweek.com]: "All apps must be approved by Microsoft, and can only be distributed via the Windows Marketplace for Mobile."
Are they smoking crack? The openness was the only reason some people have stuck with Winmobile.
The point of Sarcasm is that the words, the text itself, convey a literal meaning, while the actual intent (which must be deduced by the reader knowing certain things about the writer; sometimes just tone of voice is enough) is the polar opposite. Without anything except one line of text, there is absolutely no way of determining whether something is sarcasm or not. It will never work without more input. Now that you've read this paragraph, re-read the sentence above it.
There are times when I have been the goat because I misunderstood "Yes, I'll have the work completed by Monday" to mean that the coming Monday, the work would be completed. My sarcasm detector did not fire to alert me that the cable installer was being sarcastic. I would like to see this sarcasm detector available for handheld devices. When a girl responded, "Yeah, I'll go out with you," I could then check my iPhone or Droid and know immediately she was making an attempt at humor.
FYI: Sarcasm, Lies, and Little White Lies are not the same things. The cable guy lied. The pretty girl gave a white (gray?) lie.
The story has been tagged "getarealos", presumably in response to the DOS-based limitation. But yet DOS has OS right in it - can you really be more real than an OS with OS in the name?
No, but within that set of OSes, you can get CentOS.
Design a SATA controller that allows one physical 4.2TB drive to be presented as two 2.1TB disks, behind a SATA port multiplier.
Then it's simple... plug your HD in... OS sees two drives, but you have 4TB of storage, once your volume manager does its thing and carves a single 4TB volume out of two LUNs.
"Had" would only apply if we were talking about history. We are not.
Perhaps reading "had" within context would help it make sense. The following should make it clear that the parent you responded to was talking about history (specifically the formative years of the USA).
Which is not to say that America's Constitution is a statement of Christian faith--which is often how this argument is misconstrued. (A standard freshman year American History exam question is to compare and contrast the Christian and Deist views expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.) But it is interesting to know that in most U.S. states you had to be a professing Christian in order to run for political office--it provides a perspective on our First Amendment that is all-too-often missing when discussing what the "separation of church and state" means. (What it meant, then, was that no state could "establish" a church--in the way that the Church of England is established in the U.K., or the Lutheran Church is established in Denmark.
But it is interesting to know that in most U.S. states you had to be a professing Christian in order to run for political office-
Nope, you just have to profess some mainstream faith. Jews and Muslims are easily elected. However public opionion polls state that we atheists are less likely to be elected President than a homosexual.
In a thread devoted in part to history, one would think you would pay verb tenses closer inspection. "had"
Why would Anonymous Coward use those specific "two words" in his post? Did he do it for the shock value?
From Anonymous Coward:
If it were a longer quote I'd agree with you. Two quoted words in a paraphrased context might be a legitimate quote, but that's fairly rare. Normal quotes include enough context so you know what's being said, by paraphrasing the context but not the critical phrase is a good way to put words in people's mouths.
If I quoted two words in your post, would I have captured the meaning? Hardly. The tactic is similar to using phrases like "so-called". It's innocuous literally, but carries a very strong implication.
So if I were aggressively courting a woman in a psychology or sociology department against her wishes and randomly gave her the complete research works of Dr. Kinsey, that would be kosher?
iMacs, Macbooks, etc, are Personal Computers. Steve Jobs says that PCs are going away, and that lockdown is the future of computing. He's delusional. Where will the content come from for his iPads? Other iPads? There have to be non-locked-down computers in the future, and until people's internet access has five or six nines, the computers need to be Personal Computers, not cloud-servers.
I graduated from a lousy public school. Just made it into college. I didn't have basic math and science type skills. None at all. My college also had remedial classes to help students like me. These classes - at least at my school, but I imagine yours as well - were zero credit and charged extra tuition to fund the program. They work. I graduated with a BS in Mathematics and Chemistry, a minor in Physics. Today I am a PhD Physical Chemist, and make a great living doing research on the worlds fastest supercomputers. I'm glad there are programs like these.
Your post is very off-putting. It drips with condescension and self importance. Bend over backwards for the dumbest among us? You are a dick. There are a lot of people who didn't have the advantages you had coming up. My parents are blue collar, just like their parents. They didn't have the experience or means to improve my education. I'm happy there are people more insightful and compassionate than yourself, in positions to create these kind of special purpose classes.
I was being intentionally condescending. That course wasn't created to better someone and hope that they pass all the way through college. Its material was the math equivalent of learning to write a sentence. Literally 1st Grade material. The only reason the course was created was to make more short term money for the math department. They could (should) have turned the students away, told them to go to night school at their local high school, and come back to college prepared. Instead, the math department decided that the stupid twits who couldn't learn how to subtract in the first eighteen years of their life were ripe for wallet-raping. Something I just thought of: these are the folk that probably write "some college" on their resumes these days.
Congratulations on your doctorate. If you're doing research at a Uni, maybe audit a remedial course and see if they're the same as you remember?
Today not one of the 126 netbooks and laptops - sold under 13 brand names - runs Linux.
Not one of the 75 desktops.
Explain.
Tell me what went wrong.
You typed Walmart into the location bar instead of Dell? Notice how even Dell's Linux offerings cost *more* than the Windows ones. Someone with a lot of cash made some deals to own the netbook market (because they rightly saw that the determining factor was price). Since Walmart is _only_ about price, they dropped the "expensive" options.
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dndoan1&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19
Some countries even teach calculus in high school!
I learned first year Calc in high School, but it was an advanced placement course. The regular-track kids had to at least know algebra and maybe trig. No one graduated without knowing basic arithmetic. I don't know where these kids without math skills are coming from, but your theory of social advancement makes sense.
College is the new high school. So much so that colleges are bending over backwards to allow entry to the dumbest among us. My University's Math department had a Math 001 course for preparation to take Algebra courses (001 taught basic math like fractions). But apparently 001 was too hard for some high school graduates; a Math010 course was developed to teach things like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. In &$#%#%*ing college!
Combine that with some HR mandates that college degrees are required for anything above minimum wage, and you've got a perfect storm for devaluing a B.S. or B.A. An Associates degree is already worthless; it says "I went to college, but dropped out after it got too hard."
No, this IM shows that deep down, Zuckerberg _does_ care about privacy, and that he thinks other people should too. He disparages people for giving up that privacy.
Um... what? If this exchange is genuine (the source is extremely vague), it shows that, yes, he probably values his own privacy, but not anyone else's. If he thought "other people should too," he would be campaigning to inform people about privacy concerns, not actively destroying their privacy for his own benefit.
If you're a burglar, you'll probably make fun of people for their weak home security. You don't want your house broken into, but you sure don't want everybody else getting smart. This hardly shows that you "care."
If a burglar doesn't believe that other people do or should care about home security, they would just smash a window whether someone was home or not, and be genuinely surprised if the homeowner pulled a gun on them. One who believes that other people should/do care about home security case a house first, making sure that no one is home, there's no big dogs, no alarms, easy access, etc.
Zuckerberg believes that people _should_ want more privacy. He's happy in his specific case that they don't yet. If he didn't think the harvard folks should care about privacy, his response would have been "They gave the information to me, it's not like it's secret info". Instead, his response was literally "Dumb Fucks". He thinks they're stupid for not monitoring their privacy. Now here's where he can make a choice to be good or evil (apparently you are good by nature since you think it's natural that he'd want to help people be more private). Zuck chooses malignant evil: even though he recognizes that they're unwittingly exposing themselves, he uses it as an opportunity to take advantage of them, not educate them.
Tablets and smartphones and i* are all just toys. No work gets done on these things. Nobody is going to run Quickbooks on an iPhone.
I regularly look at my nagios site with my iPhone. When I used my iPaq, I used it to keep track of my expenses with a mobile version of gnucash (or something similar; it was a while ago).
As a nerd, I demand that my excessive non-typical use patterns are subsidized by the general market, because I deserve everything for free or as near as possible, because I have decided that is ethical. You cannot deny me, because I am right, because I have said so.
Poor Troll, you look starving. Here, eat something.
As a nerd I demand my fellow nerds designing nerd-tools not fall into their corporations' traps of making a technological feudal society. We aren't the knights or the clergy in that bleak future. We are the laborers, and we will not be free to leave our lords' lands.
Most people don't really care if their operating system allows them to recompile their kernel, write a new text editor, or even install arbitrary software.
I was with you until "install arbitrary software". People _expect_ this, and are rankled when a device that (despite looking like an oversized iPhone) is universally recognized as a computer won't install Mac software they already bought. Insult to injury: they have to pay $15 or more for the privilege of using the same type of productivity software on the iPad that comes free with their usual OSes.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
Comment to the article: @lilywhite:
Agree. And to add, unless someone goes through major trauma in their lives, usually their base character and beliefs do not change. Thus, it is prudent for us to judge Zuckerberg based on these IM's he sent when he was 19. Yes, we mature as we grow older, but these IM's show that deep down Zuckerberg does not care so much about privacy.
No, this IM shows that deep down, Zuckerberg _does_ care about privacy, and that he thinks other people should too. He disparages people for giving up that privacy.
You may remember the dot com bubble? lots of things were over invested in.. including ISPs.
I don't think you could say with a straight face the internet was as remotely as usable as it is today or had the wealth of information it does today.
Internet then: See my Dog on the WWW! Type in #.#.#.# into the location field in Mosaic (install Mosaic from this floppy).
Internet now: See my Dog on Facebook! Go to www.facebook.com, make an account, friend me, wait for confirmation, then click on albums, and my dog's album.
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Do you mean to say that Microsoft is now going to force developers to publish through its app store and nothing else?
This appears correct.
I did not know that. Citation needed please.
From this InformationWeek article [informationweek.com]: "All apps must be approved by Microsoft, and can only be distributed via the Windows Marketplace for Mobile."
Are they smoking crack? The openness was the only reason some people have stuck with Winmobile.
I had Ebola for five days two weeks ago. Maybe Googlitis weakened my immune system?
It will work perfectly.
The point of Sarcasm is that the words, the text itself, convey a literal meaning, while the actual intent (which must be deduced by the reader knowing certain things about the writer; sometimes just tone of voice is enough) is the polar opposite. Without anything except one line of text, there is absolutely no way of determining whether something is sarcasm or not. It will never work without more input. Now that you've read this paragraph, re-read the sentence above it.
There are times when I have been the goat because I misunderstood "Yes, I'll have the work completed by Monday" to mean that the coming Monday, the work would be completed. My sarcasm detector did not fire to alert me that the cable installer was being sarcastic. I would like to see this sarcasm detector available for handheld devices. When a girl responded, "Yeah, I'll go out with you," I could then check my iPhone or Droid and know immediately she was making an attempt at humor.
FYI: Sarcasm, Lies, and Little White Lies are not the same things. The cable guy lied. The pretty girl gave a white (gray?) lie.
The story has been tagged "getarealos", presumably in response to the DOS-based limitation. But yet DOS has OS right in it - can you really be more real than an OS with OS in the name?
No, but within that set of OSes, you can get CentOS.
Design a SATA controller that allows one physical 4.2TB drive to be presented as two 2.1TB disks, behind a SATA port multiplier. Then it's simple... plug your HD in... OS sees two drives, but you have 4TB of storage, once your volume manager does its thing and carves a single 4TB volume out of two LUNs.
Only if I could RAID0 them in software. ;)
"Had" would only apply if we were talking about history. We are not.
Perhaps reading "had" within context would help it make sense. The following should make it clear that the parent you responded to was talking about history (specifically the formative years of the USA).
Which is not to say that America's Constitution is a statement of Christian faith--which is often how this argument is misconstrued. (A standard freshman year American History exam question is to compare and contrast the Christian and Deist views expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.) But it is interesting to know that in most U.S. states you had to be a professing Christian in order to run for political office--it provides a perspective on our First Amendment that is all-too-often missing when discussing what the "separation of church and state" means. (What it meant, then, was that no state could "establish" a church--in the way that the Church of England is established in the U.K., or the Lutheran Church is established in Denmark.
But it is interesting to know that in most U.S. states you had to be a professing Christian in order to run for political office-
Nope, you just have to profess some mainstream faith. Jews and Muslims are easily elected. However public opionion polls state that we atheists are less likely to be elected President than a homosexual.
In a thread devoted in part to history, one would think you would pay verb tenses closer inspection. "had"
From Anonymous Coward:
If it were a longer quote I'd agree with you. Two quoted words in a paraphrased context might be a legitimate quote, but that's fairly rare. Normal quotes include enough context so you know what's being said, by paraphrasing the context but not the critical phrase is a good way to put words in people's mouths. If I quoted two words in your post, would I have captured the meaning? Hardly. The tactic is similar to using phrases like "so-called". It's innocuous literally, but carries a very strong implication.
Sometimes I can go days without having to realize just how much I despise religion. And then something like this happens.
How exactly does religion enter into a potential sexual harassment lawsuit?
What should be extremely interesting, is instead a hair trigger for idiots.
Yes, that would be interesting. Very, very interesting. It's like they all own a "Jump to Conclusions" mat.
So if I were aggressively courting a woman in a psychology or sociology department against her wishes and randomly gave her the complete research works of Dr. Kinsey, that would be kosher?
iMacs, Macbooks, etc, are Personal Computers. Steve Jobs says that PCs are going away, and that lockdown is the future of computing. He's delusional. Where will the content come from for his iPads? Other iPads? There have to be non-locked-down computers in the future, and until people's internet access has five or six nines, the computers need to be Personal Computers, not cloud-servers.
"You had best not do that, Avatar!"
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I graduated from a lousy public school. Just made it into college. I didn't have basic math and science type skills. None at all. My college also had remedial classes to help students like me. These classes - at least at my school, but I imagine yours as well - were zero credit and charged extra tuition to fund the program. They work. I graduated with a BS in Mathematics and Chemistry, a minor in Physics. Today I am a PhD Physical Chemist, and make a great living doing research on the worlds fastest supercomputers. I'm glad there are programs like these. Your post is very off-putting. It drips with condescension and self importance. Bend over backwards for the dumbest among us? You are a dick. There are a lot of people who didn't have the advantages you had coming up. My parents are blue collar, just like their parents. They didn't have the experience or means to improve my education. I'm happy there are people more insightful and compassionate than yourself, in positions to create these kind of special purpose classes.
I was being intentionally condescending. That course wasn't created to better someone and hope that they pass all the way through college. Its material was the math equivalent of learning to write a sentence. Literally 1st Grade material. The only reason the course was created was to make more short term money for the math department. They could (should) have turned the students away, told them to go to night school at their local high school, and come back to college prepared. Instead, the math department decided that the stupid twits who couldn't learn how to subtract in the first eighteen years of their life were ripe for wallet-raping. Something I just thought of: these are the folk that probably write "some college" on their resumes these days.
Congratulations on your doctorate. If you're doing research at a Uni, maybe audit a remedial course and see if they're the same as you remember?
Today not one of the 126 netbooks and laptops - sold under 13 brand names - runs Linux.
Not one of the 75 desktops.
Explain.
Tell me what went wrong.
You typed Walmart into the location bar instead of Dell? Notice how even Dell's Linux offerings cost *more* than the Windows ones. Someone with a lot of cash made some deals to own the netbook market (because they rightly saw that the determining factor was price). Since Walmart is _only_ about price, they dropped the "expensive" options. http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dndoan1&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19
Some countries even teach calculus in high school!
I learned first year Calc in high School, but it was an advanced placement course. The regular-track kids had to at least know algebra and maybe trig. No one graduated without knowing basic arithmetic. I don't know where these kids without math skills are coming from, but your theory of social advancement makes sense.
College is the new high school. So much so that colleges are bending over backwards to allow entry to the dumbest among us. My University's Math department had a Math 001 course for preparation to take Algebra courses (001 taught basic math like fractions). But apparently 001 was too hard for some high school graduates; a Math010 course was developed to teach things like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. In &$#%#%*ing college!
Combine that with some HR mandates that college degrees are required for anything above minimum wage, and you've got a perfect storm for devaluing a B.S. or B.A. An Associates degree is already worthless; it says "I went to college, but dropped out after it got too hard."
No, this IM shows that deep down, Zuckerberg _does_ care about privacy, and that he thinks other people should too. He disparages people for giving up that privacy.
Um... what? If this exchange is genuine (the source is extremely vague), it shows that, yes, he probably values his own privacy, but not anyone else's. If he thought "other people should too," he would be campaigning to inform people about privacy concerns, not actively destroying their privacy for his own benefit. If you're a burglar, you'll probably make fun of people for their weak home security. You don't want your house broken into, but you sure don't want everybody else getting smart. This hardly shows that you "care."
If a burglar doesn't believe that other people do or should care about home security, they would just smash a window whether someone was home or not, and be genuinely surprised if the homeowner pulled a gun on them. One who believes that other people should/do care about home security case a house first, making sure that no one is home, there's no big dogs, no alarms, easy access, etc.
Zuckerberg believes that people _should_ want more privacy. He's happy in his specific case that they don't yet. If he didn't think the harvard folks should care about privacy, his response would have been "They gave the information to me, it's not like it's secret info". Instead, his response was literally "Dumb Fucks". He thinks they're stupid for not monitoring their privacy. Now here's where he can make a choice to be good or evil (apparently you are good by nature since you think it's natural that he'd want to help people be more private). Zuck chooses malignant evil: even though he recognizes that they're unwittingly exposing themselves, he uses it as an opportunity to take advantage of them, not educate them.
Tablets and smartphones and i* are all just toys. No work gets done on these things. Nobody is going to run Quickbooks on an iPhone.
I regularly look at my nagios site with my iPhone. When I used my iPaq, I used it to keep track of my expenses with a mobile version of gnucash (or something similar; it was a while ago).
As a nerd, I demand that my excessive non-typical use patterns are subsidized by the general market, because I deserve everything for free or as near as possible, because I have decided that is ethical. You cannot deny me, because I am right, because I have said so.
Poor Troll, you look starving. Here, eat something.
As a nerd I demand my fellow nerds designing nerd-tools not fall into their corporations' traps of making a technological feudal society. We aren't the knights or the clergy in that bleak future. We are the laborers, and we will not be free to leave our lords' lands.
Most people don't really care if their operating system allows them to recompile their kernel, write a new text editor, or even install arbitrary software.
I was with you until "install arbitrary software". People _expect_ this, and are rankled when a device that (despite looking like an oversized iPhone) is universally recognized as a computer won't install Mac software they already bought. Insult to injury: they have to pay $15 or more for the privilege of using the same type of productivity software on the iPad that comes free with their usual OSes.
Can't Slashdot editors find ANYTHING newsworthy that isn't about Apple ?
Well, I heard that BP's next move with the oil spill in the gulf of mexico is to shove a bunch of Apple iPads into the pipe.
There is no vehicular emergency which can't be escaped from by properly applying a hammer to a window.
Unless the glass is bulletproof. Of course, on those cars, you might have explosive bolts on the doors...
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
Comment to the article: @lilywhite:
Agree. And to add, unless someone goes through major trauma in their lives, usually their base character and beliefs do not change. Thus, it is prudent for us to judge Zuckerberg based on these IM's he sent when he was 19. Yes, we mature as we grow older, but these IM's show that deep down Zuckerberg does not care so much about privacy.
No, this IM shows that deep down, Zuckerberg _does_ care about privacy, and that he thinks other people should too. He disparages people for giving up that privacy.
You may remember the dot com bubble? lots of things were over invested in.. including ISPs. I don't think you could say with a straight face the internet was as remotely as usable as it is today or had the wealth of information it does today.
Internet then: See my Dog on the WWW! Type in #.#.#.# into the location field in Mosaic (install Mosaic from this floppy).
Internet now: See my Dog on Facebook! Go to www.facebook.com, make an account, friend me, wait for confirmation, then click on albums, and my dog's album.
What a difference.