Nope. Running out of crude? Maybe. That just means more shale and oil sands. Yup... even more polution than what is mostly used today! But.. still cheaper than the alternatives and so that's what people will burn.
You don't click 'buy it now' and wait. You click 'buy it now' and go on with the rest of your life until it arrives. You do click 'print' and wait / babysit it until it is done.
Unless they are paying for their ads using anonymized Bitcoins couldn't the ad company be served a warrant and the perpetrator found through the payment records?
I fear I already know the answers to this but just to be sure...
1) Can apps be installed from outside the Microsoft's marketplace? I'm talking about a simple download like.apks on Android, not jailbreaking or compling from scratch and uploading using the dev kit.
2) Is there a decent, usable development environment that is free as in beer?
I like Android but I think it would actually benefit from some competition with another mobile OS that can answer yes to both of these questions. In that case then I wouldn't mind seeing Microsoft actually pick up a little traction.
However, if as I suspect the answer is no then they can go rot in hell right alongside Apple. It's the application developers that make a platform worth using. They shouldn't have to shell out 100s of dollars just for the privilege of writing an app that only serves to help sell more phones nor should they be forced to kiss butt to get their app in the app store. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with an app store owner imposing whatever rules and/or fees they wish to use their service which is no doubt invaluable just for marketing alone. I just don't think they should be able to shut out all other avenues.
Cisco is what my friends who want to be network admins buy shortly before their home networks (including their self-hosted mail servers) go offline because it takes them forever to figure out how to configure the #$@# things!
I have a Samsung Stratosphere My wife has one too We have a friend who had one
It sucks!!!!! Constant freeze ups, reboots itself randomly... What a piece of crap! If the Stratosphere is any indicaition of what Samsung products are like then the only way it can succede is if the buyers are all morons.
Well... iOS is doing pretty good so maybe that is the case...
I'd imagine that if someone rode their horse into town the would be tempted to tie it to a convenient tree. Then, pacing around, bored waiting the horse would end up girdling the tree! That was probably a very good law a bit over 100 years ago.
Maybe I need to spend some time on OSX but I just don't see how it is possible that it could be the magic productivity booster that Mac fans say it is.
It's just an OS, not an application! Who spends their productive time interacting with their OS? Did their marketing department use notepad to write their marketing materials? Did switching to OSX mean they switched to OSX's native text editor (whatever that is) and it was better?
Come on! You use the login screen of the OS then you click the little icon that opens the apropriate application for the job you are doing. From that point on you only interact with the applicaiton. If the application is the same on both OSs why would your productivity change? If the application is not the same then you changed applications and that was the real difference, not the OS!
The only exception I can see is if one of the OSs was locking up all the time. Maybe Windows was. If so, then they could just as easily have fixed the problem by switching to Linux.
Most places I have worked used Windows. I did work in a programming department that had Mac workstations once. We used the Zend IDE to edit PHP files. I used the same application at home. They looked pretty much identical! The only difference was the OSX one had some sort of FTP bug and would often lose all my work when I went to upload! I had to make a habit of copying all my work to the clipboard before saving. I'm not necessarily blaming OSX. I don't know if the bug was in OSX itself or just in Zend's source code for the Mac port. There certainly wasn't any magic productivity fairy in OSX to help me get my work done though!
Nah, there have been plenty of Distros which were configured to look and feel almost exactly like a Windows desktop out of the box. Their were even ones with Wine tightly integrated in so they can run Windows applications while looking like Windows. There are a number of reasons why Linux didn't take off on the Desktop, lack of a familiar Windows look and feel isn't one of them.
Linux needs to be installed. If the hardware is well chosen to work with Linux in the first place Linux can be much easier to install than Windows. But... nobody installs Windows, they buy PCs with Windows on them already. Having to install it is a big handicap if you are trying to sell Linux to non-geeks. Sure, there were some mainstream PCs with Linux pre-installed. The only one that really ever made it to store shelves was Walmart's eMachines. eMachines were cheap cheap crap! Nothing worked well on an eMachine Linux or Windows. If it was one's first Linux experience it was likely to be their last. There were online companies selling Linux computers too but they mostly went the other way. They were super hardware performance monsters that likely ran great but cost far more than what most people were paying. There were no middle of the road Linux computers to be bought. I don't think there ever have been!
Linux missed it's chance.
Linux had a critical moment when it had a chance. At that moment it was sabotaged. Around the early 2000s Linux was looking good. On the desktop it was maturing. People were talking about it. Windows malware was pissing people off. Then the rug was pulled out from under it.
Macromedia stopped releasing updates to the Linux Flash player. Flash was all over the web at the time. Sites used flash for important navigation buttons just because they could. Goofy little Flash games were very popular among the 'norms'. Old versions of Flash still existed for Linux but most of these sites required the newer ones. The web experience without Flash really sucked at this time! It was possible to use Windows Flash player if you had Crossover Plugin but that was obscure, costed money (Windows users were not accustomed to paying to use Flash) and still just didn't work as well.
Games were starting to be released with Linux version (for example Quake 2). But.. 3dfx, probably the biggest GPU maker of the time went out of business. ATI and Nvidia took it's place. For quite some time neither supported Linux nor did they release enough information about their proprietary chipsets to make decent open source drivers possible.
Various other bits of hardware also started coming out that didn't work in Linux. The problem was hardware was getting cheap. To save money manufacturers were actually removing functionality from the hardware and emulating it in software on the CPU. (for example winmodems) This meant drivers weren't just drivers, they were programs with proprietary algorithms in them. They guarded these secret algorithms closely so it wasn't possible for the oss community to write drivers for them.
The incompatible hardware problem only got worse as people began switching away from desktops towards laptops. Corners were especially cut in laptop design as it was important to keep the part count low so everything can be miniturized. Also, laptops were never as upgradeable as desktops so hardware compatibility wasn't as important. Laptop makers would design their hardware in partnership with Microsoft and include drivers that were very tightly integrated into Windows.
For whatever reason people who decided to try Linux even if they had both a desktop and a laptop would see their laptops as more 'expendable' for playing around with and would almost always try it on the laptop first. This gave them the worst possible installation experiences and drove many of them away.
All of this has changed since then. Flash is supported in Linux now however it also isn't as important as websites are finally moving away from Flash.
Does Qt readily accept patch submissions? Can you patch the bugs?
I am not saying it is your responsibility to fix their mess for them. But... obviously there is something you like about Qt vs alternatives. If the bugs are unacceptable then what is worse for you; fixing their bugs, moving to some other platform or just living with it. I suppose this is a valid question individually for each bug. If an honest evaluation of the situation leads to you fixing some of the bugs then so be it! Have you considered this option?
Yup. Tang was it! Tang was the only thing invention wholly created or accelerated by the space race. I know I am feeding a troll but if anybody believes that ignorant statement they really need to go crack a book before ever considering voting.
US, Australia, China and Iran commit to resisting higher speed internet access citing concerns that they might not be able to collect all of the information that their people might generate at that speed. "I looked into his eyes and I could see a kindred soul" President Obamma says of Ahmadinejad after returning from the conference where they all quickly agreed to enact an internet speed limit.
Maybe they do this with their PC client? They surely don't seem to care about the robustness of their Android client. I think they must develop and test that monster on the latest, most powerful hardware that a corporation can buy. Then they fill it full of graphics and video until it almost breaks thus ensuring that it runs like crap on anything less. I would drop Netflix like a ton of bricks except they have licensed most of the content that I would actually want to watch while Hulu, the only competitor I am aware of has just about nothing for me.
Why would any nation do that? Everybody thinks they are the good guy. Or.. if they don't they at least see themselves as being on their own side. Are governments any different? Why would one's own weapons be scary? They aren't shooting themsleves! Granted, if they shoot them at the wrong people they will fire back. Also.. if they fired enough of them it wouldn't matter that they all hit on some other part of the world, the whole planet would be messed up. But... 'OUR' nukes aren't going to cause that because we are the good guys and we wouldn't use them that way right?
So.. why would any nation cut their arms unless they thought it was going to result in other nations cutting theirs? What would be the motivation?
I see lots of comments about the 'garbage coming out of DC these days'. Is it really the politicians causing events like this though? I don't think so. Don't get me wrong, our government has been having a field day using terorism as an excuse to grab new powers and erode our freedoms. But.. locking up some dumb kid who said the wrong thing of Facebook? I don't see how that even directly benefits any of the self-serving politicians. I doubt very many of them care one way or another what happens to this kid.
So, why are these things happening? Who is really to blame? It's the whole country!
Crazy people do horrible horrible things and the media happily serves the details, tears and all to the rest of the nation. Then... (and here is where I see things really beginning to break down) people are shocked by it. Please.. don't get me wrong, I don't mean to dishonour the victims by taking lightly what has been done to them. But... we shouldn't be so shocked every time we see tragedy on the news. The US is a big place with a lot of people. And.. some percentage of any population is batshit insane. So... bad things do happen.
Then... all of these shocked people demand that something must be done. All logic and reason goes out the window, it is just a big emotional scream for action. What would one possibly do to make 311 million people inhabiting 3.79 million square miles of space totally safe from one another? Sorry, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE. The politicians know this. If they don't know it coming in to office for the first time (naive) I'm sure they learn it very soon after. But... they care about re-election. They are elected by all of these shocked people who are demanding action. So we get zero tolerance laws. Yay! I feel safer now!
Then there are the enforcers. Another thing you are guaranteed to find among any population of more than a few people is people who crave power over others and a feeling of authority. And... what kind of personality is going to be most attracted to the prosecutor's position? The kind that just wants to live and let live? Yeah... right! So.. they take these crappy laws and use them to lock up dumb (and I do mean dumb) kids that run their mouths in the wrong way. But.. hey America... you got what you wanted, they did something!!
So.. remember this when bad stuff happens. Encourage your politicians to support law enforcement finding the crazy who hurt people and making an example of them... GOOD! Pushing for new laws and action for action's sake.. BAD!!
By all means I want to see him get a fair trial. Not giving him one would only introduce doubt as to his guilt anyway. But... does anyone really believe he has any chance of being declared innocent?
I hope they don't kill him although I'm sure that will be the outcome. Please, don't mistake this for any sort of sympathy. With a death penalty he gets to stay in isolation until he runs out of appeals and then they have to get rid of him humanely.
I would rather see someone who comits an act like this get to go hang out with the general population of a very hard prison for as long as he can last. Everyone will know exactly who he is and why he is there. If I were the warden I might even be sure to let the other prisoners know that anyone who kills him is going to have a very hard time afterward. I wouldn't say a damn thing about what happens to someone who does anything less than kill him though.
That still seems too convoluted to me. I'd just go with:
Killing X people, Wounding Y people, Attepting to kill Z people.
Anything else is just going after him for his motivation and/or his choice of tools. With an X of even 1 that SHOULD be enough for the maximum punishments possible so even analyze it beyond that?
It's not like they can use the data, it all is or soon will be patented! Even the patent holders are SOL because anything their bit of patented gene interacts with is patented by someone else. What a lovely system we have!
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Nope. Running out of crude? Maybe. That just means more shale and oil sands. Yup... even more polution than what is mostly used today! But.. still cheaper than the alternatives and so that's what people will burn.
I don't see that happening. Not unless it's because the fossil fuels are used up to the point of rarity.
Out of his own bank acount or out of the corporation's?
You don't click 'buy it now' and wait. You click 'buy it now' and go on with the rest of your life until it arrives. You do click 'print' and wait / babysit it until it is done.
Unless they are paying for their ads using anonymized Bitcoins couldn't the ad company be served a warrant and the perpetrator found through the payment records?
I fear I already know the answers to this but just to be sure...
1) Can apps be installed from outside the Microsoft's marketplace? I'm talking about a simple download like .apks on Android, not jailbreaking or compling from scratch and uploading using the dev kit.
2) Is there a decent, usable development environment that is free as in beer?
I like Android but I think it would actually benefit from some competition with another mobile OS that can answer yes to both of these questions. In that case then I wouldn't mind seeing Microsoft actually pick up a little traction.
However, if as I suspect the answer is no then they can go rot in hell right alongside Apple. It's the application developers that make a platform worth using. They shouldn't have to shell out 100s of dollars just for the privilege of writing an app that only serves to help sell more phones nor should they be forced to kiss butt to get their app in the app store. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with an app store owner imposing whatever rules and/or fees they wish to use their service which is no doubt invaluable just for marketing alone. I just don't think they should be able to shut out all other avenues.
Cisco is what my friends who want to be network admins buy shortly before their home networks (including their self-hosted mail servers) go offline because it takes them forever to figure out how to configure the #$@# things!
Well... with four kids to put through college at these day's rediculous prices... can you blame him?!?!
I have a Samsung Stratosphere
My wife has one too
We have a friend who had one
It sucks!!!!! Constant freeze ups, reboots itself randomly... What a piece of crap! If the Stratosphere is any indicaition of what Samsung products are like then the only way it can succede is if the buyers are all morons.
Well... iOS is doing pretty good so maybe that is the case...
Sauron is the gov everywhere now. Where have you been?
As much as I would like to use many websites to line a bird cage I don't think it can be done.
But can you play ET on them?
I'd imagine that if someone rode their horse into town the would be tempted to tie it to a convenient tree. Then, pacing around, bored waiting the horse would end up girdling the tree! That was probably a very good law a bit over 100 years ago.
Yes, I know I was responding seriously to a joke.
And you believe it? Why would that be true?
Maybe I need to spend some time on OSX but I just don't see how it is possible that it could be the magic productivity booster that Mac fans say it is.
It's just an OS, not an application! Who spends their productive time interacting with their OS? Did their marketing department use notepad to write their marketing materials? Did switching to OSX mean they switched to OSX's native text editor (whatever that is) and it was better?
Come on! You use the login screen of the OS then you click the little icon that opens the apropriate application for the job you are doing. From that point on you only interact with the applicaiton. If the application is the same on both OSs why would your productivity change? If the application is not the same then you changed applications and that was the real difference, not the OS!
The only exception I can see is if one of the OSs was locking up all the time. Maybe Windows was. If so, then they could just as easily have fixed the problem by switching to Linux.
Most places I have worked used Windows. I did work in a programming department that had Mac workstations once. We used the Zend IDE to edit PHP files. I used the same application at home. They looked pretty much identical! The only difference was the OSX one had some sort of FTP bug and would often lose all my work when I went to upload! I had to make a habit of copying all my work to the clipboard before saving. I'm not necessarily blaming OSX. I don't know if the bug was in OSX itself or just in Zend's source code for the Mac port. There certainly wasn't any magic productivity fairy in OSX to help me get my work done though!
Nah, there have been plenty of Distros which were configured to look and feel almost exactly like a Windows desktop out of the box. Their were even ones with Wine tightly integrated in so they can run Windows applications while looking like Windows. There are a number of reasons why Linux didn't take off on the Desktop, lack of a familiar Windows look and feel isn't one of them.
Linux needs to be installed.
If the hardware is well chosen to work with Linux in the first place Linux can be much easier to install than Windows. But... nobody installs Windows, they buy PCs with Windows on them already. Having to install it is a big handicap if you are trying to sell Linux to non-geeks. Sure, there were some mainstream PCs with Linux pre-installed. The only one that really ever made it to store shelves was Walmart's eMachines. eMachines were cheap cheap crap! Nothing worked well on an eMachine Linux or Windows. If it was one's first Linux experience it was likely to be their last. There were online companies selling Linux computers too but they mostly went the other way. They were super hardware performance monsters that likely ran great but cost far more than what most people were paying. There were no middle of the road Linux computers to be bought. I don't think there ever have been!
Linux missed it's chance.
Linux had a critical moment when it had a chance. At that moment it was sabotaged.
Around the early 2000s Linux was looking good. On the desktop it was maturing. People were talking about it. Windows malware was pissing people off. Then the rug was pulled out from under it.
Macromedia stopped releasing updates to the Linux Flash player. Flash was all over the web at the time. Sites used flash for important navigation buttons just because they could. Goofy little Flash games were very popular among the 'norms'. Old versions of Flash still existed for Linux but most of these sites required the newer ones. The web experience without Flash really sucked at this time! It was possible to use Windows Flash player if you had Crossover Plugin but that was obscure, costed money (Windows users were not accustomed to paying to use Flash) and still just didn't work as well.
Games were starting to be released with Linux version (for example Quake 2). But.. 3dfx, probably the biggest GPU maker of the time went out of business. ATI and Nvidia took it's place. For quite some time neither supported Linux nor did they release enough information about their proprietary chipsets to make decent open source drivers possible.
Various other bits of hardware also started coming out that didn't work in Linux. The problem was hardware was getting cheap. To save money manufacturers were actually removing functionality from the hardware and emulating it in software on the CPU. (for example winmodems) This meant drivers weren't just drivers, they were programs with proprietary algorithms in them. They guarded these secret algorithms closely so it wasn't possible for the oss community to write drivers for them.
The incompatible hardware problem only got worse as people began switching away from desktops towards laptops. Corners were especially cut in laptop design as it was important to keep the part count low so everything can be miniturized. Also, laptops were never as upgradeable as desktops so hardware compatibility wasn't as important. Laptop makers would design their hardware in partnership with Microsoft and include drivers that were very tightly integrated into Windows.
For whatever reason people who decided to try Linux even if they had both a desktop and a laptop would see their laptops as more 'expendable' for playing around with and would almost always try it on the laptop first. This gave them the worst possible installation experiences and drove many of them away.
All of this has changed since then. Flash is supported in Linux now however it also isn't as important as websites are finally moving away from Flash.
3d vidio support has improved.
Does Qt readily accept patch submissions? Can you patch the bugs?
I am not saying it is your responsibility to fix their mess for them. But... obviously there is something you like about Qt vs alternatives. If the bugs are unacceptable then what is worse for you; fixing their bugs, moving to some other platform or just living with it. I suppose this is a valid question individually for each bug. If an honest evaluation of the situation leads to you fixing some of the bugs then so be it! Have you considered this option?
Yup. Tang was it! Tang was the only thing invention wholly created or accelerated by the space race.
I know I am feeding a troll but if anybody believes that ignorant statement they really need to go crack a book before ever considering voting.
In related news...
US, Australia, China and Iran commit to resisting higher speed internet access citing concerns that they might not be able to collect all of the information that their people might generate at that speed. "I looked into his eyes and I could see a kindred soul" President Obamma says of Ahmadinejad after returning from the conference where they all quickly agreed to enact an internet speed limit.
Maybe they do this with their PC client? They surely don't seem to care about the robustness of their Android client. I think they must develop and test that monster on the latest, most powerful hardware that a corporation can buy. Then they fill it full of graphics and video until it almost breaks thus ensuring that it runs like crap on anything less. I would drop Netflix like a ton of bricks except they have licensed most of the content that I would actually want to watch while Hulu, the only competitor I am aware of has just about nothing for me.
Why would any nation do that? Everybody thinks they are the good guy. Or.. if they don't they at least see themselves as being on their own side. Are governments any different? Why would one's own weapons be scary? They aren't shooting themsleves! Granted, if they shoot them at the wrong people they will fire back. Also.. if they fired enough of them it wouldn't matter that they all hit on some other part of the world, the whole planet would be messed up. But... 'OUR' nukes aren't going to cause that because we are the good guys and we wouldn't use them that way right?
So.. why would any nation cut their arms unless they thought it was going to result in other nations cutting theirs? What would be the motivation?
I see lots of comments about the 'garbage coming out of DC these days'. Is it really the politicians causing events like this though? I don't think so. Don't get me wrong, our government has been having a field day using terorism as an excuse to grab new powers and erode our freedoms. But.. locking up some dumb kid who said the wrong thing of Facebook? I don't see how that even directly benefits any of the self-serving politicians. I doubt very many of them care one way or another what happens to this kid.
So, why are these things happening? Who is really to blame? It's the whole country!
Crazy people do horrible horrible things and the media happily serves the details, tears and all to the rest of the nation. Then... (and here is where I see things really beginning to break down) people are shocked by it. Please.. don't get me wrong, I don't mean to dishonour the victims by taking lightly what has been done to them. But... we shouldn't be so shocked every time we see tragedy on the news. The US is a big place with a lot of people. And.. some percentage of any population is batshit insane. So... bad things do happen.
Then... all of these shocked people demand that something must be done. All logic and reason goes out the window, it is just a big emotional scream for action. What would one possibly do to make 311 million people inhabiting 3.79 million square miles of space totally safe from one another? Sorry, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE. The politicians know this. If they don't know it coming in to office for the first time (naive) I'm sure they learn it very soon after. But... they care about re-election. They are elected by all of these shocked people who are demanding action. So we get zero tolerance laws. Yay! I feel safer now!
Then there are the enforcers. Another thing you are guaranteed to find among any population of more than a few people is people who crave power over others and a feeling of authority. And... what kind of personality is going to be most attracted to the prosecutor's position? The kind that just wants to live and let live? Yeah... right! So.. they take these crappy laws and use them to lock up dumb (and I do mean dumb) kids that run their mouths in the wrong way. But.. hey America... you got what you wanted, they did something!!
So.. remember this when bad stuff happens. Encourage your politicians to support law enforcement finding the crazy who hurt people and making an example of them... GOOD! Pushing for new laws and action for action's sake.. BAD!!
By all means I want to see him get a fair trial. Not giving him one would only introduce doubt as to his guilt anyway. But... does anyone really believe he has any chance of being declared innocent?
I hope they don't kill him although I'm sure that will be the outcome. Please, don't mistake this for any sort of sympathy. With a death penalty he gets to stay in isolation until he runs out of appeals and then they have to get rid of him humanely.
I would rather see someone who comits an act like this get to go hang out with the general population of a very hard prison for as long as he can last. Everyone will know exactly who he is and why he is there. If I were the warden I might even be sure to let the other prisoners know that anyone who kills him is going to have a very hard time afterward. I wouldn't say a damn thing about what happens to someone who does anything less than kill him though.
That still seems too convoluted to me. I'd just go with:
Killing X people, Wounding Y people, Attepting to kill Z people.
Anything else is just going after him for his motivation and/or his choice of tools.
With an X of even 1 that SHOULD be enough for the maximum punishments possible so even analyze it beyond that?
It's not like they can use the data, it all is or soon will be patented! Even the patent holders are SOL because anything their bit of patented gene interacts with is patented by someone else. What a lovely system we have!