I'm not sure a canceled meeting is newsworthy, but I do feel like Palm isn't bending over backwards to help developers.
There's still no SDK (I applied to be part of the second limited release - no response), and the SDK ain't exactly complicated - it's javascript - they don't need to do much else than provide the standard packages and put in some new keyword highlights, and get an simulator out. Also there's zero published documentation - I only get PDF updates from the O'Reilly book chapter by chapter as it's written, and even the emulator to get PalmOS apps on WebOS is third party.
Palm has enough competition with App stores - everyone from Blackberry to SymbianOS is getting their hands dirty with App stores this year. Palm's strength is its developers, and it seems they're going to just let this whole advantage go as they dribble out the SDK at a snail's pace.
Note: I've now ruined theatrical releases for you. You will now notice these dots in nearly every movie, and it will drive you *nuts*. They like to show up as orange dots on blue, but that changes from time to time.
May I suggest the Kingston Mini for your next drive - the size is printed on one side (and etched on the other), and they keyring hole is part of the body.
But I would also argue that it's not difficult to get a Master's for free: get a job at a place that pays for higher ed. I just got my Master's last week and I didn't have to pay a dime.
Sure a part-time Master's takes longer, and you miss out on more college life, but I thought it was worth it. I'm already looking at schools for another Master's, or a certificate.
That's expected. You need to analyze smaller intervals. The TFA states (emphasis mine):
Since the late â70s, researchers have known that prime numbers themselves, when taken in very large data sets, are not distributed according to Benfordâ(TM)s law. Instead, the first digit distribution of primes seems to be approximately uniform. However, as Luque and Lacasa point out, smaller data sets (intervals) of primes exhibit a clear bias in first digit distribution. The researchers noticed another pattern: the larger the data set of primes they analyzed, the more closely the first digit distribution approached uniformity.
Windows 7 does seem to be much more workable for lower-end computers, an obvious attempt to get onto netbooks.
Anecdotal, but Windows 7 RC runs as fast as my very-trimmed-down XP on a 3-year old 'Value' line laptop, which is probably only slightly more powerful than a mid-range netbook today. By the time October hits, there will be plenty of netbooks that will run Win7 as fast as any modern Windows OS has run at release date.
Netbooks only really have two bottlenecks: the 128MB video RAM required for Aero, and so far a lack of multi-core chips.
The second page of the article talks about the 'bug' - Rockwell figures salaries based on 2080 hours/yr. while the Federal gov't uses 2087. I see how your point can be valid, but it's possible that Rockwell gets a price on the contract, say $50M; but then instead of getting a $50M check, the gov't just uses that to set up the payroll figures. But by having different hours/yr, Rockwell, too, gets more than $50M over the life of the project. With multi-year projects, and the fact that they almost never get finished on budget, maybe the gov't paying out an extra $165,000 on a $50M budget just doesn't get noticed.
I wasn't guessing there were 6 previous Star Trek movies. I was guessing there were 6 previous Star Trek movies which featured Klingons as enemies of humans.
I'm aware of "KHAAAAAAN!" - implying Klingons were enemies at one point. I also know Picard was featured in a few, so unless Whorf is a turncoat, either the Klingons were no longer enemies in the last few movies, or life on the bridge of the Enterprise must have been *awkward*.
I'm not a super Trekkie or anything, but I did see the movie this week, and I'm glad there's no Klingon. Hell, not only is there no Klingon speech, I didn't see a single Klingon at all. Who cares? The humans are the good guys, and they need bad guys. Since this is a fresh start, why re-hash the exact same enemies they already had in, what, 6 previous movies (just a guess, again, not a Trekkie)? I always thought the Klingons were just grumpy humanoids anyway. And AFAIK, they're been friends for nearly every TV series, so I'm not exactly fearful of their characters. Eric Bana as a really pissed off Romulan? That worked.
If we're talking about CD's, then the user is already assuming the script writer has their best interests at heart - why else would they be sticking the CD in the drive? All disabling autorun does is make it harder for users, because *no* user is ever going to stick a CD in the drive, and then say "Well, that was fun" and then take the CD back out and throw it away. They're putting it in to install software! And if they're putting a CD in that doesn't have a setup.exe, then there's not going to be an autorun.
I use autorun for my customers. I have multiple install scripts depending on the type of computer and dependencies. I'd rather change an autorun.inf than explain which setup to run to my customers. I'm getting paid to automate tasks (my software is basically an automated testing suite). If Windows forces my users to run setups themselves, its making everyone's life more difficult.
If you think autorun is a security threat, you can already disable it. At least make it a choice.
People know Verizon uses CDMA. What you don't realize is that the applications, or any host-level networking protocol, doesn't care what technology it uses. Converting GSM to CDMA involves plopping a new chip in, and rewriting the data link and networking wrappers used by the OS. Properly written APIs won't even be aware of what technology is used. Blackberry has GSM and CDMA versions of phones, so it's already being done.
And it's not like Apple hates CDMA. They went to Verizon before they went to Apple, and Verizon walked away for essentially business reasons (greed, I would say).
So true. It's like AT&T making you buy the Unlimited Data plan, and then charging you for every 140-character SMS you send.
Sprint will makes us buy the Unlimited Data plan for the Pre, I'm sure. But that includes web, SMS, GPS, MMS, and even TV services. I'm thinking of joining them just for having a common sense plan.
The USPS is great at sending small pieces of mail. But if it's time-sensitive we have no good options.
Two weeks ago a co-worker asked me to overnight a PCI card from the east coast to California. There's a post office right by my work so I gave it a shot. I asked about overnight, and the clerk said it could be there by 12. Knowing she couldn't leave the hotel and start working without the card, I asked if it could get there sooner, and he sort of laughed, like it was a stupid request. By the time I finished writing the address, I had a new clerk, and she told me since it was 5:00pm, it would now take 2 days. 5pm to 12pm (west coast) is *22 hours*, and they couldn't promise that?
I drove to FedEx, and they promised 10:30 delivery, and it was there before 10:00. The problem is that it cost $61.
So you pay 40 cents for a letter, or $15 for anything over 31oz (or whatever it is) if you want it there in less than 4 days.
Yeah, phrases like "complete and utter failure" don't really help. As far as I know, this was 100% successful - who's to say the second stage was even present? And a satellite? I know the administration told the public that they launched a satellite, but that doesn't mean they were really trying to do so. Many North Koreans aren't aware that we've even landed on the moon yet (according to a NatGeo documentary I saw), so it's not too hard to fool them.
We do know that they launched a rocket a considerable distance - enough to hit the largest metropolitan area on Earth, and one of U.S.' closest allies; and once they get a second stage, chances are they can us US territory. It's not something we should just write off.
Very cool. On the same vein, I also saw a documentary recently - a National Geographic journalist accompanied an eye surgeon performing cataract surgery on something like 1,000 citizens in a week. She used that pretense to record a lot of interesting tidbits about North Korea.
Just curious - have you upgraded recently? I couldn't play HD video from a camcorder until I upgraded from VLC 0.8.x to VLC 0.9.2 (or so).
Media Player, my 'other' viewer, was so choppy it was unplayable, and VLC was horrible as well. I figured I'd upgrade to VLC to see if it happened to do better playback, and sure enough, it was a huge improvement. This is on a 1.7GHz Intel laptop.
The privacy complaints aren't coming from esoteric discussions on rights to privacy. It's really an artifact of real-world differences between being pulled over and getting a ticket in the mail. Namely, with tickets going to the houses of violators, with pictures and times and locations all in the same envelope, spouses have been caught being in places they shouldn't.
If you get pulled over with a mistress in the car, or you get pulled over 40 miles away from work during the lunch hour, your spouse/girlfriend/etc won't ever find out those details. But with those envelopes, they could (and have done so).
1) They only ticket you if you are _completely_ in front of the line with a red light in front of you (picture 1 is taken) and then if you completely cross that line with the light still red (picture 2).
2) The cameras also know to ignore slow-moving vehicles that sometimes get stuck in the intersection by accident (being behind a large truck for example, can mean drivers don't see the light), so they ignore violators going under a certain speed (12MPH around here).
I've never bought a phone outright and don't plan to, because if you sign a contract, you'll get steep discounts on the phone.
If you're talking about a $100 phone (no subsidy) then I can understand, as $100 may be worth not being tied to a contract.
But for people who want the latest phones, you save hundreds of dollars for buying through the provider. For example, you can get an iPhone right now for $99 from AT&T if you use them for two years. Rumor is they will go on sale soon, no contract needed, for $599. And what do you do once you get the $600 iPhone? Well, if you're in the U.S. you're probably just going to sign up with AT&T and get their unlimited data plan anyway.
For non-US residents, buying a GSM phone and switching carriers at whim may make more sense. But my reasoning is I'm paying a monthly fee anyway, I might as well get a hundred or two off the phone price.
You'll get a better answer from Apple soon, but at 11:22 in Engadet's coverage there is a 'Revoke certs' feature (along with proxy support), so I would hope that also means adding certs is possible.
Yes, that first option was what the demo appeared to show. A server for Application_Alpha contacts Apples Push Notification Service, when then sends the data to you. While running Application_Beta, you get an alert (either visual pop-up, audio, or 'badge', which is just an icon change I believe) that you have new data. You then exit Beta, open Alpha and see your new content (not sure if the entire message gets to the phone, or just a "hey you have new data" message - probably the former)
i just installed Kubuntu for the first time and installations are the hard part for me, too. You're right that it's a different method. Just *realizing* you're using a different model is an important step.
Anyway, installs still have problems. If I type in "VLC" in Adept's Quick Search box, nothing pops up, even though I have it installed. But KDE's cool "Add/Remove Programs" not only finds the VLC I installed, it was the program that found it 'online' and let me install - no adding sources or anything. Maybe Adept and Synaptec are supposed to behave the same way, but they didn't out of the box for me.
I had other installation issues - I tried to download TrueCrypt and I got this.tar.gz. I unpacked it, eventually found the file (I'm not using the terminal for any of this BTW) and it launched a script. After I hit 'Install' on the GUI box... nothing. No indications anywhere and I'm pretty sure TrueCrypt is not installed. At least with Windows I know where the files try to go.
I also couldn't install Miro. I added the source per the website's instructions, and there was some weird error. I get that error every time I start up still. One trip to KDE's utility and I installed it with one click.
So, basically, KDE's built in guy is great, but obviously less functional then the main package managers. I still miss downloading a file and double-clicking it. And both methods are inferior to OS X IMO - the whole "drag this icon to the big 'A'" is fantastic)
As a new Linux user (okay, I've installed it four times now, but I always stop using it after 3 days - this was my first Kubuntu install ever), I can tell you it doesn't update.
Although I think it would be nice to update right after the install, I was not put off by the fact that it didn't. After rebooting a few times and playing around I eventually saw the status bar that said I had 298 updates to install. I hit OK, and after only 15 minutes the whole thing was done - very impressive and involved less keypresses than Windows' updates.
I had other issues like a screen flicker problem (some service was running that I had to turn off), and the fact that two of the three package managers (Synaptec and Adept) couldn't find VLC even though I installed with KDE's watered-down 'Add/Remove Programs', and KGpg forgets to ask me a password when decrypting files.
But, overall, Linux gets my usual verdict: Better than last time, but still not as friendly as OS X or Windows right after the install. I would note that this is the first install I've ever done that didn't involve *ever* going to the Terminal. Even Ubuntu made me do that last time to get my laptop's screen resolution correct.
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I'm not sure a canceled meeting is newsworthy, but I do feel like Palm isn't bending over backwards to help developers.
There's still no SDK (I applied to be part of the second limited release - no response), and the SDK ain't exactly complicated - it's javascript - they don't need to do much else than provide the standard packages and put in some new keyword highlights, and get an simulator out. Also there's zero published documentation - I only get PDF updates from the O'Reilly book chapter by chapter as it's written, and even the emulator to get PalmOS apps on WebOS is third party.
Palm has enough competition with App stores - everyone from Blackberry to SymbianOS is getting their hands dirty with App stores this year. Palm's strength is its developers, and it seems they're going to just let this whole advantage go as they dribble out the SDK at a snail's pace.
No, anti-piracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded_Anti-Piracy
Note: I've now ruined theatrical releases for you. You will now notice these dots in nearly every movie, and it will drive you *nuts*. They like to show up as orange dots on blue, but that changes from time to time.
May I suggest the Kingston Mini for your next drive - the size is printed on one side (and etched on the other), and they keyring hole is part of the body.
But I would also argue that it's not difficult to get a Master's for free: get a job at a place that pays for higher ed. I just got my Master's last week and I didn't have to pay a dime.
Sure a part-time Master's takes longer, and you miss out on more college life, but I thought it was worth it. I'm already looking at schools for another Master's, or a certificate.
That's expected. You need to analyze smaller intervals. The TFA states (emphasis mine):
Since the late â70s, researchers have known that prime numbers themselves, when taken in very large data sets, are not distributed according to Benfordâ(TM)s law. Instead, the first digit distribution of primes seems to be approximately uniform. However, as Luque and Lacasa point out, smaller data sets (intervals) of primes exhibit a clear bias in first digit distribution. The researchers noticed another pattern: the larger the data set of primes they analyzed, the more closely the first digit distribution approached uniformity.
Windows 7 does seem to be much more workable for lower-end computers, an obvious attempt to get onto netbooks.
Anecdotal, but Windows 7 RC runs as fast as my very-trimmed-down XP on a 3-year old 'Value' line laptop, which is probably only slightly more powerful than a mid-range netbook today. By the time October hits, there will be plenty of netbooks that will run Win7 as fast as any modern Windows OS has run at release date.
Netbooks only really have two bottlenecks: the 128MB video RAM required for Aero, and so far a lack of multi-core chips.
The second page of the article talks about the 'bug' - Rockwell figures salaries based on 2080 hours/yr. while the Federal gov't uses 2087. I see how your point can be valid, but it's possible that Rockwell gets a price on the contract, say $50M; but then instead of getting a $50M check, the gov't just uses that to set up the payroll figures. But by having different hours/yr, Rockwell, too, gets more than $50M over the life of the project. With multi-year projects, and the fact that they almost never get finished on budget, maybe the gov't paying out an extra $165,000 on a $50M budget just doesn't get noticed.
Just FYI, you can check to see if your processor supports the virtualization mode needed for this feature here:
http://www.grc.com/securable.htm
To you and the other poster:
I wasn't guessing there were 6 previous Star Trek movies. I was guessing there were 6 previous Star Trek movies which featured Klingons as enemies of humans.
I'm aware of "KHAAAAAAN!" - implying Klingons were enemies at one point. I also know Picard was featured in a few, so unless Whorf is a turncoat, either the Klingons were no longer enemies in the last few movies, or life on the bridge of the Enterprise must have been *awkward*.
(minor spoilers)
I'm not a super Trekkie or anything, but I did see the movie this week, and I'm glad there's no Klingon. Hell, not only is there no Klingon speech, I didn't see a single Klingon at all. Who cares? The humans are the good guys, and they need bad guys. Since this is a fresh start, why re-hash the exact same enemies they already had in, what, 6 previous movies (just a guess, again, not a Trekkie)? I always thought the Klingons were just grumpy humanoids anyway. And AFAIK, they're been friends for nearly every TV series, so I'm not exactly fearful of their characters. Eric Bana as a really pissed off Romulan? That worked.
If we're talking about CD's, then the user is already assuming the script writer has their best interests at heart - why else would they be sticking the CD in the drive? All disabling autorun does is make it harder for users, because *no* user is ever going to stick a CD in the drive, and then say "Well, that was fun" and then take the CD back out and throw it away. They're putting it in to install software! And if they're putting a CD in that doesn't have a setup.exe, then there's not going to be an autorun.
I use autorun for my customers. I have multiple install scripts depending on the type of computer and dependencies. I'd rather change an autorun.inf than explain which setup to run to my customers. I'm getting paid to automate tasks (my software is basically an automated testing suite). If Windows forces my users to run setups themselves, its making everyone's life more difficult.
If you think autorun is a security threat, you can already disable it. At least make it a choice.
People know Verizon uses CDMA. What you don't realize is that the applications, or any host-level networking protocol, doesn't care what technology it uses. Converting GSM to CDMA involves plopping a new chip in, and rewriting the data link and networking wrappers used by the OS. Properly written APIs won't even be aware of what technology is used. Blackberry has GSM and CDMA versions of phones, so it's already being done.
And it's not like Apple hates CDMA. They went to Verizon before they went to Apple, and Verizon walked away for essentially business reasons (greed, I would say).
So true. It's like AT&T making you buy the Unlimited Data plan, and then charging you for every 140-character SMS you send.
Sprint will makes us buy the Unlimited Data plan for the Pre, I'm sure. But that includes web, SMS, GPS, MMS, and even TV services. I'm thinking of joining them just for having a common sense plan.
The USPS is great at sending small pieces of mail. But if it's time-sensitive we have no good options.
Two weeks ago a co-worker asked me to overnight a PCI card from the east coast to California. There's a post office right by my work so I gave it a shot. I asked about overnight, and the clerk said it could be there by 12. Knowing she couldn't leave the hotel and start working without the card, I asked if it could get there sooner, and he sort of laughed, like it was a stupid request. By the time I finished writing the address, I had a new clerk, and she told me since it was 5:00pm, it would now take 2 days. 5pm to 12pm (west coast) is *22 hours*, and they couldn't promise that?
I drove to FedEx, and they promised 10:30 delivery, and it was there before 10:00. The problem is that it cost $61.
So you pay 40 cents for a letter, or $15 for anything over 31oz (or whatever it is) if you want it there in less than 4 days.
Yeah, phrases like "complete and utter failure" don't really help. As far as I know, this was 100% successful - who's to say the second stage was even present? And a satellite? I know the administration told the public that they launched a satellite, but that doesn't mean they were really trying to do so. Many North Koreans aren't aware that we've even landed on the moon yet (according to a NatGeo documentary I saw), so it's not too hard to fool them.
We do know that they launched a rocket a considerable distance - enough to hit the largest metropolitan area on Earth, and one of U.S.' closest allies; and once they get a second stage, chances are they can us US territory. It's not something we should just write off.
Very cool. On the same vein, I also saw a documentary recently - a National Geographic journalist accompanied an eye surgeon performing cataract surgery on something like 1,000 citizens in a week. She used that pretense to record a lot of interesting tidbits about North Korea.
Google video of 'Inside North Korea'
Just curious - have you upgraded recently? I couldn't play HD video from a camcorder until I upgraded from VLC 0.8.x to VLC 0.9.2 (or so).
Media Player, my 'other' viewer, was so choppy it was unplayable, and VLC was horrible as well. I figured I'd upgrade to VLC to see if it happened to do better playback, and sure enough, it was a huge improvement. This is on a 1.7GHz Intel laptop.
The privacy complaints aren't coming from esoteric discussions on rights to privacy. It's really an artifact of real-world differences between being pulled over and getting a ticket in the mail. Namely, with tickets going to the houses of violators, with pictures and times and locations all in the same envelope, spouses have been caught being in places they shouldn't.
If you get pulled over with a mistress in the car, or you get pulled over 40 miles away from work during the lunch hour, your spouse/girlfriend/etc won't ever find out those details. But with those envelopes, they could (and have done so).
That's not how the cameras work:
1) They only ticket you if you are _completely_ in front of the line with a red light in front of you (picture 1 is taken) and then if you completely cross that line with the light still red (picture 2).
2) The cameras also know to ignore slow-moving vehicles that sometimes get stuck in the intersection by accident (being behind a large truck for example, can mean drivers don't see the light), so they ignore violators going under a certain speed (12MPH around here).
I've never bought a phone outright and don't plan to, because if you sign a contract, you'll get steep discounts on the phone.
If you're talking about a $100 phone (no subsidy) then I can understand, as $100 may be worth not being tied to a contract.
But for people who want the latest phones, you save hundreds of dollars for buying through the provider. For example, you can get an iPhone right now for $99 from AT&T if you use them for two years. Rumor is they will go on sale soon, no contract needed, for $599. And what do you do once you get the $600 iPhone? Well, if you're in the U.S. you're probably just going to sign up with AT&T and get their unlimited data plan anyway.
For non-US residents, buying a GSM phone and switching carriers at whim may make more sense. But my reasoning is I'm paying a monthly fee anyway, I might as well get a hundred or two off the phone price.
IE 8 doesn't look at certs though - every website has its main URL separated from the index page and subdomain.
You'll get a better answer from Apple soon, but at 11:22 in Engadet's coverage there is a 'Revoke certs' feature (along with proxy support), so I would hope that also means adding certs is possible.
Yes, that first option was what the demo appeared to show. A server for Application_Alpha contacts Apples Push Notification Service, when then sends the data to you. While running Application_Beta, you get an alert (either visual pop-up, audio, or 'badge', which is just an icon change I believe) that you have new data. You then exit Beta, open Alpha and see your new content (not sure if the entire message gets to the phone, or just a "hey you have new data" message - probably the former)
i just installed Kubuntu for the first time and installations are the hard part for me, too. You're right that it's a different method. Just *realizing* you're using a different model is an important step.
Anyway, installs still have problems. If I type in "VLC" in Adept's Quick Search box, nothing pops up, even though I have it installed. But KDE's cool "Add/Remove Programs" not only finds the VLC I installed, it was the program that found it 'online' and let me install - no adding sources or anything. Maybe Adept and Synaptec are supposed to behave the same way, but they didn't out of the box for me.
I had other installation issues - I tried to download TrueCrypt and I got this .tar.gz. I unpacked it, eventually found the file (I'm not using the terminal for any of this BTW) and it launched a script. After I hit 'Install' on the GUI box... nothing. No indications anywhere and I'm pretty sure TrueCrypt is not installed. At least with Windows I know where the files try to go.
I also couldn't install Miro. I added the source per the website's instructions, and there was some weird error. I get that error every time I start up still. One trip to KDE's utility and I installed it with one click.
So, basically, KDE's built in guy is great, but obviously less functional then the main package managers. I still miss downloading a file and double-clicking it. And both methods are inferior to OS X IMO - the whole "drag this icon to the big 'A'" is fantastic)
As a new Linux user (okay, I've installed it four times now, but I always stop using it after 3 days - this was my first Kubuntu install ever), I can tell you it doesn't update.
Although I think it would be nice to update right after the install, I was not put off by the fact that it didn't. After rebooting a few times and playing around I eventually saw the status bar that said I had 298 updates to install. I hit OK, and after only 15 minutes the whole thing was done - very impressive and involved less keypresses than Windows' updates.
I had other issues like a screen flicker problem (some service was running that I had to turn off), and the fact that two of the three package managers (Synaptec and Adept) couldn't find VLC even though I installed with KDE's watered-down 'Add/Remove Programs', and KGpg forgets to ask me a password when decrypting files.
But, overall, Linux gets my usual verdict: Better than last time, but still not as friendly as OS X or Windows right after the install. I would note that this is the first install I've ever done that didn't involve *ever* going to the Terminal. Even Ubuntu made me do that last time to get my laptop's screen resolution correct.