Having to buy the target device hardware you're developing for and having to buy new hardware to provide your development platform are two different things. The argument made was not whether or not you should buy a phone (both dev environments provide emulators anyway), but if you were forced to buy a new computer.
Then he'd use that.
Well, if the users are a reason not to use it, then you have a problem. That being said, I've only had problems with my latest Mint endeavor, and I'm not going there again!
Is Obama the new jellyfish?
Is toilet paper the new newspaper?
Is 7-Eleven the new Victoria's Secret?
Are public schools the new Wall Street?
Let's discuss this! Oh wait, let's not, because I have no arguments, and my point is retarded. Sorry!
How did this article make it through to my RSS feed? Is all you need these days to reach the masses produce infantile observations and deliver it with the noun, "Apple", in the heading?
Reading through this article is a genuine pain. The author clearly has no insight in half of his subject, has only limited insight in the other half, lacks journalistic education, is biased, makes wrongful and outdated "observations", and draws parallels where no parallels exist. Just to name a few. It's a class book example of misconclusions - and even that is giving it more credit than it deserves.
The aim here is not to present a subject for discussion (one must sincerely hope, anyway, because in that case, the author is beyond professional salvation), but a cheap trolling trick to mass up clicks and tweets pointing to his site. It's blatantly obvious, and I have to say, "Shame on you, slashdot, for letting this one slip through!"
Depending on your router, you may be able to use QoS (Quality of Service) directives to prioritize an IP on your network over others. I do this on mine.
This would require you to either use a static IP, or your router to be able to assign specific IPs outside of its DHCP range (usually 192.168.1.100-255) to specific network cards based on their MAC addresses. You can use this first to make sure your computer gets a specific IP address when it connects to your router, and then set up QoS afterwards to ensure that that IP gets first bids on bandwidth.
If your router supports VoIP, it should feature QoS as well.
I use this strategy on my router, and it works very well.
One thing that's particularly funny about this relocation of apps' menu bars to the "unified" bar in Unity. Mac introduced it waaay back, presumably for the same reasons as Unity are using: To release more vertical pixel space for actual app content.
These days, on Macs, we have humongous screens, up to 2560*1600 on the iMacs, and never less than 1280x800 on the 11" Air. I.e., there's plenty of vertical pixels now.
Unity was with early netbooks in mind, i.e. vertical resolutions as low as 640 pixels. Made sense. Truth is, even netbooks these days match regular notebooks' resolution. Basically, the point for moving the menu bar to a global bar is already moot. All we get is buggy behavior, because it's not yet properly implemented.
Give it a couple of years, and when netbooks have full HD resolution, they'll probably have ironed out the quirks
While arguably 3D TVs and projectors for movies and the like are still just a gimmick, having 3D-like screens on gaming devices make a lot more sense.
Especially considering the form factor of the 3DS, it's nice. For more serious gaming, though, we still want this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
Purse mirror, eh? Right next to the credit card, eh? No problem with that extreme magnetism, eh?
Or surely, your girl friend requires only cash?
That's only helpful for the 10% or so of people who are gay. As a straight guy, I'd rather have the least attractive guy doing the pat down. At least someone less attractive then myself. That way, it's him that can feel bad about themselves, not me.
I choose the body scanners, but they are annoying. I'm not too worried about the radiation, but they are slower then metal detectors. They require you to take off your belt, watch, boarding pass etc, when I can normally get through a metal detector with those still on. But worse is thinking about how there is now one more person in the world who knows how "inadequate" you are in certain proportions. It doesn't matter if that person doesn't know who you are, it still makes YOU think about it and feel bad about yourself.
So... Not being gay, you choose the "least attractive guy" so that the more attractive guys don't know "how inadequate you are in certain proportions"?
Hmmmm...
I don't give a flying fuck how many digits are present, what do you mean? I thought we were talking about software?
You throw the banana seed, the monkeys start growing palm trees...
Aw, I was so much, "Yes! Someone is talking about the purity and point of SQL" (relation algebra, etc.) until you started bashing Ruby on Rails. RoR is EXACTLY about understanding the point of leaders in a domain.
SQL is beautiful, RoR understands that.
You seem like a retarded monkey? Born in the 40s? Stopped caring in the 80s?
Buying a used satellite is like buying a used bus... the only reason someone would sell it is because it has become cheaper to buy a new one than to maintain the old one!
Tell that to the Chinese. Anyone who's ever been to China will know that the entire communal transport system is based on "left-over" buses from all parts of Europe, including Eastern Europe. They tear out the innards and replace them with electric motors, sometimes leaving stuff hanging out from the back.
Funny thing is, their buses are more frequent and more on-time than the ones in my "developed" country, Denmark, where the buses are sparkling new and never on time
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
