You think that's bad, I once sat in on a police meeting where one of the more idiotic participants wanted to bring in a psychic to help with the investigation. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed and we bought in more search dogs and volunteers instead.
Did the psychic have an African American buddy with a super-sniffer? If so, you should have brought them in....
If your partner is so self-deluded that they can't imagine they'd be in one of the 50% of marriages that end in divorce, you chose poorly. Mature people understand that things change, people change, and they can grow apart through no fault of anyone. Do you really want to base the most important relationship of your adult life on denial?
There so much sad and self-defeating about that statement that I don't know where to start. When I got married, I made a commitment, a promise, to always love her. Even if I feel tired of her. Even if she's changed. That's not denial, that's mature people realizing that there's a whole lot more joy in working through hard times and ending up with a stronger relationship as a result, than being one the 50% of people who just give up and throw in the towel when it gets hard. I'm not preparing for divorce because I've made a promise that I won't. I intend to keep that promise, even if one of us changes. THAT is what mature people do.
The simpler solution is to buy a Tivo.
Yes, it is simpler, but Tivo requires a subscription. That disqualifies it, in my book.
What Marcos said. Android is not "open source". It's "kinda sorta open to downstream proprietors, but not to end users", which is not open source at all.
Well, it's not "free" according to GPLv3 (android devices can be Tivo'ised preventing you from running modified code), but anyone can download the android source and modify and rebuild it. If your device supports it (many do), you can run your modified code on your device. I'm not sure how you can say Android isn't open source, as that's pretty much the definition of open-source.
Now you could argue that it's not "free" as defined by RMS and the FSF, and you'd have a decent argument. But claiming it's not open source is just incorrect.
Wow, I didn't know that Microsoft was giving out copies of their development system, aka Microsoft Visual C++ (or whatever).
Actually they do:
Visual C++ Express
There are also free editions for c#, vb.net, etc.
Discussing the price of developer tools isn't really a useful argument -- where do you stop? Do you compare prices of the computer? What about electricity and internet access? Office space? Clearly those aren't relevant.
Although your overall point is accurate -- for commercial development, overhead of $99 + 30% is quite reasonable. Like many other posters have said, if that fee is breaking you, you have already failed.
(That being said, as a hobbyist, it bothers me that I have to pay a yearly fee of $100 to run my hobby code on my device)
I quit using them for a different reason. I rented a movie and couldn't return it because the box was full. I drove all over town for 3 days trying to return the stupid thing.
You know, there's a phone number on the DVD case they give you, and if you call them about a problem, they actually have really good customer service. I'm pretty sure they would have waived any fees if you told them the box was full. I had an issue with accidentally double-renting a DVD (I somehow managed to rent 2 copies) -- I called and explained, and they completely refunded one of them without a hassle.
What I'd like to see is a way to write the client and the server components of a typical AJAXy application as a single work.
I agree. The closest thing I've found so far is the Vaadin Framework for Java. Yes, it's another Java framework. No, it's not quite there in terms of being the best imaginable solution for what you're proposing. But practically, it's the best that I've found. It has some rough edges, but overall, I've been impressed at how well they let you write the logic once, and their framework takes care of separating the front and back ends.
So can you jailbreak an Android phone and update the OS to the latest yourself? Is there a blog or tracker anywhere with a phone-OS-company matrix that shows who lets you use what on what?
Yes or no, depending. (And thus the problem).
Some phones have the bootloader locked so you can't do that. (Although often there's a hack to unlock it).
Then the problem is drivers -- you can't install stock Android updates on your device and expect all the components to work correctly, as they all have slightly different hardware.
There are many 3rd party ROMs that package up Android releases for various phones (cyanogenmod is one of the most popular). If there's a cyanogenmod build for your specific phone, then yes, you can flash that on your phone to upgrade (it will replace everything that was there before).
If there's not any 3rd party roms (I have the wifi-only 7" galaxy tab, and nobody has released ANYTHING for it), then you are our of luck, unless you are proficient enough to build your own rom (which chances are, you aren't).
Again, how dare you bring truth and fact into this.
Did you not know that you are supposed to bash apple on every turn? Bash Bash Bash.. It's what the cool kids that cant afford an iPhone do.
It has nothing to do with not being able to afford an iPhone. It's instead a (possibly unfair) emotional reaction based on previous Apple behaviors that slashdotters have perceived to have affected them negatively. Remember when Microsoft was killing other worthwhile companies, abusing its monopoly, bribing governments, etc? When they were perceived as the "big bad bully on the block", slashdotters ripped on everything Microsoft did, even if they did something moderately useful at times.
Now, Apple is perceived as the big bad bully, for some good reasons and some reasons that may not be as good, including but not limited to:
- Not allowing developers to run their own code on their iDevices without paying Apple
- Trying to beat competition via lawsuits and patent wars
- Trying to silence bloggers via lawsuits (Source)
- Denying approvals for apps that make apple look bad (or are political, etc).
Now these things don't automatically make iCloud bad. But they make geeks angry. And human nature is, when you are angry at someone/something, you bash and downplay other things from that person that might be actually good. So yes, people are overreacting in their apple-bashing. But it has everything to do with perception of Apple as a company, and nothing to do with affording an iPhone.
Your "what the cool kids that cant afford an iPhone do" line shows that you too are more interested in fighting and bickering than having a rational conversation.
(yes, that's "refurbished," but many people believe that's just Apple's strategy for price discrimination since Apple "refurbished" products are indistinguishable from new).
Unless a new iPod touch comes with the back panel scratched and slightly dented, I'd disagree. Because the refurb one I purchased came that way. It worked fine, and the front panel was clearly new, but the back was well worn and obviously used.
The next person to mention spaghetti stacks to me is going to have his head knocked off. -- Bill Conrad