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So basically, "How do you get featured in the AppStore?" Answer: "Apple tells you so."
The really pressing question here is, how did an app that got released and apparently never seen any attention from the developer after the release show up on Apples radar Re: Promotion Opportunity?
If I think about it, no example comes to mind where I would be okay with paying much much more for something because the relevant technician says "I'll be easier for me if you buy a new one instead of me fixing this."
Looking at these icons makes me want to lick my finger and swish across my screen to remove the dust from those.
Does nobody care to check the mainboards support site for compatibility lists?
This one, for example: http://uk.pangoly.com/en/build/configure/pro
When you select the asrock mainboard, you are presented with these three choices of RAM: http://uk.pangoly.com/en/review/corsair-vengeance-16gb-2x8gb...
http://uk.pangoly.com/en/review/patriot-viper-3-16gb-2x8gb-2...
http://uk.pangoly.com/en/review/corsair-vengeance-pro-16gb-2...
And if you venture to that mainboards support site, it shows you a list of compatible RAM: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20Z97%20Professional...
End Result: Not one of the mentioned RAM options is on that list.
Why would that be important? Well, for one thing, it it weren't, there wouldn't be the need for the asrock people to maintain such a list, right? And, speaking from personal experience, I have had brand new builds bluescreen like nobody's business. Was the RAM faulty? Nope, send it back and got replacement of same make/model. Still bluescreens. It was only after I checked the mainboards compatibility lists and chose a RAM from that list when the bluescreens stopped! Nothing else was changed. And both types of RAM were "the same" as far as part pickers like this one is concerned. So, same Type, Speed, Dual Channel etc. The "only" difference here was that the one that caused bluescreens was not on the mainboards compatibility list.
That's right, datacaps wasn't even a concern for ISPs. Mostly because they probably didn't even know how to bill this new fad called the internet. So they did like telcos do. Bill by the minute.
So I literally set a watch next to me to clock how long I was online so I wouldn't go over my limit.
The first time I got an unlimited flatrate, I nearly cried.
Yes, it is boring to watch. As outlined in contrast to other sports. Even a minute before a random goal happens, the audience has no idea it is about to happen. It is just a random back and forth across the field. With a lot of resets as he puts it. Compared with Football where you slowly advance to the opponents side and the audience knows when a goal becomes a possibility.
People say soccer didn't catch on in the US because you can't easily put commercials in it. I disagree. You could neatly fit entire infomercials in there and when you cut back to the action, chances are very high that the score is still the same as when they left things.
Also the double standard of being cool with games ending in a tie like a riveting 0-0 and on the other hand, at certain occasions, having to have a shootout to determine a winner is more than weird. They could have saved themselves 90 minutes by going to the shootout right away.
What kind of apps did they think to get with this? Some more fart apps? Cause that is about as complex an app as you can get by spending 100 bucks on a developer.
100 bucks gets you between 1 or 2 hours of a freelancers time. There is not really that much that could be done in that time frame.
Either MS was completely naive when setting that bounty or they of course realized that this would just help inflating the total app numbers in the store. Better not mention how many of those are pure crap when boasting about how much the app store has grown in the next press release etc.
Wouldn't want that marketing money go to waste, paying people to write about how to successfully upgrade from Windows8 to Windows7 to have a real desktop OS to work with instead of a Frankenstein Hybrid.
What good do me BitLocker encrypted files when I put them on a usb drive and stick it in a Mac or Linux machine?
TrueCrypt was multi platform. That was a major appeal. Also, seeing as Microsoft and the other big players likely have ties with the NSA as well does not make BitLocker look any better.
I just want to have a multi platform encryption software that is also capable of encrypting a boot drive.
I am not a native speaker, though.
One thing that's weird. It says: You said yes to 0% of the nonwords.
That sounds good. Apparently I never claimed to know a word that doesn't exist. But when I click on the "Nonwords you responded YES to" link, there is a word there. "Seconds".
Again, I am not a native speaker but I do believe that "Seconds" is indeed a word...
I doubt although I can't say for certain, that imdb much cares about someone who made a scraper to gather data for a one time aggregation like this.
Of course, for a use case like OP has, the static data imdb offers would also have sufficed, I'd say. Of course, that data is not as "up to date" as the data you can scrape off of the web pages, but it would have been sufficiently "up to date" for such an analysis, I think.
Unless that actually predates the origins of technologies like UIKit, WebKit and the like, I'd think about revising that article so as to not make it look stupid and uninformed.
I mean, I attempted to build an htpc with a fanless chassis, external PSU brick, SSD and just using the i5 with its integrated GPU.
I figured the only thing in there that generates heat will be the CPU so I "only" need a CPU fan. And even that one is pretty audible if I playback some 1080p files.
Of course, I just picked a regular i5. So I guess it is a desktop CPU with the higher TDP.
Are you saying that this device will actually come with no fan whatsoever and that this Y i5 is giving of so little heat that no active cooling is required?
I would be really interested in that. Looking forward to seeing some measurements of the thing in action. Especially how it fares with "summer temperatures". Would be pretty bad if it enters the dangerous temps during that time of year the room temperature is significantly higher than usual.
God knows I suffer from that. The beginning of something new is always awesome but as time progresses and the "new" feeling vanishes I find it harder and harder to keep working on it.
If so, I think I recall seeing the screen which models are eligible and I think the 4S was the first on the screen. Going up all the way to the 5S.
So, I think everything before and including the iPhone 4 will be left out?
But then, the jailbreak scene came up and somehow Apple changed their stance by creating the app store and thus the possibility to control what kind of native applications will run on the devices.
Of course this way has the advantage of not needing a paid developer account or need to have the app approved by Apple but then again, such a webapp is harder to monetize if that's what you are after than to simply write a native app and sell it in the app store.
Could I add XCode to Steam on a Mac and then stream that on my main Desktop?
I know I can hook up my MacBook to an external keyboard and monitors but I have a very... integrated setup for my main Windows Desktop and hooking up my MacBook with those monitors, keyboard would be quite a hassle.
This way, I could keep it on my couch table and still be able to work on XCode on my big Desktop monitor.
So, is that now really a 64Bit version of xbmcbuntu? So far, all I heard was that there will only be 32 Bit versions.
I don't even think it would help there. In fact, I think this would help fraudsters. If I think about the various scam attempts on steam for example.
They direct you to a url like www.stempowered.com/q?phishlogin=true or something.
Knowing that a correct steam url would never have this sort of thing in its url would be the first thing to notice if you were already duped into clicking on a link that lead to the above url.
If the browser then only displays "stempowered.com", it would be way more difficult to notice you are on a phishing site. Just because you didn't notice the missing "a". And let's face it. The average consumer/user does not go and verify any certificates.
Can this be done procedural? Or did you have people sitting there and come up with new puzzles one at a time?
People may think "If I write something and it gets enough attention, facebook or google might buy me out" or something to that effect. Basically a get rich quick kind of deal.
You only have to write one! thing, cash a multi million dollar check and be set.
While that may have happened in the past a couple of times, wanting to start an open source project just because of that possibility would be nearsighted. But starting such a project to promote oneself is not.
It is a great addition to your CV. Something future employers can directly check up on.
Like, Siri has to be online cause everything is processed on Apple's servers because there are so many things Siri could do. But if all I want is to be able to say "play <NameOfMovie/TVShow>", I would love it if that could be done offline. Even if I had to train the system myself.
Say I have 30 TV Shows in the library, I could see myself train the system the names of all of them if that meant I am able to actually start them via voice.
It is like wanting a nice feedback about Star Trek, so you go to a Star Trek convention and stay the hell away from any Star Wars Convention. There, you will have massive data that support your pre established notion that Trek is the best thing since sliced bread.
I don't see MS as humble here at all. They are backtracking because they are forced to backtrack as it is evident that their idea of an OS does not work. But do they backtrack in the right fashion? No. "As little as possible" seems to be the mission statement.
People want the old start menue back. They voice their opinions as "Where is the start button?" To anyone with half a brain it should be clear that they didn't just mean the UI element of that button but the functionality behind it. And as much as I hate Microsoft's shortcomings as of late, I doubt that they really believed "Well, if they just want that button, give them the button but once clicked it'll still do the same shift to metro it did before. That should give people what they want" I doubt anybody could be that dense.
And even this "return of the old start menue" is not what people want. As they still keep on with the Metro part of things.
A simple choice during install. Is all that is needed. "Do you want touch or desktop?" Touch meaning Metro and desktop meaning, well, desktop. Without any metro tile nonsense what-so-ever. Done. All of the issues with Win8 and I mean all of them would be gone. But that doesn't fit with Microsoft's vision of having tiles everywhere. So, by the way they are "fixing" win8 and refusing to acknowledge that metro needs to die, at least on the desktop, I really doubt that "Win9" would be any better.
We finally get off the "every other version of windows is usable" because now, every version of windows will be worse than its predecessor.
Um, that is quite proving the point that Win8 is not for productive users. It is for kids. All this wishy washy gestures with the mouse, two UIs in one kind of thing is more play than anything else. Of course kids dig that.
And also, ego has nothing to do with it. Your kids are just exposed to their first OS is all.
Wait what they'll do if you put them in front of a Unix system. See how long that takes until they can do things without a cry for help.
Once they are used to do things a certain way I will guarantee that they'll be pissed if they suddenly have to rethink their habits. And now add these 20+ years to that and you have your answer why win8 in its current form will never be a competitor to 7.