Posted by on under boing boing, obama barack, richard metzger, barack obama, work ethic, freedom and independence, palin, n word, attendee, virtues, rally, productivity, audience | 
Transcript snip: Palin: Obama...Barack Obama has an ideological commitment to higher taxes. The lessons I believe we have taught our kids would start to erode. Those lessons about work ethic, hard work being rewarded and productivity being rewarded... Female yelling off-camera, in audience: And he's a ni***r! Palin: And...and......lessons about, um, the virtues of freedom and independence while being generous and compassionate with others. From Wonkette, via Daily Kos. (Thanks, Richard Metzger)....
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Posted by on under engineering philosophy, inferior system, trust models, defensive measures, future internet, centric approach, millis, twitter, ipv4, software engineering, productivity, alex, networking |
An anonymous reader writes "API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne, writes today that the Internet was 'built wrong,' and continues to be accepted as an inferior system, due to a software engineering philosophy called Worse Is Better. 'We now know, for example, that IPv4 won't scale to the projected size of the future Internet. We know too that near-universal deployment of technologies with inadequate security and trust models, like SMTP, can mean millions if not billions lost to electronic crime, defensive measures, and reduced productivity,' says Payne, who calls for a 'content-centric approach to networking.' Payne doesn't mention, however, that his own system, Twitter, was built wrong and is consistently down."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Posted by on under library logs, mac os x, iphe, depicti, big boss, promed, phe, native language, mobiledevice, launch, end users, repository, pairs, os x, crash, productivity, lt, threads, quotes |
Localizing Icy
As promised, here is the
localization file containing strings that need to be translated to make Icy speak your native language.
Translating is fairly easy -- open the file in your favorite text editor that can handle Unicode, and then translate all the pairs of strings -- leave the left side intact, and translate the right side. Make sure it all stays in the quotes, like this:
"Hello" = "Aloha";
Then save the file and mail it to us at
ripdev@me.com - and we'll try our best to include your language in the next minor update, which will follow fairly soon.
Update: German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Swedish translations were submitted already - thanks guys!
Icy Won't Launch
If Icy is refusing to launch, then it will be extremely helpful if you could
send us some crash logs -- these usually live in the /var/logs/CrashReporter/Icy...crash files on the iPhone or ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/<your device name>/Icy...crash on a Mac OS X (after the synchronization with the phone). We'll see what is causing this.
Ripdev Are Stealing Repo Owners Money?
There was a point running across certain community threads regarding Icy that by excluding the "depiction" and "more info" pages Ripdev is stealing money away from the repository owners. We'd like to clarify that in fact, we are not making any money off Icy -- there is no ads that run in it, and the whole point of the project is to provide a faster and lighter alternative to Cydia.
We all know that the competition boosts productivity and enhances products. In this case, as Icy and Cydia are inevitably going to compete in one way or another, this will tremendously benefit us, the end users.
As for the repository owners, some of them were upset with Icy 1.0 not even giving a chance for their information pages to show -- so this is why we have worked closely with
The Big Boss and
Fabiano Confuorto to work out a solution that makes the repository owners satisfied without slowing down the application down to the snail speeds. As a result, you can see a blue arrow button next to the package name that will lead you to the repository information page containing download stats, screenshots, and banners to support the repository. We encourage you to click on these often if you'd like to help repo maintainers.
And please, please remember -- this is not an evil plan to screw everyone, nor a holy crusade against repository owners -- we are, truly honestly just want to make your life a little bit brighter and easier. The positive feedback we receive every day helps us going and makes us sure we are moving in the right direction. So if you like or don't like something -- speak out, you will be heard.
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Posted by on under target demo, steel traps, xda developers, social performance, downpour, amg, roadmap, good stuff, credibility, vienna, slides, productivity, accuracy, lifestyle, sun |
Those among us with minds like steel traps might recall that HTC's 2009 was leaked with shocking accuracy
way back in January of this year, which lends some credibility to this already-believable series of slides we have seemingly showing off most of the good stuff we can expect out of the company in the coming months. The stuff we're privy to here was allegedly presented at a meeting in Vienna back in October, with both Windows Mobile and Android designs broken up into four target demo categories: Design / Lifestyle, Social, Performance (we like the sound of that), and Productivity -- but don't take our word for it. Follow the break for everything you need to know about this very real-sounding downpour of specs and renders.
Continue reading HTC's 2010 roadmap goes on display?
HTC's 2010 roadmap goes on display? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under bright smile, dark comedy, phrases, productivity |
by Guest A sunny personality. A dark comedy. A bright smile. Simple phrases, yet they show the huge influence light has, defining the world around us even through the words we choose.
It seems simple, but most people never realize that how much light they get affects their mood, emotions and productivity. Understanding the ways in which [...]
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