Learning on the job is a valid point, but it's often not interdisciplinary. You learn and develop your skills in the areas you work in. Opportunities to expand your skillset and study other topics are difficult to come by in many work environments. Especially if you're in a position that didn't require a degree in the first place.
I agree you don't have to go to a University to learn, but you do have to find willing and qualified teachers and mentors which can be harder than it might seem.
And read the fine print regarding 10.1 RC: "The Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate available at ... does not APPEAR to be vulnerable." Very different than "Here's a fix."
I wish your comment was a fact. But Apple is a business and they have business interests when it comes to these outsider platforms.
My understanding is that Apple doesnt allow Java ,Silverlight , Qt or any of those, because these platforms could gradually in-signify the need for a walled garden of apps. App Store is a real cash cow with a lot of potential and Apple clearly doesnt want to purge it off(and that is a good business move.)
IMHO, the same even applies to html5. Apple runs huge campaigns and invests in Safari development to make sure that webkit could gradually insignify the need for a plugin to run interactive content. But try running most of these html5 apps on an iphone/ipad.The rendering framerate is very low and is almost not usable. While native apps run real good, the discrimination against webkit could be that Apple is purposefully delaying the iDevice users' dependency on web apps .
I believe Apple's all-control policy is more of a business move than a security related one
>App Store is a real cash cow with a lot of potential and Apple clearly doesnt want to purge it off
What evidence do you have to back up your claim? If it were true that Apple is making a profit from the App Store, then wouldn't there exist an opportunity for Android Marketplace to undercut Apple's App Store?
When it comes to smartphones, Google cares only about marketshare. More Android apps guarantees more Google searches, and therefore more opportunities to serve advertising. One factor preventing Google from attaining more marketshare is the huge range of quality apps that exists for the iPhone. If it were true that a 30% cut of app revenue enabled Google to make a significant profit, wouldn't they reduce their cut in an effort to try and attract more developers?
>The rendering framerate is very low and is almost not usable.
This problem will disappear in a couple of years as mobile processors become faster and JS engines improve.
I understand the business move, but I never understood the "cash cow" reasoning. Most apps appear to be in the $2.99 to $.99 range. The 60 cents Apple gains from a $1.99 app barely covers credit card fees (for multiple currencies), bandwidth fees, bank fees to send money to developer, and paying salaries for all those app reviewers.
Occam's Razor suggests that they want to build "only the best apps" so the way to do that is to "completely control the build toolchain". Has nothing to do with "cash cow" conspiracy theories.
> The 60 cents Apple gains from a $1.99 app barely covers credit card fees (for multiple currencies), bandwidth fees, bank fees to send money to developer, and paying salaries for all those app reviewers.
Someone needs to zoom out on this type of study and look into whether degrees at any school, not business alone, contribute to corporate or even career success.
The degree doesn't possess its own inate potential for success. The student has the potential to contribute - either they do or they don't. The school is teaching competency in specific topics and skills. It's up to the student to apply those skills and contribute to their company's success.
An MBA isn't just a study in one thing, it's a multi-disciplinary degree. You take classes in accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, international business, operations management, organizational behavior, marketing, strategy, etc.
You can learn a lot on the job, but how many jobs let you do accounting and marketing? If you're working for a domestic company do you get any experience in international business? If you work in HR are you doing anything involving economics.
It's easy to say you can learn anything on the job, but that's hardly the case when your job has specific responsibilities. A student who truly STUDIES and EARNS their MBA has the ability to apply a broad set of knowledge to any job. What's the basis for questioning someone's ability as an effective manager because of their degree type? Not all MBAs are managers, that's something different entirely.
Then in your "real world evidence" you're questioning the efficacy of MBA graduates based on how foreign companies train from within? Huh?
By itself, any degree means nothing - it's up to the employee to apply the knowledge they gained while earning that degree to bring value to their company.
Questioning if there's value in an MBA in any company is questioning the value of knowledge. If there's no value in knowledge, then why bother having any sort of degree - just hire kids of a working age and teach them to put the widget together. They'll learn the rest on the job right? Hardly.
Instapaper is nice and usable, but for this it is also a kludge.
It forces the user to pick ahead of time which things they will and won't want to read later, instead of the simpler possibility. That being, letting the user just stop at any point in the interaction, confident in the assumption that the machine will take care of whatever annoying details are necessary for the page to still be there when they come back to where they left it.
Having to pick ahead of time isn't all that onerous, so the work-around is a pretty good one. It also has the benefit that you can pull it up on another machine, so that is nice. However, that too could be done more simply by having all of the user's browsers sync the their histories.
Well, in fairness, picking out which pages he wanted to read was one of the scenarios in the article, so even though your point is valid, Instapaper would solve that particular part of the problem.
I love the Pro version, well worth the price. But if you need convincing there is a free version too. I can't imagine not having it after using it for the last few months. I actually read lots of long articles I would typically skim to save time.
That is kind of true - ING do call it a PIN. The thing is that all I can do with the PIN is to log on to their online banking site. That makes it a password in my opinion.
If I want to use my card at an ATM say, they require me to use a different PIN.
And the penalty for typing in the wrong PIN at an ATM is presumably a lot higher than providing the wrong PIN on their website, which means the feasibility of a brute force attack (which is what password complexity is all about) is entirely different.
No; 3 incorrect PIN entries on their website locks you out, and you have to get a reset. DoS of other people is made harder by also needing a customer number to login.
His statements indicate they are ignoring the fact that the social norms of bloggers and the social norms of friends connecting on a website and sharing information are not the same. Assuming that Facebook's users think they are publishing in public, versus publishing to a specific list of friends that they control is ludicrous.
The fact that this is being ignored is very disturbing. This move is clearly being driven by business decisions without the consideration of its users and their privacy.
This experience has nothing to do with the designer's design skills or work-style at all. This is an experience based on someone who didn't treat you well as a customer.
Find someone with good recommendations, contact the businesses they include in their portfolio and ask how the project went. Find someone who's clients would actually recommend and you're more likely to have a good experience because you've established that the designer has a track record for delivering a good product and providing a good customer experience.
I'm logged in as root now trying to make sense of what's choking it.
I just nuked about 100 http processes that were just sitting there. We'll have it up this afternoon I suspect (the guy that set this up is much more familiar with the framework than I).
I agree you don't have to go to a University to learn, but you do have to find willing and qualified teachers and mentors which can be harder than it might seem.