No--really sloppy article. I'm not sure when and how the "9 to 5" phrase entered the lexicon but, wherever I've worked, the "official" workday has always been 8-5 or 8:30-5 with an hour or half-hour respectively for lunch.
Well, Microsoft's marketing certainly works. IE9 is certainly better than IE8.
However, nothing gives me confidence that IE 9 will not be the new IE 6 and so I wish for IExplorer to just vanish completely.
You see, IExplorer 6 was also a darned good browser. But did it hold the web back? Yes it did. And for all the bullshit marketing coming from Microsoft, IExplorer 9 is doing it again. Nothing really changed.
What would be really cool is to make reminders that reminds you when you are in a special area.
For example:
When I am close to a special shop it reminds me to get that special battery that only them have.
When I get home it reminds me to do something in my home, take out the trash for example.
When I visit a friend I get a reminder about something I should inform him of.
Location-based notifiers instead of time-based (or a combination so it would not remind me to go to the store nearby in the middle of the night and its closed).
The location based reminders use cell phone tower-based location, not GPS. Since your phone is constantly polling cell phone towers anyway, it shouldn't use more battery than usual, unless it forces the phone to poll towers more frequently. (I'm not sure of the implementation details)
I personally have not noticed more battery drain than normal on my 4S.
Yeah - lots of people are saying they're having worse battery performance on the 4S or iOS 5 (lots of people aren't, too), and then lots of those people are claiming lots of different things such as turning off various features (and also not doing anything different at all!) has dramatically helped. In other words, essentially no science is being done and no one to my knowledge can say anything definitively yet, but lots of folk remedies are being tweeted. Assuming there's not a bug in the geofencing code, it shouldn't use too much more battery at all because it only goes out to the GPS when available cell towers—which are being constantly communicated with anyway—change.
I know that you're right and I know that it is the wrong question to ask, but answering it like that is what makes a lot of non-dev/designers dislike us. Maybe try helping them ask the right question by saying something like: "Well it depends on what you want, what kind of website are we talking about?". It might take a couple of minutes more to answer their question but it has a much higher chance of actually getting a new potential client.
But why do web developers and designers always get these kind of questions? One would hardly go into a shop selling watches and ask how much _a_ watch costs. Why then ask a vague question that just cannot be answered? I think giving an equally vague reply is fair.
I think that's because people just don't know a whole lot about these kind of things, instead of being vague I try to teach them a little about it. Generally people mean well.
But that is completely different. In a watch store, I can point to a specific watch and ask "how much does that one cost?" It's hard to do the same with a website unless the designer/programmer has a portfolio to browse.
Why not point at a website and ask how much would that cost? In the sense "I'd like a website that works and looks like HN. How much would you charge to make it for me?"
Maybe watches aren't perfectly analogous. How about walking into a real estate office and asking how much a house costs?
A good real estate agent would sit that person down and find out from them what kind of house they'd be likely to want. So questions like how many people will live in it, how long a commute can you have, how much can you afford, etc will all come into play. And from that info, the agent will be able to show a few houses and home in on what the person really wants.
I remember buying my first house and that's pretty much how it played out.
The point is that the RE Agent takes the buyer seriously enough to figure out if they are just fishing or ready to buy and doesn't just blow them off with flippant responses.
The first thing I tried was to change the password (iPhone 4 4.3.3) after jailbreaking but the MobileTerminal crashes upon launch. Same story after a phone restart.
Edit: Figured out the problem. Looks like the MobileTerminal in the CYdia repo doesn't work for iOS 4.0 onwards. The following is a working version from the author of the app:
I've got a 3gs with an old tethering crack on it, and am considering upgrading to 4.3.3 to get this jailbreak. How can I be sure that this will work for me, and how do I go about tethering afterwards? Googling only seems to turn up some app that I have to buy from some other store (a cydia store?). Is it more complicated than the help.benm.at tethering hack that I used?
Reminds me about a big site in (www.bilddagboken.se)
Its a site where people can register and post pictureblogs. If I register as ryan the adress to my page would be ryan.bilddagboken.se.
After YEARS of running the place (around 800.000 users) someone registered the username "www". This resulted in all visitors that typed www.bilddagboken.se (or used a bookmark) was directly redirected to the user "www" page. His/Hers page had thousandths of angry comments accusing him/her of hacking bilddagboken.se
Every once in a while, signing into Twitter I get redirected to 'twitter.com/sessions' and instead of it handling my log in, it's an actual Twitter account which is inactive. Pretty odd. I think they finally fixed it...
Are lunch and breaks included in that?
9 - 5 is 8 hours and a normal workday is 8 hours?