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Re: Twitter Astronaut turns out to be tweeting via email

Glenn Rempe — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:35:57 -0000

Maybe you should have just payed attention to what @Astro_Mike himself said on the matter long before they launched. He addressed this on May 1st, before all this 'first twitter from space' silliness ensued. Instead, now you are trying to gain clicks with some made up pseudo-scandal.

http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike/status/1676124868

Re: WWDC: Apple to cut price of newest Mac OS to $29

Glenn Rempe — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:20:07 -0000

You said : "But this is one of the surest signs that Apple is serious about gaining market share on Windows. Already, there are more than 75 million users of the modern Mac OS."

While I applaud it, and will upgrade immediately, pricing the OS upgrade lower will not have an effect on market share at all. Even if 100% of Mac owners upgrade @ $29 there will still be exactly the same number of Mac users as there were before. Hence no change in market share.

Only if NEW buyers of Macs buy a Mac because they find Snow Leopard compelling will the OS upgrade result in increased market share. And those new buyers get the OS for free included with their new Mac. And anyone who buys a Mac between yesterday and September gets the upgrade for the cost of the media $9.99.

Re: For the map makers, Apple giveth and taketh away with the new iPhone features

Glenn Rempe — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:59:58 -0000

You said "The iPhone 3.0 software gives users the ability to purchase and download an app on the spot from the iPhone itself, rather than going through iTunes.".

In fact you have always been able to do this since the app store opened.

You said "One of the cool things about AccuTerra is that you can take pictures with an iPhone, and it tags them with the GPS coordinates where the picture was taken."

This feature has also been present since the iPhone 3G was released with iPhone OS 2.x. All pictures taken with the iPhones built in camera app are geotagged with the current GPS location.

You said "It would have been ridiculous of Intermap to create a new iPhone app for each piece of territory."

In fact this is precisely what app developers have been doing up till now. Take a look at the books category, which has been loaded with single-book apps since the app store opened. The new in-app purchasing will improve this situation though.

Maybe next time you will pay a bit more attention to your reporting? Or own and use an iPhone which it appears from the first statement you do not.

Re: An EventMachine Tutorial | 20bits

Glenn Rempe — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:34:43 -0000

In the first code sample I think you meant : 'port = 8080' and not 'post = 8080'

Cheers

Re: Using xCode to develop in Cappuccino

Glenn Rempe — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:13:37 -0000

I also had problems with this (as a cappuccino newbie).

First problem, this seems to install and entirely separate installation of Cappuccino than the one that is installed by downloading and installing as recommended on the download page. This XCode tool seems to install to /Developer/Cappuccino and the official install goes into /usr/local/share/objj and /usr/local/bin. Can you make it so that the Xcode plugin uses the same installation?

Second problem is that you installer seems to install all of your tools under /Developer/Cappuccino as root owned and rwx permissions for ALL users. This should clearly be more restrictive.

As mentioned by someone else, the /Developer/Cappuccino/Frameworks dir is empty by default. So even the sample project template as generated by Xcode does not work when you do build and go.

I think its an awesome start. I look forward to the next version that hopefully clears up the remaining issues. Is there a project home page for this new tool?

Thanks!

Re: Blackberry 7100g – More Delays

Glenn Rempe — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:25:56 -0000

I ordered the 7100g from Cingular on 2/18 and received it via fedex on 2/22/05. Doign great so far! No problems. FYI, when I first was ordering it over the phone the rep did not see this model as available. When she did a little digging into another screen though she found it in a few seconds. Love the 7100g so far! No problems.

Re: Odd behavior when serving static content with Merb

Glenn Rempe — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:26:52 -0000

I think you mean 'rack.rb' and not 'boot.rb'. Copying a newly generated rack.rb into mis-behaving app solves the problem. Thanks for helping me solve this. :-)

Re: Navy taps Solazyme to make jet fuel out of algae

Glenn Rempe — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:29:00 -0000

You might want to take a look at your math Camille. The price of Jet Fuel today is $1.86 per gallon. Therefore wouldn't the cost for 1,500 Gallons be $2,790 and not $200,000 as you claim? It would have to be $133/Gallon for your math to be correct...

http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/economics/fuel_mon...