Kalo dulu pas jaman Narkoba Masuk Sekolah, para guru merasa perlu untuk menjaga muridnya supaya TIDAK ikutan jadi pengedar atau pemakai. Mereka melakukan razia. Dalam hal ini, razia memang perlu, dan terbukti efektif.
Sekarang? Teknologi Informasi Masuk Sekolah. Hampir semua menggunakan Blackberry (atau Nexianberry), iPhone, atau Android, device canggih yang setiap saat terhubung dengan internet. Kapasitas penyimpan datanya besar. Bisa MP3, plus bikin dan playback video.
Jika ada informasi yang negatif, apa masih perlu pihak sekolah (atau pihak yang lain) melakukan razia HP kepada orang lain? Beredarnya foto atau video yang gak layak apa ya bisa di-cegah-tangkal dengan razia? Apa gunanya? Apa manfaatnya?
Today, Apple just announced the new iPhone OS 4.0. It really pack of features and promise to give best, better, more advance, new experiences to THE iDevices. Not only it does Multitasking (at last!), but also borrowed some nice features from (just a week old) iPad. Enabling input from external keyboard, iBooks, folders in springboard, more robust Mail app, etc.
This is gonna be great.. right?
No! There's a new License Agreement that prohibits developers from writing codes other than C, Obj-C, C++, JavaScript and compiling codes by using intermediary tools or other non-Apple's API, such as Adobe Flash! (or maybe other frameworks/SDK like Unity3D or Corona)
Ok, great. Now what Apple? 
You already ban Flash be used in mobile Safari. That's ok. It's your policy to stay away from out of memory, out of battery, out of trouble, out of whatever-reasons-you-could-make-up. But how could you also ban Adobe from bringing tools we're familiar with for creating "native" apps?
Didn't you realize you NEED Adobe to bring Creative Suites for your so-damn-good-OSX? You are praised by designers all over the world but yet you provide any single image editor in OSX. Yes, Pain(t) Brush sucks, but hey, at least it IS image editor! Do you think professionals will use your pricey-computer if there's no Adobe products in it? No Photoshop, what else can you get? No InDesign, no Illustrator, no Acrobat Reader!
What's good left in OSX, when we have great developers like Adobe made softwares for Windows, and Windows 7 really is damn-good now.
Please respect hard work and good intention from Adobe. We don't think it could damage your huge-profits. In fact, many developers will be happy creating decent apps. We ARE Flash developers, not "Flashlight" app makers.
And we're Apple Fanboi too..
Anti-trust Practices, Bad Businesses
Not all Programmers are a good designer, not all Designers are good at Programming. And there are not many can afford to hire professionals..
What Apple's doing not only will hurt vendors (like Adobe, Ansca, Unity3D), but also their clients (developers and users). Let me put it this way, vendors spent big time, efforts and investments on something and promises to give the best for what their clients expected. In this case, for example Ansca, already have developers use their SDK. And that's not a small money! How they supposed to do? Ask for their money back? Erase and rewind the time / efforts already spent?
Imagine you are in business to create good games, buy an SDK (which isn't cheap), spent at least 1 year ($99) developing on it, create something you KNOW you can do, hoping to get ROI and profits. But then, after all your hard work, the License Agreement blocks you from selling it. Imagine the damages you'll get. Do you want to trust your business with Apple again?
I really love Apple products, but this is sad, it's like married with a very beautiful girl who doesn't even love you..
03/05/10
Puisi Orang IT
Langit masih hitam,
hanya suara JANGKRIK dan dengung hardisk menemani.
kulihat angka di ujung Menubar berkedip 4:18AM
aku masih di sini, menatap 2 kata yang kubenci,
Illegal Operation
Gemetar jariku di atas papan QWERTY
menelusuri baris-baris kode yang tumpang tindih.
Nafas sesak memikirkan operasi bitwise,
air mata pun meleleh terbakar 2 juta pixel dari layar LCD.
Di mana salahku?
Ingin rasanya kutekan Command-Q (Alt-F4 di Windows),
sejenak lupakan deadline yang menunggu-Q
dan merebah standby
kemudian login lagi..
- utk Noby mamanya Iman dan Erja 
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Benernya grogi mau nulis ini. Hubungan-nya sama agama, jadi kuatir nanti kesannya ngesruh, trus urusan jadi panjang. Ini hanya sekedar wacana, opini pribadi. Kebetulan pas trend film 2012 yang dibintangi John Cussack lagi banyak dibicarakan orang. (imdb link di sini: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/)...
Banyak yang bilang kalo takdir itu udah ditentukan. Beberapa di antaranya: jenis kelamin, ras, kekayaan, jodoh, dan mati/kiamat (pun) udah ditentukan. Bener gitu?
Sometimes your kids or wife wanted to use the computer, but you are using it (and there's only one computer! yes, life is that hard hehe..) This next trick is surely fun thing to do with your dual monitor and a couple of spare keyboard and mouse. Psst.. that way, you can virtually have 2 computers!
I don't know about other Virtual Machine, but I'm using VirtualBox. Maybe VMWare or Parallel Desktop can do it too, I haven't tried it. Let me know if anyone knows. (FYI, I'm doing it on my MacBook Pro running Leopard and Windows XP64).
The Setup
What you need:
- of course an extra monitor attached to your computer VGA Out,
- VirtualBox software, get it FREE for personal use here: http://www.virtualbox.org/,
- Windows OS (haven't tried other than XP64 though),
- an extra mouse and a keyboard (preferably Bluetooth, but theoretically you can use USB too).
Ok, let's begin!
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