I disbelieve that laughably straight line graph to start with. If you could extrapolate like that then making every car supremely efficient would kill off everyone on the planet in traffic accidents.
Yes, which is one big reason this was turned off by default. Oracle turned it on by default, breaking even old code. Maybe so it'd do better in benchmarks against Dalvik? Who knows. It was broken, they knew it was broken, they shipped it anyhow.
The worst thing that's in here, if nobody bothers to actually read page 2 of TFA, is that Oracle knew the JVM didn't do loops properly when it shipped it - they shipped it anyhow and hoped nobody'd notice until everyone upgraded.
Well it's not like loops are an important language construct at least. I knew all those years of doing everything with gotos would finally pay off.
The serious answer is for putting music on, putting reading material on, and putting photos on for slideshows. I have far too much music to fit on any tablet and there's only about 10 CDs I want to listen to at any given time, so I just copy the artist/[year]_album directory over or delete it.Then there's scanslated manga, which comes in zips or rars, or pdfs of books like 'Machine of Death'. Copy those over, delete when read. I realize some people love iTunes to death for this, but since I'm well organized it's much easier to just sling directories around. You can use Dropbox on the iPad as well for auto-sync, but it's a pain in the ass to get it the content into the right app.
Magazines are handled by Zinio on iPad or Android, so no need for transfer there.
I've had an iPad since the day it launched. And I do like the hardware and I prefer the screen ratio to the Android tablet widescreen - the page size is better for reading magazines and comics.
Then Woot had a sale on refurbed XOOMs and I bought one. Imagine, I can just plug it in with mini-USB and transfer files or SSH them over wifi. I can replace the soft keyboard with a better one. I can have mail on my 'desktop'. Basically, there's very little I can't control, especially with Tasker. The screen on the XOOM is not quite as good as the iPad's in sunlight, and of course the iPad has a far better game selection, but I don't think I can go back at this point. So since I think the Tab 10.1 is better hardware than the XOOM except for that stupid proprietary cable that'd be even better.
My biggest regret is that I could only delete iTunes from my computer and not skull@#$ it till it died, since that's what I feel like it was doing to me every time I was forced to use it.
This is the best website for science news for reasonably educated but not specialized people: http://www.sciencedaily.com/
Science News has a website - http://www.sciencenews.org/ and a weekly magazine which are always good, if overly sober, though the magazine doesn't have near enough content to cover everything that happened that week.
New Scientist is a weekly mag that has drifted towards Omni or PopSci lately ('IS SENSATIONAL THING TRUE? (...no)'), but will still keep you up to date on most happenings including things you might miss online. http://www.newscientist.com/
I won't recommend the mag Science, because even though it's The Magazine, it's not suited for the dabbler.
My balanced suggestion is add the news feeds for all of these to your RSS reader (like Google Reader), click on what looks interesting, and subscribe to New Scientist in print or on Zinio and read it every week.
Don't do dumb things. Do calculatedly different things that break the conventional wisdom for good reasons. You can do risky things that you think have a good chance of failing but might have huge rewards as long as you know why you're doing it.
But the executive level takeaway seems to be "Hey, I didn't understand why that last thing worked, so why not just do whatever I want with impunity?" See anything Eric Schmidt has ever said, for example. Or Kaz Hirai.
I'm not sure why you'd care, unless it's that there's that many zombied botnet computers in China already pwned by IE6 vulnerabilities.
Those users are useless as far as users/views go to anyone but the Chinese government and websites inside China. If Microsoft thinks they can benefit by grovelling and playing nice they'll just get their Google-chasing asses kicked harder later.
Well that's a nice thought (and I would hope that would be the outcome) but that only works when you've got someone in the decision making chain who's (choose one) sane or views that as a bad outcome.
For instance, normally when you end up with standard procedure involving sexually molesting children you might stop that, but for DHS that's just reasonable procedure.
In this case, big companies can settle up with Kootol and it becomes yet another barrier for entry to small businesses. As far as they're concerned, that's a good outcome. It's worth the small outlay to keep new competitors out.
I'm especially remembering the horrible naivete of the early internet years when everyone was convinced nobody would stand for massive violations of privacy, tracking, traffic shaping, etc.
Rather, almost everyone loves the idea ('oh yeah, we should do that'), but as soon as you attach the time/budget cost to it they decide it wasn't that important anyhow.
And they are extremely time intensive. Coders need to walk through the code line by line in advance for the review to be useful, then there's the drawn out meeting itself, and usually a manager wants to be there which adds more budget and slows things down with useless questions, then the writeup.
Ah, you say, but it will save time in the long run, because it takes less time to track the bugs down now rather than one at a time later. But (almost) nobody is willing to trade possible future time loss against significant right now time loss.
That's fair enough, but I should reiterate that you can't trust five star non-Vine reviews either. I end up going through the top bunch of reviews and tossing out any that look like obvious shills, making sure there's at least one or two non-fives, then going through the lowest couple reviews and tossing any that look like pure haters or idiots. After a while you get pretty good at it.
So if you want to toss all five star Vine ratings as being just too easy, good enough, but a non five or one star rating has a much higher percentage of usefulness. And that's across the board.
I'm in Vine. I occasionally get a free book or food item, and then review it (that's the deal). My reviews are clearly (and automatically) tagged as 'Reviewed as part of Amazon Vine program'.
Looking back at my reviews I don't see where I've been any more charitable to Vine products than products I bought myself. In fact, I seem much less likely to rate them five stars - the barrier to entry is lower so I'll order a free product when I might not have paid for it. Though it's still self-selecting in that I won't order anything I don't think I'll like in the first place, so most of the reviews are four or five (but definitely not all).
And before you get too jealous, remember that reading the book and writing a decent review is a significant amount of work./Having/ to do a review of something you're supposed to be enjoying can turn it into work. Wah wah wah, but it's not all roses and unicorns.
We deny immigration to thousands of smart engineers a year, with the extra insult being that many of those even graduated here but we still won't let them stay. So we're losing them to smarter countries. The legal immigration rates for skilled professionals are set absurdly low to compensate for the wink wink nudge nudge levels of illegal immigration. Those illegal immigrants are usually hard working, but they're mostly not highly qualified technically.
If you want more techies (and you should, they drive your/real/ growth in the long term), then make room for them. Keep the real immigration levels the same, even raise them, but make sure all the skilled get in even if you keep out some of the leafblowers. But this is a third rail, so Obama likely wouldn't have the spine to touch that (phrased alternatively, he's too smart to touch it given his base).
Look at what they're doing here:
- completely rearchitecting their security and network
- completely reimplementing their security and network
- physically moving the servers
- redeploying this worldwide
Two weeks? I don't f@#4ing think so. They're just stringing you along or they really do have no idea what they're doing (I'll buy either).
I wouldn't use it for a couple weeks either till they work out the bugs. Me, I've been playing Portal 2 on PC.
This is one reason the 'only using 10% of the brain!1' thing completely misses the point.
Put someone who is totally in the zone, producing great, doing brilliant work, in an active MRI and what will you see? They're using tiny focused (no pun here) portions of their brain. The worse they're doing, the more they're flailing, the more of the brain is lit up. After a certain point, having more less capable brain doesn't seem to be a great thing.
Although hardly anyone seems to do it because they think an interview is all about schmoozing, there's no excuse for not asking the interviewee to code in the interview.
It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Even a bubble sort or sorted list insertion is sufficient to weed out most of the candidates. You'd be amazed at how fast the guy who talks a good talk crumbles when you just ask him to write a simple for loop on the spot. You're a c++ 'expert' and you can't even write a for statement, much less get the logic correct? If you can whip out the STL version, fair enough.
Now if s/he tells me 'I wouldn't use a bubble sort here, I'd just call qsort()' that's also a good sign. Okay, here's the qsort() parms in case you've forgotten them (very easy to do) - write me the sort with the attendant comparison function. Now give me some code to print the sorted array (we'll make them write a for loop one way or another). Now, why might you actually use a bubble sort instead of a qsort? There are higher level concerns, but at least the covers the 'can you code?' bit.
It's quite possible that the gaming division is playing the retarded cousin dealing meth out the the back of the station wagon for the mobile division. Scared straight.
Then again, I wouldn't trust them not to yank this at any time. It's Sony, FFS. Gaming division used to brag how much more open the PS3 was than the XBox 360 and now look at it. Okay, so it's open now, but not the way they wanted.
Lack of tablet apps. That's the reason I own an iPad right now and not an Android tablet. Running an Android phone app on an Android tablet is just as ugly as running an iPhone app on an iPad is... but most i* apps have an iPad specific version. Android apps don't.
This is probably chicken and egg - the devs don't have tablets because the XOOM was just not very appealing. I'm looking forward to the Acer and Samsung tablets.
I don't know about much faster. There are some speed increases since the kernel locking is much better, especially with multicore, but that's not really a raw speed thing, just a hitching thing. It's mostly just that Win7 is a polished product and Vista was Win7 alpha, booted out the door because they ran out of time. It's much more pleasant to work with, which was easily worth $100 over 2-3 years or whatever the lifetime will be since I have to use it hours per day, day in day out.
More to the point, I think if you were the person who actually cared about IE10 vs IE9, you'd be the sort of person to pay the $100 to alt least upgrade your personal machine. The big improvements in IE10 so far are the better CSS3 compliance and that it runs on ARM, both of which mean nothing to most people. It's nothing like the jump from IE8 to IE9 was.
And I completely agree - if you have business machines that are stuck on Vista, they're stuck there till they're dead. And I wouldn't expect IT to ever upgrade anything on them, including IE. Hell, our workplace still rolls out XP with IE6 by default. Because that's the Image by gawd.
Every person I know who's still running Vista and hasn't bothered to upgrade to Win7 is only running Vista because that's what came on the new PC/Laptop and they didn't know any better. They certainly don't care whether they're using IE9 or IE10.
Everyone who'd actually care upgraded to Win7 so fast you could hear the sonic booms.
Okay, so we're not really using IE at all either...... who's IE10 for again?
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This obviously calls for a LawnFactoryFactorySingletonFactory pattern
I disbelieve that laughably straight line graph to start with. If you could extrapolate like that then making every car supremely efficient would kill off everyone on the planet in traffic accidents.
Yes, which is one big reason this was turned off by default. Oracle turned it on by default, breaking even old code. Maybe so it'd do better in benchmarks against Dalvik? Who knows. It was broken, they knew it was broken, they shipped it anyhow.
The worst thing that's in here, if nobody bothers to actually read page 2 of TFA, is that Oracle knew the JVM didn't do loops properly when it shipped it - they shipped it anyhow and hoped nobody'd notice until everyone upgraded.
Well it's not like loops are an important language construct at least. I knew all those years of doing everything with gotos would finally pay off.
The serious answer is for putting music on, putting reading material on, and putting photos on for slideshows. I have far too much music to fit on any tablet and there's only about 10 CDs I want to listen to at any given time, so I just copy the artist/[year]_album directory over or delete it.Then there's scanslated manga, which comes in zips or rars, or pdfs of books like 'Machine of Death'. Copy those over, delete when read. I realize some people love iTunes to death for this, but since I'm well organized it's much easier to just sling directories around. You can use Dropbox on the iPad as well for auto-sync, but it's a pain in the ass to get it the content into the right app.
Magazines are handled by Zinio on iPad or Android, so no need for transfer there.
I've had an iPad since the day it launched. And I do like the hardware and I prefer the screen ratio to the Android tablet widescreen - the page size is better for reading magazines and comics.
Then Woot had a sale on refurbed XOOMs and I bought one. Imagine, I can just plug it in with mini-USB and transfer files or SSH them over wifi. I can replace the soft keyboard with a better one. I can have mail on my 'desktop'. Basically, there's very little I can't control, especially with Tasker. The screen on the XOOM is not quite as good as the iPad's in sunlight, and of course the iPad has a far better game selection, but I don't think I can go back at this point. So since I think the Tab 10.1 is better hardware than the XOOM except for that stupid proprietary cable that'd be even better.
My biggest regret is that I could only delete iTunes from my computer and not skull@#$ it till it died, since that's what I feel like it was doing to me every time I was forced to use it.
This is the best website for science news for reasonably educated but not specialized people: http://www.sciencedaily.com/
Science News has a website - http://www.sciencenews.org/ and a weekly magazine which are always good, if overly sober, though the magazine doesn't have near enough content to cover everything that happened that week.
New Scientist is a weekly mag that has drifted towards Omni or PopSci lately ('IS SENSATIONAL THING TRUE? (...no)'), but will still keep you up to date on most happenings including things you might miss online. http://www.newscientist.com/
Scientific American is a monthly mag that's a bit too political but has some good articles: http://www.scientificamerican.com/
Then there's Discover Magazine, which is a step down from either but has some good blogs: http://discovermagazine.com/
Live Science is a further step down, a good site for training wheel science: http://www.livescience.com/
I won't recommend the mag Science, because even though it's The Magazine, it's not suited for the dabbler.
My balanced suggestion is add the news feeds for all of these to your RSS reader (like Google Reader), click on what looks interesting, and subscribe to New Scientist in print or on Zinio and read it every week.
Don't do dumb things. Do calculatedly different things that break the conventional wisdom for good reasons. You can do risky things that you think have a good chance of failing but might have huge rewards as long as you know why you're doing it.
But the executive level takeaway seems to be "Hey, I didn't understand why that last thing worked, so why not just do whatever I want with impunity?" See anything Eric Schmidt has ever said, for example. Or Kaz Hirai.
I'm not sure why you'd care, unless it's that there's that many zombied botnet computers in China already pwned by IE6 vulnerabilities.
Those users are useless as far as users/views go to anyone but the Chinese government and websites inside China. If Microsoft thinks they can benefit by grovelling and playing nice they'll just get their Google-chasing asses kicked harder later.
Well that's a nice thought (and I would hope that would be the outcome) but that only works when you've got someone in the decision making chain who's (choose one) sane or views that as a bad outcome.
For instance, normally when you end up with standard procedure involving sexually molesting children you might stop that, but for DHS that's just reasonable procedure.
In this case, big companies can settle up with Kootol and it becomes yet another barrier for entry to small businesses. As far as they're concerned, that's a good outcome. It's worth the small outlay to keep new competitors out.
I'm especially remembering the horrible naivete of the early internet years when everyone was convinced nobody would stand for massive violations of privacy, tracking, traffic shaping, etc.
Rather, almost everyone loves the idea ('oh yeah, we should do that'), but as soon as you attach the time/budget cost to it they decide it wasn't that important anyhow.
And they are extremely time intensive. Coders need to walk through the code line by line in advance for the review to be useful, then there's the drawn out meeting itself, and usually a manager wants to be there which adds more budget and slows things down with useless questions, then the writeup.
Ah, you say, but it will save time in the long run, because it takes less time to track the bugs down now rather than one at a time later. But (almost) nobody is willing to trade possible future time loss against significant right now time loss.
That's fair enough, but I should reiterate that you can't trust five star non-Vine reviews either. I end up going through the top bunch of reviews and tossing out any that look like obvious shills, making sure there's at least one or two non-fives, then going through the lowest couple reviews and tossing any that look like pure haters or idiots. After a while you get pretty good at it.
So if you want to toss all five star Vine ratings as being just too easy, good enough, but a non five or one star rating has a much higher percentage of usefulness. And that's across the board.
I'm in Vine. I occasionally get a free book or food item, and then review it (that's the deal). My reviews are clearly (and automatically) tagged as 'Reviewed as part of Amazon Vine program'.
Looking back at my reviews I don't see where I've been any more charitable to Vine products than products I bought myself. In fact, I seem much less likely to rate them five stars - the barrier to entry is lower so I'll order a free product when I might not have paid for it. Though it's still self-selecting in that I won't order anything I don't think I'll like in the first place, so most of the reviews are four or five (but definitely not all).
And before you get too jealous, remember that reading the book and writing a decent review is a significant amount of work. /Having/ to do a review of something you're supposed to be enjoying can turn it into work. Wah wah wah, but it's not all roses and unicorns.
We deny immigration to thousands of smart engineers a year, with the extra insult being that many of those even graduated here but we still won't let them stay. So we're losing them to smarter countries. The legal immigration rates for skilled professionals are set absurdly low to compensate for the wink wink nudge nudge levels of illegal immigration. Those illegal immigrants are usually hard working, but they're mostly not highly qualified technically.
If you want more techies (and you should, they drive your /real/ growth in the long term), then make room for them. Keep the real immigration levels the same, even raise them, but make sure all the skilled get in even if you keep out some of the leafblowers. But this is a third rail, so Obama likely wouldn't have the spine to touch that (phrased alternatively, he's too smart to touch it given his base).
I would mod you up if I could, Hiro
Look at what they're doing here:
- completely rearchitecting their security and network
- completely reimplementing their security and network
- physically moving the servers
- redeploying this worldwide
Two weeks? I don't f@#4ing think so. They're just stringing you along or they really do have no idea what they're doing (I'll buy either).
I wouldn't use it for a couple weeks either till they work out the bugs. Me, I've been playing Portal 2 on PC.
This is one reason the 'only using 10% of the brain!1' thing completely misses the point.
Put someone who is totally in the zone, producing great, doing brilliant work, in an active MRI and what will you see? They're using tiny focused (no pun here) portions of their brain. The worse they're doing, the more they're flailing, the more of the brain is lit up. After a certain point, having more less capable brain doesn't seem to be a great thing.
Although hardly anyone seems to do it because they think an interview is all about schmoozing, there's no excuse for not asking the interviewee to code in the interview.
It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Even a bubble sort or sorted list insertion is sufficient to weed out most of the candidates. You'd be amazed at how fast the guy who talks a good talk crumbles when you just ask him to write a simple for loop on the spot. You're a c++ 'expert' and you can't even write a for statement, much less get the logic correct? If you can whip out the STL version, fair enough.
Now if s/he tells me 'I wouldn't use a bubble sort here, I'd just call qsort()' that's also a good sign. Okay, here's the qsort() parms in case you've forgotten them (very easy to do) - write me the sort with the attendant comparison function. Now give me some code to print the sorted array (we'll make them write a for loop one way or another). Now, why might you actually use a bubble sort instead of a qsort? There are higher level concerns, but at least the covers the 'can you code?' bit.
It's quite possible that the gaming division is playing the retarded cousin dealing meth out the the back of the station wagon for the mobile division. Scared straight.
Then again, I wouldn't trust them not to yank this at any time. It's Sony, FFS. Gaming division used to brag how much more open the PS3 was than the XBox 360 and now look at it. Okay, so it's open now, but not the way they wanted.
Lack of tablet apps. That's the reason I own an iPad right now and not an Android tablet. Running an Android phone app on an Android tablet is just as ugly as running an iPhone app on an iPad is... but most i* apps have an iPad specific version. Android apps don't.
This is probably chicken and egg - the devs don't have tablets because the XOOM was just not very appealing. I'm looking forward to the Acer and Samsung tablets.
Yo, fucking stupid mods, saying something you don't like is not trolling.
Doesn't even matter what he's saying. He just has to go on a rant now and then because if he doesn't get some camera time he'll JUST DIE.
I don't know about much faster. There are some speed increases since the kernel locking is much better, especially with multicore, but that's not really a raw speed thing, just a hitching thing. It's mostly just that Win7 is a polished product and Vista was Win7 alpha, booted out the door because they ran out of time. It's much more pleasant to work with, which was easily worth $100 over 2-3 years or whatever the lifetime will be since I have to use it hours per day, day in day out.
More to the point, I think if you were the person who actually cared about IE10 vs IE9, you'd be the sort of person to pay the $100 to alt least upgrade your personal machine. The big improvements in IE10 so far are the better CSS3 compliance and that it runs on ARM, both of which mean nothing to most people. It's nothing like the jump from IE8 to IE9 was.
And I completely agree - if you have business machines that are stuck on Vista, they're stuck there till they're dead. And I wouldn't expect IT to ever upgrade anything on them, including IE. Hell, our workplace still rolls out XP with IE6 by default. Because that's the Image by gawd.
Every person I know who's still running Vista and hasn't bothered to upgrade to Win7 is only running Vista because that's what came on the new PC/Laptop and they didn't know any better. They certainly don't care whether they're using IE9 or IE10.
Everyone who'd actually care upgraded to Win7 so fast you could hear the sonic booms.
Okay, so we're not really using IE at all either... ... who's IE10 for again?
Yeah, looking back, I wouldn't have had one till 1986, two years after the Mac launched and by then you already had the Fat Mac at 512K.
Here's the InfoWorld review of it at the time: http://tinyurl.com/3wgx76z
I must have been thinking of the Mac Plus, which finally upgraded the Macs to a megabyte.