I like Apple's products but this price is too high for what the iPad is. I recently bought a second hand Tablet PC (a Fujitsu Stylistic) for £180 and shoved Ubuntu Linux and an 8GB SSD in it. Sure, it's bulkier than an iPad but I don't regret my choice now I've seen the UK price. Screw them and their price mark up
...transcode from one format to another. The article claims you are "already liable" if you do this - but here's the rub, unless you announce the camera you made the film with + what it was originally encoded with, who the hell is going to find out?
I know they're not claiming they've passed. But you've assumed something pretty big: "hey are just showing that they are making progress". If they've only got to 55, and the process of reaching 55 does not fulfil the rest of the test (being smooth, namely) then it actually hasn't even got to 55. It may as well be at zero.
No, you've missed my point: They're excusing something that's part of the test. Nowhere else do they explain away the current score or what's missing. The text on the page seems to give the impression the pause is acceptable or 'as intended'. But it's not - it has failed ACID.
How someone learns is their own business, not the lecturer's. That's why it's a lecture and not a 'class'. The lecturer doesn't (or shouldn't) take personal interest in how you understand, they expect you to absorb and understand of your own accord. If you just type everything up and learn later on, that's your business.
I have this issue with some mathematics of comp-sci classes at the moment. I'm OK at maths, but I find I can't really use what I've been taught or contribute to discussion/examples until I've tried out [whatever technique/method we're learning] on my own in my own time. So I do something kind of similar to the "mindless stenography" - in the lecture at least. What I do outside of the lecture is what counts.
Interesting, it actually starts up and runs. Just a shame it is unplayable: Huge delay every few seconds (seems to occur when buttons etc. change state)
I'm guessing AOE uses DIBs. Either that or something else randomly creates delays.
AOE II is the one app I have so far been completely unable to get running in VMs (VirtualBox: It crashes out on new game, VMWare: It can't even start Parallels: Unplayable slow + App itself brings processor to a boil) or the OS X.app of Wine - or the previous version of CrossOver in fact.
I never understand it when publishers want to kill the original creators and just flood the market with games under the same brand. Yeah, sure, it'll probably pick up a quick buck in the short term (for people who hang onto the brand). But once the gamers cotton onto the fact that all the new games suck (as they invariably will) they'll stop buying. So it's short term gain (most likely) and long term loss/failure
Whereas, if they keep the original creators they don't get the short term "insta-cash". But they get continual quality and therefore a more dependable revenue stream. I just don't get the mind set of publishers when they favor the former solution. Are they really that stupid?
I'm guessing said news program didn't consider the potential consequences for the student? (Especially if a) he's still there and b) If they consider this project to be some kind of 'national secret' which they probably do given security / the likelihood of 'cyber warfare')
May I introduce you to "Application configuration is incorrect" which can occur before any code in the application executes? Yeah: Not so fool-proof now, is it? You need some level of fundamental trust in your users' ability to (manually) report flaws
If you can't SEE an error, you can't FIX it either. Especially since 99% of users who dismiss the errors will just say "It went wrong" rather than recording or describing what the error actually said
And since I'm guessing a lot of these systems are DB related, I can completely understand the defensive approach departments take (it breaks -> You ignore -> Restart -> potentially compromise the integrity of the data: Because it error'ed and booted you out for a reason - that reason being that it can't allow itself to continue in an undefined state etc.)
...I just deliberately sought out this thing so I could see what it looked like - and amazingly, whatever it does, it manages to somehow hide the "Suspected phishing site" page in Google Chrome: It briefly appears but then the page seems to reload automatically and the page disappears
So not only is this a pretty sophisticated clone of Twitter's login, they've somehow managed to force their way past the attack warning too. Any ideas how they've done that?
I didn't expand that quite so well: Most JS content that uses hover will also work fine with a click/tap (e.g. JS menus will show if the click the root/parent as well as if you hover)
Whereas, most Flash content separates hover vs. click completely. Adverts for example - a hover will enable content, whereas a click will totally change page/take you elsewhere. That kind of thing is what I assume the article is getting at
The article is trying to say that some content relies on hover - something which is obviously impossible to achieve with a touch screen. So half of the flash content would be broken
Although I get what you're saying, I think it's a bit harsh too. Everyone starts somewhere. Everyone writes crap code when they start. The key thing is, the more you do it, the more you learn, the better you get.
I don't know whether there are any other self-taught coders such as myself who can back this up, but personally I've found that half my learning was done before I even reached university - learning that code isn't about cool routines. It's an operation of keeping things simple, making it so you need to think the smallest amount to understand what's happening. That design is paramount. CS has so far been (a still enlightening) mathematical cherry - but on a cake of practical experience I had prior to university.
So I suppose what I'm saying is that, given enough time and experience I would not say CS is strictly necessary. And at the same time, in some cases, CS as a course actually does a whole lot less than what people think it does. You need to expand beyond the academic experience to be useful, even if you do have CS
Pick something simple to build (i.e an application) and build it. You'll learn huge amounts just from filling the gaps in your knowledge in order to achieve what you want.
I could possibly understand if app store apps were at crazy prices or forced you to bend over backwards in order to use them. But the majority of them cost, what, £5? Maybe £7 or £9?
Aww shitstack, I commented on here rather than the blasted MS phone one. I'll have to improvise and make this relevant....
I agree with Gates that this could have done with a stylus. Put that in, and you have millions of University students (such as myself) who could use it to take handwritten notes. But no. As it is, it serves no purpose for me.
The fact they're dictating the exact hardware and layout makes me wonder whether (even though the software looks decent) this could crash and burn. Why should hardware manufacturers give up [what is effectively their creative control] for this OS, when they can make whatever they want and shove Android on it with no restrictions?
The fact they're dictating the exact hardware and layout makes me wonder whether (even though the software looks decent) this could crash and burn. Why should hardware manufacturers give up [what is effectively their creative control] for this OS, when they can make whatever they want and shove Android on it with no restrictions?
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I like Apple's products but this price is too high for what the iPad is. I recently bought a second hand Tablet PC (a Fujitsu Stylistic) for £180 and shoved Ubuntu Linux and an 8GB SSD in it. Sure, it's bulkier than an iPad but I don't regret my choice now I've seen the UK price. Screw them and their price mark up
...transcode from one format to another. The article claims you are "already liable" if you do this - but here's the rub, unless you announce the camera you made the film with + what it was originally encoded with, who the hell is going to find out?
I know they're not claiming they've passed. But you've assumed something pretty big: "hey are just showing that they are making progress". If they've only got to 55, and the process of reaching 55 does not fulfil the rest of the test (being smooth, namely) then it actually hasn't even got to 55. It may as well be at zero.
No, you've missed my point: They're excusing something that's part of the test. Nowhere else do they explain away the current score or what's missing. The text on the page seems to give the impression the pause is acceptable or 'as intended'. But it's not - it has failed ACID.
"(There’s a pause when the score gets to 39 but the test will continue after a few seconds.)"
That's a fail then, irrespective of the score. The test explicitly states smooth animation.
How someone learns is their own business, not the lecturer's. That's why it's a lecture and not a 'class'. The lecturer doesn't (or shouldn't) take personal interest in how you understand, they expect you to absorb and understand of your own accord. If you just type everything up and learn later on, that's your business.
I have this issue with some mathematics of comp-sci classes at the moment. I'm OK at maths, but I find I can't really use what I've been taught or contribute to discussion/examples until I've tried out [whatever technique/method we're learning] on my own in my own time. So I do something kind of similar to the "mindless stenography" - in the lecture at least. What I do outside of the lecture is what counts.
Yeah, but that duality is possible: In the same way Animal Farm is both a political critique/swipe and also works as a children's story
Interesting, it actually starts up and runs. Just a shame it is unplayable: Huge delay every few seconds (seems to occur when buttons etc. change state)
I'm guessing AOE uses DIBs. Either that or something else randomly creates delays.
Well. They're getting closer at least...
AOE II is the one app I have so far been completely unable to get running in VMs (VirtualBox: It crashes out on new game, VMWare: It can't even start Parallels: Unplayable slow + App itself brings processor to a boil) or the OS X .app of Wine - or the previous version of CrossOver in fact.
Looks like it's time to try again...
I never understand it when publishers want to kill the original creators and just flood the market with games under the same brand. Yeah, sure, it'll probably pick up a quick buck in the short term (for people who hang onto the brand). But once the gamers cotton onto the fact that all the new games suck (as they invariably will) they'll stop buying. So it's short term gain (most likely) and long term loss/failure
Whereas, if they keep the original creators they don't get the short term "insta-cash". But they get continual quality and therefore a more dependable revenue stream. I just don't get the mind set of publishers when they favor the former solution. Are they really that stupid?
I'm guessing said news program didn't consider the potential consequences for the student? (Especially if a) he's still there and b) If they consider this project to be some kind of 'national secret' which they probably do given security / the likelihood of 'cyber warfare')
May I introduce you to "Application configuration is incorrect" which can occur before any code in the application executes? Yeah: Not so fool-proof now, is it? You need some level of fundamental trust in your users' ability to (manually) report flaws
If you can't SEE an error, you can't FIX it either. Especially since 99% of users who dismiss the errors will just say "It went wrong" rather than recording or describing what the error actually said
And since I'm guessing a lot of these systems are DB related, I can completely understand the defensive approach departments take (it breaks -> You ignore -> Restart -> potentially compromise the integrity of the data: Because it error'ed and booted you out for a reason - that reason being that it can't allow itself to continue in an undefined state etc.)
It's about placing wagers on a film's performance, by the looks of it
this one really takes the cake!
...I just deliberately sought out this thing so I could see what it looked like - and amazingly, whatever it does, it manages to somehow hide the "Suspected phishing site" page in Google Chrome: It briefly appears but then the page seems to reload automatically and the page disappears
So not only is this a pretty sophisticated clone of Twitter's login, they've somehow managed to force their way past the attack warning too. Any ideas how they've done that?
I didn't expand that quite so well: Most JS content that uses hover will also work fine with a click/tap (e.g. JS menus will show if the click the root/parent as well as if you hover)
Whereas, most Flash content separates hover vs. click completely. Adverts for example - a hover will enable content, whereas a click will totally change page/take you elsewhere. That kind of thing is what I assume the article is getting at
The article is trying to say that some content relies on hover - something which is obviously impossible to achieve with a touch screen. So half of the flash content would be broken
Although I get what you're saying, I think it's a bit harsh too. Everyone starts somewhere. Everyone writes crap code when they start. The key thing is, the more you do it, the more you learn, the better you get.
I don't know whether there are any other self-taught coders such as myself who can back this up, but personally I've found that half my learning was done before I even reached university - learning that code isn't about cool routines. It's an operation of keeping things simple, making it so you need to think the smallest amount to understand what's happening. That design is paramount. CS has so far been (a still enlightening) mathematical cherry - but on a cake of practical experience I had prior to university.
So I suppose what I'm saying is that, given enough time and experience I would not say CS is strictly necessary. And at the same time, in some cases, CS as a course actually does a whole lot less than what people think it does. You need to expand beyond the academic experience to be useful, even if you do have CS
Pick something simple to build (i.e an application) and build it. You'll learn huge amounts just from filling the gaps in your knowledge in order to achieve what you want.
Ashens did a review of one of these a while ago (the menu does not look identical, but the resolution of the screen + font seems similar).
Sharing purely because I found it fairly amusing (especially the call dropping feature...)
Jail-breaking facilitates piracy
I could possibly understand if app store apps were at crazy prices or forced you to bend over backwards in order to use them. But the majority of them cost, what, £5? Maybe £7 or £9?
Aww shitstack, I commented on here rather than the blasted MS phone one. I'll have to improvise and make this relevant....
I agree with Gates that this could have done with a stylus. Put that in, and you have millions of University students (such as myself) who could use it to take handwritten notes. But no. As it is, it serves no purpose for me.
The fact they're dictating the exact hardware and layout makes me wonder whether (even though the software looks decent) this could crash and burn. Why should hardware manufacturers give up [what is effectively their creative control] for this OS, when they can make whatever they want and shove Android on it with no restrictions?
The fact they're dictating the exact hardware and layout makes me wonder whether (even though the software looks decent) this could crash and burn. Why should hardware manufacturers give up [what is effectively their creative control] for this OS, when they can make whatever they want and shove Android on it with no restrictions?