I can tell you that there's no better employee than one who overstates his accomplishments to the point of very nearly outright lying. Yessir - that's the kind of person who's a joy to have as a coworker, and a joy to manage.
Weird. When I search Google for "android custom shader", I find a bunch of sample code which doesn't ever mention specific graphics hardware capabilities. But I supposed I can take your word for it. It's a shame that Google failed to provide a portable API for games (well, a shame for someone - I don't care about games on cell phones). It's also a shame that this problem experienced by "all game developers" hasn't led anyone to write a library yet.
You got a code example or two, or are we just going to argue theory? I've never specicially programmed for Android, but I've written Unix (not just Linux) apps and web apps for quite some time, and I know that there are a whole lot of bad programmers out there in both areas who often blame the devices instead of learning specifications. So, I'm understandably skeptical when some no-name developer says "it's too hard to support all these devices" - especially when their application is not in any way technically demanding, and when somehow thousands of other developers are almost certainly getting by without owning one of every Android device out there.
If it's actually true that any Android developer actually must physically own hundreds of devices to test upon, then yeah, the testing cycle in development is clearly impossible, and the platform can't possibly succeed. But the platform is succeeding somehow, so I'll need an alternate explanation as to how that can be.
You mean "if only developers would use the APIs instead of insisting on going around APIs to directly access lower-level hardware", I think. Or are we supposed to believe that every other developer who has an Android game also has to have an army of test hardware just to make their product work?
So, when presented with "6*3" do you really do 10*3 from memory and then subtract 3 four times? It seems like it'd be a whole lot easier to remember 6*3 to begin with.:)
To be fair, these apps look like legit apps for children. It works much the same way as other malware which would fool most adults. It's not like all parents are computer security specialists - despite all the idiots who love to talk about how their ability to figure out sex suddenly grants them equivalent knowledge to doctors, teachers, bankers, cops, and whatever else they think parenting is equivalent to.:)
People who are 35 grew up with computers which would be completely unusable by anyone who grew up with modern computers.:) I tried giving an 800MHz computer with 512MB RAM to an 18 year old relative who was expressing an interest in computer science, as it runs Linux very well. He essentially said that he'd never seen a computer with RAM measured in less than Gigabytes, and with a processor whose speed was not measured in Gigahertz. And no, "0.5" or "0.8" don't count. My first computer was a 12MHz 286 with a 125MB hard drive and like 2 MB of ram - and it was super badass at the time, with DOS 4.
I'm also still wondering why they tested how long it takes to check a filesystem which has no problems. Why didn't they just test how long it takes to replay the journal if that's all they wanted? They wouldn't have had to wait hours for ext's fsck to finish that way.:)
So be louder, unless you don't care whether or not you're heard. Meetings at large companies are a good place to practice that, since most of the time no one cares what's being said anyway.:)
I stay late because everyone else has already decided to show up early. Morning people think they're "getting more done", but really, they're just annoying the rest of us.:)
Good point. I pretty much only work on domestic V8s with pushrods (ie, no overhead cams == short chains), so tensioners aren't something I often think about on timing chains. But then, I also tend to hang with a crowd for whom "noise, vibration, and harshness" are not concerns in engine design.:)
Models? The model is "the injectors are rated to flow this much fuel at 100% duty cycle" combined with "current duty cycle" and "measured speed" to calculate "usage per distance". The things that impact that are 1) inaccurate speed measurement (check your car with a GPS - it's probably reading a little fast) and 2) dirty / otherwise out-of-spec injectors (or possibly out of spec fuel pressure). There's no real "model inaccuracy" involved, so much as just error due to garbage in = garbage out. What the Mythbusters did was compare less precise sensors to more precise sensors, and declare that the less precise sensors were less precise. I wasn't shocked, but people who do less mechanic "stuff" probably were, so that's ultimately a good thing.:)
The sensors in your car are there to provide a pretty close estimate of engine behavior so the ECU can adjust things and stay fairly efficient. To be more precise requires way more expensive sensors and more expensive tuning, which makes cars more expensive. And people probably aren't willing to pay a whole lot more for a car that only gets an extra 2MPG. Race enthusiasts, however, are - so you see way more advanced engine management systems on high-dollar race cars, where a couple of HP (and probably slightly better fuel economy as a side effect) is actually justifiable.
Timing chains also stretch. And water pumps usually get replaced around 100-150K miles. Even my two Chevy LT1-powered vehicles (originally in Caprices), which have water pumps driven by a splined shaft which is driven from the cam (so they don't have the side load like bearings in belt-driven water pumps experience) need replaced around 150K miles. It's hard to make a reasonably affordable seal which holds up a lot longer than that, even for the mythical "ultra reliable" Hondas and Toyotas of the world.:)
I also just replaced the factory starter battery in my Grand Marquis - with 120K miles on it. Still on the stock water pump and timing chains (and really everything else except for wear items like shocks and tires), but I'd imagine another year or two will have me looking for more spare parts. I'll probably try to find a Ford Racing "hot rod 4.6" to replace the whole engine with at that point, truth be told. But that's a different story.;)
Doesn't this just make it more annoying to do searches, since that key (really a "key name") isn't unique? The encryption/decryption/signing uses the whole big key, right? So this would strike me as a client problem whose impact is limited to being able to verify a signature or decrypt something encrypted. It's seemingly more a nuisance than an actual security problem; you shouldn't be trusting keys from unknown sources, and it's easy enough to revoke and reissue keys if you end up having a conflicting index.
So, because this businessperson / board member didn't know a single answer on the math test, and only scored 62% on the reading test, you think the person is not stupid?
Here's an example question which this person apparently got wrong:
An artist sells earrings from a booth at a fair. Rent for the booth is $250. The artist makes $6 from each pair of earrings sold. The profit in dollars, P, can be found using the following equation, where n is the number of pairs of earrings sold. P = 6n - 250 How many pairs of earrings must the artist sell to earn a profit of $500 ?
And here's another:
The number of shoppers at a Fort Myers flea market ranges from an average of 55,000 per weekend during the tourist season to an average of 18,000 on a summer weekend.
What is the percent of decrease, to the nearest whole number, in the number of shoppers at the flea market from the tourist season to a summer weekend?
Those problems are equivalent to (and actually easier than, IMHO) the 8th grade salary-based word problem. The article says that this board member is actually responsible for the budget at a multi-million dollar company. If this person seriously can't calculate percentages, and seriously thinks that this skill is not useful in anyone's everyday life, this person is a moron. Also, all of this person's supposedly business-savvy friends are morons, since they also somehow don't see the value in calculating profit as the difference between gross sales and expenses.
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I can tell you that there's no better employee than one who overstates his accomplishments to the point of very nearly outright lying. Yessir - that's the kind of person who's a joy to have as a coworker, and a joy to manage.
I presume that the vote was cast for Skynet, or at least against some relative of John Connor?
Weird. When I search Google for "android custom shader", I find a bunch of sample code which doesn't ever mention specific graphics hardware capabilities. But I supposed I can take your word for it. It's a shame that Google failed to provide a portable API for games (well, a shame for someone - I don't care about games on cell phones). It's also a shame that this problem experienced by "all game developers" hasn't led anyone to write a library yet.
You got a code example or two, or are we just going to argue theory? I've never specicially programmed for Android, but I've written Unix (not just Linux) apps and web apps for quite some time, and I know that there are a whole lot of bad programmers out there in both areas who often blame the devices instead of learning specifications. So, I'm understandably skeptical when some no-name developer says "it's too hard to support all these devices" - especially when their application is not in any way technically demanding, and when somehow thousands of other developers are almost certainly getting by without owning one of every Android device out there.
If it's actually true that any Android developer actually must physically own hundreds of devices to test upon, then yeah, the testing cycle in development is clearly impossible, and the platform can't possibly succeed. But the platform is succeeding somehow, so I'll need an alternate explanation as to how that can be.
You mean "if only developers would use the APIs instead of insisting on going around APIs to directly access lower-level hardware", I think. Or are we supposed to believe that every other developer who has an Android game also has to have an army of test hardware just to make their product work?
So, when presented with "6*3" do you really do 10*3 from memory and then subtract 3 four times? It seems like it'd be a whole lot easier to remember 6*3 to begin with. :)
Well, Jefferson was a dick.
University Police are no more "cops" than mall cops or anyone else dressed as "Officer Sexy" at a Halloween party.
Not that I trust cops either, but Paul Blart there is no cop.
You might try getting a portable computer made in the last 20 years; they've come down in weight since the switch to LCDs.
Sprint tethered cell phone plan FTW!
To be fair, these apps look like legit apps for children. It works much the same way as other malware which would fool most adults. It's not like all parents are computer security specialists - despite all the idiots who love to talk about how their ability to figure out sex suddenly grants them equivalent knowledge to doctors, teachers, bankers, cops, and whatever else they think parenting is equivalent to. :)
People who are 35 grew up with computers which would be completely unusable by anyone who grew up with modern computers. :) I tried giving an 800MHz computer with 512MB RAM to an 18 year old relative who was expressing an interest in computer science, as it runs Linux very well. He essentially said that he'd never seen a computer with RAM measured in less than Gigabytes, and with a processor whose speed was not measured in Gigahertz. And no, "0.5" or "0.8" don't count. My first computer was a 12MHz 286 with a 125MB hard drive and like 2 MB of ram - and it was super badass at the time, with DOS 4.
I'm also still wondering why they tested how long it takes to check a filesystem which has no problems. Why didn't they just test how long it takes to replay the journal if that's all they wanted? They wouldn't have had to wait hours for ext's fsck to finish that way. :)
So be louder, unless you don't care whether or not you're heard. Meetings at large companies are a good place to practice that, since most of the time no one cares what's being said anyway. :)
I stay late because everyone else has already decided to show up early. Morning people think they're "getting more done", but really, they're just annoying the rest of us. :)
Good point. I pretty much only work on domestic V8s with pushrods (ie, no overhead cams == short chains), so tensioners aren't something I often think about on timing chains. But then, I also tend to hang with a crowd for whom "noise, vibration, and harshness" are not concerns in engine design. :)
The article clearly states that there's not much moisture in the snow, so I don't see how melting it would help anything. ;)
Models? The model is "the injectors are rated to flow this much fuel at 100% duty cycle" combined with "current duty cycle" and "measured speed" to calculate "usage per distance". The things that impact that are 1) inaccurate speed measurement (check your car with a GPS - it's probably reading a little fast) and 2) dirty / otherwise out-of-spec injectors (or possibly out of spec fuel pressure). There's no real "model inaccuracy" involved, so much as just error due to garbage in = garbage out. What the Mythbusters did was compare less precise sensors to more precise sensors, and declare that the less precise sensors were less precise. I wasn't shocked, but people who do less mechanic "stuff" probably were, so that's ultimately a good thing. :)
The sensors in your car are there to provide a pretty close estimate of engine behavior so the ECU can adjust things and stay fairly efficient. To be more precise requires way more expensive sensors and more expensive tuning, which makes cars more expensive. And people probably aren't willing to pay a whole lot more for a car that only gets an extra 2MPG. Race enthusiasts, however, are - so you see way more advanced engine management systems on high-dollar race cars, where a couple of HP (and probably slightly better fuel economy as a side effect) is actually justifiable.
Timing chains also stretch. And water pumps usually get replaced around 100-150K miles. Even my two Chevy LT1-powered vehicles (originally in Caprices), which have water pumps driven by a splined shaft which is driven from the cam (so they don't have the side load like bearings in belt-driven water pumps experience) need replaced around 150K miles. It's hard to make a reasonably affordable seal which holds up a lot longer than that, even for the mythical "ultra reliable" Hondas and Toyotas of the world. :)
I also just replaced the factory starter battery in my Grand Marquis - with 120K miles on it. Still on the stock water pump and timing chains (and really everything else except for wear items like shocks and tires), but I'd imagine another year or two will have me looking for more spare parts. I'll probably try to find a Ford Racing "hot rod 4.6" to replace the whole engine with at that point, truth be told. But that's a different story. ;)
Doesn't this just make it more annoying to do searches, since that key (really a "key name") isn't unique? The encryption/decryption/signing uses the whole big key, right? So this would strike me as a client problem whose impact is limited to being able to verify a signature or decrypt something encrypted. It's seemingly more a nuisance than an actual security problem; you shouldn't be trusting keys from unknown sources, and it's easy enough to revoke and reissue keys if you end up having a conflicting index.
Did this or any previous update ever fix the Sprint reception problems that everyone talked about when the phone came out?
They use Photoshop to enhance images, not actual people. The words you're looking for are "paintbrush" and "pencil".
Yes, they should. ;)
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So, because this businessperson / board member didn't know a single answer on the math test, and only scored 62% on the reading test, you think the person is not stupid?
Here's the links to the FCAT tests: http://fcat.fldoe.org/fcatrelease.asp
And here's the direct link to the Grade 10 testbook with answers: http://fcat.fldoe.org/pdf/releasepdf/06/FL06_Rel_G10M_AK_Cwf001.pdf
Here's an example question which this person apparently got wrong:
And here's another:
Those problems are equivalent to (and actually easier than, IMHO) the 8th grade salary-based word problem. The article says that this board member is actually responsible for the budget at a multi-million dollar company. If this person seriously can't calculate percentages, and seriously thinks that this skill is not useful in anyone's everyday life, this person is a moron. Also, all of this person's supposedly business-savvy friends are morons, since they also somehow don't see the value in calculating profit as the difference between gross sales and expenses.
Oh noes! You ignored the parentheses because you understand order of operations!