Regardless of who's answer you believe, they would never drop it on Israel, and the reason why is simple. It is against Islamic law for a Muslim to cause harm to kill another Muslim.
Israel is surrounded by water and muslim countries. If anyone dropped a nuke on them, the follout is guaranteed to be blown over at least one muslim country regardless of wind direction (there's the simple answer), if not five or more. This would cause harm to or kill thousands of muslims, and any muslim country who did that would face an uprising that would make the Arab Spring look like a game of hackeysack.
It's pretty clear from anyone in the community that Arduino(TM) should belong to Arduino LLC. Massimo Banzi is the one person most associated with the name, arduino.cc is where everyone gets the IDE from and where the brand guidelines are, and a simple whois lookup shows it was created 26 October 2005.
But this is going to get very dirty and will drag out for a while.
I don't see them selling 3MM watches per year. That's probably why they did the stupid expensive versions, to recover the research and development costs via insane markup on very limited sales volume rather than the usual merely ridiculous Apple-expected markup on large sales volume.
Plus, the Swiss watch industry caters to an established, conservative market which doesn't have anywhere near complete overlap with whoever Apple expects to sell watches to. The Swiss guys will be just fine.
I just want a watch that has a cool face layout; if that means it has customizable TFT or e-ink, so be it.
However, a smartwatch that is tied to the manufacturer's phone devices is crippled by definition. Apple, Samsung, Sony, whoever... I don't want any of their smartwatches.
And we all know that when the next iOS comes out, it won't support these first gen iWatches.
MS has been trying to break into mobile for a decade, all while Apple, Google, and (for a while) BlackBerry did.
The Windows brand is tainted, even without the debacles of Vista and 8. Windows is everywhere else, and people are either tired of it (even subconsciously) or don't consider it a thing... it's dangerously close to becoming a generic trademark like Kleenex or Band-Aid, except that no one refers to their computers by the OS, if anything they refer to them by the OEM.
MS doesn't know how to connect with consumers for anything other than XBox. Consumer purchases are driven by emotion, but MS tries to sell to consumers with the same tactics and strategy that they sell to business: dispassionate and cost-driven. Hipsters and college kids don't care about that shit.
Also, MS still seems to do product feedback only to validate their own agenda.
Seriously, all the solutions to those plans have been staring them in the face for 20 years. Ironically, MS's own desire for a monoculture on the web prevented them from seeing that.
I've been following this rather passively, but all of this talk seems to only mention specific internet access methods: broadband and/or mobile broadband. However, we know there are a myriad of parallel methods, from satellite to dial-up. Unless all US Internet access is brought under Title II, the market will attempt to shift toward whichever methods are most exploitable for profit.
I don't have one, and it's unlikely that I will have any tablet, ever.
Touchscreens are a regression in human interfaces. Yes, it's more intuitive than a mouse, but it lacks any way to even emulate buttons after the first, "cursor" positioning is imprecise at best, and worst of all there's just no substitute for a keyboard.
Now that the market is correcting itself, Oremus can finally reveal the sad truth about tablets that many here knew at first sight of the iPad: tablets are for consumption, not production. Jobs thought his reality distortion field could hide that, but it's been powered off for a while now. Tablet sales are slipping because the hype is over and the masses are realizing that they need to get stuff done, so back to laptops they go.
We shouldn't let MS get away with trying to portray Edge as a completely new rendering engine. It's not... cutting a branch and cleaning it up does not create a new codebase.
Until the Edge branch receives significant rewrites, edge == trident.
It wouldn't even take a new crop of IE exploits in the wild to make MS stock drop in price. The first two weeks would be a constant flood of blog posts detailing how crappy the code is. Trident is 17 years old, and many of us have heard how much of an unmaintainable mess the codebase has become in their attempts to implement web standards. Even then, MS would have to release it under a fully open license otherwise no one will taint themselves.
The "new thing", Spartan, is just a rebrand of IE with a new skin. It'll still be built around Trident and Chakra, so web developers will have no reason to have a different opinion of it from IE.
MS needs a new rendering engine, but they'll never use an open source one. Their only real option is to write one from scratch, which they haven't done since IE1, and that engine was replaced with Trident (which they bought) in IE4. There was IE5 for Mac, but that was pretty much a one man crusade and its rendering engine was nothing like regular IE.
I was told that by a former employee in a store a couple months ago. I wouldn't put it past RS execs to be doing creative accounting to justify wasting half the floor space with products that don't belong there. They'll get their golden parachutes before anyone else gets anything from a buyout, we've seen it all before.
Why is it only now, three decades later, that they are finally going under?
The answer: Cell phones.
Upper management lost its vision long ago, but the coup de grace was when they started selling cell phones to cash in on an exploding market. Trouble is, RS buys the phones at retail cost and loses money on every unit.
In the last couple years someone in RS management sniffed out a bit of a clue, because they started stocking Arduino, RaspberryPi, and most recently LittleBits. A slight correction, but everyone knows RS should be the non-big-box side of Fry's.
PHP gets bashed because a) the language maintainers are rather bad at language design, and b) so much shitty code gets written in it. I'm in a similar boat as you, having done primarily PHP development since 4.0 was released.
Drupal 7 is ok (I haven't looked at 8 yet), but if you really want to see good PHP code, look at Laravel.
Yes, PHP is easy to write, therefore it is easy to write badly. WordPress is the poster child for PHP's bad reputation, because:
It's written badly
It's written badly even in the context of PHP4, from which it is a relic
The project management refuses to break backwards compatibility
Granted, PHP is the only language where a result like WP is possible. Shitty code hyped by an army of self-described "developers" who proudly and incestuously pass around bad practices like STDs.
That being said, JavaScript outside the browser is a convenient, unnecessary solution looking for a problem.
It should be very clear by now that at least one party doesn't want more people to vote in general, only more of the people likely to vote in that party's favor. The establishment only accepted electronic voting so that they can game the outcome. They'll never take the next step to allow it to be widely exercized.
The infrastructure currrently exists to release all films for home rental immediately!
Yes and no. Hollywood wants same day DVD release, the only thing preventing that is Walmart. As efficient as their distribution system is, it still takes 45 days to get a product onto store shelves. Hollywood doesn't want to risk that leak window.
Nothing, except age. I still have my Epic 4G, and will until there is a new phone with a full QWERTY slider keyboard. I don't want a slim phone, that's why I put a bulky case on it.
If the JS and rendering engines are the same, then there's nothing new that matters to developers. Making it look like Chrome/FF is not necessarily a good thing, as those browsers have stripped the browser UI of many of the most important elements.
Trident is ancient hacked up garbage that MS needs to replace.
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Regardless of who's answer you believe, they would never drop it on Israel, and the reason why is simple. It is against Islamic law for a Muslim to cause harm to kill another Muslim.
Israel is surrounded by water and muslim countries. If anyone dropped a nuke on them, the follout is guaranteed to be blown over at least one muslim country regardless of wind direction (there's the simple answer), if not five or more. This would cause harm to or kill thousands of muslims, and any muslim country who did that would face an uprising that would make the Arab Spring look like a game of hackeysack.
Exactly. The NSA will use them.
It's pretty clear from anyone in the community that Arduino(TM) should belong to Arduino LLC. Massimo Banzi is the one person most associated with the name, arduino.cc is where everyone gets the IDE from and where the brand guidelines are, and a simple whois lookup shows it was created 26 October 2005.
But this is going to get very dirty and will drag out for a while.
I don't see them selling 3MM watches per year. That's probably why they did the stupid expensive versions, to recover the research and development costs via insane markup on very limited sales volume rather than the usual merely ridiculous Apple-expected markup on large sales volume.
Plus, the Swiss watch industry caters to an established, conservative market which doesn't have anywhere near complete overlap with whoever Apple expects to sell watches to. The Swiss guys will be just fine.
I just want a watch that has a cool face layout; if that means it has customizable TFT or e-ink, so be it.
However, a smartwatch that is tied to the manufacturer's phone devices is crippled by definition. Apple, Samsung, Sony, whoever... I don't want any of their smartwatches.
And we all know that when the next iOS comes out, it won't support these first gen iWatches.
MS has been trying to break into mobile for a decade, all while Apple, Google, and (for a while) BlackBerry did.
The Windows brand is tainted, even without the debacles of Vista and 8. Windows is everywhere else, and people are either tired of it (even subconsciously) or don't consider it a thing... it's dangerously close to becoming a generic trademark like Kleenex or Band-Aid, except that no one refers to their computers by the OS, if anything they refer to them by the OEM.
MS doesn't know how to connect with consumers for anything other than XBox. Consumer purchases are driven by emotion, but MS tries to sell to consumers with the same tactics and strategy that they sell to business: dispassionate and cost-driven. Hipsters and college kids don't care about that shit.
Also, MS still seems to do product feedback only to validate their own agenda.
Can we infer from this that the Federal government doesn't consider "suicide by two bullets to the back of the head" capital punishment?
Because we all know that (or something similarly underhanded) is going to happen.
Don't do it, Ed.
Yet another phone without a full QWERTY hardware keyboard, so I'll be keeping my Epic 4G even longer.
Thinness is an anti-feature. If people really wanted their phones to be paper thin, there wouldn't be a market for phone cases.
Standards compliance.
Seriously, all the solutions to those plans have been staring them in the face for 20 years. Ironically, MS's own desire for a monoculture on the web prevented them from seeing that.
You accidentally your links, but if one of them was SureWest, go with them.
Did you post this comment from 2010?
I've been following this rather passively, but all of this talk seems to only mention specific internet access methods: broadband and/or mobile broadband. However, we know there are a myriad of parallel methods, from satellite to dial-up. Unless all US Internet access is brought under Title II, the market will attempt to shift toward whichever methods are most exploitable for profit.
I don't have one, and it's unlikely that I will have any tablet, ever.
Touchscreens are a regression in human interfaces. Yes, it's more intuitive than a mouse, but it lacks any way to even emulate buttons after the first, "cursor" positioning is imprecise at best, and worst of all there's just no substitute for a keyboard.
Now that the market is correcting itself, Oremus can finally reveal the sad truth about tablets that many here knew at first sight of the iPad: tablets are for consumption, not production. Jobs thought his reality distortion field could hide that, but it's been powered off for a while now. Tablet sales are slipping because the hype is over and the masses are realizing that they need to get stuff done, so back to laptops they go.
We shouldn't let MS get away with trying to portray Edge as a completely new rendering engine. It's not... cutting a branch and cleaning it up does not create a new codebase.
Until the Edge branch receives significant rewrites, edge == trident.
mshtml.dll still exists. It loads when Wndows boots because it's the core of IE and Windows Explorer.
It wouldn't even take a new crop of IE exploits in the wild to make MS stock drop in price. The first two weeks would be a constant flood of blog posts detailing how crappy the code is. Trident is 17 years old, and many of us have heard how much of an unmaintainable mess the codebase has become in their attempts to implement web standards. Even then, MS would have to release it under a fully open license otherwise no one will taint themselves.
The "new thing", Spartan, is just a rebrand of IE with a new skin. It'll still be built around Trident and Chakra, so web developers will have no reason to have a different opinion of it from IE.
MS needs a new rendering engine, but they'll never use an open source one. Their only real option is to write one from scratch, which they haven't done since IE1, and that engine was replaced with Trident (which they bought) in IE4. There was IE5 for Mac, but that was pretty much a one man crusade and its rendering engine was nothing like regular IE.
I was told that by a former employee in a store a couple months ago. I wouldn't put it past RS execs to be doing creative accounting to justify wasting half the floor space with products that don't belong there. They'll get their golden parachutes before anyone else gets anything from a buyout, we've seen it all before.
The answer: Cell phones.
Upper management lost its vision long ago, but the coup de grace was when they started selling cell phones to cash in on an exploding market. Trouble is, RS buys the phones at retail cost and loses money on every unit.
In the last couple years someone in RS management sniffed out a bit of a clue, because they started stocking Arduino, RaspberryPi, and most recently LittleBits. A slight correction, but everyone knows RS should be the non-big-box side of Fry's.
PHP gets bashed because a) the language maintainers are rather bad at language design, and b) so much shitty code gets written in it. I'm in a similar boat as you, having done primarily PHP development since 4.0 was released.
Drupal 7 is ok (I haven't looked at 8 yet), but if you really want to see good PHP code, look at Laravel.
Yes, PHP is easy to write, therefore it is easy to write badly. WordPress is the poster child for PHP's bad reputation, because:
Granted, PHP is the only language where a result like WP is possible. Shitty code hyped by an army of self-described "developers" who proudly and incestuously pass around bad practices like STDs.
That being said, JavaScript outside the browser is a convenient, unnecessary solution looking for a problem.
It should be very clear by now that at least one party doesn't want more people to vote in general, only more of the people likely to vote in that party's favor. The establishment only accepted electronic voting so that they can game the outcome. They'll never take the next step to allow it to be widely exercized.
It's garbage, and doesn't deserve any support. The universe would be a better place if all knowledge and memory of it were obliterated.
Yes and no. Hollywood wants same day DVD release, the only thing preventing that is Walmart. As efficient as their distribution system is, it still takes 45 days to get a product onto store shelves. Hollywood doesn't want to risk that leak window.
Nothing, except age. I still have my Epic 4G, and will until there is a new phone with a full QWERTY slider keyboard. I don't want a slim phone, that's why I put a bulky case on it.
If the JS and rendering engines are the same, then there's nothing new that matters to developers. Making it look like Chrome/FF is not necessarily a good thing, as those browsers have stripped the browser UI of many of the most important elements.
Trident is ancient hacked up garbage that MS needs to replace.