At least we know that there will be a system like this. In many countries it is suspected, there's a "wink and a nod", someone says there's such a system, etc, but there's no proof. In India, there will be no doubt.
It also shows that unlike many others, the Indians do not "think of the children". Shameful. Todays children are the terr..., no, freedom figh... uh, ah yes, consumers of tomorrow ! Think of the children !
And how would iphone support antivirus anyway? It can only run one program at a time.
Apparently it can only present one UI, but can presumably run several things. Hence the required help from Apple that the security firms asked for. And if there are farting apps, there's no reason why there shouldn't be an icondom (or whatever).
No. The best approach is to design carefully and with forethought then implement it using the right tool for the right job in as clear, concise, and maintainable a fashion as possible, documenting all the way, and using proper SCM techniques. After that you profile , and make optimizations only where it really makes sense, and you make changes to the documentation to accurately reflect those changes.
That's a nice theory. I don't think anybody's ever done it though.
The fact that you start with the design and conveniently forget the numerous redesign committees, the added features, the dropped features, the shortened deadlines, etc. suggests that this theory was pulled from some kind of book or imaginary world and not from real life experience.
I am SOOO trying to think of something clever to say that involves DHS, TSA, and my "radioactive banana".
Look, I don't know about your bananas, but as long as they leave my cat litter smuggling operations alone, it's fine by me. My kitty litter comes in by custom made submarine (they can hold about 2500 kg), that swim in groups. Then it's brought to the beach in waterproof bags (80 kg per bag) by swimmers and attached to sleds drawn by trained dogs. They pull their load of litter to bro's that centralise the distribution in their district.
They have to lay low for a couple weeks, then they can start to distribute their litter, using local pushers.
You've probably met them. When you're in a cinema queue, that guy whispering "kitty kitty" in your ear. Or when you're entering the pizza shop, that bloke in the hoodie holding a toy mouse by the tail... Yes, they're all litter pushers.
It's a huge industry and it's all around you. If you have a cat, you know where to find us.
If you don't.. well, if you know what's good for you, best to look the other way.
Yes, the buildings themselves are fascinating. Westminster blew me away and no geek should visit London without paying respects to Newton who is burried under it's floor. As others have mentioned the British museam is awsome and will easily cost you a full day. The Rossetta stone is just the tip of the iceberg, you cannot look at the greek/egyptian stonework and fail to be impressed with such skill and precision from bronze age and earlier tools. The hieroglyphs(fixed) in particular look like they've been carved into the red granite with a laser beam.
Coming back from Egypt (again) I have to say that it is indeed very fascinating (not only because the Christians pretty much stole most ideas from their pantheon). They started lots of ideas in numerous domains that others later built upon. It's a very interesting civilisation. The main collections are at the Louvre in Paris and the British Museum thanks to our pillaging of the colonies in the last centuries (and in Egypt of course, although it's much more of a mess there).
In the field, there are still innumerable buildings with carvings that are perfectly legible (some could have been carved yesterday, although they lost their colour), and if you bring the right book they aren't even that hard to read (if you aren't in a group since you'll only have about 5 to 10 seconds).
Frequenting the pubs is a key survival tip, it's the only place where you have any chance of getting something edible for a reasonable price.
Actually if you explore the side streets, you'll often find small strange looking restaurants that offer interesting alternatives to "pub grub" with soup and simple affordable nutritious food.
When you're in London, try to rent something like a room with a kitchen (same price as a hotel). And grab some food at your local M&S for breakfast and supper. Try the "Citadines". They're usually good value.
there are at least 200 different ones, apart from the pilseners, so you won't run out of options quick.
At least, probably twice as many. France, which isn't a beer country (well people certainly mostly drink beer in bars but we don't have any *great* beers, or at least not many, and none known outside of the country) has at least 200 beers (thanks to all the microbreweries, most of which aren't known outside of their small area).
Beer is very easy to make. You can easily make some in your kitchen. Wine, not so*. Oddly, we have lots of wine (there used to be great wine all around the Mediterranean, but religion, mostly, and plant illnesses, as a distant second apparently removed most other producers, save for Italy, Spain and *maybe* Portugal).
Anyway, in Britain, or rather the UK and Ireland, both of which make great beer, and Belgium, which also makes great beer (according to lots of people, since it's not my style, see "wild yeasts" in my post above), I'm pretty sure that a complete survey would show *at least* 1 000 different brands in each territory.
(*) Well, you *could* make wine in your kitchen. You *can* do it really. But between making decent beer (fairly easy) and decent wine (good luck), there's a bit of difference.
If you have a small enough laptop bring it. No need for a new power cord, just get a plug adapter, unless your power brick really won't handle 240 V (most modern ones do).
Unless there's a US thing to restrict voltage, I can't even remember when I last had a gadget that wasn't rated for 110-240 V here in Europe (since I travel quite a bit I regularly check). And I'd be very surprised if any maker bothered to order two series of power converters.
The most important rule for Brittons in Belgium is : don't try your drinking habbits on the belgian beer. it's much stronger(and better) than you're used to; furthermore : taste the effing beer please, in stead of gulping it down.
That really depends on which Belgian beer. Some you really want to just gulp down (preferably with a tube to your stomach to spare your tastebuds) and not taste. There's some *really* weird stuff out there. Of course as long as beer is involved I'll try anything at least once, but some of the Belgian beers I certainly won't try twice.
For the traveller who's interested in beers (or if you happen to live in a cosmopolitan area), try to get your hands on the African Guinness or the Indian stouts. They have to be sampled at least once (they're mostly curiosities).
Disclaimer : I'm not really fond of the "wild yeast" (where you basically wait for some random yeast to come and ferment your beer) variety, and a lot of Belgian beers are made that way. A lot of people enjoy it though, so YMMV.
Bring some really good walking shoes. Public transport in london is expensive and crowded. You'll get a lot more out of walking. But, you'll walk a lot.
No it's not (expensive that is). Well not overly so. You need to get an Oyster card with an X day pass geared for the length of your stay and the area you plan on travelling into (the public transport network is zoned). The oyster system isn't very simple but it's the only sensible way to get around. Works in buses and the tube. Details : What is Oyster?
And the natural history museum is just up the road from the science museum - perhaps the most impressive museum building in the world, built to be a cathedral to science and full of dinosaurs, rocks (including meteorites), a cool earthquake simulator, large mammals, and more dead things in jars than you will ever see anywhere else in your life.
Coming from the US, he has probably seen enough large mammals in the aisles of his local supermarket to last him a lifetime.
The Natural History Museum is great though. I remember all the little bats (engraved) at the top of the columns in one of the rooms. In the 19th (it looked late 19th), they still took the time to make nice buildings (we're lucky enough to have a lot in Paris as well, among lots of earlier and later ones).
And regarding your trip. Depending on how long you stay there, if it's more than a week, try to find a neighbourhood pub (a real one preferably, not one of those modern things) and meet the locals. Pubs are an important part of the British social life. And don't ever order US beer. Try the local bitters, see if they have any local breweries, try anything you've never heard of. Beware, they are served warm by US standards (where any drink is served just above solidification temperature). Putting ice in your beer will be considered weird.
It's far too early to judge Obama, but you Republicans have been doing so since before he took the oath of office.
US politics have a level of viciousness that is rarely seen outside of places like central Africa, or maybe Russia, where it's in the end usually simpler to just kill or imprison the other candidates. *Anything* goes : the other candidate has bad breath, has a weird name, looks funny, once played doctor when he was in kindergarten, looked at a naked guy in the shower, got drunk in a party, got a speeding ticket, doesn't go to church, goes to the wrong church, likes people from the wrong country, speaks other languages, was a bad soldier, was a good soldier but didn't kill anybody, didn't get wounded, got wounded but not the right way, wasn't a soldier, has ancestors that haven't lived in the country for the last 200 years, has a wife that never says anything, has a wife that speaks too much, has hidden children, doesn't have children, has a cat, has a dog, hates animals, doesn't hunt, cannot shoot, shoots too much...
Obama might well fail at what he set up to do, but there certainly won't be the level of corruption, stupidity and brain damage there was during the previous administration. Also he won't be doing things because the voices in his head told him to. In case of a major catastrophe, he probably won't take a vacation while people die on their rooftops.
It's of course a bit of a disappointment for us stinky foreigners who can't poke fun at the US government any more since it more or less looks like it's a regular government, with the usual local bias and compromises, but at least normal. It's also a bit of a relief of course. As such (a regular plain government), nothing very exciting will probably come out of it (but of course you never know), but even that would be a huge improvement over W.
I too don't really see the point of all those versions of Windows plus Mac OS and no Linux. Maybe a very dedicated Windows user could have a use for XP on top of 7 since some stuff might run on one and not the other (isn't there a XP mode in 7 though ?), but adding Vista is just weird.
Also, I notice that 3.11, 95, 98, NT 3.51, Win2K and OS/2 are missing too (to say nothing of BeOS, BSD and Hurd). It's obvious to me that this is still work in progress. Maybe you can boot them on flash cards.
The fact that the review ends with "it’s sometimes easier to find the object on the map view first, that way when you switch the camera view it’s selected and saves you searching around." is a clear sign that so called augmented reality really isn't there when it comes to its primary promised benefit of making information about one's location trivially easy to access.
Or you could just get "Lonely Planet London" (or whatever), save on roaming fees and have all of the data available at the flip of a page without ever worrying about the battery charge or looking like a dork (although your cover might be blown and you might be flagged as a tourist).
[X] My wristwatch battery never goes dead because it does not have one It is a self winding watch as long as I can move, it will wind and tell accurate time.
Ah, so phones make better watches for quadriplegics than wristwatches. Or at least for three days. I knew there was a nugget of truth in that article !
However, the very expensive treatment a smoker receives in hospital, the effect it has on second hand smokers (possibly also receiving treatment) and the loss of productivity of smokers negates easily any cost savings by moving over to the other side.
s/smoker/obese/ and your comment works just as well...
Try developing some stuff in Silverlight and see if you can claim using the above technologies is anywhere near as fast/easy/reliable/etc with a straight face. XHTML+CSS is a huge pain in the ass compared to Xaml. Javascript is slower, harder to maintain, and has less features then C# +.Net.
Except that those other "painful" technologies let other people actually use the apps published to the Web without necessarily having to invest in a PC and/or Windows. The purpose of Web sites was to have a universal system of interconnected data. Not to create a proprietary framework.
Even if Silverlight was the next best thing, the fact that it only works in Windows, marginally works in MacOS and just doesn't work at all elsewhere just rules it out.
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At least we know that there will be a system like this. In many countries it is suspected, there's a "wink and a nod", someone says there's such a system, etc, but there's no proof. In India, there will be no doubt.
It also shows that unlike many others, the Indians do not "think of the children".
Shameful.
Todays children are the terr..., no, freedom figh... uh, ah yes, consumers of tomorrow ! Think of the children !
And how would iphone support antivirus anyway? It can only run one program at a time.
Apparently it can only present one UI, but can presumably run several things. Hence the required help from Apple that the security firms asked for.
And if there are farting apps, there's no reason why there shouldn't be an icondom (or whatever).
And it's from Apple.
So it's doubly perfect. It's not like Mac OS has any security problems either.
So nothing to see here.
No. The best approach is to design carefully and with forethought then implement it using the right tool for the right job in as clear, concise, and maintainable a fashion as possible, documenting all the way, and using proper SCM techniques. After that you profile , and make optimizations only where it really makes sense, and you make changes to the documentation to accurately reflect those changes.
That's a nice theory. I don't think anybody's ever done it though.
The fact that you start with the design and conveniently forget the numerous redesign committees, the added features, the dropped features, the shortened deadlines, etc. suggests that this theory was pulled from some kind of book or imaginary world and not from real life experience.
n/t
...that I have to get up off my backside to put it on? Does it involve being "outside"?
Not very far outside, unless they make that power cord much longer than it currently is.
Oh wow.
I am SOOO trying to think of something clever to say that involves DHS, TSA, and my "radioactive banana".
Look, I don't know about your bananas, but as long as they leave my cat litter smuggling operations alone, it's fine by me.
My kitty litter comes in by custom made submarine (they can hold about 2500 kg), that swim in groups. Then it's brought to the beach in waterproof bags (80 kg per bag) by swimmers and attached to sleds drawn by trained dogs. They pull their load of litter to bro's that centralise the distribution in their district.
They have to lay low for a couple weeks, then they can start to distribute their litter, using local pushers.
You've probably met them. When you're in a cinema queue, that guy whispering "kitty kitty" in your ear. Or when you're entering the pizza shop, that bloke in the hoodie holding a toy mouse by the tail... Yes, they're all litter pushers.
It's a huge industry and it's all around you. If you have a cat, you know where to find us.
If you don't.. well, if you know what's good for you, best to look the other way.
The same approach also works with other non-x86 machine codes, and other languages, such as Russian, French, etc... Very interesting work.
Especially since you can only do French with ARM binaries. It's very strange.
Me too, but they can learn if they want to. And competition can only be good for the search engine market,
Presumably, competition is usually good.
assuming it happens on a decent level.
Ah, sorry, that's where your theory fails.
Yes, the buildings themselves are fascinating. Westminster blew me away and no geek should visit London without paying respects to Newton who is burried under it's floor. As others have mentioned the British museam is awsome and will easily cost you a full day. The Rossetta stone is just the tip of the iceberg, you cannot look at the greek/egyptian stonework and fail to be impressed with such skill and precision from bronze age and earlier tools. The hieroglyphs(fixed) in particular look like they've been carved into the red granite with a laser beam.
Coming back from Egypt (again) I have to say that it is indeed very fascinating (not only because the Christians pretty much stole most ideas from their pantheon). They started lots of ideas in numerous domains that others later built upon. It's a very interesting civilisation. The main collections are at the Louvre in Paris and the British Museum thanks to our pillaging of the colonies in the last centuries (and in Egypt of course, although it's much more of a mess there).
In the field, there are still innumerable buildings with carvings that are perfectly legible (some could have been carved yesterday, although they lost their colour), and if you bring the right book they aren't even that hard to read (if you aren't in a group since you'll only have about 5 to 10 seconds).
Frequenting the pubs is a key survival tip, it's the only place where you have any chance of getting something edible for a reasonable price.
Actually if you explore the side streets, you'll often find small strange looking restaurants that offer interesting alternatives to "pub grub" with soup and simple affordable nutritious food.
When you're in London, try to rent something like a room with a kitchen (same price as a hotel). And grab some food at your local M&S for breakfast and supper. Try the "Citadines". They're usually good value.
there are at least 200 different ones, apart from the pilseners, so you won't run out of options quick.
At least, probably twice as many. France, which isn't a beer country (well people certainly mostly drink beer in bars but we don't have any *great* beers, or at least not many, and none known outside of the country) has at least 200 beers (thanks to all the microbreweries, most of which aren't known outside of their small area).
Beer is very easy to make. You can easily make some in your kitchen. Wine, not so*. Oddly, we have lots of wine (there used to be great wine all around the Mediterranean, but religion, mostly, and plant illnesses, as a distant second apparently removed most other producers, save for Italy, Spain and *maybe* Portugal).
Anyway, in Britain, or rather the UK and Ireland, both of which make great beer, and Belgium, which also makes great beer (according to lots of people, since it's not my style, see "wild yeasts" in my post above), I'm pretty sure that a complete survey would show *at least* 1 000 different brands in each territory.
(*) Well, you *could* make wine in your kitchen. You *can* do it really. But between making decent beer (fairly easy) and decent wine (good luck), there's a bit of difference.
If you have a small enough laptop bring it. No need for a new power cord, just get a plug adapter, unless your power brick really won't handle 240 V (most modern ones do).
Unless there's a US thing to restrict voltage, I can't even remember when I last had a gadget that wasn't rated for 110-240 V here in Europe (since I travel quite a bit I regularly check). And I'd be very surprised if any maker bothered to order two series of power converters.
The most important rule for Brittons in Belgium is : don't try your drinking habbits on the belgian beer. it's much stronger(and better) than you're used to; furthermore : taste the effing beer please, in stead of gulping it down.
That really depends on which Belgian beer. Some you really want to just gulp down (preferably with a tube to your stomach to spare your tastebuds) and not taste. There's some *really* weird stuff out there.
Of course as long as beer is involved I'll try anything at least once, but some of the Belgian beers I certainly won't try twice.
For the traveller who's interested in beers (or if you happen to live in a cosmopolitan area), try to get your hands on the African Guinness or the Indian stouts. They have to be sampled at least once (they're mostly curiosities).
Disclaimer : I'm not really fond of the "wild yeast" (where you basically wait for some random yeast to come and ferment your beer) variety, and a lot of Belgian beers are made that way. A lot of people enjoy it though, so YMMV.
Bring some really good walking shoes. Public transport in london is expensive and crowded. You'll get a lot more out of walking. But, you'll walk a lot.
No it's not (expensive that is). Well not overly so. You need to get an Oyster card with an X day pass geared for the length of your stay and the area you plan on travelling into (the public transport network is zoned).
The oyster system isn't very simple but it's the only sensible way to get around. Works in buses and the tube.
Details : What is Oyster?
And the natural history museum is just up the road from the science museum - perhaps the most impressive museum building in the world, built to be a cathedral to science and full of dinosaurs, rocks (including meteorites), a cool earthquake simulator, large mammals, and more dead things in jars than you will ever see anywhere else in your life.
Coming from the US, he has probably seen enough large mammals in the aisles of his local supermarket to last him a lifetime.
The Natural History Museum is great though. I remember all the little bats (engraved) at the top of the columns in one of the rooms. In the 19th (it looked late 19th), they still took the time to make nice buildings (we're lucky enough to have a lot in Paris as well, among lots of earlier and later ones).
And regarding your trip. Depending on how long you stay there, if it's more than a week, try to find a neighbourhood pub (a real one preferably, not one of those modern things) and meet the locals. Pubs are an important part of the British social life. And don't ever order US beer. Try the local bitters, see if they have any local breweries, try anything you've never heard of. Beware, they are served warm by US standards (where any drink is served just above solidification temperature). Putting ice in your beer will be considered weird.
It's far too early to judge Obama, but you Republicans have been doing so since before he took the oath of office.
US politics have a level of viciousness that is rarely seen outside of places like central Africa, or maybe Russia, where it's in the end usually simpler to just kill or imprison the other candidates. *Anything* goes : the other candidate has bad breath, has a weird name, looks funny, once played doctor when he was in kindergarten, looked at a naked guy in the shower, got drunk in a party, got a speeding ticket, doesn't go to church, goes to the wrong church, likes people from the wrong country, speaks other languages, was a bad soldier, was a good soldier but didn't kill anybody, didn't get wounded, got wounded but not the right way, wasn't a soldier, has ancestors that haven't lived in the country for the last 200 years, has a wife that never says anything, has a wife that speaks too much, has hidden children, doesn't have children, has a cat, has a dog, hates animals, doesn't hunt, cannot shoot, shoots too much...
Obama might well fail at what he set up to do, but there certainly won't be the level of corruption, stupidity and brain damage there was during the previous administration. Also he won't be doing things because the voices in his head told him to. In case of a major catastrophe, he probably won't take a vacation while people die on their rooftops.
It's of course a bit of a disappointment for us stinky foreigners who can't poke fun at the US government any more since it more or less looks like it's a regular government, with the usual local bias and compromises, but at least normal. It's also a bit of a relief of course. As such (a regular plain government), nothing very exciting will probably come out of it (but of course you never know), but even that would be a huge improvement over W.
So please stop espousing the idiotic opinion that somehow giving the rich more money means the rest of us get more money.
Of course we get more money. Give the super rich money and it flows among the others of the caste.
Wait, did you mean "the rest of us peons" ? You mean you can still afford to hook up to the Internet ?
I need to have a word with a few politicians.
"Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" - I'm sure that this was a Murdoch quote.
He just clarified it as "Never let the facts get in the way of my media's income"
And no Linux? For shame!
I too don't really see the point of all those versions of Windows plus Mac OS and no Linux. Maybe a very dedicated Windows user could have a use for XP on top of 7 since some stuff might run on one and not the other (isn't there a XP mode in 7 though ?), but adding Vista is just weird.
Also, I notice that 3.11, 95, 98, NT 3.51, Win2K and OS/2 are missing too (to say nothing of BeOS, BSD and Hurd). It's obvious to me that this is still work in progress.
Maybe you can boot them on flash cards.
Or shake it vigorously before attempting to pour (frequency is more important than amplitude. The higher, the better).
Important tip, the cap must be firmly screwed on the bottle during the liquefaction operation (trust me on this)
What are the pluses/minuses of Ruby compared to Python?
Short version : Same Same but different.
The fact that the review ends with "it’s sometimes easier to find the object on the map view first, that way when you switch the camera view it’s selected and saves you searching around." is a clear sign that so called augmented reality really isn't there when it comes to its primary promised benefit of making information about one's location trivially easy to access.
Or you could just get "Lonely Planet London" (or whatever), save on roaming fees and have all of the data available at the flip of a page without ever worrying about the battery charge or looking like a dork (although your cover might be blown and you might be flagged as a tourist).
[X] My wristwatch battery never goes dead because it does not have one It is a self winding watch as long as I can move, it will wind and tell accurate time.
Ah, so phones make better watches for quadriplegics than wristwatches. Or at least for three days. I knew there was a nugget of truth in that article !
However, the very expensive treatment a smoker receives in hospital, the effect it has on second hand smokers (possibly also receiving treatment) and the loss of productivity of smokers negates easily any cost savings by moving over to the other side.
s/smoker/obese/ and your comment works just as well...
Try developing some stuff in Silverlight and see if you can claim using the above technologies is anywhere near as fast/easy/reliable/etc with a straight face. XHTML+CSS is a huge pain in the ass compared to Xaml. Javascript is slower, harder to maintain, and has less features then C# + .Net.
Except that those other "painful" technologies let other people actually use the apps published to the Web without necessarily having to invest in a PC and/or Windows. The purpose of Web sites was to have a universal system of interconnected data. Not to create a proprietary framework.
Even if Silverlight was the next best thing, the fact that it only works in Windows, marginally works in MacOS and just doesn't work at all elsewhere just rules it out.