But why oh why are apps installed as an.apk? Keeping your app in a ZIP file is a nightmare and hindrance for the developer. It means you can't access your resource files without being aware of the ZIP compression they imprisoned in. This little nugget means you can't use any third party libraries unless you either start copying the data files around post install or make extensive modifications to make the libraries aware of the ZIP file...
A user might not realize it but this kind of stuff affects their end user experience (for example, what happens if the file copy fails in the above solution?)
Android is the next Windows because the SDK is just as bad as Win32 is.
Go read these documents. They are run of the mill diplomatic cables. No crimes in these documents. Kind of makes you question the point of publication...
Your arguments amount to value judgements ("The U.S. is more bad. No, Myanmar is more bad. bla bla bla") and are beside the point. Wikileaks self proclaimed goal is to publish leaked documents in a neutral way, not arbitrate which are important and which are not. Wikileaks used to host many documents and now seems to host only U.S. related documents. This implies a political agenda.
Except while wikileaks used to host leaked documents from around the world, it no longer does. It's concentrating solely on the U.S. It has non-U.S. documents but no longer makes them available. Smells like a political agenda.
This only reinforces the impression that Wikileaks has an agenda which has more to do with bashing the U.S. than anything else. Submissions are down, all non-U.S. documents have disappeared but you can search, rate and discuss the U.S. documents. If Wikileaks can go to such great lengths to host the U.S. documents I see no reason it can't host the non U.S. documents which are probably fewer in number anyway.
I used to think Wikileaks was an interesting idea that had a lot of potential to do good. I'm rapidly losing respect for the site as it seems that political agendas have taken over.
It used to be the Wikileaks actually posted this kind of stuff. It used to be full of documents from nations all over the world. Now the website simply has the U.S. documents and nothing else. Apparently, leaking information is now only important if it is U.S. information.
There is a huge difference. You didn't digitally record the audience for all posterity. The information on those screenings is lost forever.The recordings from this company's product will be kept forever.
The video doesn't say much for NASA efficiency
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Android lives in the U.S. only because iPhone doesn't live anywhere but on AT&T. If the rumors of iPhone on Verizon (and perhaps T-Mobile and the rest of the gang), there is a very good chance Android handset sales will shrivel significantly. Android and Google do not have the mobile brand recognition that Apple does, not even close.
Evidently, Google does not have a process controlling the access of user accounts by employees of the company. Google needs to stop ignoring the fact that it is dealing with increasingly more private information on individuals and that like other organizations with such information (think banks) it needs to develop a full fledged process (with well defined protocols, auditing, etc.) to ensure that any access to a user's private information is authorized and accounted for. Google wants to think of itself as a technology company where process is a hindrance. Google is too big to continue thinking and acting like that. I'm guessing Google will not deal with this particular problem until it gets sued.
Given this, I wouldn't hire you as a system admin. A real system admin would know that a robust system is based on a robust process (with all the not so fun ramifications), not on the quality of the individuals involved. The problem with Google is that they probably don't have a process around accessing user data. Google will adopt a process once it gets sued.
"You went on to describe how Perl is great but just so you know - every one of those reasons you listed is why every multi-lingual person on the planet hates English."
Pretty much all human languages have wrinkles that make them difficult to learn for non-native speakers. English is a favorite target because it's the language more people have to learn as a second language not because it's any worse than other languages.
This is indeed a good point. However, we don't have any numbers for this. It is possible this is true in which case a different set of metrics need to be used. However, those were not the metrics Apple provided.
From an engineering perspective, the ratio is more important in the sense of "is the design a failure". From a user's perspective I believe that in this case a ratio is still a better way to look at it. As an iPhone user who experiences a lot of drops, the moment I pick up the phone I already have a gut feeling that some of my calls will drop. Presented with the information that it'll drop twice as many calls is very informative.
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But why oh why are apps installed as an .apk? Keeping your app in a ZIP file is a nightmare and hindrance for the developer. It means you can't access your resource files without being aware of the ZIP compression they imprisoned in. This little nugget means you can't use any third party libraries unless you either start copying the data files around post install or make extensive modifications to make the libraries aware of the ZIP file...
A user might not realize it but this kind of stuff affects their end user experience (for example, what happens if the file copy fails in the above solution?)
Android is the next Windows because the SDK is just as bad as Win32 is.
Enjoy...
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://wikileaks.org
Go read the documents... Pretty boring stuff. I don't see any "unsavory conduct" in the batch I went through...
Go read these documents. They are run of the mill diplomatic cables. No crimes in these documents. Kind of makes you question the point of publication...
Maybe because Wikileaks removed all non-U.S. documents from their website...
Which still does not explain where the previously leaked documents went...
Your arguments amount to value judgements ("The U.S. is more bad. No, Myanmar is more bad. bla bla bla") and are beside the point. Wikileaks self proclaimed goal is to publish leaked documents in a neutral way, not arbitrate which are important and which are not. Wikileaks used to host many documents and now seems to host only U.S. related documents. This implies a political agenda.
The central question still remains. What happened to all the other documents?
Except while wikileaks used to host leaked documents from around the world, it no longer does. It's concentrating solely on the U.S.
It has non-U.S. documents but no longer makes them available. Smells like a political agenda.
This only reinforces the impression that Wikileaks has an agenda which has more to do with bashing the U.S. than anything else. Submissions are down, all non-U.S. documents have disappeared but you can search, rate and discuss the U.S. documents.
If Wikileaks can go to such great lengths to host the U.S. documents I see no reason it can't host the non U.S. documents which are probably fewer in number anyway.
I used to think Wikileaks was an interesting idea that had a lot of potential to do good. I'm rapidly losing respect for the site as it seems that political agendas have taken over.
It used to be the Wikileaks actually posted this kind of stuff. It used to be full of documents from nations all over the world. Now the website simply has the U.S. documents and nothing else. Apparently, leaking information is now only important if it is U.S. information.
These two quotes just about sum Objective-C:
"Objective-C is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity"
and:
"Those who don't understand Objective-C are condemned to reinvent it, poorly"
With apologies to Dennis Ritchie, Henry Spencer and Unix.
The real news would be if someone figured how to do this cleanly without requiring a jailbreak.
There is a huge difference. You didn't digitally record the audience for all posterity. The information on those screenings is lost forever.The recordings from this company's product will be kept forever.
100 people to pack a box?
Android lives in the U.S. only because iPhone doesn't live anywhere but on AT&T. If the rumors of iPhone on Verizon (and perhaps T-Mobile and the rest of the gang), there is a very good chance Android handset sales will shrivel significantly.
Android and Google do not have the mobile brand recognition that Apple does, not even close.
Or they could start having children...
And it'll be made by Apple.
Evidently, Google does not have a process controlling the access of user accounts by employees of the company. Google needs to stop ignoring the fact that it is dealing with increasingly more private information on individuals and that like other organizations with such information (think banks) it needs to develop a full fledged process (with well defined protocols, auditing, etc.) to ensure that any access to a user's private information is authorized and accounted for.
Google wants to think of itself as a technology company where process is a hindrance. Google is too big to continue thinking and acting like that.
I'm guessing Google will not deal with this particular problem until it gets sued.
Given this, I wouldn't hire you as a system admin. A real system admin would know that a robust system is based on a robust process (with all the not so fun ramifications), not on the quality of the individuals involved.
The problem with Google is that they probably don't have a process around accessing user data. Google will adopt a process once it gets sued.
It got turned on its head because of taxes on dividends.
worked for me, thanks!
"You went on to describe how Perl is great but just so you know - every one of those reasons you listed is why every multi-lingual person on the planet hates English."
Pretty much all human languages have wrinkles that make them difficult to learn for non-native speakers. English is a favorite target because it's the language more people have to learn as a second language not because it's any worse than other languages.
This is indeed a good point. However, we don't have any numbers for this. It is possible this is true in which case a different set of metrics need to be used. However, those were not the metrics Apple provided.
From an engineering perspective, the ratio is more important in the sense of "is the design a failure".
From a user's perspective I believe that in this case a ratio is still a better way to look at it. As an iPhone user who experiences a lot of drops, the moment I pick up the phone I already have a gut feeling that some of my calls will drop. Presented with the information that it'll drop twice as many calls is very informative.