What is the Android equivalent of DirectX? Or do you not remember PC gaming before DirectX, with its horrid mess of graphics cards, proprietary APIs like Glide and memory extender juggling? That is where Android development is at now.
Counter-point: Objective-C does not have nullpointer exceptions, since nil is an object that just does nothing. Effectively, the Null Pattern embodied in the object hierarchy. But many of the APIs used are in C, not Objective-C, and there you risk errors that are not so easy to remedy.
So... the ability to fork an open-source project is a good thing until someone actually has the nerve to do so?
Face it, khtml was not going anywhere when it was adopted as WebKit. And the GCC/EGCS debacle has long since shown that also the original project can benefit from development in a fork.
Practice an ID number, name and occupation, and state only those to the cops; then you match the number, name and rank a POW is required to give up to his captors...
Ah, yes, I noticed I read the Wikipedia article too quickly. North Korea signed it and then withdrew after refusing inspectors for a while, and now have the bomb, nearly consequence-free. I guess Iran will not be that lucky, what with all that oil and getting revenge stuff brewing.
Are you conveniently forgetting the part where the U.N. inspectors who were going around Iraq, destroying the weapon depots and cataloging finds, were pulled out by the Americans?
The Israelis surrounded and captured over 8000 Egyptian troops in the Sinai
You should perhaps update the Wikipedia article about the war: According to that, 4338 Egyptian soldiers were captured in total. The page even has multiple references for the statement "There have also been allegations from both Israeli and Egyptian sources that Israeli troops killed unarmed Egyptian prisoners". Make of that what you want. I assume you actually have sources for your statements?
Last I checked Mafia families tended to segregate the "markets" between them, leading to non-competition, much like happens in unregulated business (see the steam train era "Robber Barons" as an example, or the entertainment industries of the modern age).
The Internet started as a DARPA project. Private industry would never have seen the need for it, especially not something that could challenge their established businesses.
Man, I wish you "libertarians" could have a taste of life as laborer back before regulation: Twelve hours a day, six days a week would not leave much energy for your political grandstanding.
... and insurance is one small step removed from Mafia protection money. Libertarians ought to learn that the Mafia started out as a private "police force".
Also, stop using the publicly funded invention called the Internet.
The Government "ails" the economy by bailing out the gamblers and leeches collectively called the "financial industry" - an abuse of the word "industry" if there ever was one. But they also aid the economy by providing the legal framework that lets this abstract entity of a "corporation" actually exist.
It wasn't as if they had any choice: Their home manufacturing capacity was peaked, and all the PC manufacturers had done so already, making a Mac twice the price of a PC. It would take far longer to go through the bureaucracy, factory building and hiring of "posh" Americans to these menial tasks than to just outsource to existing capacity elsewhere in the world.
Ah, the endless libertarian double standard. Kodak, like ANY company based on this legal fiction "intellectual property" is DEPENDENT on a Government-granted monopoly to that effect. But maybe the Government should stop their "attacking" by no longer providing copyright, trademark or patent protection, and not provide courts that the companies use for arbitration, nor the police that companies use when someone steals from them?
Also: You have to be blind not to see that Kodak failed because it was out-competed in a free market. Canon and Nikon are not the fucking Government. They are the competition.
Now, go do your libertarian corporate-ass-licking elsewhere.
Since Foxconn suicide rates are lower than U.S. workplace suicide rates, I can understand why they are leaving for China... 14 hours a day sounds like someone at EA slacking off...
Why do you think that people who start by learning Javascript do not proceed to learn more languages? It is a fucking introductory course. It's not like when you had learned basic arithmetic then you would not learn any more math, so you should have started out with advanced trigonometry to get some "marketable skills".
Every language is broken in a multitude of ways - especially to users of different languages. Just watch a C# fan tear Java a new one, for instance. Or a LISP or Ruby programmer versus - well, everything else, really.
Javascript is simple (but yes, inconsistent), and the runtime environment is already on your computer. If they find out they like programmibng, then they can progress into the minefield that is selecting a second language to learn for more professional use.
And what is not marketable with Javascript skills? Ever hear of Node.js, jQuery etc.? "Oh noes, a language that does not confirm to my limited preference of how a language should act!!1!!!" Inheritance is not inherently (hihi) better than Javascript's prototyping.
If not all Android phones are unlocked in this fashion then Android is not. Otherwise you can say that Apple does not have a walled garden since you just need to use an untethered jailbreak.
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Maybe things have changed in the NINE MONTHS that have passed since that article was posted?
What is the Android equivalent of DirectX? Or do you not remember PC gaming before DirectX, with its horrid mess of graphics cards, proprietary APIs like Glide and memory extender juggling? That is where Android development is at now.
Counter-point: Objective-C does not have nullpointer exceptions, since nil is an object that just does nothing. Effectively, the Null Pattern embodied in the object hierarchy. But many of the APIs used are in C, not Objective-C, and there you risk errors that are not so easy to remedy.
Which is why they are cutting their losses by dropping a product line that generates too little revenue compared to the costs.
That is business wisdom.
So... the ability to fork an open-source project is a good thing until someone actually has the nerve to do so?
Face it, khtml was not going anywhere when it was adopted as WebKit. And the GCC/EGCS debacle has long since shown that also the original project can benefit from development in a fork.
Hah! You probably arranged the "theft", you insurance defrauder you.
Practice an ID number, name and occupation, and state only those to the cops; then you match the number, name and rank a POW is required to give up to his captors...
Ah, yes, I noticed I read the Wikipedia article too quickly. North Korea signed it and then withdrew after refusing inspectors for a while, and now have the bomb, nearly consequence-free. I guess Iran will not be that lucky, what with all that oil and getting revenge stuff brewing.
Israel is also a NPT signatory which refuses inspections. Should we invade Israel?
Are you conveniently forgetting the part where the U.N. inspectors who were going around Iraq, destroying the weapon depots and cataloging finds, were pulled out by the Americans?
The Israelis surrounded and captured over 8000 Egyptian troops in the Sinai
You should perhaps update the Wikipedia article about the war: According to that, 4338 Egyptian soldiers were captured in total. The page even has multiple references for the statement "There have also been allegations from both Israeli and Egyptian sources that Israeli troops killed unarmed Egyptian prisoners". Make of that what you want. I assume you actually have sources for your statements?
Last I checked Mafia families tended to segregate the "markets" between them, leading to non-competition, much like happens in unregulated business (see the steam train era "Robber Barons" as an example, or the entertainment industries of the modern age).
The Internet started as a DARPA project. Private industry would never have seen the need for it, especially not something that could challenge their established businesses.
Man, I wish you "libertarians" could have a taste of life as laborer back before regulation: Twelve hours a day, six days a week would not leave much energy for your political grandstanding.
"I hate Illinois nazis."
- The Blues Brothers.
He probably hates the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned against, and that gets way too much money thrown at it.
... and insurance is one small step removed from Mafia protection money. Libertarians ought to learn that the Mafia started out as a private "police force".
Also, stop using the publicly funded invention called the Internet.
The Government "ails" the economy by bailing out the gamblers and leeches collectively called the "financial industry" - an abuse of the word "industry" if there ever was one. But they also aid the economy by providing the legal framework that lets this abstract entity of a "corporation" actually exist.
It wasn't as if they had any choice: Their home manufacturing capacity was peaked, and all the PC manufacturers had done so already, making a Mac twice the price of a PC. It would take far longer to go through the bureaucracy, factory building and hiring of "posh" Americans to these menial tasks than to just outsource to existing capacity elsewhere in the world.
Ah, the endless libertarian double standard. Kodak, like ANY company based on this legal fiction "intellectual property" is DEPENDENT on a Government-granted monopoly to that effect. But maybe the Government should stop their "attacking" by no longer providing copyright, trademark or patent protection, and not provide courts that the companies use for arbitration, nor the police that companies use when someone steals from them?
Also: You have to be blind not to see that Kodak failed because it was out-competed in a free market. Canon and Nikon are not the fucking Government. They are the competition.
Now, go do your libertarian corporate-ass-licking elsewhere.
Why this absurd focus on ONE of a multitude of visas people enter the U.S. with? Did a H1B visa holder kick you on the shin or something?
Since Foxconn suicide rates are lower than U.S. workplace suicide rates, I can understand why they are leaving for China... 14 hours a day sounds like someone at EA slacking off...
Why do you think that people who start by learning Javascript do not proceed to learn more languages? It is a fucking introductory course. It's not like when you had learned basic arithmetic then you would not learn any more math, so you should have started out with advanced trigonometry to get some "marketable skills".
Every language is broken in a multitude of ways - especially to users of different languages. Just watch a C# fan tear Java a new one, for instance. Or a LISP or Ruby programmer versus - well, everything else, really.
Javascript is simple (but yes, inconsistent), and the runtime environment is already on your computer. If they find out they like programmibng, then they can progress into the minefield that is selecting a second language to learn for more professional use.
And what is not marketable with Javascript skills? Ever hear of Node.js, jQuery etc.? "Oh noes, a language that does not confirm to my limited preference of how a language should act!!1!!!" Inheritance is not inherently (hihi) better than Javascript's prototyping.
The ayes have IT.
"Unwhatnow?" says the hired help at Best Buy.
If not all Android phones are unlocked in this fashion then Android is not. Otherwise you can say that Apple does not have a walled garden since you just need to use an untethered jailbreak.