Doesn't matter.. you aren't going to get better than 10m accuracy without DGPS and 1m with it. Surveys have to be right to centimetres - no GPS can do that (possibly some of the military stuff, but I'd be surprised if even they were that accurate).
Oh come on.. if you read it like you appear to be doing then even having an expiring password would be illegal, because it stops you getting at your data.
There's such a thing as intent, and reasonable behaviour. If you install a testing version of Win7 *knowing* it'll shut down on you (which it won't start doing until after the final release of Win7 is available anyway) *and* store critical data on a prerelease OS, you haven't got a leg to stand on. Try to take it to court and a judge will kill himself laughing.
do not apply to a lower-level position in hopes that you will one-day get a promotion.
Sorry, you're consigning him to a life of unemployment if he takes that advice.
If you have no experience the low level positions are the *only* thing you have a hope in hell of getting. Nobody is going to take on someone without experience at a skilled job.
You're also dead wrong about internal promotion. It's *way* cheaper and quicker to promote and employ another code monkey at the bottom than pay for someone new... you've got someone who doesn't know your codebase/team coming in.. it's going to take them 6 months to be productive and in the mean time you're losing money. Promote someone and they'll be doing the job within days. Also external hires often want more money - because that's the reason they left their last place, so you're at a disadvantage from the start. I've been in a few places over the years and have *never* heard of one that would hire externally if they had a choice in the matter.
Actually that's not true. In 4 years who will care what you studied? Education becomes increasingly irrelevant once employers have hard data about how good you actually are at the job. It helps for the first year, tops. Beyond that its only use is if it makes you better at the job, and that's far from guaranteed.
That's a good way of putting it... Starting with zero experience in the current climate is going to be *hard*, so a Masters is a good way to pass the time until things pick up. Either way, you'll start at the bottom (when we're looking for candidates we grade according to experience - not qualifications - and someone with zero experience is only going to get a code monkey job no matter how many bits of paper they have).
Except you'll be two years behind on the promotion ladder and have to make that up... and exams don't mean shit once you've got 6 months experience - employers won't even *look* at what you studied once you have relevant experience under your belt.
No, it means that it takes time to develop and test a phone.
There are lots of releases in the pipeline, at different stages of development, that will be released at different times.
On average a phone has 6 months where it's the 'new' phone that is pushed by the carriers then it's ignored (this has already happened to the iphone - try looking for it on the O2 store.. not there, because it's not the latest). Manufactures *have* to keep pushing out phones to remain at the front, and each one has to have something to sell it.
Music isn't the G1's target market.. TBH I never played music on the iphone and haven't even tried it on the G1. Email client is passable (that my company uses google apps helps I guess) and the internet browsing is about the same as the iphone.
If the camera matters to you install SnapPhotoPro, which adds all sorts of functionality to the camera (stability detection, digital zoom, editing, etc.).
Two other apps I find pretty useful are Timeriffic (mutes the phone to a schedule, so I don't have twitter/email going off overnight), and Power Manager (which currently doesn't work on cupcake - but saves battery by automatically enabling/disabling things on the phone based on certain events).
If you don't like a particular feature (eg. the SMS app isn't to your taste or the email doesn't do what you want) as Android allows apps to replace OS functionality there are a number of replacement apps that can fill the task - it's your phone.. it should do what you want it to do.
Android has really grown on me, both as a developer (I find that app development is *very* easy, and there are no fees to do so), and as a user, where the number of times I've had to say 'I wish it could...' is far less than the iphone. OTOH it's still immature in some areas. The camera is, even with good software, still not up to scratch, and the bluetooth is almost nonexistant (no OBEX, no DUN/PAN (although the latter are available if you root the phone as they're in the OS.. just not exposed in the GUI yet)).
What I do like is that learning it isn't learning one phone - android isn't going anywhere.. there will be dozens of phones with it on, from different manfacturers, so eventually I'll be able to upgrade to something with a decent camera etc. and keep all my apps intact - an important consideration when you're paying for apps.
..and on Android you just install TouchDown and get full exchange support.
Google provide gmail, but they (unlike apple) don't restrict what apps people are able to write for the phone, so that kind of lockin just doesn't happen.
No, voicemail on the iphone sucks too. It still has the primary fault - having to listen to someone go on and on about stuff you don't want to hear, read a phone number too fast that you can barely hear, then hang up.
SMS. If you can't bring yourself to do that because it's what the 'young whippersnappers' do then send an email.
Even in business, voicemail is dying fast - we get maybe one voicemail a month and hundreds of emails.
I've not heard of anyone that actually used voicemail for ages.. voicemail has lots of problems:
1. It's linear. It takes ages to go through it and you have to listen to some inane woffle whilst they get to the point. 2. It's expensive - they pay to leave the message *and* you pay to pick it up! no deal. 3. SMS exists. Free, simple, easy to scan through - and what pretty much everyone is using these days.
A modern turbo diesel will get 50-70mpg on the urban cycle. I've had mine at 75 (mostly averages about 60 though).
Now if fuel in this country didn't cost £4.50/gallon (us. equiv about $6.75 a gallon) I'd be happy with that.. (sore about this as even though the price of crude has halved the price at the pumps has not changed.. damned profiteering oil companies).
I've done the same.. worked out the car is about 4 times the cost of just getting the train into work each day - but the train takes 2 hours vs. 20 minutes, and is a nightmare in winter.
There's more consideration than cost - it's a lifestyle choice to pay more for a better life.
Multiprocessing is a key theme of operating systems courses, which are in the core curriculum of all CS programs. Many other courses also cover synchronization primitives, IPC, and other topics useful for multithreaded programming.
If only it was.. life would be so much simpler.
In truth 'operating systems' often means little more than learning machine code. Schools teach the bare minimum the pass - it's not worth their while to start on non-core subjects. The average graduate I see can't even *spell* IPC let alone do it.
Really? Not that I noticed. I was tought Pascal, Ada, 68000 machine code, and they let us play with a little C off the record. Oh and Cobol, of course. No threading at all. That was around 1990.
Having talked to programmers who qualified more recently, it hasn't got any better except they now get to learn C 'officially'. It takes around 6-9 months for a new programmer to pick up how things are done in the real world after being through the education system.
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Doesn't matter.. you aren't going to get better than 10m accuracy without DGPS and 1m with it. Surveys have to be right to centimetres - no GPS can do that (possibly some of the military stuff, but I'd be surprised if even they were that accurate).
Sounds similar to a golf handicap. That was invented (in a simpler form) in 1850.
Oh come on.. if you read it like you appear to be doing then even having an expiring password would be illegal, because it stops you getting at your data.
There's such a thing as intent, and reasonable behaviour. If you install a testing version of Win7 *knowing* it'll shut down on you (which it won't start doing until after the final release of Win7 is available anyway) *and* store critical data on a prerelease OS, you haven't got a leg to stand on. Try to take it to court and a judge will kill himself laughing.
do not apply to a lower-level position in hopes that you will one-day get a promotion.
Sorry, you're consigning him to a life of unemployment if he takes that advice.
If you have no experience the low level positions are the *only* thing you have a hope in hell of getting. Nobody is going to take on someone without experience at a skilled job.
You're also dead wrong about internal promotion. It's *way* cheaper and quicker to promote and employ another code monkey at the bottom than pay for someone new... you've got someone who doesn't know your codebase/team coming in.. it's going to take them 6 months to be productive and in the mean time you're losing money. Promote someone and they'll be doing the job within days. Also external hires often want more money - because that's the reason they left their last place, so you're at a disadvantage from the start. I've been in a few places over the years and have *never* heard of one that would hire externally if they had a choice in the matter.
Actually that's not true. In 4 years who will care what you studied? Education becomes increasingly irrelevant once employers have hard data about how good you actually are at the job. It helps for the first year, tops. Beyond that its only use is if it makes you better at the job, and that's far from guaranteed.
Why isn't there a rating for 'OK this is the answer.. you can close the thread now'?
Best post I've seen in a while.
That's a good way of putting it... Starting with zero experience in the current climate is going to be *hard*, so a Masters is a good way to pass the time until things pick up. Either way, you'll start at the bottom (when we're looking for candidates we grade according to experience - not qualifications - and someone with zero experience is only going to get a code monkey job no matter how many bits of paper they have).
Except you'll be two years behind on the promotion ladder and have to make that up... and exams don't mean shit once you've got 6 months experience - employers won't even *look* at what you studied once you have relevant experience under your belt.
No, it means that it takes time to develop and test a phone.
There are lots of releases in the pipeline, at different stages of development, that will be released at different times.
On average a phone has 6 months where it's the 'new' phone that is pushed by the carriers then it's ignored (this has already happened to the iphone - try looking for it on the O2 store.. not there, because it's not the latest). Manufactures *have* to keep pushing out phones to remain at the front, and each one has to have something to sell it.
Music isn't the G1's target market.. TBH I never played music on the iphone and haven't even tried it on the G1. Email client is passable (that my company uses google apps helps I guess) and the internet browsing is about the same as the iphone.
If the camera matters to you install SnapPhotoPro, which adds all sorts of functionality to the camera (stability detection, digital zoom, editing, etc.).
Two other apps I find pretty useful are Timeriffic (mutes the phone to a schedule, so I don't have twitter/email going off overnight), and Power Manager (which currently doesn't work on cupcake - but saves battery by automatically enabling/disabling things on the phone based on certain events).
If you don't like a particular feature (eg. the SMS app isn't to your taste or the email doesn't do what you want) as Android allows apps to replace OS functionality there are a number of replacement apps that can fill the task - it's your phone.. it should do what you want it to do.
Android has really grown on me, both as a developer (I find that app development is *very* easy, and there are no fees to do so), and as a user, where the number of times I've had to say 'I wish it could...' is far less than the iphone. OTOH it's still immature in some areas. The camera is, even with good software, still not up to scratch, and the bluetooth is almost nonexistant (no OBEX, no DUN/PAN (although the latter are available if you root the phone as they're in the OS.. just not exposed in the GUI yet)).
What I do like is that learning it isn't learning one phone - android isn't going anywhere.. there will be dozens of phones with it on, from different manfacturers, so eventually I'll be able to upgrade to something with a decent camera etc. and keep all my apps intact - an important consideration when you're paying for apps.
..and on Android you just install TouchDown and get full exchange support.
Google provide gmail, but they (unlike apple) don't restrict what apps people are able to write for the phone, so that kind of lockin just doesn't happen.
Firstly, these aren't new... they've been around for 2 years at least, and are becoming relatively cheap now.
Secondly.. 2 year contract? $40 a month for 250MB? WTF?
I pay $7 per month for 1GB, and that isn't limited. On a 12 month contract. I could go to $14 a month for 5GB, but haven't needed to.
I know things are more expensive in the US, but that is an *insane* difference.
This option is part of standard security on high end cars. If it gets stolen the police can track it and tell exactly where it is.
IIRC the tracking only gets enabled if the car actually gets stolen (like a silent alarm I guess).
It also makes it interesting for generating fraudulent data that looks natural.
Hell, why stop there... go for base 1 million.
No, voicemail on the iphone sucks too. It still has the primary fault - having to listen to someone go on and on about stuff you don't want to hear, read a phone number too fast that you can barely hear, then hang up.
SMS. If you can't bring yourself to do that because it's what the 'young whippersnappers' do then send an email.
Even in business, voicemail is dying fast - we get maybe one voicemail a month and hundreds of emails.
I've not heard of anyone that actually used voicemail for ages.. voicemail has lots of problems:
1. It's linear. It takes ages to go through it and you have to listen to some inane woffle whilst they get to the point.
2. It's expensive - they pay to leave the message *and* you pay to pick it up! no deal.
3. SMS exists. Free, simple, easy to scan through - and what pretty much everyone is using these days.
You don't know how to bypass that? hand in your geek card at the door.
It's a trivial protection designed for the masses, and to keep their content providers happy.
Just because the exclusive is for the Sony this time isn't an excuse to whine. This has happened lots of times before.
Maybe he wanted to write a file called '!'?
On the intel side there are a few motherboard manufacturers who disable it.
Last I looked nearly all laptop manufacturers disabled it.
The problem with the intel version vs. the amd version is that the BIOS can disable it at boot and there's nothing the end user can do to reenable it.
35mpg is an engine fire.
A modern turbo diesel will get 50-70mpg on the urban cycle. I've had mine at 75 (mostly averages about 60 though).
Now if fuel in this country didn't cost £4.50/gallon (us. equiv about $6.75 a gallon) I'd be happy with that.. (sore about this as even though the price of crude has halved the price at the pumps has not changed.. damned profiteering oil companies).
I've done the same.. worked out the car is about 4 times the cost of just getting the train into work each day - but the train takes 2 hours vs. 20 minutes, and is a nightmare in winter.
There's more consideration than cost - it's a lifestyle choice to pay more for a better life.
Multiprocessing is a key theme of operating systems courses, which are in the core curriculum of all CS programs. Many other courses also cover synchronization primitives, IPC, and other topics useful for multithreaded programming.
If only it was.. life would be so much simpler.
In truth 'operating systems' often means little more than learning machine code. Schools teach the bare minimum the pass - it's not worth their while to start on non-core subjects. The average graduate I see can't even *spell* IPC let alone do it.
Really? Not that I noticed. I was tought Pascal, Ada, 68000 machine code, and they let us play with a little C off the record. Oh and Cobol, of course. No threading at all. That was around 1990.
Having talked to programmers who qualified more recently, it hasn't got any better except they now get to learn C 'officially'. It takes around 6-9 months for a new programmer to pick up how things are done in the real world after being through the education system.