I also understood the Comcast/Netflix solution as Comcast including Netflix servers on their network directly, to cut down the congestion at the peering points. It's less about giving Netflix "equality," and more about optimizing the user experience for Comcast customers who consume Netflix.
The "trial" episode of CSI:Cyber was a regular CSI episode last year. Patricia Arquette's character "confused" a very life-like video stripper bot with non-sequitur, which made the bot's skin fall off to reveal metallic cyber bones. That was the best thing ever. Then I learned that they were going to make an actual show based on that sort of thing.
I think that the primary problem is the Windows reliance upon the name of a file to express that file's metadata. I realize that this has been the way of things for decades, but there are myriad ways to differentiate file types now. Modern filesystems have improved ways of storing and reading file metadata as well, without it having to impact the system's functionality.
The interesting thing with full "regular" usage of a Windows system, it is exceedingly rare to actually deal with the actual executable file. A typical user is going to use the menu system to access the executable. I'm a computery sort of person, and I find that the only time I make use explorer is when I need to migrate files from one solution to another, or when I have to stage something for a process I'm running. On a more normal basis, I access my downloads via the browser's download dialog. I access documents via the word processor's recent documents and/or Open dialog (which opens to the established landing place for documents). I access programs via the Start Menu, or Win+Q/Win+S, or Command+Space. Steam is my primary mode of running games, too - I use the UI instead of the shortcuts for the games that are installed.
I used to use the CLI a whole lot more. I guess I just got old, but mostly, it's that sort of "I'm not going to do more work than I really have to" curmudgeon sort of mentality. When I have to navigate to an executable, for instance, HxD, I will create a menu shortcut to it instead. It's just easier. In a lot of ways, the common usage metaphors are what keep users safe, too.
Free vs. less free depends on how you orient your view. From the perspective of a company or programmer, GPLv3 is more restrictive. From the perspective of the code being licensed (the software being set free), GPLv3 is far more free. The GPL is a conscious choice by the copyright holder to allow the written software to be free to take on a life of its own, as it lives within the sets of releases and forks that descend from that original GPL release.
From what I recall, there isn't any actual requirement to redistribute unless you are supplying a device or service that uses it. A company may use GNU/Linux internally, even modify it to suit their needs, but if that company doesn't sell equipment based upon their changes (or a SaaS solution), then they needn't worry about the implications of the GPL.
The world's first nuclear reactor was created in Chicago, under the bleachers of the stadium at UC. It was thought at the time that the world could actually end as a result.
The question is for programming, but the blog discusses AP CS. There are differences there, which are fairly important.
If one were to teach another to program, then I'd stick with a language that is closer to English. This is a reason why PASCAL or BASIC was used - they are a lot more verbose in nature than C, Java, etc. I think Python should qualify as well, because you do want to impress upon the learner the importance of formatting.
For CS concepts, it might be better to start with a language that's closer to the concepts in CS. For this purpose, I'd say Logo. There's a direct feedback in Logo, and it starts really simple. I learned it in junior high school. From there, you can get crazier into the functional programming world and migrate to scheme or full blown lisp, which then translates rather well to automata, grammars, languages, etc.
Right clicking on the system tray icon for the network adapter, on the other hand, opens up a context menu that allows you to get to the desktop variant of network properties.
Except that it doesn't explain why you should follow it. Most people seem to use "karma" (or "what comes around goes around") as a not-quite-as-supernatural-as-an-omnipotent-God reason for following the Golden Rule.
Wouldn't an indoctrination by society of an expectation for others to follow the rules be a suitable enough reason for one to follow that same rule?
In other words, society is perpetuated through an evolved sense of peace. To follow the "Golden Rule" is to benefit society. Society is not a God, it is a social construct with the power to self-enforce the rule, if need be.
I've been there. I know how that is, too. I wouldn't consider food that didn't make me feel stuffed, and would frequently eat to that point. I was uninterested in "healthy" materials. I like cheese a lot, which translates to me liking anything with cheese as a highlight.
I had to quit cold turkey. I had good reason to, considering that I got married and effectively removed myself from the environment where I had developed my habits. I dropped 40 pounds in roughly 6 months, and it was a healthy drop.
Now, I'm so accustomed to "healthy" food, that overly processed stuff just tastes terrible. Regular soda is overpoweringly sweet. Foods like frozen pizza, box mac & cheese, and fast food literally tastes abnormal. Once you get off the sugar, salt, and fat diet pushed by Kraft, Nestle, McDonald's/Wendy's/BK, Coca-Cola, Pepsico, etc, it becomes very difficult to get back on that diet. It shifts from satisfying your tummy and giving you that pleasant sleepy contentment to just tasting bad. The textures end up all wrong, and you'll find yourself wishing you'd gone for the "healthy" stuff.
It takes time, true. It isn't impossible, and it's remarkable how much your preference will change once you finally decide upon that change.
There is, however, a knee-jerk anti-Microsoft reaction here on Slashdot that rejects Windows Phone (particularly) out of hand. It has its merits. Really, it does.
I'll have to disagree with that one - this place used to be filled with M$ Haterade, but I've seen a lot more positive discussion since the antitrust years. I also think that there might be a considerable amount of astroturfing in play by Microsoft.
Slashdot isn't special in the knee-jerk reaction to Windows Phone, though. People pray to the Android / Apple altars and love their holy war, so they poo-poo the Windows Phone as the black sheep of the market.
Exchange is laughable, only people who care about certifications use it, and they are the laughing stock of people who actually use servers. There is a reason 99% of all servers are Unix based.
And Sharepoint has been a nightmare for everyone who's had to deal with it. I replace Sharepoint solutions with open source ones (often Drupal, as it performs easily 100x better on equivalent hardware, and can talk to an AD quite easily), and every customer is very satisfied.
Many business on the MS platform will go all-in with Exchange, primarily because of the level of integration with all products that MS offers. To call those that use Exchange "laughing stock," is essentially a troll.
Sharepoint offers a lot more than Drupal does to a business that employs actual developers, as well as those that understand how to leverage Sharepoint with Analysis Services and PowerPivot. There is also a lot more extensibility of workflows with less dev time than Drupal. Companies probably shouldn't bother with Sharepoint unless they actually care about those things, because it's essentially an expensive CMS without them.
I agree, One time in line at a grocery store one man remarked about how it was stupid they had "retards"[sic] working there. I told him "You can learn from anybody, even this so-called 'retard.' for example, notice he is treating everybody with respect. You know, come to think of it, I never met anyone with Down's syndrome who is a nasty and judgmental prick like you. Maybe we can all take a lesson and learn to treat others nicely."
When I first saw the news, a week ago or so, and Wall Street and Forbes were getting antsy over iPad sales, I thought "why wouldn't sales drop?" The product line is very mature, and there is plenty of competition available as well. The devices last forever - even phones do, though we constantly seek upgrades. Tablets fill a specific need, and there are very few "new" apps that demand a complete overhaul of the hardware in order to function.
Whose licensing is controlled with an iron fist, compared to a lot of 1980s PCs that used standard (or at least unpatented) external interfaces.
Logically speaking, you are persisting a fallacy, specifically a straw man argument. That the interconnect is licensed and controlled is irrelevant to the fact that it exists and functions as an interconnect.
The original statement, here:
But it's not a general purpose computer. The small screen, no keyboard and no external ports make it useless for doing any real work. Except for niche applications, it's strictly a content consumption device.
has been refuted, regardless of your views on the port itself.
I interviewed, scored well technically and got along with everyone in both interviews. I interested them. I didn't get the job. The reasoning? They wanted someone that spent their off-hours doing development work.
At the time, I was disappointed. They were doing interesting stuff, like streaming video over satellites using the.NET framework. I was a budding mid-level then. I would have been a cheap developer for them. I would have learned quite a bit as well. What I understand now, however, is that they probably wanted to know if they could overload me with work. They were likely looking for someone who was willing to work evenings and weekends, without the extra pay.
Looking back, I'm glad that I did not get hired. I value my free time, and I do not spend it in complete passionate pursuit of development. I read about stuff every now and then, and do some home projects, but I find that I'm far more useful at work when I haven't been focusing on the same stuff at home.
Apple has usually shipped the prior version of the iphone alongside their new version. When the 4S came out, the 3GS was the super cheap phone, and the 4 was discounted. When the 5 came out, it was the 4 that was super cheap (free with contract) and the 4S was discounted.
The difference now is that the iPhone 5 has been recast as the 5C, and is not shipped alongside the 5S. Instead, it is still a higher priced product, although not nearly as pricey as the 5S, and the 4S is free with contract.
TLDR: Apple has always shipped a "discounted" iPhone except for the original.
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It's an opt-in situation, however. Nobody is being forced onto the iPhone platform.
I also understood the Comcast/Netflix solution as Comcast including Netflix servers on their network directly, to cut down the congestion at the peering points. It's less about giving Netflix "equality," and more about optimizing the user experience for Comcast customers who consume Netflix.
The "trial" episode of CSI:Cyber was a regular CSI episode last year. Patricia Arquette's character "confused" a very life-like video stripper bot with non-sequitur, which made the bot's skin fall off to reveal metallic cyber bones. That was the best thing ever. Then I learned that they were going to make an actual show based on that sort of thing.
I think that the primary problem is the Windows reliance upon the name of a file to express that file's metadata. I realize that this has been the way of things for decades, but there are myriad ways to differentiate file types now. Modern filesystems have improved ways of storing and reading file metadata as well, without it having to impact the system's functionality.
The interesting thing with full "regular" usage of a Windows system, it is exceedingly rare to actually deal with the actual executable file. A typical user is going to use the menu system to access the executable. I'm a computery sort of person, and I find that the only time I make use explorer is when I need to migrate files from one solution to another, or when I have to stage something for a process I'm running. On a more normal basis, I access my downloads via the browser's download dialog. I access documents via the word processor's recent documents and/or Open dialog (which opens to the established landing place for documents). I access programs via the Start Menu, or Win+Q/Win+S, or Command+Space. Steam is my primary mode of running games, too - I use the UI instead of the shortcuts for the games that are installed.
I used to use the CLI a whole lot more. I guess I just got old, but mostly, it's that sort of "I'm not going to do more work than I really have to" curmudgeon sort of mentality. When I have to navigate to an executable, for instance, HxD, I will create a menu shortcut to it instead. It's just easier. In a lot of ways, the common usage metaphors are what keep users safe, too.
Free vs. less free depends on how you orient your view. From the perspective of a company or programmer, GPLv3 is more restrictive. From the perspective of the code being licensed (the software being set free), GPLv3 is far more free. The GPL is a conscious choice by the copyright holder to allow the written software to be free to take on a life of its own, as it lives within the sets of releases and forks that descend from that original GPL release.
From what I recall, there isn't any actual requirement to redistribute unless you are supplying a device or service that uses it. A company may use GNU/Linux internally, even modify it to suit their needs, but if that company doesn't sell equipment based upon their changes (or a SaaS solution), then they needn't worry about the implications of the GPL.
I'm pretty sure that they have the main writer of Episode V and VI on staff, so I don't think that writing will be much of an issue.
The world's first nuclear reactor was created in Chicago, under the bleachers of the stadium at UC. It was thought at the time that the world could actually end as a result.
The question is for programming, but the blog discusses AP CS. There are differences there, which are fairly important.
If one were to teach another to program, then I'd stick with a language that is closer to English. This is a reason why PASCAL or BASIC was used - they are a lot more verbose in nature than C, Java, etc. I think Python should qualify as well, because you do want to impress upon the learner the importance of formatting.
For CS concepts, it might be better to start with a language that's closer to the concepts in CS. For this purpose, I'd say Logo. There's a direct feedback in Logo, and it starts really simple. I learned it in junior high school. From there, you can get crazier into the functional programming world and migrate to scheme or full blown lisp, which then translates rather well to automata, grammars, languages, etc.
Right clicking on the system tray icon for the network adapter, on the other hand, opens up a context menu that allows you to get to the desktop variant of network properties.
Except that it doesn't explain why you should follow it. Most people seem to use "karma" (or "what comes around goes around") as a not-quite-as-supernatural-as-an-omnipotent-God reason for following the Golden Rule.
Wouldn't an indoctrination by society of an expectation for others to follow the rules be a suitable enough reason for one to follow that same rule?
In other words, society is perpetuated through an evolved sense of peace. To follow the "Golden Rule" is to benefit society. Society is not a God, it is a social construct with the power to self-enforce the rule, if need be.
There's a pretty big maturity difference between a grown-ass man and a 10 or 11 year old.
I've been there. I know how that is, too. I wouldn't consider food that didn't make me feel stuffed, and would frequently eat to that point. I was uninterested in "healthy" materials. I like cheese a lot, which translates to me liking anything with cheese as a highlight.
I had to quit cold turkey. I had good reason to, considering that I got married and effectively removed myself from the environment where I had developed my habits. I dropped 40 pounds in roughly 6 months, and it was a healthy drop.
Now, I'm so accustomed to "healthy" food, that overly processed stuff just tastes terrible. Regular soda is overpoweringly sweet. Foods like frozen pizza, box mac & cheese, and fast food literally tastes abnormal. Once you get off the sugar, salt, and fat diet pushed by Kraft, Nestle, McDonald's/Wendy's/BK, Coca-Cola, Pepsico, etc, it becomes very difficult to get back on that diet. It shifts from satisfying your tummy and giving you that pleasant sleepy contentment to just tasting bad. The textures end up all wrong, and you'll find yourself wishing you'd gone for the "healthy" stuff.
It takes time, true. It isn't impossible, and it's remarkable how much your preference will change once you finally decide upon that change.
There is, however, a knee-jerk anti-Microsoft reaction here on Slashdot that rejects Windows Phone (particularly) out of hand. It has its merits. Really, it does.
I'll have to disagree with that one - this place used to be filled with M$ Haterade, but I've seen a lot more positive discussion since the antitrust years. I also think that there might be a considerable amount of astroturfing in play by Microsoft.
Slashdot isn't special in the knee-jerk reaction to Windows Phone, though. People pray to the Android / Apple altars and love their holy war, so they poo-poo the Windows Phone as the black sheep of the market.
Exchange is laughable, only people who care about certifications use it, and they are the laughing stock of people who actually use servers. There is a reason 99% of all servers are Unix based.
And Sharepoint has been a nightmare for everyone who's had to deal with it. I replace Sharepoint solutions with open source ones (often Drupal, as it performs easily 100x better on equivalent hardware, and can talk to an AD quite easily), and every customer is very satisfied.
Many business on the MS platform will go all-in with Exchange, primarily because of the level of integration with all products that MS offers. To call those that use Exchange "laughing stock," is essentially a troll.
Sharepoint offers a lot more than Drupal does to a business that employs actual developers, as well as those that understand how to leverage Sharepoint with Analysis Services and PowerPivot. There is also a lot more extensibility of workflows with less dev time than Drupal. Companies probably shouldn't bother with Sharepoint unless they actually care about those things, because it's essentially an expensive CMS without them.
I agree, One time in line at a grocery store one man remarked about how it was stupid they had "retards"[sic] working there. I told him "You can learn from anybody, even this so-called 'retard.' for example, notice he is treating everybody with respect. You know, come to think of it, I never met anyone with Down's syndrome who is a nasty and judgmental prick like you. Maybe we can all take a lesson and learn to treat others nicely."
/r/thatHappened
This seems like a decent idea. Perhaps a feature request over at apple.com would result in a higher probability of success than discussing it here.
I'll third this.
When I first saw the news, a week ago or so, and Wall Street and Forbes were getting antsy over iPad sales, I thought "why wouldn't sales drop?" The product line is very mature, and there is plenty of competition available as well. The devices last forever - even phones do, though we constantly seek upgrades. Tablets fill a specific need, and there are very few "new" apps that demand a complete overhaul of the hardware in order to function.
a) it *has* an external port
Whose licensing is controlled with an iron fist, compared to a lot of 1980s PCs that used standard (or at least unpatented) external interfaces.
Logically speaking, you are persisting a fallacy, specifically a straw man argument. That the interconnect is licensed and controlled is irrelevant to the fact that it exists and functions as an interconnect.
The original statement, here:
But it's not a general purpose computer. The small screen, no keyboard and no external ports make it useless for doing any real work. Except for niche applications, it's strictly a content consumption device.
has been refuted, regardless of your views on the port itself.
I interviewed, scored well technically and got along with everyone in both interviews. I interested them. I didn't get the job. The reasoning? They wanted someone that spent their off-hours doing development work.
At the time, I was disappointed. They were doing interesting stuff, like streaming video over satellites using the .NET framework. I was a budding mid-level then. I would have been a cheap developer for them. I would have learned quite a bit as well. What I understand now, however, is that they probably wanted to know if they could overload me with work. They were likely looking for someone who was willing to work evenings and weekends, without the extra pay.
Looking back, I'm glad that I did not get hired. I value my free time, and I do not spend it in complete passionate pursuit of development. I read about stuff every now and then, and do some home projects, but I find that I'm far more useful at work when I haven't been focusing on the same stuff at home.
It's also fairly easy to purchase a uid... if that was something anyone actually cared to spend money on.
100k apps is for the Windows 8 app store, which is probably a separate entity than the R/T tablet store.
Apple has usually shipped the prior version of the iphone alongside their new version. When the 4S came out, the 3GS was the super cheap phone, and the 4 was discounted. When the 5 came out, it was the 4 that was super cheap (free with contract) and the 4S was discounted.
The difference now is that the iPhone 5 has been recast as the 5C, and is not shipped alongside the 5S. Instead, it is still a higher priced product, although not nearly as pricey as the 5S, and the 4S is free with contract.
TLDR: Apple has always shipped a "discounted" iPhone except for the original.
XP was only hammered because the didn't believe that they could walk away from Win9x, which they managed to do by Vista.
Most benefits are a product of post-WWII government wage restrictions, not unions.