2) The runtime environment of the iPhone doesn't provide garbage collection.
3) When applications grab too much run, they are killed by the SO.
Don't need to go too far: Try running Cydia update with openssh, ipod and that afp daemon running. It will die and return to the phone's home screen most of the time.
... temperature would go below zero at high altitudes then they would perform corkscrew dive maneuvers at some serious G-force to point the nadir looking antennas above the horizon back down to 300ft above the ocean where the temperature would spike over 100 degrees.
programmers who share a common non-English first language using English among themselves to engage in technical discussions.
IEEE's International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing http://www.ispdc.org/ will happen in Portugal this year. Although his chairman is portuguese and I'm brazilian, we always spoke in English (perhaps because I couldn't understand a word of what he said:) )
but in my experience it's pretty rare to find non-English names, even when all of the comments and documentation are in another language.
The Quebecers understand the Parisians perfectly well, while the Parisians don't understand the Quebecers. (...) they never hear enough Quebec French often enough to learn it, while the Quebecers see plenty of movies in European French. (A similar situation happens for Brazilian and European Portuguese; the Portuguese understand Brazilian perfectly because they watch Brazilian soap operas, while Portuguese soaps are dubbed for the Brazilian market.)
Actually, there is no program at all being sent from Portugal to Brazil. We don't consume pretty much anything from them. Staying in Portugal for some weeks helped me understand that: Everything looked like 30 years ago for a Brazilian. Like the american bikinis:)
The fact is that the pronunciation in Portugal is WAY faster than the modern Brazilian, and more closed too. There are places in Brazil (specifically, the coast of the Santa Catarina state) where the accent is still very similar to that of AÃores island, and it's as hard to understand these people as it is to understand a Portuguese person.
In fact, it's easier for a Brazilian to understand Spanish than Portuguese from Portugal. The Spanish spoken in Madrid is clear. And the Spanish spoken in Buenos Aires is closer to pt-BR.
I believe nearly all Spanish monolinguals in Barcelona can understand Catalan to a moderate degree, since it's not extremely different from Spanish. They can't speak it, though.
They can not because of the similarities, but because of their exposure to Catalan. There are some policies by the government regarding the subject. Pretty much everything you see on the streets and supermarkets is written in Catalan, and sometimes in Spanish too. Barcelona metro speaks only in Catalan. Besides that, Catalan is the mandatory language on public schools. Children not only learn the Catalan, but also the teachers are politically engaged.
Oh, I do speak portuguese, catalan, aranese, spanish, french, italian and some non-latin languages as well.
It's like the whole Ghz thing or the hard disk capacity thing, if people can buy a bigger number they do and assume it's better.
Oh c'mon, where is that 100ghz chinese computer we heard about some years ago?:)
Anyway, in the case of RAM, I'm about to see when a bigger number is not better... (ooh the astonishment of upgrading a MSX from 8kb to 64 plus 768k megaram)
And I thought bad enough that there's no public school in catalunya, spain, where a kid learns in spanish... They give you classes in catalan and "foreigner language spanish".
That's why you're used too. Or you're a weather station:)
Anyway, how much is in kelvin (a decent unit) a single degree Fahrenheit ? And why use fractions when you can use decimals, something any person with 10 fingers can understand?
Decimal fractions are quite easy to understand, even for the dumbest. The difference between 26.5 degrees and 26.9 is way easier than 3/32 to 5 7/8 (quoting from previous example, I won't even have the work to find out what the hell they are).
The best move Apple made was the free-means-free policy. If an app is free, you can't go charging for bits inside it. I would not be happy to download a free app and find that I had to pay $.99 per widget in order to unlock all the useful bits.
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Poor old city boy.
I walk barefoot. Every day. And my feet are thick because of that.
1) Memory management in objective-c sucks.
2) The runtime environment of the iPhone doesn't provide garbage collection.
3) When applications grab too much run, they are killed by the SO.
Don't need to go too far: Try running Cydia update with openssh, ipod and that afp daemon running. It will die and return to the phone's home screen most of the time.
you miss those times, don't you?
... temperature would go below zero at high altitudes then they would perform corkscrew dive maneuvers at some serious G-force to point the nadir looking antennas above the horizon back down to 300ft above the ocean where the temperature would spike over 100 degrees.
So first you froze, then you boiled?
Amazing!!!
But you can do anything that is zombo com! Whatever that means..
I wouldn't fart that much.
Yea, we gotta stop.
Stop worrying, I mean.
programmers who share a common non-English first language using English among themselves to engage in technical discussions.
IEEE's International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing http://www.ispdc.org/ will happen in Portugal this year. Although his chairman is portuguese and I'm brazilian, we always spoke in English (perhaps because I couldn't understand a word of what he said :) )
but in my experience it's pretty rare to find non-English names, even when all of the comments and documentation are in another language.
Try reading openoffice 1.x's source ....
Hehe ... in Madrid they speak gacilian ... the dialect which is basically spoken in Mexico or Argentinia. In Barcelona they speak katalan.
You're kidding, right? El Gallego or Galician, is way closer to Portuguese than to Spanish. It's spoken in Galicia, hundreds of km far from Madrid.
In Madrid, they speak Castellano (or simply Spanish), an entirely different language. And THAT's the one spoken in the Latin American countries.
Oh, besides, it's Catalan, or Catala (with `), not katalan.
In spain they have roughly 5 distinct languages and several noticeable dialects.
In this point, you are entirely correct. They are Castellano, Aranes, Euskera, Catala and Gallego.
Besides that, there are other languages (not dialects) spoken by a reduced amount of people, which are protected, such as Aragones and Asturleonces.
Actually, there is no program at all being sent from Portugal to Brazil. We don't consume pretty much anything from them. Staying in Portugal for some weeks helped me understand that: Everything looked like 30 years ago for a Brazilian. Like the american bikinis :)
The fact is that the pronunciation in Portugal is WAY faster than the modern Brazilian, and more closed too. There are places in Brazil (specifically, the coast of the Santa Catarina state) where the accent is still very similar to that of AÃores island, and it's as hard to understand these people as it is to understand a Portuguese person.
In fact, it's easier for a Brazilian to understand Spanish than Portuguese from Portugal. The Spanish spoken in Madrid is clear. And the Spanish spoken in Buenos Aires is closer to pt-BR.
I believe nearly all Spanish monolinguals in Barcelona can understand Catalan to a moderate degree, since it's not extremely different from Spanish. They can't speak it, though.
They can not because of the similarities, but because of their exposure to Catalan. There are some policies by the government regarding the subject. Pretty much everything you see on the streets and supermarkets is written in Catalan, and sometimes in Spanish too. Barcelona metro speaks only in Catalan. Besides that, Catalan is the mandatory language on public schools. Children not only learn the Catalan, but also the teachers are politically engaged.
Oh, I do speak portuguese, catalan, aranese, spanish, french, italian and some non-latin languages as well.
Right so, English is a virus. Cmp. Ireland, they still stick to the colonial language.
It is better when people stick to their mother tongue. It is all about culture.
Have you ever tried to understand gaelic?
Are you Catalan? :)
At least he would have some!
3GB is not so much a "sweet spot" as it is a limitation based on a 32 bit OS.
You can address 4GB max using 32 bits.
I beg your pardon, but this is limited by your version of windows, not by hardware nor even by 32bit systems.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEdrv.mspx
It's like the whole Ghz thing or the hard disk capacity thing, if people can buy a bigger number they do and assume it's better.
Oh c'mon, where is that 100ghz chinese computer we heard about some years ago? :)
Anyway, in the case of RAM, I'm about to see when a bigger number is not better... (ooh the astonishment of upgrading a MSX from 8kb to 64 plus 768k megaram)
... vista is way too slow for my, and many other's tastes.
Now you got what he meant with "rock solid"....
I've already seen that
- Videogames improve vision
- Masturbation is good for your prostate
- Drinking beer is good for your stomach.
Now the only thing missing is to read that pizza makes you thinner!
Besides that, physx is available for the PS3 and (I believe) the Wii so it would be a (more or less) universal API for physics acceleration.
The Wii uses an ATI card. How could that be possible already?
And I thought bad enough that there's no public school in catalunya, spain, where a kid learns in spanish... They give you classes in catalan and "foreigner language spanish".
But hey, strip search?
For ibuprofen?
Most humans can't detect the difference between, say, 68F and 67F.
And how much would that be? Translate in units people would understand, please.
That's why you're used too. Or you're a weather station :)
Anyway, how much is in kelvin (a decent unit) a single degree Fahrenheit ? And why use fractions when you can use decimals, something any person with 10 fingers can understand?
you gotta be kidding.
Decimal fractions are quite easy to understand, even for the dumbest. The difference between 26.5 degrees and 26.9 is way easier than 3/32 to 5 7/8 (quoting from previous example, I won't even have the work to find out what the hell they are).
only a couple of developing countries were using it (Birma, USA)
USA is not developing for quite long. Rise and fall... i think I've read it before.
The best move Apple made was the free-means-free policy. If an app is free, you can't go charging for bits inside it. I would not be happy to download a free app and find that I had to pay $.99 per widget in order to unlock all the useful bits.
So now the Kindle App won't be free anymore?
damn slashdot. I meant ARROS, with the O grave (`)