If Islam gave a damn about people's lives, they would allow people to perform the Hajj all year around, or over a longer time window, or by proxy, or not at all. But all that would cut into the profits and we can't have that.
Blackberry should have gone with Android from the get go. They could have produced a security hardened version of Android where personal apps and business apps resided in separate personas protected from each other. This was a strong and compelling option for companies that wanted BYOD but without the risk. They could have thrown in their software stack too and their own front end and would have made a lot of money.
Now they're belatedly bringing out devices that run Android but it's basically just Samsung and KNOX under the covers. It's probably too little too late. I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung buy Blackberry outright and use the brand to sell a bunch of security hardened phones.
I wish Google would support a universal ABI using bitcode in their NDK. Apps that have native shared libs (i.e. most games) are faced with either bundling up all the libs compiled for each architecture into a single package (bloat), or producing separate packages for each architecture (hassle). And of course if a new architecture comes along, it means repackaging the app again.
It'd be much nicer to just bundle up a single shared library that was compatible with any architecture. It could be turned into a native lib when the app is downloaded or when the app was installed on the device. It could also just execute via a JIT.
The weird thing is that Android does contain an llvm compiler for renderscript, but not the NDK.
Historical fiction is fine. But the actual history that the story is framed within shouldn't be an afterthought or abused out of all recognition in order to contain the story.
With regard to Gladiator some of the mistakes are simply lazy (stating Rome was founded as a republic etc.) and there are some lengthy critiques about the movie from historians. Some minor changes to the script would have fixed a lot of these errors, and in other cases the plot or action could have been modified without detrimentally affecting anything.
He might be good at pointing a camera but he's never seemed too concerned about his movies having scientific or historic accuracy. Or even internal consistency for that matter.
I agree with this. Touch screen support more or less falls out of the design of GNOME 3 rather than being to the detriment of desktop use. It's meant to be a task oriented design and it just happens that this fits in with the model that most tablet OSes follow.
That isn't to say I like everything about GNOME 3. I spent WAY too long recently just making a lousy launcher for Minecraft for my kid. Something that would take seconds in Windows but meant I had to figure out how write a.desktop file by hand and where to put it.
Movie theatre staff *won't* be wearing night vision goggles. It's an absurd idea. The most one can expect is that if a particular cinema has been the source of piracy in the past (identifiable from watermarks in the image / audio), then there might be undercover investigators in the audience looking out for surreptitious filming. Personally if I were pirating movies I'd vary my routine around and I'd stick the camera into a cup or popcorn bag where it would be virtually impossible to see in the dark.
What's there by default isn't touch oriented, it's task oriented and in terms of influence it takes more from OS X and exposé than it does Windows 8 (which didn't even exist when GNOME 3 came out).
All that repeat customer bullshit was simply a lie to convince a small business to provide the same service on 1/4 of the the revenue. They also fucked over businesses in some cases by selling more vouchers than the business could ever possibly fulfil. All this was great for Groupon of course but terrible for the businesses.
People who chase deals are by definition cheapskates. Once a business undermines its own value in the eyes of a customer they'll never pay full price again. In fact they'll never even come in again unless the place runs another groupon and in the meantime they'll be off somewhere else.
Groupon fucked over a lot of businesses, and then moved onto the next before their reputation caught up with them. It was a completely unsustainable model which explains why the original investors are long gone. Now their site mostly sells crummy service deals - 50% off eyebrow waxing, carpet cleaning etc. stuff where the the cost of the service is low or fixed so they can make up any bullshit figure and pretend to discount it. I'll be glad Groupon and its ilk die.
John Carmack writes games for a living. Games have to bend or break every rule to get as much performance out of the software. e.g. writing a square root approximation instead of calling a more expensive but proper square root function. It does not mean that those techniques are universally applicable or even represent good programming practice.
As for Java vs C++, I expect that most enterprises put stability and portability well above raw speed when developing software. Modern JVMs do just in time compilation meaning the performance differential is fairly slight particularly for IO / database bound middleware.
It's not an either / or thing. The US military would make liberal use of drones and helicopters for their ability to loiter. An aircraft like an F-35 would be called in to take out larger targets like a building or bridge. Second, the Super Tucano is described by its own manufacturers as suitable for low intensity operations. It's not fulfilling the same role as an F-35 and it would likely be useless in a high intensity battle where it's liable to be shot down.
The F-35 is about 3x as fast, has 2x the range, more hardpoints, more carry capacity and considerably more stealthy. Doubtless this other aircraft is far more suitable for certain support roles (the vids say low intensity environments) and a LOT cheaper but I doubt that there is much intersection with the sorts of roles the F-35 is envisaged for.
I use ABP but I kept seeing Taboola ads and I couldn't understand why ABP wasn't blocking them. I eventually wrote my own rule to strip them out. Then I discovered it allowed them through because they were "acceptable" when they were clearly obnoxious "social" click-bait bullshit. From that I conclude that ABP's main definition of "acceptable" is "paid us a lot of money".
So no, I don't think ABP's policy works, nor is it driven by conscience. At least the settings allow all ads to be blocked but I'd trust the defaults more if it truly did care about acceptability. The only plausible default definition of "acceptable" would be text only / 15k image banners with limits on load times and no tracking cookies.
Virtually all of this malware comes from warez sites and other dubious sources malvertising etc. If people are really so dumb as to download "sexy girl screensaver" or some cracked software which asks for ALL the permissions then they get everything they deserve.
Stick to the official store or a trusted third party one. It's highly unlikely that you will be infected and if by misfortune you are, there is a chance that the software can be remotely killed and removed before it does any harm.
The Antutu scores for the Atom chips are out there and they're not out of line with similar chips. Indeed, Asus already use the chip in their $229 Zenfone 2 and it has a pretty decent performance for that price range. My biggest reason to not buy this particular tablet has less to do with the CPU and what I've read about ZenUI.
Small pox is (virtually) eradicated thanks to immunization. It has nothing to do with the genetic code of the virus being incorporated into the DNA but because the immune system of vaccinated people has been taught to recognize and attack the virus before it can multiply or spread. The word "vaccine" derives from the vaccinia virus which causes small pox. A close relative of the virus causes cow pox and it was discovered that infecting someone with the latter gave them protection from the former.
I take my tablet (which has a keyboard dock) to Spain, Portugal, the USA and I don't particularly relish leaving a PC on in my house for 2 or 3 weeks. I don't relish having to set up remote access to it through a firewall, or making the assumption that I have internet at all in order to access it.
And why should I when my tablet is a PC? I can take my work with me. I can write software (my profession), or play a game or just use it like a tablet. It's a thoroughly impractical idea to suggest use RDP instead.
I see. So even though a Windows tablet is entirely capable of being a full desktop in its own right, to take into an office or hotel and do real work, you think it's that RDP is an adequate replacement.
Android needs better hardware specs than an iPad? Interesting. As for Windows, it *might* be a security issue if you use your tablet as a Windows desktop instead of just apps from the app store. Then again, being able to run a full desktop from a tablet is a pretty useful thing on occasion. Even just installing a printer driver on a Windows tablet is far simpler and more apps print properly than some of the bullshit that iOS or Android puts you through.
They only have a 16GB phone so they can post a lower price - "from $649". It doesn't matter if the phone with that capacity is worse than fucking useless because they intend to hit people for an extra $100 for the 64GB version when they walk in to buy one. I expect the actual production cost of 48GB more storage is $10 tops so the rest is pure profit.
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If Islam gave a damn about people's lives, they would allow people to perform the Hajj all year around, or over a longer time window, or by proxy, or not at all. But all that would cut into the profits and we can't have that.
Now they're belatedly bringing out devices that run Android but it's basically just Samsung and KNOX under the covers. It's probably too little too late. I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung buy Blackberry outright and use the brand to sell a bunch of security hardened phones.
It'd be much nicer to just bundle up a single shared library that was compatible with any architecture. It could be turned into a native lib when the app is downloaded or when the app was installed on the device. It could also just execute via a JIT.
The weird thing is that Android does contain an llvm compiler for renderscript, but not the NDK.
With regard to Gladiator some of the mistakes are simply lazy (stating Rome was founded as a republic etc.) and there are some lengthy critiques about the movie from historians. Some minor changes to the script would have fixed a lot of these errors, and in other cases the plot or action could have been modified without detrimentally affecting anything.
He might be good at pointing a camera but he's never seemed too concerned about his movies having scientific or historic accuracy. Or even internal consistency for that matter.
That isn't to say I like everything about GNOME 3. I spent WAY too long recently just making a lousy launcher for Minecraft for my kid. Something that would take seconds in Windows but meant I had to figure out how write a .desktop file by hand and where to put it.
Movie theatre staff *won't* be wearing night vision goggles. It's an absurd idea. The most one can expect is that if a particular cinema has been the source of piracy in the past (identifiable from watermarks in the image / audio), then there might be undercover investigators in the audience looking out for surreptitious filming. Personally if I were pirating movies I'd vary my routine around and I'd stick the camera into a cup or popcorn bag where it would be virtually impossible to see in the dark.
What's there by default isn't touch oriented, it's task oriented and in terms of influence it takes more from OS X and exposé than it does Windows 8 (which didn't even exist when GNOME 3 came out).
People who chase deals are by definition cheapskates. Once a business undermines its own value in the eyes of a customer they'll never pay full price again. In fact they'll never even come in again unless the place runs another groupon and in the meantime they'll be off somewhere else.
GNOME works great on a desktop. There are also lots of extensions that add stuff like task bars, app launchers etc.
Groupon fucked over a lot of businesses, and then moved onto the next before their reputation caught up with them. It was a completely unsustainable model which explains why the original investors are long gone. Now their site mostly sells crummy service deals - 50% off eyebrow waxing, carpet cleaning etc. stuff where the the cost of the service is low or fixed so they can make up any bullshit figure and pretend to discount it. I'll be glad Groupon and its ilk die.
As for Java vs C++, I expect that most enterprises put stability and portability well above raw speed when developing software. Modern JVMs do just in time compilation meaning the performance differential is fairly slight particularly for IO / database bound middleware.
I'm shocked that Stroustrup shows such a blatant bias for his own language.
It's not an either / or thing. The US military would make liberal use of drones and helicopters for their ability to loiter. An aircraft like an F-35 would be called in to take out larger targets like a building or bridge. Second, the Super Tucano is described by its own manufacturers as suitable for low intensity operations. It's not fulfilling the same role as an F-35 and it would likely be useless in a high intensity battle where it's liable to be shot down.
The F-35 is about 3x as fast, has 2x the range, more hardpoints, more carry capacity and considerably more stealthy. Doubtless this other aircraft is far more suitable for certain support roles (the vids say low intensity environments) and a LOT cheaper but I doubt that there is much intersection with the sorts of roles the F-35 is envisaged for.
So no, I don't think ABP's policy works, nor is it driven by conscience. At least the settings allow all ads to be blocked but I'd trust the defaults more if it truly did care about acceptability. The only plausible default definition of "acceptable" would be text only / 15k image banners with limits on load times and no tracking cookies.
Stick to the official store or a trusted third party one. It's highly unlikely that you will be infected and if by misfortune you are, there is a chance that the software can be remotely killed and removed before it does any harm.
The Antutu scores for the Atom chips are out there and they're not out of line with similar chips. Indeed, Asus already use the chip in their $229 Zenfone 2 and it has a pretty decent performance for that price range. My biggest reason to not buy this particular tablet has less to do with the CPU and what I've read about ZenUI.
Hence the "It has nothing to do with the genetic code of the virus being incorporated into the DNA". I hope you're responding to the GP.
Small pox is (virtually) eradicated thanks to immunization. It has nothing to do with the genetic code of the virus being incorporated into the DNA but because the immune system of vaccinated people has been taught to recognize and attack the virus before it can multiply or spread. The word "vaccine" derives from the vaccinia virus which causes small pox. A close relative of the virus causes cow pox and it was discovered that infecting someone with the latter gave them protection from the former.
And why should I when my tablet is a PC? I can take my work with me. I can write software (my profession), or play a game or just use it like a tablet. It's a thoroughly impractical idea to suggest use RDP instead.
I see. So even though a Windows tablet is entirely capable of being a full desktop in its own right, to take into an office or hotel and do real work, you think it's that RDP is an adequate replacement.
Android needs better hardware specs than an iPad? Interesting. As for Windows, it *might* be a security issue if you use your tablet as a Windows desktop instead of just apps from the app store. Then again, being able to run a full desktop from a tablet is a pretty useful thing on occasion. Even just installing a printer driver on a Windows tablet is far simpler and more apps print properly than some of the bullshit that iOS or Android puts you through.
None of which matters if the cost and performance / power capabilities of the Atom processor is better than the equivalent ARM processor.
They only have a 16GB phone so they can post a lower price - "from $649". It doesn't matter if the phone with that capacity is worse than fucking useless because they intend to hit people for an extra $100 for the 64GB version when they walk in to buy one. I expect the actual production cost of 48GB more storage is $10 tops so the rest is pure profit.