The Skype app crashes all the time, and it's almost always iOS's fault. If you go through the diagnostic logs, you'll see that almost every time that Skype "crashed" it's because it's either using "too much memory" or because it "didn't respond fast enough."
So it's actually Skype's fault. iOS issues low memory warnings before it kills apps. Well written apps respond to that.
Imagine if Windows killed Firefox every time it started (Not Responding) - that's iOS in a nutshell.
Maybe the programmers would put more effort into making FireFox more responsive. Actually, sometimes I wish OS X would do that to Safari. I'm seeing far too many beach balls at the moment.
The other reason apps crash all the time on iOS is because they're written in Objective C. And while there are API tools to make memory management easier, it's still far easier to shoot yourself in the foot and seg fault with Objective C than it is with Java, where the worst you can do is get a NullPointerException or an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
NullPointerException and ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException are both equally as bad as seg faults. They both indicate severe programming bugs and it doesn't mean they are not serious just because the program can catch them and attempt to carry on.
There's an iPad app called Notes Plus that lets you hand write notes (it works best with a stylus) and then will do hand writing recognition. I use it to take notes in all my meetings.
That's funny, I've used Objective-C quite a lot and my perception is that compile time errors are caught at compile time. Not only that, the Clang static analyser will catch lots of run time errors at compile time too.
There's nothing wrong with the carrot and stick metaphor. In the metaphor, the reward is represented by the carrot, the punishment is represented by the stick and the person is represented by the (implied) donkey, that likes eating carrots and dislikes being beaten with a stick. It has nothing to do with the carrot on a stick metaphor.
But it did change the literary landscape. Maybe not the high literary landscape of academia but it changed the world of fantasy literature (maybe not by the time it was nominated though).
One genre of literature then. That's not really Earth shattering.
Despite your mean-spirited assertion, clicking the link DOES NOT provide any information about whether this is market share by: total browser views, unique browser, etc. It just asserts the nebulous term "market share" without any real explanation of what that meant or how it's calculated.
First of all, your pro is erroneous. There would still be a Scottish Conservative party (perhaps not known by the same name), but they are already a spent political force and that's what counts.
The cons are very real, however. The Scottish economy would be dealt a huge blow. Yes, you have the oil, but that won't last forever. What's left of your shipbuilding industry would disappear since it mostly does work for the Royal Navy. Come to that, all the military bases would go. Your anti-nuclear people will be pleased about that, but not the thousands of people who work there.
What else would happen? Scotland would lose all influence it has on the World stage. So would England. There would be no permanent seat on the UN security council, no membership of G20 (England might just qualify there), no real influence in Europe (OK we just screwed that up for you anyway).
And what would you gain for all this? The right to be run by other people who are Scottish? You already have that in most important areas. Also, the "foreign power" that really runs your country will be based much further away in Brussels. In the last labour government in Westminster, Scots held some of the most important positions. That will never happen in Europe.
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Sir Jonathan Ive is a KBE. To be exact, in the order of precedence, he is above Sir Paul McCarthney (who is an MBE)
Paul McCartney received the MBE along with the other Beatles in 1964. The MBE does not entitle the holder to call himself "Sir". McCartney was upgraded to full knighthood in 1996. McCartney and Michael Caine are actually knights bachelor which ranks above KBE. The confusion arises because they were both awarded non knight honours earlier.
The whole Order of Precedence (in England and Whales) is very complicated, and to an American, a bit silly.
The order of precedence in whales is blue, sperm, humpback....
Don't be silly. If you don't drive on the left and you are right handed, your sword arm is on the wrong side to protect you from any vagabonds coming the other way.
Also, Ettore Bugatti's cars were always right hand drive. If the greatest ever car maker thought people should drive on the left, who are we to argue.
If you talk to a C coder and ask him were his/her copy of C99 is, the chances are he or she won't have one. The standard is not needed to program in C. The only time I ever consult the standard (or rather: the most recent free draft of the standard) is when answering questions on Stack Overflow.
Starts & Stripes repots, “Android, developed by Google and other companies, is open source software meaning it can be easily configured by uses – including DOD tech whizzes who want to install security measures.” The Army is already doing widespread testing of prototype smartphone-like devices for use in combat, These devices could change the Army's tactics, reports Stars & Strips.
The author is an idiot who can't spell writing for a magazine that doesn't copy edit.
It's not explicitly anti-commercial, but it is implicitly anti-commercial, at least for the original author. The terms of the licence allow anybody who has a legal copy of the software to redistribute it in source or binary form, which they can do profitably for a bit above what it costs them to compile the source and package it. This is pretty close to zero compared to the cost of writing the software.
Distributing software under the GPL ensures that the developers can't make any more money than anybody else who cares to try.
If we are talking about Red Hat, it should be pointed out that a Red Hat distro includes quite a lot of software that is distributed under licences that are not GPL. For instance, many copies of RHEL are sold to provide web servers. Apache httpd is not GPL'd.
And not contributing anything back to the community. Should Apple fall one day or just discontinue its BSD-based products, all their achievements will be lost. On the other hand, when a big GPL vendor falls or discontinues a product, anybody can come in and keep it alive from the last public release.
This is wrong. All of the BSD components Apple has modified are open sourced by Apple. The kernel of their operating system is open sourced. Some other components of the OS are open sourced e.g. IOKit, libdispatch, cflite. The printer system (CUPS) is open sourced. Bonjour is open sourced. Webkit is open sourced. Their C compiler is open sourced.
Don't say they have given nothing back, because it's bullshit.
If I was in your passenger seat and you turned to look at me when talking to me, I'd tell you to get your eyes back on the road. So would any other passenger with a sense of self preservation.
Don't whine on Slashdot. Apple has a feedback form for most of their applications (Address book is strangely missing, probably to stop the server from melting). If you don't like the iCal UI fill in the iCal feedback form. Tell them what a miserable pile of shite it is.
Actually, do whine on Slashdot, but tell everybody else about the feedback page.
What's to stop me from making an identical copy of your signet ring (the seal on the envelope provides a convenient mould) melting the wax off, opening, copying and resealing the letter and then resealing it with my signet ring copy?
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Mr Madison to you...
It's impossible to make amends: he's dead.
As a UK citizen, I have flown out of British airports on several occasions in he last year or two. I have never been given a full body scan.
The Skype app crashes all the time, and it's almost always iOS's fault. If you go through the diagnostic logs, you'll see that almost every time that Skype "crashed" it's because it's either using "too much memory" or because it "didn't respond fast enough."
So it's actually Skype's fault. iOS issues low memory warnings before it kills apps. Well written apps respond to that.
Imagine if Windows killed Firefox every time it started (Not Responding) - that's iOS in a nutshell.
Maybe the programmers would put more effort into making FireFox more responsive. Actually, sometimes I wish OS X would do that to Safari. I'm seeing far too many beach balls at the moment.
The other reason apps crash all the time on iOS is because they're written in Objective C. And while there are API tools to make memory management easier, it's still far easier to shoot yourself in the foot and seg fault with Objective C than it is with Java, where the worst you can do is get a NullPointerException or an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
NullPointerException and ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException are both equally as bad as seg faults. They both indicate severe programming bugs and it doesn't mean they are not serious just because the program can catch them and attempt to carry on.
There's an iPad app called Notes Plus that lets you hand write notes (it works best with a stylus) and then will do hand writing recognition. I use it to take notes in all my meetings.
That's funny, I've used Objective-C quite a lot and my perception is that compile time errors are caught at compile time. Not only that, the Clang static analyser will catch lots of run time errors at compile time too.
There's nothing wrong with the carrot and stick metaphor. In the metaphor, the reward is represented by the carrot, the punishment is represented by the stick and the person is represented by the (implied) donkey, that likes eating carrots and dislikes being beaten with a stick. It has nothing to do with the carrot on a stick metaphor.
Woosh!
But it did change the literary landscape. Maybe not the high literary landscape of academia but it changed the world of fantasy literature (maybe not by the time it was nominated though).
One genre of literature then. That's not really Earth shattering.
As for the matter at hand, is the UK not at will employment typically?
No.
Despite your mean-spirited assertion, clicking the link DOES NOT provide any information about whether this is market share by: total browser views, unique browser, etc. It just asserts the nebulous term "market share" without any real explanation of what that meant or how it's calculated.
The methodology is explained in the site FAQ.
Let me help you.
First I should declare an interest: I am English.
First of all, your pro is erroneous. There would still be a Scottish Conservative party (perhaps not known by the same name), but they are already a spent political force and that's what counts.
The cons are very real, however. The Scottish economy would be dealt a huge blow. Yes, you have the oil, but that won't last forever. What's left of your shipbuilding industry would disappear since it mostly does work for the Royal Navy. Come to that, all the military bases would go. Your anti-nuclear people will be pleased about that, but not the thousands of people who work there.
What else would happen? Scotland would lose all influence it has on the World stage. So would England. There would be no permanent seat on the UN security council, no membership of G20 (England might just qualify there), no real influence in Europe (OK we just screwed that up for you anyway).
And what would you gain for all this? The right to be run by other people who are Scottish? You already have that in most important areas. Also, the "foreign power" that really runs your country will be based much further away in Brussels. In the last labour government in Westminster, Scots held some of the most important positions. That will never happen in Europe.
Sir Jonathan Ive is a KBE.
To be exact, in the order of precedence, he is above Sir Paul McCarthney (who is an MBE)
Paul McCartney received the MBE along with the other Beatles in 1964. The MBE does not entitle the holder to call himself "Sir". McCartney was upgraded to full knighthood in 1996. McCartney and Michael Caine are actually knights bachelor which ranks above KBE. The confusion arises because they were both awarded non knight honours earlier.
The whole Order of Precedence (in England and Whales) is very complicated, and to an American, a bit silly.
The order of precedence in whales is blue, sperm, humpback....
Don't be silly. If you don't drive on the left and you are right handed, your sword arm is on the wrong side to protect you from any vagabonds coming the other way.
Also, Ettore Bugatti's cars were always right hand drive. If the greatest ever car maker thought people should drive on the left, who are we to argue.
If you talk to a C coder and ask him were his/her copy of C99 is, the chances are he or she won't have one. The standard is not needed to program in C. The only time I ever consult the standard (or rather: the most recent free draft of the standard) is when answering questions on Stack Overflow.
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Starts & Stripes repots, “Android, developed by Google and other companies, is open source software meaning it can be easily configured by uses – including DOD tech whizzes who want to install security measures.”
The Army is already doing widespread testing of prototype smartphone-like devices for use in combat, These devices could change the Army's tactics, reports Stars & Strips.
The author is an idiot who can't spell writing for a magazine that doesn't copy edit.
It's not explicitly anti-commercial, but it is implicitly anti-commercial, at least for the original author. The terms of the licence allow anybody who has a legal copy of the software to redistribute it in source or binary form, which they can do profitably for a bit above what it costs them to compile the source and package it. This is pretty close to zero compared to the cost of writing the software.
Distributing software under the GPL ensures that the developers can't make any more money than anybody else who cares to try.
If we are talking about Red Hat, it should be pointed out that a Red Hat distro includes quite a lot of software that is distributed under licences that are not GPL. For instance, many copies of RHEL are sold to provide web servers. Apache httpd is not GPL'd.
And not contributing anything back to the community. Should Apple fall one day or just discontinue its BSD-based products, all their achievements will be lost. On the other hand, when a big GPL vendor falls or discontinues a product, anybody can come in and keep it alive from the last public release.
This is wrong. All of the BSD components Apple has modified are open sourced by Apple. The kernel of their operating system is open sourced. Some other components of the OS are open sourced e.g. IOKit, libdispatch, cflite. The printer system (CUPS) is open sourced. Bonjour is open sourced. Webkit is open sourced. Their C compiler is open sourced.
Don't say they have given nothing back, because it's bullshit.
I have a couple of videos on YouTube. Google let me put them up there for free. What's my business relationship with Google?
If I was in your passenger seat and you turned to look at me when talking to me, I'd tell you to get your eyes back on the road. So would any other passenger with a sense of self preservation.
Don't whine on Slashdot. Apple has a feedback form for most of their applications (Address book is strangely missing, probably to stop the server from melting). If you don't like the iCal UI fill in the iCal feedback form. Tell them what a miserable pile of shite it is.
Actually, do whine on Slashdot, but tell everybody else about the feedback page.
What's to stop me from making an identical copy of your signet ring (the seal on the envelope provides a convenient mould) melting the wax off, opening, copying and resealing the letter and then resealing it with my signet ring copy?
Some people really don't have anything useful to do or contribute to our society...
That is exactly what I thought, after reading your post.
Anyone bemoaning the loss of Hypercard is ignoring a brazillian other options.
But the brazilian other options can be really painful.