In some parts of the world they have dynamic speed signs that tells what speed you need to drive to hit each traffic light when they are green, aka. a green wave. Works like a charm no matter what kind of vehicle you are driving.
If you had read the article they specifically said that reporting people of higher skill because you are a "sore loser" will be handled, OTOH we will have to see if the system will be able to handle all the ways "grief-reporting" can be done.
I do think this kind of system is a step in the right direction because so many people playing multiplayer games are total douches and they need to be dealt with somehow.
But those were different times - you'd walk out into the woods in the morning, and parents wouldn't care where you were till sunset (and no one wore pads to ride anything, though you could wear a particularly heavy coat while sledding and not be taken for a wimp needing a good beating).
It varies, but mostly they load all the weapons with live ammo except one. That way you have the highest chance of a successful execution and the guys shooting still haven't got a clue if they had live or blank ammo.
Regarding low quality goods being produced in china, the majority of these goods come into existence this way: 1. Company calls up a Chinese manufacturer to get a price quote for a doodad they designed. 2. Chinese manufacturer replies with a quote. 3. Company asks if they can make it cheaper. 4. Chinese manufacturer says yes 5. Company asks how cheap 6. Chinese manufacturer quotes a bottom price 7. Company says great, you got a deal. 8. Market is flooded with cheap and crappy doodads.
There is often a disconnect between western companies and Chinese manufacturers regarding how they negotiate and do business which leads to the above situation. Then there is those who really just want to manufacture really cheap doodads to make a quick buck.
Well, I'm not surprised that there are knockoffs for the Apple chargers. And this thing with 'unauthorized' cables, I was laughing my head off the first time I heard it and I predicted that exactly this situation would occur.
They want ~$29 USD for their chargers and an "ordinary" charger with USB connector is ~$5 USD. Paying more than $20 extra just because it says Apple on it is just plain stupid and there are people out there that will try to cash in on it (besides Apple I mean).
My guess is that we will hear some whining from Apple-product owners now and it's essentially their own fault for 2 reasons: 1. They bought an Apple product. 2. They bought a third party peripheral for their Apple product.
There is no denying that Apple make good products but I would never buy one because of their walled garden and antics like this.
Origin, a crapware that tries to imitate more successful distribution platforms like Steam and fails miserable. Crashes unexpectedly for no apparent reason and kicks you out of your game whether you are online or not. The UI almost doesn't make sense, if you search for DLC it doesn't show everything they have in the catalog unless you click "Available DLC" from in-game.
Take that pos and port it badly to Mac so we can spread the pain to those users too.:P
I can understand the reasoning for Origin since EA really doesn't want anyone else to get a cut of the action for selling their games, but I have to wonder how much this has cost them in developing the platform and dealing with the public image of it being such a crappy software that most people wouldn't touch it with a eleven foot pole. Maybe it would have been cheaper to continue using Steam et al, in both money and good will.
And this latest iteration of SimCity has no appeal for me what so ever.
You can strongly influence the result of questionnaire by using leading questions.
For example: o Do you believe it's OK for the government to track and monitor private citizens email and phone calls so they can fight terrorism? vs. o Do you believe it's OK for the government to track and monitor private citizens email and phone calls?
The general population has been more or less brainwashed to give up their rights as soon as the phrase "fight terrorism" or "war on terror" is used.
My biggest gripe with ads except that they are intrusive is the technology used to deliver the ads to your browser. The ad-servers are usually extremely slow to serve up the ads and they use a multitude of client side javascripts to do "nifty things" in your browser that makes it slow to a crawl while consuming 100% cpu. On top of that you they also load up the pages with all kind of tracking pixels, cookies whatever that makes your web-experience even slower.
Saying that retina didn't exist before the IPhone 4 is a true statement since retina is just a market name Apple made up and associated with high resolution displays when they released the phone...
To re-iterate what I said in my post a bit more clearly: Smartphones aren't phones that are smart, they are small form factor computers that happens to have phone functionality too. All the technology you mention as innovative for a phone has been proven and used on a computer long before the IPhone was dreamed up. So why does it suddenly become innovative just because you call it a smart-phone???
Retina displays are just Apple branded ordinary high resolution displays manufactured by LG or Samsung. Multi-touch displays has been around a long time for computers. Application ecosystems has also been around a long time, just not geared to "one" platform.
I find it fascinating that so many people find the iPhone revolutionizing. What most people miss is that smartphones are small form factor computers that happens to have phone functionality. Every feature Apple put in the iPhone has been done or been available earlier but they managed to put it all in a slick package, ie. they copied others and made a better product.
Apple's strong point is to take something that already exist and make a better and slicker copy of it. I can't think of one product that Apple has made that was wholly their own idea.
Or as Steve Jobs put it: We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
Funny comment in the article: "At launch, the space plane was accompanied by staff in biohazard suits, leading to speculation that there were radioactive components on board."
I'd wear protective suits if it is fueled with hypergolic propellant since it's extremely toxic, so the comment about radioactive components is just bs IMHO.
I think the biggest problem with Java is the memory bloat. A lot of the developers that work with Java have a very limited understanding how things work under the hood. This usually leads to programs that include references to "good to have" packages/frameworks that contain some functionality they need which in turn leads to memory bloat. If you then have a java-program that needs to run in multiple instances you don't gain the functionality of one memory-image many processes most OS's support. (One of the core-features that Dalvik has if I remember correctly).
Since Java have GC a lot of Java-folks seems to think memory use isn't something you should care about since the "GC" can handle it for them. This leads to bad coding-practices. No matter the language you should always know the scope of an objects life.
IMHO it doesn't matter what language you are using as long as you know what you are doing. Java often get "bashed" from C/C++ programmers but I think that's because Java as a language has a lower threshold with regarding to prerequisite knowledge about CS and is easier to learn, which produces programmers that thinks about computers as a mysterious black box that "just works (mostly)" and the code reflects that in functionality and poor performance.
Buying iPad's isn't a substitute for proper EFB's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_flight_bag), but I guess it will help with the amount of documentation in dead-tree form the pilots have to lug around.
It's a cheap solution that will work in some situations, but if they buy a proper EFB-solution they will get a much better ROI.
Here's one manufacturer of EFB's if want to read up on some of the capabilites EFB's have: http://www.navaero.com/
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I don't get it, are politicians born stupid or have their parents dropped them on their head (repeatedly) while they where young?
The possibility of abuse of this law if it's passed is mind-boggling. I do hope the Canadian people wakes up and take their politicians to task.
Learning kids to program using VBA is like learning to cycle using a pogo-stick.
In some parts of the world they have dynamic speed signs that tells what speed you need to drive to hit each traffic light when they are green, aka. a green wave. Works like a charm no matter what kind of vehicle you are driving.
If you had read the article they specifically said that reporting people of higher skill because you are a "sore loser" will be handled, OTOH we will have to see if the system will be able to handle all the ways "grief-reporting" can be done.
I do think this kind of system is a step in the right direction because so many people playing multiplayer games are total douches and they need to be dealt with somehow.
"It is a beautiful new hammer, and we removed the head to streamline it."
You forgot to mention that they exchanged the handle for balsa wood too, I thought I had a nice little stick there for a while...
Every democracy has the political leadership they deserve.
But those were different times - you'd walk out into the woods in the morning, and parents wouldn't care where you were till sunset (and no one wore pads to ride anything, though you could wear a particularly heavy coat while sledding and not be taken for a wimp needing a good beating).
Today that's called extreme sporting...
It varies, but mostly they load all the weapons with live ammo except one. That way you have the highest chance of a successful execution and the guys shooting still haven't got a clue if they had live or blank ammo.
Regarding low quality goods being produced in china, the majority of these goods come into existence this way:
1. Company calls up a Chinese manufacturer to get a price quote for a doodad they designed.
2. Chinese manufacturer replies with a quote.
3. Company asks if they can make it cheaper.
4. Chinese manufacturer says yes
5. Company asks how cheap
6. Chinese manufacturer quotes a bottom price
7. Company says great, you got a deal.
8. Market is flooded with cheap and crappy doodads.
There is often a disconnect between western companies and Chinese manufacturers regarding how they negotiate and do business which leads to the above situation. Then there is those who really just want to manufacture really cheap doodads to make a quick buck.
Well, I'm not surprised that there are knockoffs for the Apple chargers. And this thing with 'unauthorized' cables, I was laughing my head off the first time I heard it and I predicted that exactly this situation would occur.
They want ~$29 USD for their chargers and an "ordinary" charger with USB connector is ~$5 USD. Paying more than $20 extra just because it says Apple on it is just plain stupid and there are people out there that will try to cash in on it (besides Apple I mean).
My guess is that we will hear some whining from Apple-product owners now and it's essentially their own fault for 2 reasons:
1. They bought an Apple product.
2. They bought a third party peripheral for their Apple product.
There is no denying that Apple make good products but I would never buy one because of their walled garden and antics like this.
Origin, a crapware that tries to imitate more successful distribution platforms like Steam and fails miserable. Crashes unexpectedly for no apparent reason and kicks you out of your game whether you are online or not. The UI almost doesn't make sense, if you search for DLC it doesn't show everything they have in the catalog unless you click "Available DLC" from in-game.
Take that pos and port it badly to Mac so we can spread the pain to those users too. :P
I can understand the reasoning for Origin since EA really doesn't want anyone else to get a cut of the action for selling their games, but I have to wonder how much this has cost them in developing the platform and dealing with the public image of it being such a crappy software that most people wouldn't touch it with a eleven foot pole. Maybe it would have been cheaper to continue using Steam et al, in both money and good will.
And this latest iteration of SimCity has no appeal for me what so ever.
Anyway, I'm done rambling now. TGIF.
You can strongly influence the result of questionnaire by using leading questions.
For example:
o Do you believe it's OK for the government to track and monitor private citizens email and phone calls so they can fight terrorism?
vs.
o Do you believe it's OK for the government to track and monitor private citizens email and phone calls?
The general population has been more or less brainwashed to give up their rights as soon as the phrase "fight terrorism" or "war on terror" is used.
This will only lead to Ubi using this as an excuse for increasing DRM and always online functionality.
Oh, must be tired... Ignore my post above...
Me get moar coffee now...
95% + 68% = 163%
Did I miss something?
My biggest gripe with ads except that they are intrusive is the technology used to deliver the ads to your browser. The ad-servers are usually extremely slow to serve up the ads and they use a multitude of client side javascripts to do "nifty things" in your browser that makes it slow to a crawl while consuming 100% cpu. On top of that you they also load up the pages with all kind of tracking pixels, cookies whatever that makes your web-experience even slower.
Saying that retina didn't exist before the IPhone 4 is a true statement since retina is just a market name Apple made up and associated with high resolution displays when they released the phone...
To re-iterate what I said in my post a bit more clearly: Smartphones aren't phones that are smart, they are small form factor computers that happens to have phone functionality too. All the technology you mention as innovative for a phone has been proven and used on a computer long before the IPhone was dreamed up. So why does it suddenly become innovative just because you call it a smart-phone???
Retina displays are just Apple branded ordinary high resolution displays manufactured by LG or Samsung. Multi-touch displays has been around a long time for computers. Application ecosystems has also been around a long time, just not geared to "one" platform.
I find it fascinating that so many people find the iPhone revolutionizing. What most people miss is that smartphones are small form factor computers that happens to have phone functionality. Every feature Apple put in the iPhone has been done or been available earlier but they managed to put it all in a slick package, ie. they copied others and made a better product.
Apple's strong point is to take something that already exist and make a better and slicker copy of it. I can't think of one product that Apple has made that was wholly their own idea.
Or as Steve Jobs put it: We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
Funny comment in the article: "At launch, the space plane was accompanied by staff in biohazard suits, leading to speculation that there were radioactive components on board."
I'd wear protective suits if it is fueled with hypergolic propellant since it's extremely toxic, so the comment about radioactive components is just bs IMHO.
You forgot 'Soylent green'... :)
You mean losses due to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting don't you??
I think the biggest problem with Java is the memory bloat. A lot of the developers that work with Java have a very limited understanding how things work under the hood. This usually leads to programs that include references to "good to have" packages/frameworks that contain some functionality they need which in turn leads to memory bloat. If you then have a java-program that needs to run in multiple instances you don't gain the functionality of one memory-image many processes most OS's support. (One of the core-features that Dalvik has if I remember correctly).
Since Java have GC a lot of Java-folks seems to think memory use isn't something you should care about since the "GC" can handle it for them. This leads to bad coding-practices. No matter the language you should always know the scope of an objects life.
IMHO it doesn't matter what language you are using as long as you know what you are doing. Java often get "bashed" from C/C++ programmers but I think that's because Java as a language has a lower threshold with regarding to prerequisite knowledge about CS and is easier to learn, which produces programmers that thinks about computers as a mysterious black box that "just works (mostly)" and the code reflects that in functionality and poor performance.
Buying iPad's isn't a substitute for proper EFB's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_flight_bag), but I guess it will help with the amount of documentation in dead-tree form the pilots have to lug around.
It's a cheap solution that will work in some situations, but if they buy a proper EFB-solution they will get a much better ROI.
Here's one manufacturer of EFB's if want to read up on some of the capabilites EFB's have: http://www.navaero.com/
Companies usually doesn't mention competing products in a denigrating way for a reason and it's called lawsuit.
So, please provide a link to a car commercial doing this or stop posting please.
"MTV"? They play music on MTV up there?
There, fixed it!