I agree, if I buy "Google Car" and Google says to me, "Instead of holding the developers responsible, we'll accept ALL liability and fault.", I'd be happy.
Exactly, a full hardware lockout, to the point that lets say the breaks need to be replaced every 100000 km, if you reach 100000 km you can't even turn the car on, it will literally lock you out from starting the vehicle until you replace the part.
Actually the Tacoma Narrows bridge was exactly the fault of the engineers;
Aerodynamic concerns weren't taken into account.
Just because you didn't know that you had to take them into account doesn't mean it isn't your fault and you aren't liable. Well I agree that you can't mitigate / plan for all risks, you still have to be held accountable, liable and at fault for everything you didn't take into consideration.
What if I'm building a new medical radiation device and no one to this point has concerned what happens when a buffer overflows, this causes someone to die. Should I be allowed to roam free because I killed someone?
Developers both hardware and software aren't nearly held to a level of accountability to which they should. When you don't consider a line of risk, you still accept the outcome of those risks, so either mitigate 0 risks, or you must mitigate all risk, even ones that you don't know about and can't consider.
If you programmed the breaks for my car and all of a sudden going 105 Km/h, downhill, in the rain, with the sun out and listening to the radio at a level of 43.4 db, my breaks don't work, I get into an accident and end up in the hospital. Do you really think you shouldn't be held response for this? The breaks failed because you didn't consider case N, which even though you didn't think of, doesn't mean it didn't exist.
We really need to change that, if you are at fault you should be liable. I wouldn't want to be in a car where the programmer or hardware designer or mechanical engineer aren't held in total liability for what they create, if you believe you should't be held liable you shouldn't be touching anything remotely as complex as an automatic car.
If the car has a software issue and crashes then the software developer is at fault. If the car has a hardware problem then the hardware developer is at fault. If the car has a mechanical failure then then mechanical engineer is at fault and so on. Either developer the components / modules correctly in the first place or not at all. If modules / components have lifespans then just lock the car from starting once those lifespans have been reached and if you don't want to be held holding the torch when shit hits the fan then don't get involved from the get go. To spite this modern system of pass the buck and never accept ownership of the problem, someone caused the issue by not doing there job right to begin with and they should have to rectify it.
You can't call yourself a software developer with a solid understanding of hardware. To develop software, you should always be thinking in terms of how the hardware is going to handle that software. That being said if you need a gate count then use VHDL or Verilog or another Hardware Descriptor Language. You can't actually convert an abstracted software language like C and up to gates because every single compiler and linker will turn out different end code.
Unfortunately you're right, only because for some reason North American has developed an attitude where ignorance of fact is okay, it's really sad that we allow it as a society. The only way I can see to really prevent this kind of horrible spreed of ignorance is drastic measures, such as revoking citizenship to people who want to argue either A) Evolution or B) Climate Change, sadly this will never happen.
I found the Q10 keyboard springy to the point it's annoying, like a very very cheap desktop keyboard. It would be insane to suggest a mechanical keyboard for a phone but the Q10 / Q5 has a keyboard that feels so cheap and horrible it insults keyboards.
Actually I'm drawing my opinion based on the fact I've used the Q10, Z10 and Z30. I don't need to read articles, I've drawn my own conclusions based on experience.
It was a joke, it's -30 out right now with the wind chill, at least where I live, I was just making a quick hit at global warming because -30 is colder then today last year, thats all. No one of any serious intelligence would make a statement like that.
It was a joke, it's -30 out right now with the wind chill, I was just making a quick hit at global warming because -30 is colder then today last year, thats all.
Anyone who praises the BB10 UI, I don't want to know or develop with. It's multitasking is hardly impressive, I have used a variety of new phones and I can honestly draw the comparison from my own testing. Android blows the Blackberry out of the water, through the roof and through the sky, it's actually very sad.
As for hiding under buttons and menu's, go into the Hub and press delete without opening a menu, when you can't do that, try to forward a message without going into a menu. If you, as a company, push new mobile innovation, make sure it's amazing and well laid out. BB10 has the chance to become ergonomic and usable but it's going to take a large UI redesign, in the way a user interfaces to the platform, that is what they badly messed up and that is what needs a massive overhaul.
I know approx, 7 people who raved about Blackberry, were very excited about BB10, were expecting to pick up the Z10 and Q10 and support the company. 6 of them, including my father, hate the Q10 and Z10 so much that they have now cursed the death of Blackberry. My dad's own words, "Fuck this horrible piece of shit, did anyone at the Blackberry even given a second though to the interface!" If you like the phones the cool but I personally, and many I know, hate them. I've heard the platform cursed about 10:1, as in for every 10 people who hate it, 1 likes it.
Blackberry should be grateful that anyone is even willing to copy them, the BB10 line of phone is the worst "innovation" in mobile technology, maybe of all time. Putting a keyboard on a phone is not a new concept, at one time all phone had at least some form of keyboard. It should be, in a fair system, extremely hard for Blackberry to defend that another company stole there keyboard design. Blackberry hardly innovated the mobile keyboard, in someways they did it injustice, except for the 9900 line, all other keyboards ever offered by Blackberry were just small and incorrectly laid out in every conceivable way.
From an ergonomics stand point, the new BB10 line is a curse to use and operate. The interface design, which is the "staple" of any mobile system, has the layout and usability that would be expected from an elementary school child programming for the first time. It hides almost all functionally off the screen, under buttons in menus and side screens, it doesn't implement swipe properly and it's a cluttered, messy, disorganized shamble.
In the last year I've had the opportunity to use the Q10, Z10, Z30, iPhone 4s, HTC One and S3. Without a doubt the Z10, 30 and Q10 left me wanting to throw my phone at wall almost constantly. It is so infuriating to try and do any meaningful work on the Blackberry that I ended up giving the phone back to the company I work for. It was a productivity curse, the drop in quality from the 9900 line to the new BB10 line is amazing, I don't know what Blackberry was thinking but they failed 100% in any attempt to change the company's image, I still see them as the trashy, cheap, garbage phones they always have been. They deserve to go out of business, as well as anyone who can honestly say BB10 is a good platform.
If I was Blackberry I would humbled that anyone even wanted to copy me, Blackberry made one usable keyboard and that was it, they never innovated anything else to a point that would make a Canadian proud or an employe happy to go to work. Just cut your loses Blackberry, you've failed outright in creating a new mobile experience.
You're right, my point was that you tell them the trust that Rain comes from the sky and Rain comes from clouds and etc.... Just saying water comes from the sky is a 1/2 lie, it doesn't explain the entire story.
Matter does appear or come out of absence of literally anything or nothing. It's a widely accepted theory that matter or energy comes from anti particles which by definition are nothing.
Teaching creationism to kids is simply telling them lies. Would you tell your child that Jello just appears in cups? Would you tell them that water comes from the sky? Basically would you make other insane claims with no defense? Of course you wouldn't, so why would you tell them that a magic invisible man created them!
Of course if you teach them the extreme theory of creationism in a religion class then fine, just leave it out of science, creationism is as much science as harry potter is.
When you read the bible and claim it's fact you also have to read harry potter and claim it's fact.
Fair enough, but with PETA it is never innocent actions. I've heard and watched PETA speeches where the talker will state and defined horrific acts upon humans because animals are put down. I think they really want to watch hunters because they want to bring unfair action down on them.
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I agree, if I buy "Google Car" and Google says to me, "Instead of holding the developers responsible, we'll accept ALL liability and fault.", I'd be happy.
Exactly, a full hardware lockout, to the point that lets say the breaks need to be replaced every 100000 km, if you reach 100000 km you can't even turn the car on, it will literally lock you out from starting the vehicle until you replace the part.
Aerodynamic concerns weren't taken into account.
Just because you didn't know that you had to take them into account doesn't mean it isn't your fault and you aren't liable. Well I agree that you can't mitigate / plan for all risks, you still have to be held accountable, liable and at fault for everything you didn't take into consideration.
What if I'm building a new medical radiation device and no one to this point has concerned what happens when a buffer overflows, this causes someone to die. Should I be allowed to roam free because I killed someone?
Developers both hardware and software aren't nearly held to a level of accountability to which they should. When you don't consider a line of risk, you still accept the outcome of those risks, so either mitigate 0 risks, or you must mitigate all risk, even ones that you don't know about and can't consider.
If you programmed the breaks for my car and all of a sudden going 105 Km/h, downhill, in the rain, with the sun out and listening to the radio at a level of 43.4 db, my breaks don't work, I get into an accident and end up in the hospital. Do you really think you shouldn't be held response for this? The breaks failed because you didn't consider case N, which even though you didn't think of, doesn't mean it didn't exist.
We really need to change that, if you are at fault you should be liable. I wouldn't want to be in a car where the programmer or hardware designer or mechanical engineer aren't held in total liability for what they create, if you believe you should't be held liable you shouldn't be touching anything remotely as complex as an automatic car.
If the car has a software issue and crashes then the software developer is at fault. If the car has a hardware problem then the hardware developer is at fault. If the car has a mechanical failure then then mechanical engineer is at fault and so on. Either developer the components / modules correctly in the first place or not at all. If modules / components have lifespans then just lock the car from starting once those lifespans have been reached and if you don't want to be held holding the torch when shit hits the fan then don't get involved from the get go. To spite this modern system of pass the buck and never accept ownership of the problem, someone caused the issue by not doing there job right to begin with and they should have to rectify it.
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You can't call yourself a software developer with a solid understanding of hardware. To develop software, you should always be thinking in terms of how the hardware is going to handle that software. That being said if you need a gate count then use VHDL or Verilog or another Hardware Descriptor Language. You can't actually convert an abstracted software language like C and up to gates because every single compiler and linker will turn out different end code.
Unfortunately you're right, only because for some reason North American has developed an attitude where ignorance of fact is okay, it's really sad that we allow it as a society. The only way I can see to really prevent this kind of horrible spreed of ignorance is drastic measures, such as revoking citizenship to people who want to argue either A) Evolution or B) Climate Change, sadly this will never happen.
It was a joke, it clearly didn't come off that way, a few people have reacted to it.
I found the Q10 keyboard springy to the point it's annoying, like a very very cheap desktop keyboard. It would be insane to suggest a mechanical keyboard for a phone but the Q10 / Q5 has a keyboard that feels so cheap and horrible it insults keyboards.
Interesting you've have the exact opposite experience as me. I went from Android -> iOS - > Blackberry, quickly to, Android.
That is sad, global warming is happening, it's a fact.
It's amazing how many people didn't realize that was a joke.
It was a joke. Try taking it a little more lightly
Actually I'm drawing my opinion based on the fact I've used the Q10, Z10 and Z30. I don't need to read articles, I've drawn my own conclusions based on experience.
It was a joke, it's -30 out right now with the wind chill, at least where I live, I was just making a quick hit at global warming because -30 is colder then today last year, thats all. No one of any serious intelligence would make a statement like that.
It was a joke, it's -30 out right now with the wind chill, I was just making a quick hit at global warming because -30 is colder then today last year, thats all.
Anyone who praises the BB10 UI, I don't want to know or develop with. It's multitasking is hardly impressive, I have used a variety of new phones and I can honestly draw the comparison from my own testing. Android blows the Blackberry out of the water, through the roof and through the sky, it's actually very sad.
As for hiding under buttons and menu's, go into the Hub and press delete without opening a menu, when you can't do that, try to forward a message without going into a menu. If you, as a company, push new mobile innovation, make sure it's amazing and well laid out. BB10 has the chance to become ergonomic and usable but it's going to take a large UI redesign, in the way a user interfaces to the platform, that is what they badly messed up and that is what needs a massive overhaul.
I know approx, 7 people who raved about Blackberry, were very excited about BB10, were expecting to pick up the Z10 and Q10 and support the company. 6 of them, including my father, hate the Q10 and Z10 so much that they have now cursed the death of Blackberry. My dad's own words, "Fuck this horrible piece of shit, did anyone at the Blackberry even given a second though to the interface!" If you like the phones the cool but I personally, and many I know, hate them. I've heard the platform cursed about 10:1, as in for every 10 people who hate it, 1 likes it.
Blackberry should be grateful that anyone is even willing to copy them, the BB10 line of phone is the worst "innovation" in mobile technology, maybe of all time. Putting a keyboard on a phone is not a new concept, at one time all phone had at least some form of keyboard. It should be, in a fair system, extremely hard for Blackberry to defend that another company stole there keyboard design. Blackberry hardly innovated the mobile keyboard, in someways they did it injustice, except for the 9900 line, all other keyboards ever offered by Blackberry were just small and incorrectly laid out in every conceivable way.
From an ergonomics stand point, the new BB10 line is a curse to use and operate. The interface design, which is the "staple" of any mobile system, has the layout and usability that would be expected from an elementary school child programming for the first time. It hides almost all functionally off the screen, under buttons in menus and side screens, it doesn't implement swipe properly and it's a cluttered, messy, disorganized shamble.
In the last year I've had the opportunity to use the Q10, Z10, Z30, iPhone 4s, HTC One and S3. Without a doubt the Z10, 30 and Q10 left me wanting to throw my phone at wall almost constantly. It is so infuriating to try and do any meaningful work on the Blackberry that I ended up giving the phone back to the company I work for. It was a productivity curse, the drop in quality from the 9900 line to the new BB10 line is amazing, I don't know what Blackberry was thinking but they failed 100% in any attempt to change the company's image, I still see them as the trashy, cheap, garbage phones they always have been. They deserve to go out of business, as well as anyone who can honestly say BB10 is a good platform.
If I was Blackberry I would humbled that anyone even wanted to copy me, Blackberry made one usable keyboard and that was it, they never innovated anything else to a point that would make a Canadian proud or an employe happy to go to work. Just cut your loses Blackberry, you've failed outright in creating a new mobile experience.
I'm not saying Global Warming doesn't exist, it does! However given this cold spell, I fail to see how the earth is warming up.
You're right, my point was that you tell them the trust that Rain comes from the sky and Rain comes from clouds and etc.... Just saying water comes from the sky is a 1/2 lie, it doesn't explain the entire story.
Matter does appear or come out of absence of literally anything or nothing. It's a widely accepted theory that matter or energy comes from anti particles which by definition are nothing.
Teaching creationism to kids is simply telling them lies. Would you tell your child that Jello just appears in cups? Would you tell them that water comes from the sky? Basically would you make other insane claims with no defense? Of course you wouldn't, so why would you tell them that a magic invisible man created them!
Of course if you teach them the extreme theory of creationism in a religion class then fine, just leave it out of science, creationism is as much science as harry potter is.
When you read the bible and claim it's fact you also have to read harry potter and claim it's fact.
HAHA +5 Mod points :-)
Fair enough, but with PETA it is never innocent actions. I've heard and watched PETA speeches where the talker will state and defined horrific acts upon humans because animals are put down. I think they really want to watch hunters because they want to bring unfair action down on them.