You realize there is a large range of ProBooks, from desktop replacements (that get about 3 hours) to ultra-portables (that advertise around 10)? In any case you can't find what you want because there is no demand for such a thing - OEMs already demonstrated it with lackluster sales of such devices, hence why they don't do them anymore - which is how a free market works, supply and demand.
If it's stronly typed, there's no sense it adding this to the variable name: use a better IDE if you don't know what a variable is at a certain point.
No, there would be no sense adding it if it were the typename, but it isn't. For example a long representing the column width isn't lColWidth or lWidth it would be colWidth because it's the 'kind' (since people often interpret 'type' in this context to mean 'typename') of thing being represented, not the way it is being represented.
Netscape named their implementation of ECMAScript as 'JavaScript' as the result of a cross-promotional stunt with Sun. Netscape was bought by AOL. AOL merged with Time-Warner. This merger was the largest acquisition in business history. I can't believe you don't know this.
Maybe he was pointing out that the AOL/Time Warner acquisition happened after Netscape's JavaScript was released?
And what the fuck is "bought into the FUD" supposed to mean?
It means he's a zealot, just like saying "blind-sided by the RDF" if you're anti-Apple, where everything Microsoft is FUD. In truth it's more likely the company - as many companies do - chose to buy their software and have the vendor maintain it rather than employ developers as well as their IT department. I'm not saying FOSS isn't a good choice rather that many companies prefer not to have a significant role in software development for their IT tools.
Nowhere there does it say he quit, it just says he's decided to seek employment elsewhere, most people will find another job before they quit their current one.
What was implied in the discussion, and what i should have said is in the cockpit of a military aircraft, since that's where these are going to be needed. Pretty sure there aren't any there so it would require a retrofit of some kind.
So are all the people who trashed Apple for making Siri exclusive to the iPhone 4S going to trash Google for making Chrome exclusive to ICS devices?
Specific application requires specific OS functions that aren't available in earlier versions, pretty damn obvious and really not that hard to comprehend. Your flamebait fails.
They also want the noise reduction for ordinary phone calls, so it has to be built in to the phone regardless.
I suppose.
Also, one of the tricks of noise reduction is to use multiple microphones. Doing the noise reduction on the server would mean sending multiple audio streams and not just one. And clean audio is probably more compressible than noisy audio too, which adds the the difference in data size.
Really the issue then is that you need specialized hardware on the client end as well as connectivity to the server. Rather than just any audio source connecting to the service.
I know this will be pretty shocking for you to learn: but copyright laws give authors the right to revoke previously granted licenses at their own discretion
The adapter wouldn't even need to be specially made. I've got two different HTC phones here that did not come with a conventional AC adapter. It's a standard 110V plug on one side that you plug a USB cable into.
It'll charge the battery from almost dead to full in about an hour or so, so it's not one of those slow trickle charges that are basically useless if the device is on.
And now if you'll circle back to the start of the discussion you'll see that a converter does have to be specially made because you aren't going to find a standard household powerpoint on a military aircraft.
The Galaxy S is a top-selling phone that's only months old and yet not getting Android 4.0, while the 2 1/2 year old iPhone 3GS can run the latest version of iOS.
Just to be 100% clear here, the characterization of the Galaxy S as 'only months old' is a bit disingenuous, it's well over a year old, in fact it's over 1 1/2 years old. And the iPhone 3GS can run the latest version of iOS but does lack some features like AirPlay mirroring.
That clarified, the Galaxy S doesn't get ICS because the at the time the requirements for ICS obviously couldn't be factored into the hardware design because they weren't known, that's a major advantage of Apple's vertical integration. It would be nice if Google worked closer with official (certified?) Android handset manufacturers to establish the compatibility of devices going forward.
And it lacks the noise reduction of Siri on the 4S, so it won't be nearly so good at recognising what you say in everyday environments. Like in the car for example.
I wonder why they didn't implement the noise-reduction server-side given that they send the audio data anyway. I've been using both Siri and TellMe in the car and neither stands out as any more accurate than the other when doing things like getting them to call or text people and dictating messages. I believe TellMe does its noise-reduction on the server, i could be wrong there though.
Ok, if there's a cost for windows and it's greater than zero dollars. And you get it back.
Then the cost of the laptop becomes X minus windows cost.
That means that it's more expensive with the windows license. this isn't exactly difficult to understand, right?
Have they added the cost on that the crapware vendors paid them to include that software that they are now not including? This isn't that difficult to understand, right?
I didn't ask for exact specs. I asked for something that meets or exceeds 3 simple specs, a configuration that is available on at least 5 windows machines from 5 different manufacturers. Cederic (above) was able to find one, but only for Europe (though I never specified North America).
Have a look at the HP Probooks then, they offer FreeDOS. Or System76? Or ZAReason? It's really very easy to find if you actually look.
I *defy* you to find a laptop that get over 5 hours of battery with a screen larger than 10" and a higher vertical resolution than 600px without windows pre-installed.
Macbook Air/Pro. Defied!
There is the Lenovo x220 (freedos no longer offered), Asus zenbook, Toshiba ux-31, Acer aspire S3 and HP folio. NONE of those are offered without windows, even on special request. Trust me, I *TRIED*.
It's basic economics, supply and demand. You reckon i could find a device with the exact specs of a Macbook Air that does come with Windows pre-installed? No.
Since when is a computer a laptop? It's they other way around, a laptop is a computer. If the computer you want is a laptop then I already suggested what to do, did you not read?: go to one of the few manufacturers (well even HP offers systems with FreeDOS instead of Windows) that offers alternatives to Windows and OSX
And what about Lenovo? What about HP who currently sell systems with FreeDOS that are cheaper that those with Windows? That directly contradicts your assertion.
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HP ProBooks barely get 2 hours.
You realize there is a large range of ProBooks, from desktop replacements (that get about 3 hours) to ultra-portables (that advertise around 10)?
In any case you can't find what you want because there is no demand for such a thing - OEMs already demonstrated it with lackluster sales of such devices, hence why they don't do them anymore - which is how a free market works, supply and demand.
next it will be dissent.
If it's stronly typed, there's no sense it adding this to the variable name: use a better IDE if you don't know what a variable is at a certain point.
No, there would be no sense adding it if it were the typename, but it isn't. For example a long representing the column width isn't lColWidth or lWidth it would be colWidth because it's the 'kind' (since people often interpret 'type' in this context to mean 'typename') of thing being represented, not the way it is being represented.
Netscape named their implementation of ECMAScript as 'JavaScript' as the result of a cross-promotional stunt with Sun. Netscape was bought by AOL. AOL merged with Time-Warner. This merger was the largest acquisition in business history. I can't believe you don't know this.
Maybe he was pointing out that the AOL/Time Warner acquisition happened after Netscape's JavaScript was released?
That terminology originally comes from disk drive buses
He's obviously not disputing that, you're quite clearly missing the point.
How about, when naming variables, you have to put the first letter of the typename in the start of the variable name!
Hungarian notation isn't about using the typename at all.
Fair enough ;)
but I'm serious: No amount of money would induce me to work with products from Apple or Microsoft.
Care to actually tell us why?
And what the fuck is "bought into the FUD" supposed to mean?
It means he's a zealot, just like saying "blind-sided by the RDF" if you're anti-Apple, where everything Microsoft is FUD. In truth it's more likely the company - as many companies do - chose to buy their software and have the vendor maintain it rather than employ developers as well as their IT department. I'm not saying FOSS isn't a good choice rather that many companies prefer not to have a significant role in software development for their IT tools.
He did quit.
Nowhere there does it say he quit, it just says he's decided to seek employment elsewhere, most people will find another job before they quit their current one.
What was implied in the discussion, and what i should have said is in the cockpit of a military aircraft, since that's where these are going to be needed. Pretty sure there aren't any there so it would require a retrofit of some kind.
Gingerbread's Web Browser also gets 100 on the Acid3 test.
Well that must mean it's 100% standards compliant then!
Chrome = WebKit + V8
So any browser using webkit and v8 is Chrome?
Safari = WebKit + SunSpider
No, SunSpider is a benchmark.
Konqueror = WebKit + KJS
No, Konqueror is KHTML, not WebKit.
However, do you care to explain what else is necessary to make something a browser besides some UI bits?
Networking, UI, Storage, Plug-in Engine (inc. scripting), etc...
So are all the people who trashed Apple for making Siri exclusive to the iPhone 4S going to trash Google for making Chrome exclusive to ICS devices?
Specific application requires specific OS functions that aren't available in earlier versions, pretty damn obvious and really not that hard to comprehend. Your flamebait fails.
They also want the noise reduction for ordinary phone calls, so it has to be built in to the phone regardless.
I suppose.
Also, one of the tricks of noise reduction is to use multiple microphones. Doing the noise reduction on the server would mean sending multiple audio streams and not just one. And clean audio is probably more compressible than noisy audio too, which adds the the difference in data size.
Really the issue then is that you need specialized hardware on the client end as well as connectivity to the server. Rather than just any audio source connecting to the service.
I know this will be pretty shocking for you to learn: but copyright laws give authors the right to revoke previously granted licenses at their own discretion
What copyright laws give that right?
The adapter wouldn't even need to be specially made. I've got two different HTC phones here that did not come with a conventional AC adapter. It's a standard 110V plug on one side that you plug a USB cable into.
It'll charge the battery from almost dead to full in about an hour or so, so it's not one of those slow trickle charges that are basically useless if the device is on.
And now if you'll circle back to the start of the discussion you'll see that a converter does have to be specially made because you aren't going to find a standard household powerpoint on a military aircraft.
The Galaxy S is a top-selling phone that's only months old and yet not getting Android 4.0, while the 2 1/2 year old iPhone 3GS can run the latest version of iOS.
Just to be 100% clear here, the characterization of the Galaxy S as 'only months old' is a bit disingenuous, it's well over a year old, in fact it's over 1 1/2 years old. And the iPhone 3GS can run the latest version of iOS but does lack some features like AirPlay mirroring.
That clarified, the Galaxy S doesn't get ICS because the at the time the requirements for ICS obviously couldn't be factored into the hardware design because they weren't known, that's a major advantage of Apple's vertical integration. It would be nice if Google worked closer with official (certified?) Android handset manufacturers to establish the compatibility of devices going forward.
And it lacks the noise reduction of Siri on the 4S, so it won't be nearly so good at recognising what you say in everyday environments. Like in the car for example.
I wonder why they didn't implement the noise-reduction server-side given that they send the audio data anyway. I've been using both Siri and TellMe in the car and neither stands out as any more accurate than the other when doing things like getting them to call or text people and dictating messages. I believe TellMe does its noise-reduction on the server, i could be wrong there though.
Ok, if there's a cost for windows and it's greater than zero dollars. And you get it back.
Then the cost of the laptop becomes X minus windows cost.
That means that it's more expensive with the windows license. this isn't exactly difficult to understand, right?
Have they added the cost on that the crapware vendors paid them to include that software that they are now not including? This isn't that difficult to understand, right?
I didn't ask for exact specs. I asked for something that meets or exceeds 3 simple specs, a configuration that is available on at least 5 windows machines from 5 different manufacturers. Cederic (above) was able to find one, but only for Europe (though I never specified North America).
Have a look at the HP Probooks then, they offer FreeDOS. Or System76? Or ZAReason? It's really very easy to find if you actually look.
I *defy* you to find a laptop that get over 5 hours of battery with a screen larger than 10" and a higher vertical resolution than 600px without windows pre-installed.
Macbook Air/Pro. Defied!
There is the Lenovo x220 (freedos no longer offered), Asus zenbook, Toshiba ux-31, Acer aspire S3 and HP folio. NONE of those are offered without windows, even on special request. Trust me, I *TRIED*.
It's basic economics, supply and demand. You reckon i could find a device with the exact specs of a Macbook Air that does come with Windows pre-installed? No.
Where? What laws explicitly state this? I have a feeling you're severely misinterpreting something there.
RTFA
Maybe you need to do that, I did and no such laws are cited that explicitly state that.
Build your own laptop?
Since when is a computer a laptop? It's they other way around, a laptop is a computer. If the computer you want is a laptop then I already suggested what to do, did you not read?:
go to one of the few manufacturers (well even HP offers systems with FreeDOS instead of Windows) that offers alternatives to Windows and OSX
And what about Lenovo? What about HP who currently sell systems with FreeDOS that are cheaper that those with Windows? That directly contradicts your assertion.