and the only way apple can maintain a quality product for non-tech end users is to actively restrict who and what can alter the overall experience of the end user, which is what they've done.
a single giant HDTV serves well for many cases... a single super high res monitor paired with 1+ lower res monitors serves well for many cases... a single super high res monitor paired with an HDTV or projector serves well for many cases... 2+ equal res monitors serve well for many cases. no single solution is always the best solution.
so i have one room set up with a windows pc with an ATI video card with 3 high res monitors, one of them cloned using a powered vga splitter into a 1080p projector. then in the living room, i have HDTV hooked up to a mac mini that i use with a macbook utilizing teleport.
how would you pronounce my last name? i bet you get it wrong. does that mean you are undereducated or are you claiming i'm pronouncing my own last name wrong?
Plagued with all sorts of problems, performance being one. And one of those wasn't even written from scratch.
so why are you bring it up if it isn't relevant?
if you think you know that i would say something i knew to be false, then you're more of a liar than me. you couldn't be more wrong. the mythical "greatest smartphone of all time"... the GSOAT... is not built on a 3rd party platform... because it would be better if it maintained the feature set implemented on a lower level.
those best practices are perhaps the reason twitter did not exist 40 years ago.
the key is LATENCY. if you want transactions and master slave replication with views and triggers with millions of active users that all want 1 second latency to view tweets and 1 second latency to publish tweets, then best practices can't help you.
because when you tell the computer to dereference a pointer, it should do just that. you didn't tell it to check if the pointer was null first... that would take more time you might not have, and other code might have already ensured the pointer would not be null.
when developing real-time systems, using a language riddled with unnecessary error checking is not an option.
what i'm having a problem with is the existence of your question... do you really not understand the value of efficiency?
Not really. A profit has to be measured against the amount of capital it took to generate it. If your profit is only 0.5% of your capital, you have to ask why you are putting in hard work and risking your capital (all business involves some risk) when you could just sell it all, buy Treasuries, and make more money work- and risk-free.
because if everyone did that, we'd all be unemployed and the treasuries would be worthless.
i didn't say fraud... i just pointed out that the report didn't say there wasn't fraud or malpractice, just that there wasn't "deliberate" malpractice... a very telling choice of words.
never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
but then if you act stupid no one can confidently claim you're evil... even if you are.
The statistical methods used, though arriving at correct results, are not optimal, and it is recommended futures studies involve professional statisticians if possible; and the CRU scientists are lacking somewhat in organization. A very far cry from the widespread allegations of fraud.
uhhhhh... the "widespread allegations of fraud" we regarding the data-points removed from the sample set that didn't fit the proposed model. the report states that the methods used to decide which points to remove were non-optimal to the point they were non-professional, as stated by the report authors suggestion to hire a professional statistician if they have the means to do so. so, if anything, it seems the widespread allegations of fraud have been confirmed, but attributed potentially to ignorance.
why would a "good" developer need persuading to develop for a "good" phone with a "good" OS?
Because they want to make money. If only a handful of people own this phone then who will by your app?
If all the apps run slower on the competition, i'd develop for the platform that ran the most efficiently, and trust the consumers to find the value for themselves.
granted, there are probably a lot of dreamcast developers that went broke.... but as different bottlenecks came and went as hardware matured, the market stuttered. developing for a platform for no reason other than market share is a recipe for MUCK.
Students blaming a school for not learning? WHAT THE FUCK?
many students don't attend college because they want to empower themselves with higher education, they do it because their parents require it of them unless they are to be cut off. if they are already just sliding by while avoiding classes, automated knowledge of them avoiding classes could only make things harder. harder is bad to such lazy people.
if you want to bring a smartphone to market, you run Android.
if you want to bring a GOOD smartphone to market you write your own OS specific to your hardware. what developers seem to fail to understand is that an operating system for such a device is almost trivial to create. the bigger challenge is with the GUI layer running on top of the OS (which most people are content with also calling the "OS" when it isn't)
again, a functional GUI platform is also trivial to implement for a company already undergoing design and manufacturing of electronic devices on a large scale.
so the real draw of using someone else's GUI is the ability to run programs written for that GUI. so a smart smartphone company should create programs to automatically port programs written for other platforms into their own.
and just to further support that the player's manufacturers are ultimately responsible, from a recent story:
"Samsung has apparently fixed the issues with Avatar playing on their players with a new firmware, users seem to be able to play the movie correctly on the players that ran into problems after the new firmware release."
the problem is with blu-ray profile 2.0 features... if your player does not support "blu-ray profile 2.0", then you can't play media that requires it.
It's not art, it's a business. You could as well ask why we don't replace steel by titanium in cars.
if there was as much available steel as titanium, that would make sense... but the problem is that developers build products on top of poorly implemented platforms, and/or don't actively write optimized code from the start. you don't have to spend hours optimizing if it's already optimized.
not sure what you're talking about saving $10 in storage space... if you have a high volume product with millions of users, saving any disk space or execution time is saving millions of people time and money.
when you disrespect your users like that, they don't come back. when you respect them and their time and money, they'll come back in droves. that is business.
1) the "algorithms" that make individual pieces of software unique are not well known. i doubt they are teaching university students the best way to decide if a credit card transaction is fraudulent.
2) compilers can only work with the code they are given... if you create a process to ship 1 screw to pluto every 100 years, the compiler can't be smart enough to send a shipload of screws and then another when the supply runs low. the compiler can only optimize low level processes... the developer is still responsible for optimizing high level processes.
3) so now you have relatively infinite colors, but the bottleneck is on refresh rate and frames per second... doubling FPS still creates noticeable improvement.
in this case you'll be suing the manufacturer of your PLAYER, not the MEDIA. the media works perfectly as can be seen by putting it in a different player.
consumers learn far less than greedy corporations.
the CD spec never included DRM... the current Blu-Ray spec does.
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So these guys are shipping more computers and making less money doing so, which makes Apple the loser? That's an interesting view on business.
maybe it was more a view on being a consumer than a view on business.
and the only way apple can maintain a quality product for non-tech end users is to actively restrict who and what can alter the overall experience of the end user, which is what they've done.
function factor_prime_number($prime) return(array(1, $prime));
now ask someone in the midwest, now ask someone on the west coast, now ask someone on the east coast. now enjoy the fight.
stop being so pretentious that you think language is fixed and not an evolution of multiple dialects.
so i have one room set up with a windows pc with an ATI video card with 3 high res monitors, one of them cloned using a powered vga splitter into a 1080p projector. then in the living room, i have HDTV hooked up to a mac mini that i use with a macbook utilizing teleport.
how would you pronounce my last name? i bet you get it wrong. does that mean you are undereducated or are you claiming i'm pronouncing my own last name wrong?
the Organisation for Zpelling?
Plagued with all sorts of problems, performance being one. And one of those wasn't even written from scratch.
so why are you bring it up if it isn't relevant?
if you think you know that i would say something i knew to be false, then you're more of a liar than me. you couldn't be more wrong. the mythical "greatest smartphone of all time"... the GSOAT... is not built on a 3rd party platform... because it would be better if it maintained the feature set implemented on a lower level.
the key is LATENCY. if you want transactions and master slave replication with views and triggers with millions of active users that all want 1 second latency to view tweets and 1 second latency to publish tweets, then best practices can't help you.
when developing real-time systems, using a language riddled with unnecessary error checking is not an option.
what i'm having a problem with is the existence of your question... do you really not understand the value of efficiency?
Not really. A profit has to be measured against the amount of capital it took to generate it. If your profit is only 0.5% of your capital, you have to ask why you are putting in hard work and risking your capital (all business involves some risk) when you could just sell it all, buy Treasuries, and make more money work- and risk-free.
because if everyone did that, we'd all be unemployed and the treasuries would be worthless.
never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
but then if you act stupid no one can confidently claim you're evil... even if you are.
The statistical methods used, though arriving at correct results, are not optimal, and it is recommended futures studies involve professional statisticians if possible; and the CRU scientists are lacking somewhat in organization. A very far cry from the widespread allegations of fraud.
uhhhhh... the "widespread allegations of fraud" we regarding the data-points removed from the sample set that didn't fit the proposed model. the report states that the methods used to decide which points to remove were non-optimal to the point they were non-professional, as stated by the report authors suggestion to hire a professional statistician if they have the means to do so. so, if anything, it seems the widespread allegations of fraud have been confirmed, but attributed potentially to ignorance.
why would a "good" developer need persuading to develop for a "good" phone with a "good" OS? Because they want to make money. If only a handful of people own this phone then who will by your app?
If all the apps run slower on the competition, i'd develop for the platform that ran the most efficiently, and trust the consumers to find the value for themselves.
granted, there are probably a lot of dreamcast developers that went broke.... but as different bottlenecks came and went as hardware matured, the market stuttered. developing for a platform for no reason other than market share is a recipe for MUCK.
Students blaming a school for not learning? WHAT THE FUCK?
many students don't attend college because they want to empower themselves with higher education, they do it because their parents require it of them unless they are to be cut off. if they are already just sliding by while avoiding classes, automated knowledge of them avoiding classes could only make things harder. harder is bad to such lazy people.
i completely blame the parents.
Great. Then I support Osama bin Laden, but not his mission.
Now, now--don't be a dick.
technically, he was being a smart-ass.
As someone that taught in a French university: "I don't f-ing care whether students come or not in my class".
you don't care at all? it might get sticky.
once again the moderators on this site have failed it. "flamebait" is not the same as "i am angry that what you are saying is true".
i don't understand how you could have a problem understanding that.
i figured it out... you must be a disgusting "denialist" too.
if you want to bring a smartphone to market, you run Android.
if you want to bring a GOOD smartphone to market you write your own OS specific to your hardware. what developers seem to fail to understand is that an operating system for such a device is almost trivial to create. the bigger challenge is with the GUI layer running on top of the OS (which most people are content with also calling the "OS" when it isn't)
again, a functional GUI platform is also trivial to implement for a company already undergoing design and manufacturing of electronic devices on a large scale.
so the real draw of using someone else's GUI is the ability to run programs written for that GUI. so a smart smartphone company should create programs to automatically port programs written for other platforms into their own.
"Samsung has apparently fixed the issues with Avatar playing on their players with a new firmware, users seem to be able to play the movie correctly on the players that ran into problems after the new firmware release."
the problem is with blu-ray profile 2.0 features... if your player does not support "blu-ray profile 2.0", then you can't play media that requires it.
There is a limit to Moore's law, there has to be.
you don't sound like you're convinced...
It's not art, it's a business. You could as well ask why we don't replace steel by titanium in cars.
if there was as much available steel as titanium, that would make sense... but the problem is that developers build products on top of poorly implemented platforms, and/or don't actively write optimized code from the start. you don't have to spend hours optimizing if it's already optimized.
not sure what you're talking about saving $10 in storage space... if you have a high volume product with millions of users, saving any disk space or execution time is saving millions of people time and money.
when you disrespect your users like that, they don't come back. when you respect them and their time and money, they'll come back in droves. that is business.
1) the "algorithms" that make individual pieces of software unique are not well known. i doubt they are teaching university students the best way to decide if a credit card transaction is fraudulent.
2) compilers can only work with the code they are given... if you create a process to ship 1 screw to pluto every 100 years, the compiler can't be smart enough to send a shipload of screws and then another when the supply runs low. the compiler can only optimize low level processes... the developer is still responsible for optimizing high level processes.
3) so now you have relatively infinite colors, but the bottleneck is on refresh rate and frames per second... doubling FPS still creates noticeable improvement.
consumers learn far less than greedy corporations.
the CD spec never included DRM... the current Blu-Ray spec does.