(transitive) To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers
Censorship can be by a government, or it can be by a private party. In the latter case, arbitrary censorship is usually OK. For governments, they usually have to meet some reasonable constitutional or judicial standard.
There used to be some reservation about Qt in the community, but now its available under LGPL (and also commercially if you want).
There's a screen painter along with a free IDE (Qt Creator).
Qt is on mobile phones, car computers, Mac/Lin/Win, etc.
> I also would love if it had the ability to understand what platform it is on and adjust to have the "feel" of the native OS. They claim "Native Aqua look and feel, with Aqua-style widgets" (Qt for Mac)
Btw, there's also another popular cross-platform graphics toolkit called WxWidgets. A lot of apps use that (with C++ and Python)
Sun is like the neighborhood wimp who's taken advantage by neighbor Google. Oracle is the block toughie who takes the wimp under its wing, but for its own purposes.
In addition to that, it's a virtuous cycle: You can change to a better plan because the phone is unlocked.
But also, because people have unlocked phones, carriers are more responsive, and offer better plans. After all, why bother to offer a better plan if your customers are captive?
Are SIM cards a necessary part of GSM, and are they inherently not compatible with CDMA?
I.e., would it be possible to imagine a tech spec that used CDMA for radio transmission, and used SIM (or similar) cards to allow the phone know "what phone number am I"?
Well, for one thing, it's not necessarily the same crop of people being voted in. E.g., there are 80 GOP freshmen in this house, different from the 2000-2006 Republicans who voted in the deficit increases.
If they don't cut spending, (many of) the Democrats voted into the next round will also be freshmen.
This is basically the R's last chance before someone like Bloomberg funds a third party. (The only reason Perot didn't succeed is because GOP operatives threatened to release Photoshopped pictures before his daughter's wedding.)
Well the article says this is for special ops forces, which basically means that they are in Country X without an invitation, usually to kill people and break things. So recharging their iPhones seems to pale in comparison.
Isn't variable ranking sort of the same as changing menus in XP, to which geeks have complained about to no end?
Basically, the problem is, everyone is seeing a different Google. I sometimes create a link as a Google search instead of a Wikipedia link. But that doesn't really work if everyone has a different ranking.
The annoying thing is when sites that have legitimate and interesting content are ranked nowhere near the spammers.
Many legitimate and useful sites are far and few between. You have to bookmark them because it's doubtful you'll find them again with Google (page 20 or something).
I don't know why your post was marked Troll. Reasoned posts with multiple points of evidence or argumentation are not trolls, whether you agree with them or not.
In any case, I don't necessary claim to agree with the Marshall article or not, either. I just posted it because, AFAIK, no one else has really addressed this, and this is a really old article.
For myself, I wonder if there's any point (especially with the advance of 3D printers) at which society could determine that a given standard of living is "enough", and reduce work and increase leisure time. But if that were to happen, would people actually be able to handle it? Use it on art, music, or other higher pursuits? Is there a point at which they'd tire of TV or Youtube? Is the mass of humanity actually better of with a yoke of work around their necks to keep them focussed on something?
Just as death gives meaning to life, does work give meaning to leisure time?
Given that the Android device makers are paying out $10-15 (?) per open-source handset to Microsoft, could they not have paid a few dollars to Sun? I'd say they probably ought to have paid something (anything) morally even if they didn't legally have to.
Or was Sun just the codependent code-donor that everyone loved to abuse while fearing and paying out to MS?
Now if you say there's no way a corporation can justify giving free money like that because of fiduciary duties, etc., then I'd have to say they deserve everything coming to them from Oracle. Because by that very same moral standard, they can't justify leaving money on the table.
Just a very little bit (how about you?). I've kind of been getting my toes wet with it with Netbeans Mobility Edition and Sun Wireless Toolkit.
There's a graphical editor to add controls. You set validation for fields. You can set the navigation graphically. Seems OK to me, but I'd love to hear your opinion on it (and other platforms) as well.
Also, it's hard to see what it is you can't do with J2ME.
Graphical games? If you can make Bubble Bash2 or Rally3D, you can probably make any game you want. Netbeans even has a game wizard with sprite editor.
You can access phone contacts, the file system, bluetooth, and so on with J2ME. You can use the camera, tuner, music/equalizer, GPS, the (inter)network, 3d graphics, video, crypto, SMS, and the touch screen.
O would that Google had licensed Java Mobile Edition from Sun, given Sun that additional amount of revenue, and thereby allowed them to stave off takeover attempts instead of using tricks to use Java/not-Java without paying for it on Android.
The only way there would be a tax holiday for a rich man under the fair tax would be if he decided to live like a monk. And with all his money in the bank, that would just lower the cost of loaning money (increasing its availability to those middle and lower class who need it).
Or it would be in investments, thereby also increasing productivity and jobs.
So, on the one hand, the rich consume and pay tax, or they save, and they increase jobs.
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(transitive) To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/censor#Verb
Censorship can be by a government, or it can be by a private party. In the latter case, arbitrary censorship is usually OK. For governments, they usually have to meet some reasonable constitutional or judicial standard.
I second the suggestion about Qt.
There used to be some reservation about Qt in the community, but now its available under LGPL (and also commercially if you want).
There's a screen painter along with a free IDE (Qt Creator).
Qt is on mobile phones, car computers, Mac/Lin/Win, etc.
> I also would love if it had the ability to understand what platform it is on and adjust to have the "feel" of the native OS.
They claim "Native Aqua look and feel, with Aqua-style widgets" (Qt for Mac)
Btw, there's also another popular cross-platform graphics toolkit called WxWidgets. A lot of apps use that (with C++ and Python)
I think one of the problems is people don't know how to write modern, best-practices C++. Like bounds-checking, STL, Boost, auto_ptr, etc.
(Not really claiming that I do. Anybody know a good source for learning good *modern* C++?)
I think maybe (parts of) the community might not want to know.
You too, Brutus?
Sun is like the neighborhood wimp who's taken advantage by neighbor Google. Oracle is the block toughie who takes the wimp under its wing, but for its own purposes.
Thanks for the info.
Speaking for myself, I've always preferred the SIM approach.
The equivalent in the PC world would be your broadband Internet provider being hard-coded into your computer.
Btw, you seem pretty knowledgeable on the subject. Do you have comments on LTE vs WiMax?
In addition to that, it's a virtuous cycle: You can change to a better plan because the phone is unlocked.
But also, because people have unlocked phones, carriers are more responsive, and offer better plans. After all, why bother to offer a better plan if your customers are captive?
Are SIM cards a necessary part of GSM, and are they inherently not compatible with CDMA?
I.e., would it be possible to imagine a tech spec that used CDMA for radio transmission, and used SIM (or similar) cards to allow the phone know "what phone number am I"?
Well, for one thing, it's not necessarily the same crop of people being voted in. E.g., there are 80 GOP freshmen in this house, different from the 2000-2006 Republicans who voted in the deficit increases.
If they don't cut spending, (many of) the Democrats voted into the next round will also be freshmen.
This is basically the R's last chance before someone like Bloomberg funds a third party. (The only reason Perot didn't succeed is because GOP operatives threatened to release Photoshopped pictures before his daughter's wedding.)
Well the article says this is for special ops forces, which basically means that they are in Country X without an invitation, usually to kill people and break things. So recharging their iPhones seems to pale in comparison.
Just grab through the air from overhead power lines.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2004/360
Forgot about these?
Savant Elite Programmable USB Foot Switches
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/fs-savant-elite.htm
But that includes other software (database, web server, directory), right?
Isn't variable ranking sort of the same as changing menus in XP, to which geeks have complained about to no end?
Basically, the problem is, everyone is seeing a different Google. I sometimes create a link as a Google search instead of a Wikipedia link. But that doesn't really work if everyone has a different ranking.
Though both parties are basically the same old same old, you have to hand it to the Dems--they have cooler masters: Hollywood, Google, and Apple.
Compare R's: US Chamber of Commerce. Bo-ring.
The annoying thing is when sites that have legitimate and interesting content are ranked nowhere near the spammers.
Many legitimate and useful sites are far and few between. You have to bookmark them because it's doubtful you'll find them again with Google (page 20 or something).
>OK, a 68 year old white American disabled Vietnam Vet,
Yeah, right, we all know you're a 20-year old Asian guy with a Mission Impossible mask.
I've been thinking more and more that anybody's who's smart will teach their children Mandarin Chinese.
India is too fragmented linguistically to use anything other than English.
French is more for literary pleasure, not any kind of economic gain.
Services would be taxed. Real estate (and property transactions) are already taxed by local governments.
If people aren't spending, then the money's in the bank or invested, both increasing productivity and jobs.
Imports are already subject to sales taxes, and the US isn't being blackballed by the WTO. They just have to be the same as domestic sales taxes.
I can't say anything about those between poverty and middle class because I haven't seen any numbers (have you?).
I don't know why your post was marked Troll. Reasoned posts with multiple points of evidence or argumentation are not trolls, whether you agree with them or not.
In any case, I don't necessary claim to agree with the Marshall article or not, either. I just posted it because, AFAIK, no one else has really addressed this, and this is a really old article.
For myself, I wonder if there's any point (especially with the advance of 3D printers) at which society could determine that a given standard of living is "enough", and reduce work and increase leisure time. But if that were to happen, would people actually be able to handle it? Use it on art, music, or other higher pursuits? Is there a point at which they'd tire of TV or Youtube? Is the mass of humanity actually better of with a yoke of work around their necks to keep them focussed on something?
Just as death gives meaning to life, does work give meaning to leisure time?
The canonical article on this topic, by the founder of HowStuffWorks:
http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
Given that the Android device makers are paying out $10-15 (?) per open-source handset to Microsoft, could they not have paid a few dollars to Sun? I'd say they probably ought to have paid something (anything) morally even if they didn't legally have to.
Or was Sun just the codependent code-donor that everyone loved to abuse while fearing and paying out to MS?
Now if you say there's no way a corporation can justify giving free money like that because of fiduciary duties, etc., then I'd have to say they deserve everything coming to them from Oracle. Because by that very same moral standard, they can't justify leaving money on the table.
Just a very little bit (how about you?). I've kind of been getting my toes wet with it with Netbeans Mobility Edition and Sun Wireless Toolkit.
There's a graphical editor to add controls. You set validation for fields. You can set the navigation graphically. Seems OK to me, but I'd love to hear your opinion on it (and other platforms) as well.
Also, it's hard to see what it is you can't do with J2ME.
Graphical games? If you can make Bubble Bash2 or Rally3D, you can probably make any game you want. Netbeans even has a game wizard with sprite editor.
You can access phone contacts, the file system, bluetooth, and so on with J2ME. You can use the camera, tuner, music/equalizer, GPS, the (inter)network, 3d graphics, video, crypto, SMS, and the touch screen.
O would that Google had licensed Java Mobile Edition from Sun, given Sun that additional amount of revenue, and thereby allowed them to stave off takeover attempts instead of using tricks to use Java/not-Java without paying for it on Android.
The only way there would be a tax holiday for a rich man under the fair tax would be if he decided to live like a monk. And with all his money in the bank, that would just lower the cost of loaning money (increasing its availability to those middle and lower class who need it).
Or it would be in investments, thereby also increasing productivity and jobs.
So, on the one hand, the rich consume and pay tax, or they save, and they increase jobs.