why use your cellphone as a voip phone? does it work for dialing also, or just speaker/headphone?
It allows you to use your phone's phonebook. That's a real gain. And if you're on the road, why carry both a headset and a phone?
You wouldn't have to go too far back before you'd have said the same thing about refrigeration, anti-biotics, and tiny little devices that you could hold up to your ear and use to talk to other people, almost anywhere in the world. I'm not rich, but I've got things that my great grandparents would have considered essentially magical.
Sorry, but in world terms, if you have those things, you are rich.
'Indian English' [is] not really bad english, it's just a different accent and a slightly different form of English.
A bit like the difference between Dutch & German?
I am a european with english as my mother tongue. I have had one Indian colleague listen to me and then translate into 'Indian English' for another colleague!
They enforce tv license by visiting to see if you have a tv
Actually, the TV shops are obliged to register the address of all purchasers of TVs. The licence enforcers then just send scary official letters to all addresses not in their database. I've had one - and there's no box to tick saying "I do not have a TV".
Here in Yurp, in most countries mobiles have their own area codes (07xxx here in the UK).
Yes, but the mobile service providers are still nationally based. If I want to call a mobile in another European country, I still have to add the international prefix.
On fixed line, you can move your NY number to LA but you can't move your London number to Berlin.
A woman and animal rights activist... dedicated to non-violence and legal, peaceful... demonstrations
Sorry mate, but all animal activists are, by implication, associates of terrorists, political thugs and militant luddites. The government would be neglecting its security duties if it didn't keep an eye on these people. They have the same problem separating peaceful from violent religious fanatics.
...and I've see Java apps (i.e.InstallAnywhere [zerog.com]) that stopped running because a distro changed from XFree86 to X.Org. The (Sun) JVM was expecting a certain library to be there, it wasn't, and boom!! - it fall down...
Mandatory "Java Sux!" - me
So linux sucks and you blame java?
I've used lots of distros over the years and have concluded that if an app doesn't come with the distro, it usually won't work. Unless it's java, then it might.
Linux is still fit only for the hobbyist or professional with an IT department's support. In the latter case, they pick one distro and stick with it.
For the past 20 years I've worked as a programmer. I think I've worked about 5 weekends. I usually put in about 6 hours a day of quality coding and pad out the rest of the day with meetings, documentation, surfing, research, whatever. I guess us Europeans are a bit laid back but we somehow manage to get stuff done.
As someone else mentioned, the Earth is pretty much in energy equilibrium. Energy from the sun arrives at the planet, stirs things up a bit, and is re-radiated out to the universe. What goes out is basically equal to what came in
The whole point of the greenhouse effect is that there is a gradual net gain of energy leading to mean global warming and climate change.
Look at the fancy add-ons that Google does for IE and then ask where are these for Mozilla?. Then tell me that Google have got a big alternate browser strategy.
It ran on PPC, Intel, Alpha and MIPS. That's a lot of architectures.
I worked on porting a product to PPC NT many moons ago. Goodness only knows why.
It seems that one of the reasons the hardware varients died out was because Microsoft did not support the core non-x86 OS. They expected 3rd party vendors to do the port, carry the support costs and still pay a licence fee. And even if your box was reliable and affordable, what software were you going to run on it?
In the UK only about 40% of the population is in range of 3G but there is near 100% coverage for older technology. These 3G data devices fall back to the legacy protocol when out of range.
It is increasingly common to see the cards in laptops on trains.
Photographer Robert Capa landed on Omaha beach on D-Day and risked his life taking lots of pictures. When the films went to the lab, they got overcooked and all but seven frames were destroyed.
The fighting was so heavy that many of shots were taken taken by holding the camera over his cover and shooting blind. Oh for an LCD display! And what about best shot selector and digital stabilisation for the nervous shake?
BTW Capra carried on as a war photographer and was killed in Vietnam.
Java works very well on server side. It doesn't work very well client side. Its horses for courses.
Sorry, but Java on the client works just fine. I've implemented many sophisticated GUI client applications and wouldn't dream of using anything other than Java.
The service providers can't compete on price for plain phone calls - that way they'd all go broke. So they compete with value-added features. They suck you into spending money on new thingies you don't really need.
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What we need is a standards body to define an interface between controller and robot. Then AI rearchers could develop faster behind a virtual robot. Hardware people could build better robots to stimulate and be driven by any implementation of the controller. It could even generate a market.
By nature, terrorists obviously aren't going to obey any laws
Actually, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) famously trained its operatives not to break any minor laws so as to avoid the attention of the Police. No point having a shoot-out just because you got pulled over for a faultly brake light.
No matter how much we in the non-American sector need to bow to DC, surely we wouldn't go so far as to make everybody use crypto which the US can crack? It's bad enough that the US is bugging EU e-mail (with UK help) to the benefit of the corporations. What chance would non-US companies have if they can't keep company secrets?
Academics love OCaml because it's closer to a mathematical expression of functionality. But for big programming, forget it. Obscure syntax and wildly unhelpful compilers will make your life a misery until you give up and adopt a real language. Any real language. Anything but FP.
"I doubt this is the case. C is very verb-oriented: printf(the_data). C++ is very noun-oriented: the_data.print"
Sort of reminds of Erich Fromm's To Have or To Be where he argues using language of possesion, rather than action, is a symptom of capitalist acquisitiveness. ("I have a cold" instead of "I am ill with a cold").
C is procedural, a language of action. C++ is OO-ish, a language of things. But then it's a language of things doing stuff so it's not all bad.
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why use your cellphone as a voip phone? does it work for dialing also, or just speaker/headphone?
It allows you to use your phone's phonebook. That's a real gain. And if you're on the road, why carry both a headset and a phone?
You wouldn't have to go too far back before you'd have said the same thing about refrigeration, anti-biotics, and tiny little devices that you could hold up to your ear and use to talk to other people, almost anywhere in the world. I'm not rich, but I've got things that my great grandparents would have considered essentially magical.
Sorry, but in world terms, if you have those things, you are rich.
'Indian English' [is] not really bad english, it's just a different accent and a slightly different form of English.
A bit like the difference between Dutch & German?
I am a european with english as my mother tongue. I have had one Indian colleague listen to me and then translate into 'Indian English' for another colleague!
They enforce tv license by visiting to see if you have a tv
Actually, the TV shops are obliged to register the address of all purchasers of TVs. The licence enforcers then just send scary official letters to all addresses not in their database. I've had one - and there's no box to tick saying "I do not have a TV".
Yes, but the mobile service providers are still nationally based. If I want to call a mobile in another European country, I still have to add the international prefix.
On fixed line, you can move your NY number to LA but you can't move your London number to Berlin.
A woman and animal rights activist ... dedicated to non-violence and legal, peaceful ... demonstrations
Sorry mate, but all animal activists are, by implication, associates of terrorists, political thugs and militant luddites. The government would be neglecting its security duties if it didn't keep an eye on these people. They have the same problem separating peaceful from violent religious fanatics.
So linux sucks and you blame java?
I've used lots of distros over the years and have concluded that if an app doesn't come with the distro, it usually won't work. Unless it's java, then it might.
Linux is still fit only for the hobbyist or professional with an IT department's support. In the latter case, they pick one distro and stick with it.
For the past 20 years I've worked as a programmer. I think I've worked about 5 weekends. I usually put in about 6 hours a day of quality coding and pad out the rest of the day with meetings, documentation, surfing, research, whatever. I guess us Europeans are a bit laid back but we somehow manage to get stuff done.
As someone else mentioned, the Earth is pretty much in energy equilibrium. Energy from the sun arrives at the planet, stirs things up a bit, and is re-radiated out to the universe. What goes out is basically equal to what came in
The whole point of the greenhouse effect is that there is a gradual net gain of energy leading to mean global warming and climate change.
Look at the fancy add-ons that Google does for IE and then ask where are these for Mozilla?. Then tell me that Google have got a big alternate browser strategy.
It ran on PPC, Intel, Alpha and MIPS. That's a lot of architectures.
I worked on porting a product to PPC NT many moons ago. Goodness only knows why.
It seems that one of the reasons the hardware varients died out was because Microsoft did not support the core non-x86 OS. They expected 3rd party vendors to do the port, carry the support costs and still pay a licence fee. And even if your box was reliable and affordable, what software were you going to run on it?
In the UK only about 40% of the population is in range of 3G but there is near 100% coverage for older technology. These 3G data devices fall back to the legacy protocol when out of range.
It is increasingly common to see the cards in laptops on trains.
Doesn't have C# either.
Photographer Robert Capa landed on Omaha beach on D-Day and risked his life taking lots of pictures. When the films went to the lab, they got overcooked and all but seven frames were destroyed.
The fighting was so heavy that many of shots were taken taken by holding the camera over his cover and shooting blind. Oh for an LCD display! And what about best shot selector and digital stabilisation for the nervous shake?
BTW Capra carried on as a war photographer and was killed in Vietnam.
Java works very well on server side. It doesn't work very well client side. Its horses for courses.
Sorry, but Java on the client works just fine. I've implemented many sophisticated GUI client applications and wouldn't dream of using anything other than Java.
That's average revenue per user.
The service providers can't compete on price for plain phone calls - that way they'd all go broke. So they compete with value-added features. They suck you into spending money on new thingies you don't really need.
What we need is a standards body to define an interface between controller and robot. Then AI rearchers could develop faster behind a virtual robot. Hardware people could build better robots to stimulate and be driven by any implementation of the controller. It could even generate a market.
My GF records programmes off the very wonderful Radio 4 using a mains timer and a radio/cassette recorder. Not very hi tech but it does the job.
By nature, terrorists obviously aren't going to obey any laws
Actually, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) famously trained its operatives not to break any minor laws so as to avoid the attention of the Police. No point having a shoot-out just because you got pulled over for a faultly brake light.
I suspect they are prohibited about talking about an individual demand.
Richard Reid, the alleged shoe bomber, was travelling under his real name with his real British passport. About as English a name as you could get.
No matter how much we in the non-American sector need to bow to DC, surely we wouldn't go so far as to make everybody use crypto which the US can crack? It's bad enough that the US is bugging EU e-mail (with UK help) to the benefit of the corporations. What chance would non-US companies have if they can't keep company secrets?
Academics love OCaml because it's closer to a mathematical expression of functionality. But for big programming, forget it. Obscure syntax and wildly unhelpful compilers will make your life a misery until you give up and adopt a real language. Any real language. Anything but FP.
Nobody ever got sacked for choosing IBM (who said that?) The pointy-haired manager would probably agree that if s/IBM/Microsoft/
Sort of reminds of Erich Fromm's To Have or To Be where he argues using language of possesion, rather than action, is a symptom of capitalist acquisitiveness. ("I have a cold" instead of "I am ill with a cold"). C is procedural, a language of action. C++ is OO-ish, a language of things. But then it's a language of things doing stuff so it's not all bad.