I have two phones with almost identical hardware, a samsung fascinate and a samsung focus. One runs Android, the other Windows Phone 7. The Android phone is buggiest piece of crap I have ever owned. This morning it would not allow me to answer a call or silence the ringer. I was in bed and all I could do was rip out the battery. Regularly the touch buttons flake out, the power button sometimes takes a screenshot (no kidding) when I try to turn off the screen. You can blaim this on samsung's implementation of android, but the that is the problem, there;s no consistancy, you never know what you're going to get. My Windows Phone 7 has never had a single issue when it comes to reliability as a phone, it feels FAR faster even though the hardware is about the same. The only reason I even still have the Android is because I need verizon and they have exactly 1 crappy Windows Phone 7 availabe.
Regardless of how distasteful it is to release that information, trying to censor it will only further publicize the fact that the information exists. The french went about the problem completely wrong. They should have left the information out there and start tracking down prosecuting those who tried to use it in a negative way. I think it is simliar to insutrctions on making a bomb. It's all well and good until you try to do something illegal with the information.
Bitcoin is akin to making a limited edition collector item and saying it is now currency simply because there is a limited number of them. Yea you might find a few other people with a similiar interested in said collectable, but it is only worth what it can be traded for in terms of REAL currency, not a currency in and of itself. Baseball cards or old toys will hold their value better than a bitcoin.
Check Dynamic Vault www.dynamicvault.com They offer encrypted remote backup with multiple key, full turn-key DR services and even offer the option for them not to know the key (youre on your own if you lose it).
So true, if you expect garbage collection to do all the work you will be severly disappointed. If you're using.NET so that you do not have to worry about clean-up you're using it for the wrong reason.
All languages offer a trade-off, and I think the real reason nativecode has never really gone away AND is coming to the forefront is really dictated by the hardware. We're back in a world LIMITED hardware specifications with the mobile devices so you HAVE to be efficient. The same is true in consoles where you have identical, limited hardware you need to make the most of. In the business world (and in the gaming world, take it from John Carmack himself) ram performance doesn't always matter. If I can program something in 1/2 the time and I need twice the horse-power because its inefficient, sometimes thats an ok trade-off to make. I believe id software switch their render farm from CUDA to x86, even though the x86 was much less effiecient and they needed more equipment, because it was simpler to write the code. Faster isn't always better when it comes at the cost of time itself.
BTW would I have to list my car/computer as a drive on my insurance policy? Does it get a license and can it accumulate points and get suspended? Maybe the points can go directly to the developer's license....
If google is working on AI and a human really did crash the car, I hope that person has a really good attorney......
This brings a whole new and more significant meaning to the term "computer crash".
"Yea my computer crashed yesterday, it was a real problem because it went right through someone's living room and I forgot to take a backup..."
It took people who went to MIT to figure we can't have a "smart" grid decide to charge all our cars at the exact same moment? If that was your thesis you should request back all of tuition.
And if there is ever an SLA agreement associated with my electric bill that has terms I have to adhere to, I'm going off-grid.
If MacAfee ever comes out with a product for humans I'm running as far and as fast as I can. It already helps to eliminate the human "money virus" even without being installed in us.
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I have two phones with almost identical hardware, a samsung fascinate and a samsung focus. One runs Android, the other Windows Phone 7. The Android phone is buggiest piece of crap I have ever owned. This morning it would not allow me to answer a call or silence the ringer. I was in bed and all I could do was rip out the battery. Regularly the touch buttons flake out, the power button sometimes takes a screenshot (no kidding) when I try to turn off the screen. You can blaim this on samsung's implementation of android, but the that is the problem, there;s no consistancy, you never know what you're going to get. My Windows Phone 7 has never had a single issue when it comes to reliability as a phone, it feels FAR faster even though the hardware is about the same. The only reason I even still have the Android is because I need verizon and they have exactly 1 crappy Windows Phone 7 availabe.
Regardless of how distasteful it is to release that information, trying to censor it will only further publicize the fact that the information exists. The french went about the problem completely wrong. They should have left the information out there and start tracking down prosecuting those who tried to use it in a negative way. I think it is simliar to insutrctions on making a bomb. It's all well and good until you try to do something illegal with the information.
Bitcoin is akin to making a limited edition collector item and saying it is now currency simply because there is a limited number of them. Yea you might find a few other people with a similiar interested in said collectable, but it is only worth what it can be traded for in terms of REAL currency, not a currency in and of itself. Baseball cards or old toys will hold their value better than a bitcoin.
Check Dynamic Vault www.dynamicvault.com They offer encrypted remote backup with multiple key, full turn-key DR services and even offer the option for them not to know the key (youre on your own if you lose it).
So true, if you expect garbage collection to do all the work you will be severly disappointed. If you're using .NET so that you do not have to worry about clean-up you're using it for the wrong reason.
All languages offer a trade-off, and I think the real reason nativecode has never really gone away AND is coming to the forefront is really dictated by the hardware. We're back in a world LIMITED hardware specifications with the mobile devices so you HAVE to be efficient. The same is true in consoles where you have identical, limited hardware you need to make the most of. In the business world (and in the gaming world, take it from John Carmack himself) ram performance doesn't always matter. If I can program something in 1/2 the time and I need twice the horse-power because its inefficient, sometimes thats an ok trade-off to make. I believe id software switch their render farm from CUDA to x86, even though the x86 was much less effiecient and they needed more equipment, because it was simpler to write the code. Faster isn't always better when it comes at the cost of time itself.
BTW would I have to list my car/computer as a drive on my insurance policy? Does it get a license and can it accumulate points and get suspended? Maybe the points can go directly to the developer's license.... If google is working on AI and a human really did crash the car, I hope that person has a really good attorney......
This brings a whole new and more significant meaning to the term "computer crash". "Yea my computer crashed yesterday, it was a real problem because it went right through someone's living room and I forgot to take a backup..."
It took people who went to MIT to figure we can't have a "smart" grid decide to charge all our cars at the exact same moment? If that was your thesis you should request back all of tuition. And if there is ever an SLA agreement associated with my electric bill that has terms I have to adhere to, I'm going off-grid.
If MacAfee ever comes out with a product for humans I'm running as far and as fast as I can. It already helps to eliminate the human "money virus" even without being installed in us.