It also seems to be a list of graphical shells that were around in the same timeframe as Windows 1.0. I'm pretty sure OS/2 came later, around the Windows 3.0 timeframe.
To confuse things more, Malaysian Chinese sometimes also write both their English name and Chinese name, retaining the Chinese order for the Chinese portion of their name, so the family name ends up in the middle. Malaysian Indians and Malays both have different naming conventions - I highly recommend spending some time here for all developers that develop web forms and other database applications that store names.
a single Arabic name e.g. "Muhammad"
Muhammad (or its various variants) is usually used as a prefix for another Malay or Arabic name by families claiming to be descendants of the prophet, not as a name in itself. It wouldn't be common amongst Chinese Muslims.
Many UPnP servers will proxy remote content. I'm fairly sure that decoding is being done on the AppleTV, WiFi just does not have enough bandwidth for uncompressed video (802.11g will even struggle with compressed HD content).
A large part of the problem with flakiness is that the libraries that Intel released as an open source reference implementation are full of race conditions. Most open source implementations seem to be based on these libraries.
More like it succeeded because it was the first tablet that wasn't just a laptop with the keyboard hacked off.
That makes a lot of sense. Previous tablets were a disappointment, because all the software that was available for your desktop and laptop was available for the tablet, setting the expectation that such software would be usable - and it wasn't. The iPad came along saying that you could have software that had been designed for smartphones, or software that had been designed specifically for the tablet. This set the expectations lower, and resulted in software that was actually usable in tablet form. There was nothing stopping people from writing such software for the earlier tablets, but who would take the risk of releasing a cut down word processor focused mainly on reviewing documents, when the full MS Office suite was available (for example)?
Its all academic anyway, as Estonia is already minting Euros in preparation for the switchover in January, and this is just some economics professor stating his opinion at a conference, not official government policy. But it seems obvious to anyone familiar with how the Euro works, that cash transactions using Finnish and other countries' notes and coins would continue even if the government stopped producing its own.
I guess that is to encourage savings accounts to be used for savings. So what you need is another type of account - a current account that does not come with a cheque book, for people with poor credit history.
Of course, the banks aren't just charging upfront fees to recoup costs of electronic transactions, as the same factoring of the costs into interest rates for cash still apply. They are using these fees to double dip.
Banks in China, Thailand and Turkey track their currency to an comparable precision, so I'm pretty confident a Thai bank will track amounts as small as 0,25 THB. After all, there are coins in actual circulation for that amount. Maybe they follow the worldwide model and track the THB with two decimals, having 0,01 THB as the smallest transaction possible.
Why is it reasonable for a bank in Thailand to track a transaction comparable to 0,00025 EUR (1 EUR ~ 40 THB) while this is seen as unreasonable for European banks?
Except 1 baht is about 3 cents, so 25 satang is a little less than 1 cent, not 0,00025 EUR.
The first one used VSS (late 90's, so it wasn't so unusual at the time) but then around 2000 moved to PVCS. All the developers assumed that someone got kickbacks because there's no reason to move to an older, more expensive, inferior product.
Unless PVCS got a lot worse between when I was using it in the mid 1990s and 2000, there is no way I would call it an inferior product to VSS. My recollection of PVCS is that it was basically RCS with a graphical UI available for it. VSS on the other hand came with crippled branching, a proprietary repository format that was easily corrupted, and prevented you from checking out a second copy of the branch you were working on so you could do a pristine build.
Cell Broadcast is a standard feature of GSM that has been there since the start. Usually the only feature enabled is area code or area name, but there is support designed in for all kinds of information services. At least on GSM networks, it would be foolish to use anything else. The tricky bit will be to automatically subscribe existing phones to the new emergency alert service, unless there has always been a code reserved for this and phones are already automatically subscribed to it.
No one would be surprised if the title read "AMD Joins Mobile Linux OS efforts" which is what is going on. It is an open source project, and the only real contender for mobile at the moment.
I've heard a rumour about another possible contender, I don't recall the exact name but it was something to do with robots, and backed by some Silicon Valley startup that is apparently doing quite well in online advertising. Seems unlikely to me that some upstart can challenge Intel's clear history of successful operating system development, but some people apparently consider it to be a real contender.
Checked exceptions are overused in Java. A platform shouldn't force you to catch exceptions you're unlikely to be able to recover from.
Java doesn't force you to do that. If the caller is unlikely to be able to recover, then you should be throwing a RuntimeException or Error, both of which are unchecked. But for exceptions that can easily be handled, it is much easier to handle them when you first write the program rather than have to go back and find all the problems later when your testing shows up that you've missed some exceptional conditions that commonly occur.
C# is a shoot-yourself language now - ever since they added var types, extension methods (omg yuk!) and similar stuff to support scripting languages built on the CLR.
Even at the start, when C# allowed exceptions to be thrown without declaration, it had already started down the route of shooting yourself in the foot for the type of large software engineering projects with many developers that Java is mostly used for.
As an iOS developer - I kind of agree with Apple. I write apps which register URL handlers - and when one clicks on on - I make the *user* validate that this is what they really want to do.
If I write a seemingly harmless application that registers a url handler for the phish: protocol, then I agree that it is the application that is at fault, but I do expect the OS to protect users from this. Android pops up a dialog asking which application you want to handle the protocol - even when there is only one choice, and the user has to explicitly tick the "always use this application" box to skip that confirmation step.
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It also seems to be a list of graphical shells that were around in the same timeframe as Windows 1.0. I'm pretty sure OS/2 came later, around the Windows 3.0 timeframe.
Muhammad (or its various variants) is usually used as a prefix for another Malay or Arabic name by families claiming to be descendants of the prophet, not as a name in itself. It wouldn't be common amongst Chinese Muslims.
Is there still a Java Community left to approve this? I thought Oracle had managed to alienate them all over the past 6 months.
AirPlay is DAAP. It might appear to the user as remote speakers and display, but it is just sending media files over DAAP under the hood.
Many UPnP servers will proxy remote content. I'm fairly sure that decoding is being done on the AppleTV, WiFi just does not have enough bandwidth for uncompressed video (802.11g will even struggle with compressed HD content).
A large part of the problem with flakiness is that the libraries that Intel released as an open source reference implementation are full of race conditions. Most open source implementations seem to be based on these libraries.
You do know who the main developer for CUPS is, don't you? The same configuration should work on OS X.
That sounds about right. I remember CPU load being around 33% on my P100 when decoding MP3 files.
That makes a lot of sense. Previous tablets were a disappointment, because all the software that was available for your desktop and laptop was available for the tablet, setting the expectation that such software would be usable - and it wasn't. The iPad came along saying that you could have software that had been designed for smartphones, or software that had been designed specifically for the tablet. This set the expectations lower, and resulted in software that was actually usable in tablet form. There was nothing stopping people from writing such software for the earlier tablets, but who would take the risk of releasing a cut down word processor focused mainly on reviewing documents, when the full MS Office suite was available (for example)?
Its all academic anyway, as Estonia is already minting Euros in preparation for the switchover in January, and this is just some economics professor stating his opinion at a conference, not official government policy. But it seems obvious to anyone familiar with how the Euro works, that cash transactions using Finnish and other countries' notes and coins would continue even if the government stopped producing its own.
Why is the bank letting them withdraw the money before it has cleared?
I guess that is to encourage savings accounts to be used for savings. So what you need is another type of account - a current account that does not come with a cheque book, for people with poor credit history.
The rise of the Euro is old news. A fair amount of global trade is now moving to Renminbi.
Of course, the banks aren't just charging upfront fees to recoup costs of electronic transactions, as the same factoring of the costs into interest rates for cash still apply. They are using these fees to double dip.
Except 1 baht is about 3 cents, so 25 satang is a little less than 1 cent, not 0,00025 EUR.
Unless PVCS got a lot worse between when I was using it in the mid 1990s and 2000, there is no way I would call it an inferior product to VSS. My recollection of PVCS is that it was basically RCS with a graphical UI available for it. VSS on the other hand came with crippled branching, a proprietary repository format that was easily corrupted, and prevented you from checking out a second copy of the branch you were working on so you could do a pristine build.
Cell Broadcast is a standard feature of GSM that has been there since the start. Usually the only feature enabled is area code or area name, but there is support designed in for all kinds of information services. At least on GSM networks, it would be foolish to use anything else. The tricky bit will be to automatically subscribe existing phones to the new emergency alert service, unless there has always been a code reserved for this and phones are already automatically subscribed to it.
I've heard a rumour about another possible contender, I don't recall the exact name but it was something to do with robots, and backed by some Silicon Valley startup that is apparently doing quite well in online advertising. Seems unlikely to me that some upstart can challenge Intel's clear history of successful operating system development, but some people apparently consider it to be a real contender.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries would beg to differ.
Presumably Proc_Scope will run in a cross platform VM (eg Java) that allows them to start with no assumptions about the target platform at all.
Checked exceptions are overused in Java. A platform shouldn't force you to catch exceptions you're unlikely to be able to recover from.
Java doesn't force you to do that. If the caller is unlikely to be able to recover, then you should be throwing a RuntimeException or Error, both of which are unchecked. But for exceptions that can easily be handled, it is much easier to handle them when you first write the program rather than have to go back and find all the problems later when your testing shows up that you've missed some exceptional conditions that commonly occur.
C# is a shoot-yourself language now - ever since they added var types, extension methods (omg yuk!) and similar stuff to support scripting languages built on the CLR.
Even at the start, when C# allowed exceptions to be thrown without declaration, it had already started down the route of shooting yourself in the foot for the type of large software engineering projects with many developers that Java is mostly used for.
If I write a seemingly harmless application that registers a url handler for the phish: protocol, then I agree that it is the application that is at fault, but I do expect the OS to protect users from this. Android pops up a dialog asking which application you want to handle the protocol - even when there is only one choice, and the user has to explicitly tick the "always use this application" box to skip that confirmation step.
Roadkill is free for anyone willing to eat it in Seoul.
Right, but that is GPL v3, the Linux kernel and VLC have chosen to remain with GPL v2, which do not have that wording.