Even if a hacker can breach the outer defences, no actual human being can comprehend a Lisp program, so there's no danger of the hacker doing any damage.
He explains this by saying that individual end users can create distributed computing and security problems because they are poor data administrators.
The biggest reason that corporate IT departments aren't particularly respected by the rest of the company is this blame the user culture that seems to pervade it. If there are shortcomings in the desktop and mobile software that makes it easy to get things wrong, then the software is at fault. Software is a tool for people, not the other way around.
The Olympic record is 1:19 for 20km. That is in the same ballpark as a 6 minute mile, and what the website quotes for fastest human (4 - 5 leg lengths per second). The point is that other robots have all been under 1.5 leg lengths per second, so this is a big leap if leg lengths per second is a valid measurement of performance. Previous robots have had much longer legs though, so if this one doesn't scale up, then it still might not beat them.
I'm not sure that holding an advertising company responsible for the content of ads they display is any different than holding someone responsible for receiving stolen goods. If we let it go on unpunished, then it provides a conduit for unscrupulous traders who may have other ways of evading the law themselves.
The only use I can see for this is in conjunction with a similar application that lists everything installed, where this application is used to eliminate programs from the list of potential licensing problems. In my experience, the single biggest liability for any company is unlicensed copies of WinZip and other "shareware" or "free for non-commercial use" closed source software that users download and install.
Saying that Sony should have been completely aware of the software specifics of a piece of code they brought from a third party, a piece of code that they were almost certainly not even allowed to review.
I've never worked for a company that would purchase an unknown product without first reviewing it. Especially when it is a large company like Sony doing the buying, and building it into products that they are selling under their own brand there is no way I can see that happening.
Laptops have always been a little behind desktops, making it even harder to find a suitable distro for an old laptop.
The only problem I had with Ubuntu on my laptop was the jerkiness of the touchpad, which turned out to be caused by using the generic PS/2 mouse driver for it instead of the purpose built Synaptics driver. A simple one line change in xorg.conf fixed that.
Until recently DirectX needed three pages of goobleydo-gook to start up. These people just don't get APIs, period.
Looking at things like DirectX, COM, etc, I think one thing that Microsoft do "get", is how lucrative training is. Without a course or two, you're completely lost trying to start out with most Microsoft technologies unless you stick with the boilerplate MFC code that VC++ generates for you and never try to do anything interesting.
.NET seems to break that mold though, so maybe they see a threat somewhere - definitely not from the J2EE crowd, which is just as bad, but maybe from other things like ruby, python or some of the simpler Java APIs.
Do you REALLY want to trade the Wi-Fi+EDGE for 3G only
Who said you have to trade? My phone has both Wifi and 3G.
There are already more third-party "iPhone apps" than there are Windows Mobile apps or JavaFX apps
I don't know about JavaFX, since that's only been released recently, but all your "iPhone apps" will run perfectly well on Windows Mobile, Linux and Symbian phones with Opera Mobile and soon Minimo offering a decent AJAX platform. Then there are all the other non-AJAX apps they will run....
That is not even good FUD that you're shoveling.
Speak for yourself, fanboy. And look up the difference between Opera Mini and Opera Mobile sometime.
I was going to ask the question "how can you dumb the iPhone down further, and it still be usable as a phone". Making the screen smaller and adding buttons or a scroll wheel, and ditching the WiFi seem the only options. Its not like the iPhone is feature rich as it is, with no 3G, poor bluetooth support, PC connectivity tied to iTunes and no real developer support.
The Logitech "marble mouse" I use doesn't collect dirt against the sensors, but rather it falls through a hole onto the desk.
Maybe they've tweaked the design since I got mine, but I find that gunk builds up on the bearings that the ball sits on, and the movement gets rough and jerky after a couple of months until I scrape the gunk off the bearings. The sensor and ball itself manage to stay clean though, I think partly because the ball is hard plastic without the rubber coating that mouse balls tend to use to grip the mat.
The same goes for code, except that you have whitespace at the start of the line, so the total line length can go up a bit. 80 columns is about right IMHO, to force fellow developers into thinking about refactoring their code when the indentation reaches a point where 80 columns becomes too limiting.
Thanks for the health encouragement. Interesting, more information please on your blood pressure reduction. I consume eight cans of Dr Pepper a day plus blood pressure meds (160mg Diovan/day). I imagine a number of other/.'rs are in the same condition.
Is it a result of privatised healthcare that your doctors prescribe medication for blood pressure without first looking at your diet? It guarantees continuing profit for the doctor and pharmaceutical companies I guess...
Mountain Dew certainly varies. I bought a can the other day from the local Polish goods shop, which stated 15mg/100ml on the can. TFA says 55mg for the US version.
Don't you know that nations like India (hindu-dominated) have a lot of problems but don't use the same tactics used by the muslims from the middle-east to solve their problems?
If you are going to sign an exclusive contract, make sure there is a minimum sales clause that lets you terminate the exclusivity if they are not performing. I guess you learnt that the hard way.
...my parents in-law being where I spend most of my time in Japan. In the original post I mistakenly wrote "no 3G networks" when I meant "no GSM networks" for Japan, so its 3G's signal handling that's relevant here, not GSM's, but I imagine the issues are the same (a strong signal should reduce battery usage as you say).
At home, I can see the cell tower from my lounge window, and get full signal on both 3G and GSM. At my parents in law's house, I get two bars on 3G. I don't think its a clear signal issue.
When I've travelled to Japan, which does not have 3G networks, my battery life goes up significantly - better even than switching the phone to 2G only when I'm at home. This leads me to believe that the battery life issue is not due to 3G itself, but with maintaining both GSM and 3G connections at once so the phone can switch over quickly when it needs to.
Universal's head offices are in Santa Monica and New York, despite the fact that the parent company is French. Sony BMG is also run out of New York, despite the parent companies being Japanese and German. EMI is the only one of the big four that does not base its operations in the US.
In this instance, it's that Russia has agreed to respect our copyrights
It already respected the copyrights. AllOfMP3.com paid a statutory license for all the music that was downloaded from them, in accordance with Russian law until the government was coerced into changing that law to suit the RIAA. This is the same sort of statutory license that the RIAA collects from Internet radio stations in the US through its SoundExchange subsidiary. Meanwhile, the RIAA was refusing to pass this money on to the artists, because it did not want to recognise the Russian equivalent of SoundExchange as having any legitimacy.
OS/2 Warp was roughly contemporary with Windows 95. I was using OS/2 2.1 at the time, and there was fierce competition between Microsoft and IBM sales reps for our business at the time of release. But I do know we had a server running Slackware by that stage, which we got on CD (probably after the release of NT 3.1, which is why I asked). Prior to that we were running FreeBSD which would have predated the release of NT 3.1, but I'm not sure whether it also came on CD or floppy.
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I think you're mixing up Lisp with Perl.
You've got that backwards. You need to have more trust for signed apps, as signing gives them access to APIs that are deemed risky.
The biggest reason that corporate IT departments aren't particularly respected by the rest of the company is this blame the user culture that seems to pervade it. If there are shortcomings in the desktop and mobile software that makes it easy to get things wrong, then the software is at fault. Software is a tool for people, not the other way around.
The Olympic record is 1:19 for 20km. That is in the same ballpark as a 6 minute mile, and what the website quotes for fastest human (4 - 5 leg lengths per second). The point is that other robots have all been under 1.5 leg lengths per second, so this is a big leap if leg lengths per second is a valid measurement of performance. Previous robots have had much longer legs though, so if this one doesn't scale up, then it still might not beat them.
I'm not sure that holding an advertising company responsible for the content of ads they display is any different than holding someone responsible for receiving stolen goods. If we let it go on unpunished, then it provides a conduit for unscrupulous traders who may have other ways of evading the law themselves.
The only use I can see for this is in conjunction with a similar application that lists everything installed, where this application is used to eliminate programs from the list of potential licensing problems. In my experience, the single biggest liability for any company is unlicensed copies of WinZip and other "shareware" or "free for non-commercial use" closed source software that users download and install.
I've never worked for a company that would purchase an unknown product without first reviewing it. Especially when it is a large company like Sony doing the buying, and building it into products that they are selling under their own brand there is no way I can see that happening.
The only problem I had with Ubuntu on my laptop was the jerkiness of the touchpad, which turned out to be caused by using the generic PS/2 mouse driver for it instead of the purpose built Synaptics driver. A simple one line change in xorg.conf fixed that.
Looking at things like DirectX, COM, etc, I think one thing that Microsoft do "get", is how lucrative training is. Without a course or two, you're completely lost trying to start out with most Microsoft technologies unless you stick with the boilerplate MFC code that VC++ generates for you and never try to do anything interesting.
Who said you have to trade? My phone has both Wifi and 3G.
I don't know about JavaFX, since that's only been released recently, but all your "iPhone apps" will run perfectly well on Windows Mobile, Linux and Symbian phones with Opera Mobile and soon Minimo offering a decent AJAX platform. Then there are all the other non-AJAX apps they will run....
Speak for yourself, fanboy. And look up the difference between Opera Mini and Opera Mobile sometime.
I was going to ask the question "how can you dumb the iPhone down further, and it still be usable as a phone". Making the screen smaller and adding buttons or a scroll wheel, and ditching the WiFi seem the only options. Its not like the iPhone is feature rich as it is, with no 3G, poor bluetooth support, PC connectivity tied to iTunes and no real developer support.
Maybe they've tweaked the design since I got mine, but I find that gunk builds up on the bearings that the ball sits on, and the movement gets rough and jerky after a couple of months until I scrape the gunk off the bearings. The sensor and ball itself manage to stay clean though, I think partly because the ball is hard plastic without the rubber coating that mouse balls tend to use to grip the mat.
The same goes for code, except that you have whitespace at the start of the line, so the total line length can go up a bit. 80 columns is about right IMHO, to force fellow developers into thinking about refactoring their code when the indentation reaches a point where 80 columns becomes too limiting.
Is it a result of privatised healthcare that your doctors prescribe medication for blood pressure without first looking at your diet? It guarantees continuing profit for the doctor and pharmaceutical companies I guess...
What sort of bastard child measurement is mg/oz? SI or American. Pick one, use it.
Mountain Dew certainly varies. I bought a can the other day from the local Polish goods shop, which stated 15mg/100ml on the can. TFA says 55mg for the US version.
They don't?
If you are going to sign an exclusive contract, make sure there is a minimum sales clause that lets you terminate the exclusivity if they are not performing. I guess you learnt that the hard way.
...my parents in-law being where I spend most of my time in Japan. In the original post I mistakenly wrote "no 3G networks" when I meant "no GSM networks" for Japan, so its 3G's signal handling that's relevant here, not GSM's, but I imagine the issues are the same (a strong signal should reduce battery usage as you say).
At home, I can see the cell tower from my lounge window, and get full signal on both 3G and GSM. At my parents in law's house, I get two bars on 3G. I don't think its a clear signal issue.
When I've travelled to Japan, which does not have 3G networks, my battery life goes up significantly - better even than switching the phone to 2G only when I'm at home. This leads me to believe that the battery life issue is not due to 3G itself, but with maintaining both GSM and 3G connections at once so the phone can switch over quickly when it needs to.
Universal's head offices are in Santa Monica and New York, despite the fact that the parent company is French. Sony BMG is also run out of New York, despite the parent companies being Japanese and German. EMI is the only one of the big four that does not base its operations in the US.
It already respected the copyrights. AllOfMP3.com paid a statutory license for all the music that was downloaded from them, in accordance with Russian law until the government was coerced into changing that law to suit the RIAA. This is the same sort of statutory license that the RIAA collects from Internet radio stations in the US through its SoundExchange subsidiary. Meanwhile, the RIAA was refusing to pass this money on to the artists, because it did not want to recognise the Russian equivalent of SoundExchange as having any legitimacy.
OS/2 Warp was roughly contemporary with Windows 95. I was using OS/2 2.1 at the time, and there was fierce competition between Microsoft and IBM sales reps for our business at the time of release. But I do know we had a server running Slackware by that stage, which we got on CD (probably after the release of NT 3.1, which is why I asked). Prior to that we were running FreeBSD which would have predated the release of NT 3.1, but I'm not sure whether it also came on CD or floppy.
Simtel and others were selling Linux and FreeBSD CDROMs before Windows 95 came out. Did NT 3.1 also come on CD?