An open source library in the codec world is meaningless if the codec itself is covered by patents, because this means that no one can use the library in any country that enforces software patents.
I don't see how that makes it meaningless in the other 90% of the world that has sane IP laws.
You're missing the point of why people buy mechanical watches. It isn't that they keep time better than a bunch of simple electronics, it is an appreciation of the engineering and craftsmanship that goes into designing and manufacturing them with enough precision to at least be in the same ballpark of timekeeping as a cheap electronic watch.
And because it uses an OLED display, you can expect your colours to go to shit within a year or two and it won't be daylight readable.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 from when they first came out, which still looks a damn sight better than any brand new LCD equipped phone in both daylight and darkness.
Give me something that looks like a real watch, with DAYS of battery
Real watches don't need batteries. But anything that doesn't at least have battery life measured in months is never going to be more than a niche product for gadget geeks.
So their index is not defects per 1000 LOC, as the GP assumed, but defects per 2.03 lines of code. I guess they had to change the factor after a few high level managers at large corporates ran their department's code through it after committing to certain KPI targets.
That makes more sense. From the summary, I thought the most likely scenario was that Coverity does not handle Python code very well based on my experience of random buggy Python code. It is to be expected that a widely used VM/interpreter is going to be of better quality than your average code.
They weren't clinging to it because it was the future, but because maemo/meego/... wasn't quite ready yet. And just when it was ready, they ditched it and went with the OS with a proven track record to match Symbian's trajectory - Windows CE^H^HPock^H^H^H^HMob^H^H^HPhone.
The 8GB iPhone 4 is still in production (rumored to be replaced at the bottom end soon by the iPhone 5C). Only the 16GB and 32GB versions were discontinued to make way for the 4S. Apple has consistently released major OS upgrades only for models that are current on the day of the announcement (including models that are discontinued as of that same date due to simultaneous new product announcements). Ask any iPhone 3G user that upgraded to iOS 5 whether they think this is a good or bad thing.
What would surprise me more than finding that these organizations are trying to infiltrate the CIA would be to discover that the CIA is not actively trying to recruit them.
... or a sophisticated IPoAC transport mechanism incorporating advanced clandestine protocols like RFC1149 and RFC2549. Obviously the French were hatching a zionist plot to overthrow the elected government before the Egyptians beat them at their own game.
It also doesn't work for me, as my local DNS server correctly rejects it. Using Google's DNS server and the domain root dot, I can see that it actually exists.
Obfuscation also helps with code size, which is especially important for code that is downloaded, like Javascript and CSS, since one of the first things that obfuscators do is change all the symbols in your program to short names (duplicating where possible), starting from a, working up to z then aa...az etc.
Seems to me like changing the design of a popular product is a sure-fire way to kill it.
Slashdot has been through a number of unpopular redesigns now, and yet here we all are discussing this as if it is going to have any measurable impact on Yahoo's readership.
Are you suggesting that someone is trying to make this socialist idea that people can go to University based on merit look like a failure, so they can go back to whatever elitist admission policy they had in the past?
When I was at school, the teachers called them multiple choice, the students called them multiple guess. At the time it was meant as a joke, but maybe it was really the beginning of an evolution of the English language, given that my generation are now the teachers.
This is what is known as selection bias. To put up with the environment, a female programmer in the West has to be dedicated, so only the skilled and dedicated make it through. If there were more females entering the profession, you would see a wider range of skill levels, just as you do with male programmers. Strangely you don't see this imbalance so much in the software industry in Eastern cultures.
I think its about time that Linux was adapted for Workgroups. How anyone could justify releasing version 3.11 without them this late in the game is something I just cannot fathom.
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I don't see how that makes it meaningless in the other 90% of the world that has sane IP laws.
You're missing the point of why people buy mechanical watches. It isn't that they keep time better than a bunch of simple electronics, it is an appreciation of the engineering and craftsmanship that goes into designing and manufacturing them with enough precision to at least be in the same ballpark of timekeeping as a cheap electronic watch.
$900 for a battery powered Swiss watch is a long way from cheap.
It's supported in Android 4.3. I don't know if any current devices have the hardware for it though.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 from when they first came out, which still looks a damn sight better than any brand new LCD equipped phone in both daylight and darkness.
Real watches don't need batteries. But anything that doesn't at least have battery life measured in months is never going to be more than a niche product for gadget geeks.
Japan has that covered already
So their index is not defects per 1000 LOC, as the GP assumed, but defects per 2.03 lines of code. I guess they had to change the factor after a few high level managers at large corporates ran their department's code through it after committing to certain KPI targets.
That makes more sense. From the summary, I thought the most likely scenario was that Coverity does not handle Python code very well based on my experience of random buggy Python code. It is to be expected that a widely used VM/interpreter is going to be of better quality than your average code.
They weren't clinging to it because it was the future, but because maemo/meego/... wasn't quite ready yet. And just when it was ready, they ditched it and went with the OS with a proven track record to match Symbian's trajectory - Windows CE^H^HPock^H^H^H^HMob^H^H^HPhone.
Why practice extra-ordinary rendition when you can invite your victim over for some polonium tea.
The 8GB iPhone 4 is still in production (rumored to be replaced at the bottom end soon by the iPhone 5C). Only the 16GB and 32GB versions were discontinued to make way for the 4S. Apple has consistently released major OS upgrades only for models that are current on the day of the announcement (including models that are discontinued as of that same date due to simultaneous new product announcements). Ask any iPhone 3G user that upgraded to iOS 5 whether they think this is a good or bad thing.
Or you gave money to a charity once that ended up funneled to Hamas.
What would surprise me more than finding that these organizations are trying to infiltrate the CIA would be to discover that the CIA is not actively trying to recruit them.
... or a sophisticated IPoAC transport mechanism incorporating advanced clandestine protocols like RFC1149 and RFC2549. Obviously the French were hatching a zionist plot to overthrow the elected government before the Egyptians beat them at their own game.
It also doesn't work for me, as my local DNS server correctly rejects it. Using Google's DNS server and the domain root dot, I can see that it actually exists.
4. French people will block the M20 because their cars won't let them travel over 70km/h on the motorway.
Patents are, and should be, about technical issues only, legality and ethics does not enter into the decision over whether something is patentable.
Obfuscation also helps with code size, which is especially important for code that is downloaded, like Javascript and CSS, since one of the first things that obfuscators do is change all the symbols in your program to short names (duplicating where possible), starting from a, working up to z then aa...az etc.
Slashdot has been through a number of unpopular redesigns now, and yet here we all are discussing this as if it is going to have any measurable impact on Yahoo's readership.
Are you suggesting that someone is trying to make this socialist idea that people can go to University based on merit look like a failure, so they can go back to whatever elitist admission policy they had in the past?
When I was at school, the teachers called them multiple choice, the students called them multiple guess. At the time it was meant as a joke, but maybe it was really the beginning of an evolution of the English language, given that my generation are now the teachers.
This is what is known as selection bias. To put up with the environment, a female programmer in the West has to be dedicated, so only the skilled and dedicated make it through. If there were more females entering the profession, you would see a wider range of skill levels, just as you do with male programmers. Strangely you don't see this imbalance so much in the software industry in Eastern cultures.
I think its about time that Linux was adapted for Workgroups. How anyone could justify releasing version 3.11 without them this late in the game is something I just cannot fathom.
Tab, not Window. They were saving Ctrl + Shift + N for next Sunday's front page story, until you scooped them just there.