The bill has been SHELVED, not killed. A lot of bills in the past came back after being shelved and got pushed into law when the opposition to it quieted down (e.g. the Patriot Act). Keep up the opposition. Do not let them pass this bill again!
You must be knew to programming. PHP is a language, not a framework. You can use a PHP framework to apply a MVC (model/view/controller) structure or you can choose not to. It's entirely up to the programmer, not the language.
During the Shinkansen's 45-year, nearly 7 billion-passenger history, there have been no passenger fatalities due to derailments or collisions,[13] despite frequent earthquakes and typhoons.
I think they should just abstract away the hardware-specific components. There's a great deal of code that is purely unrelated to hardware components that could be be separated and updated OTA by Google.
They wanted to use new APIs and features that are found in modern versions of Windows, in an effort to make IE suck less.
Use a different browser at work and IE9 at home, if you must.
Uhhhh why not simply detect the version of Windows and enable/disable based on support of features required?
It's not hard to do. This is just Microsoft doing what any software company does - making you upgrade so that they'll make money.
You don't see stories because you may not even know about malware hidden behind a facade. For example, Storm 8 was once sending customer phone numbers to themselves without their knowledge. Storm 8 games do a lot of interaction with their servers so it was rather trivial for them to get it past the App Store censors.
What I like about android however is that it at leasts tells you what permissions it requires and if it doesn't ask for it the app will not be able to access the relevant section. A wallpaper app for example should not have camera+gps access.
You just don't like it because you can't actually refute it. The track records speaks for itself compared to Android.
Actually, I very much can refute it:)
Please see Aurora Feintand Storm 8. And that's just the high profile ones.
If a platform can have software written for it, you can guarantee there will be at least some malware written for it.
I did not even mention anything about marketshare nor did I imply that malware has anything to do with it. I'm merely pointing out that Apple's walled garden approach is basically useless unless they screen the source code of every app submission (a truly gargantuan task). App approval has it's strengths but by no means is it impervious to malware.
UPDATE: It turns out there may have been a bit of confusion surrounding Kovacs’ comments at the Google event. Google reached out to clarify, supplying BGR with the following statement: “The version of Honeycomb we’ve shown is optimized for tablet form factors. All of the UI changes are the future of Android. Yesterday’s event focused on tablet form factors, which is where you’ll first see Honeycomb.”
In other words, they said it's going to be optimized for tablets first but did not specifically state that it won't be on phones.
The article summary, as usual, is incorrect. The article itself is much MUCH more accurate because the summary fails to make the distincting between strength and toughness.
Strength generally refers to the yield strength which is the highest point on the elastic portion of a stress strain curve. Beyond that stress the material undergoes plastic deformation which means it'll be deformed even when the stress is removed. Toughness refers to the amount of energy that can be absorbed by the material before it breaks completely (i.e. tugging on a rope till it breaks). This is the entire area under the stress-strain curve. The two are NOT the same.
Most materials are either high strength or high toughness. Glass for example has very high strength but very little toughness. As such when it yields it simply shatters. Strength on the other hand has lower strength but more toughness - it absorbs a great deal more energy before fracture which makes it ideal for buildings (you want to have enough of a warning before your building collapses!).
So to answer your question, yes a lot of materials are stronger than steel but they are often brittle which is NOT ideal for building bridges out of them. This article summary fails to mention it because the OP thinks strength is the same as toughness but he/she is completely wrong. The material in question has both strength AND toughness (due, I think to the way it handles crack propogation) that makes it have a strength and toughness ratio that is better than steel. That'll make it a much better building material. Steel will probably still be used however, since it doesn't require palladium o_o
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When millions of people all of a sudden can't access their data due to some technical fault, you're going to have a bad day.
The bill has been SHELVED, not killed. A lot of bills in the past came back after being shelved and got pushed into law when the opposition to it quieted down (e.g. the Patriot Act). Keep up the opposition. Do not let them pass this bill again!
You must be knew to programming. PHP is a language, not a framework. You can use a PHP framework to apply a MVC (model/view/controller) structure or you can choose not to. It's entirely up to the programmer, not the language.
...that 65% or two-thirds don't want it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen#Safety_record
...because it has been -REDACTED-
I think they should just abstract away the hardware-specific components. There's a great deal of code that is purely unrelated to hardware components that could be be separated and updated OTA by Google.
Uhh that's what I meant haha. I messed up the order - it indeed autoscrolls while only scrolled to the bottom.
Huh? What link are you clicking?
Indeed. Here's a picture.
Logcat only autoscrolls when it's not scrolled to the very bottom of the window. Move the slider and it won't autoscroll.
The question is, have you? It's not like they have to generate entirely new code here to support Windows XP...
They wanted to use new APIs and features that are found in modern versions of Windows, in an effort to make IE suck less.
Use a different browser at work and IE9 at home, if you must.
Uhhhh why not simply detect the version of Windows and enable/disable based on support of features required? It's not hard to do. This is just Microsoft doing what any software company does - making you upgrade so that they'll make money.
You don't see stories because you may not even know about malware hidden behind a facade. For example, Storm 8 was once sending customer phone numbers to themselves without their knowledge. Storm 8 games do a lot of interaction with their servers so it was rather trivial for them to get it past the App Store censors. What I like about android however is that it at leasts tells you what permissions it requires and if it doesn't ask for it the app will not be able to access the relevant section. A wallpaper app for example should not have camera+gps access.
You just don't like it because you can't actually refute it. The track records speaks for itself compared to Android.
Actually, I very much can refute it :)
Please see Aurora Feintand Storm 8. And that's just the high profile ones.
If a platform can have software written for it, you can guarantee there will be at least some malware written for it.
I did not even mention anything about marketshare nor did I imply that malware has anything to do with it. I'm merely pointing out that Apple's walled garden approach is basically useless unless they screen the source code of every app submission (a truly gargantuan task). App approval has it's strengths but by no means is it impervious to malware.
Any one thing alone might not stop anyone, but in total they have prevented iOS from seeing issues like Android has had.
Because iOS apps have never done anything bad right? Wrong! I can find more examples if you'd like.
The iOS app store can have it's fair share of malware too. It's easy to hide snooping software behind a simple game for example. In fact, all apps can access the contacts list, recent youtube searches, email settings and even non-password field keystrokes. When developers submit apps they only submit the binary and not the source code so Apple's app approval monkeys basically only cover what they can see. This "walled garden" argument is stupid for this reason.
UPDATE: It turns out there may have been a bit of confusion surrounding Kovacs’ comments at the Google event. Google reached out to clarify, supplying BGR with the following statement: “The version of Honeycomb we’ve shown is optimized for tablet form factors. All of the UI changes are the future of Android. Yesterday’s event focused on tablet form factors, which is where you’ll first see Honeycomb.”
In other words, they said it's going to be optimized for tablets first but did not specifically state that it won't be on phones.
The article summary, as usual, is incorrect. The article itself is much MUCH more accurate because the summary fails to make the distincting between strength and toughness.
Strength generally refers to the yield strength which is the highest point on the elastic portion of a stress strain curve. Beyond that stress the material undergoes plastic deformation which means it'll be deformed even when the stress is removed. Toughness refers to the amount of energy that can be absorbed by the material before it breaks completely (i.e. tugging on a rope till it breaks). This is the entire area under the stress-strain curve. The two are NOT the same.
Most materials are either high strength or high toughness. Glass for example has very high strength but very little toughness. As such when it yields it simply shatters. Strength on the other hand has lower strength but more toughness - it absorbs a great deal more energy before fracture which makes it ideal for buildings (you want to have enough of a warning before your building collapses!).
So to answer your question, yes a lot of materials are stronger than steel but they are often brittle which is NOT ideal for building bridges out of them. This article summary fails to mention it because the OP thinks strength is the same as toughness but he/she is completely wrong. The material in question has both strength AND toughness (due, I think to the way it handles crack propogation) that makes it have a strength and toughness ratio that is better than steel. That'll make it a much better building material. Steel will probably still be used however, since it doesn't require palladium o_o