So, the bomb makers just conduct their business in a house in the countryside that uses a septic tank instead of connecting to a sewer system. That's a lot of money and effort and false confidence that can be circumnavigated with great ease. Now, if they'd done this without telling anyone then they might have had an edge... Idiots.
Given that this is the (crap) way that healthcare operates in the US, why has someone not set up a not for profit health insurance company? We have analogies in the UK with (non-medical) mutual organisations such as the Co-operative group and building societies who have provided great services in markets that had similar problems with being dominated by profit making organisations having people over a barrel. I would have thought that such a mutual organisation would find a happy place in the market and certainly be able to help provide affordable health insurance to most?
Don't blame the OS for snappiness! That's purely done to how the developers have implemented their touch interface and graphics drivers and the GUI (although the GUI is typically fine as it's got long history) it's actually quite tricky to optimise touch drivers for minimum latency especially given that most interface controllers rely on driver side averaging to give accurate results and that inherently is a delay.
In principle any embedded OS can give you a lightning fast user interface if done right - we're only talking millisecond resolution (or even tens of) to be visually in perceivable. It's only where you want to do semi real time guaranteed deadlines millisecond or so when you'll get into difficulties and start to have to look at more creative solutions or Realtime options
There's something odd about comparing the Android footprint to a 'Linux' footprint given that Android is just Linux + middleware at the end of the day... You could still load the linux portion of android in a similar small footprint even if you can't the rest!
Actually you'd be surprised how easy it can be especially in this day and age where most of the IP blocks are largely the same and most are supported. I used to do 50-50 embedded linux and embedded windows work and back when I did a lot of windows I could do a bring up from bare hardware and a linux port to booting into a windows GUI (windows mobile if required) in a day or maybe two if lucky. I'm not even a slight ms fanboy but the embedded windows architecture is quite clever in the way that the HAL abstracts out everything really nicely. There's lots I could bitch about but that aspect was really superb...
PS No. that's not over-exaggerating and yes I'm available for hire:-D
Interesting - i bought an hdmi to vga on ebay for mine for the equivalent of about $15. And if you spent $40 on a usb keyboard and mouse...? $10 should have done you!
So apple say that they wont transmit the biometric id. That they can control. However, id bet that within months if not weeks someone will find a way to abuse and hijack this on jailbroken devices. The same protection doesn't apply to them...
Also eventually im sure the normal iphone will be abused too. Look at the debacle over the ease of extracting the users location history from iphones...
You're being a geek and treating music as if it were a science. Its not. As somebody enlightened once said : "people listen to music for emotional quality not sound quality".
Why else are do people still hunt down and listen to scratchy old 78's and get massively excited about them? Or go to live gigs in small venues full of noisy drunk people?
Stop getting hung up on the tech and go out to live gigs more and remember how it feels to get excited about the music itself!
So, following your logic, why is the USA trying to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons?
There are somewhere in the region of 23,574 out there on the planet and in all of history only TWO have actually been used to kill people intentionally. By a very curious co-incidence that also equates to exactly 0.008% of nuclear weapon owners that do bad things. Wow! Clearly, nuclear weapons are not a problem...?!
Only on America - some nut-job bitching that the government trying to do something to make a difference after a load of children are murdered!
Well done. Give yourself a slap on the back and feel proud that you're defending your rights. "but its in the constitution and Ill use that to win every argumement with the red lefties". Yes it is. However the only reason the constitution doesnt have at the very top "the right not to be murdered" is that the people who wrote it didnt think anyone would be so fucking stupid that they need it written down explicitly.
Not at all. Forget tangible objects with measurable profit margins and the mis-direction this brings.
Instead of a physical phone, imagine I have a piece of information (or intellectual property if you wish) that you want and that I am prepared to sell to you. Now, I *could* give this to you for free as it doesn't necessarily cost me anything to impart but I'm going to charge as it's my livelihood. At what price are you getting a bargain and at what price am I ripping you off?
If you can answer that then congratulations, the entire commercial world is in your hands to profit handsomely from.
So this is a GeekBench 2 score :
http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/
Does this tell you :
- How responsive UI is and how well graphics accelleration in 2d and 3d improves your experience?
- Whether the phones and apps operation scales onto the multiple cores to make use of them?
- How well the O/S has been optimised to make use of the processor features?
- Whether the O/S and apps are optimised to make use of cache well?
- If you're going to be waiting on I/O all the time?
So - if you're using your S4 to run matlab I think this is great news. If you're wanting to use it as a smart-phone, perhaps more subjective tests will tell you more if you get on with it.
Personally having spent my teens and twenties fascinated and overly keen on benchmarks in computing, these days I pick up a device and use it for a while. If I like how it feels to use and how fast it feels then I'll keep it. (Caveat: I use benchmarks all the time developing embedded platforms to verify optimisation but that's a whole different kettle of fish)
Er... 441ppi would have been great if this was a thread about the occulus rift (250ppi ish IIRC) but the design of your eyeballs just means this is pointless....
Common sense : taking regular breaks to re-focus, have a walk around the office and walking to get lunch at lunchtime.
Exercise : I personally do Capoeira a couple of times a week at the moment. Helps fitness and flexibility and strength but equally importantly its a good source of social interaction in the evening which is important when working alone and living alone much of the time!
Of course they can - however, people buy cars for looks in general not efficiency. For example spoilers that boy racers wet their pants over generally do nothing much to aid downforce and add a lot of efficiency reducing drag...
There are quite a few devices that have multiple TV tuners and encode / stream the TV over your LAN / WLAN. I've got a Hauppauge one somewhere which works well (although must remember to ebay it soon now I've re-wired my house). There are plenty of options available.
Personally I'd do a bit of DIY and put an aerial splitter in the roof and drop a few more cables in. Much better solution long term, DIY really isn't that hard...
I've been there myself and the number 1 advice I can give is "don't rush".
Getting a big chunk of money to replace is really great but be a bit more tactical. You can live without all of it for a little while so bone up on whats current and upgrade cycles and spend wisely. Also as someone wisely mentioned above - re-evaluate if you *really* need everything back like for like!
Personally if it was me, if it's cash and not receipted value I'd replace most kit with nearly new via ebay / gumtree / whatever and save the leftover money for a rainy day. It's a recession after all and chunks of cash are hard to come by! Also, being harsh but logical - lots of people hit hard by the recession sell off expensive kit cheap when they need the money desperately. It sucks for them big time but for you it could be a boon.
On your point about writing style, did you never read the twitter argument between Donald Trump and Alan Sugar? People with financial power can be as big a dick as those without.
Totally true for you and I, but someone driving with an adapted hand control car won't be able to drive with a clutch so still same problem as reported...
Not all cars have a kill switch you can just shut things down.
And that's the problem right there then.
Having a kill switch would cause more danger than it prevents. Driving with either idiotic drivers or kids...? Look at how close people drive to each other, not nearly enough space for a safe stop if the car in front of your average tail gater suddenly lost power.
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"you silly female HR idiots."
Have you been in storage since the 50's or are you intentionally saying that to ensure that no one takes you seriously?
So, the bomb makers just conduct their business in a house in the countryside that uses a septic tank instead of connecting to a sewer system. That's a lot of money and effort and false confidence that can be circumnavigated with great ease. Now, if they'd done this without telling anyone then they might have had an edge... Idiots.
So he's calling it "advice" but threatening to force via the courts if unheeded. I think most people would call that a "demand" or "threat".
Given that this is the (crap) way that healthcare operates in the US, why has someone not set up a not for profit health insurance company? We have analogies in the UK with (non-medical) mutual organisations such as the Co-operative group and building societies who have provided great services in markets that had similar problems with being dominated by profit making organisations having people over a barrel. I would have thought that such a mutual organisation would find a happy place in the market and certainly be able to help provide affordable health insurance to most?
Don't blame the OS for snappiness! That's purely done to how the developers have implemented their touch interface and graphics drivers and the GUI (although the GUI is typically fine as it's got long history) it's actually quite tricky to optimise touch drivers for minimum latency especially given that most interface controllers rely on driver side averaging to give accurate results and that inherently is a delay.
In principle any embedded OS can give you a lightning fast user interface if done right - we're only talking millisecond resolution (or even tens of) to be visually in perceivable. It's only where you want to do semi real time guaranteed deadlines millisecond or so when you'll get into difficulties and start to have to look at more creative solutions or Realtime options
There's something odd about comparing the Android footprint to a 'Linux' footprint given that Android is just Linux + middleware at the end of the day... You could still load the linux portion of android in a similar small footprint even if you can't the rest!
Actually you'd be surprised how easy it can be especially in this day and age where most of the IP blocks are largely the same and most are supported. I used to do 50-50 embedded linux and embedded windows work and back when I did a lot of windows I could do a bring up from bare hardware and a linux port to booting into a windows GUI (windows mobile if required) in a day or maybe two if lucky. I'm not even a slight ms fanboy but the embedded windows architecture is quite clever in the way that the HAL abstracts out everything really nicely. There's lots I could bitch about but that aspect was really superb...
PS No. that's not over-exaggerating and yes I'm available for hire :-D
Interesting - i bought an hdmi to vga on ebay for mine for the equivalent of about $15. And if you spent $40 on a usb keyboard and mouse...? $10 should have done you!
So apple say that they wont transmit the biometric id. That they can control. However, id bet that within months if not weeks someone will find a way to abuse and hijack this on jailbroken devices. The same protection doesn't apply to them...
Also eventually im sure the normal iphone will be abused too. Look at the debacle over the ease of extracting the users location history from iphones...
You're being a geek and treating music as if it were a science. Its not. As somebody enlightened once said : "people listen to music for emotional quality not sound quality".
Why else are do people still hunt down and listen to scratchy old 78's and get massively excited about them? Or go to live gigs in small venues full of noisy drunk people?
Stop getting hung up on the tech and go out to live gigs more and remember how it feels to get excited about the music itself!
So, following your logic, why is the USA trying to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons?
There are somewhere in the region of 23,574 out there on the planet and in all of history only TWO have actually been used to kill people intentionally. By a very curious co-incidence that also equates to exactly 0.008% of nuclear weapon owners that do bad things. Wow! Clearly, nuclear weapons are not a problem...?!
Only on America - some nut-job bitching that the government trying to do something to make a difference after a load of children are murdered!
Well done. Give yourself a slap on the back and feel proud that you're defending your rights. "but its in the constitution and Ill use that to win every argumement with the red lefties". Yes it is. However the only reason the constitution doesnt have at the very top "the right not to be murdered" is that the people who wrote it didnt think anyone would be so fucking stupid that they need it written down explicitly.
Not at all. Forget tangible objects with measurable profit margins and the mis-direction this brings.
Instead of a physical phone, imagine I have a piece of information (or intellectual property if you wish) that you want and that I am prepared to sell to you. Now, I *could* give this to you for free as it doesn't necessarily cost me anything to impart but I'm going to charge as it's my livelihood. At what price are you getting a bargain and at what price am I ripping you off?
If you can answer that then congratulations, the entire commercial world is in your hands to profit handsomely from.
So this is a GeekBench 2 score :
http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/
Does this tell you :
- How responsive UI is and how well graphics accelleration in 2d and 3d improves your experience?
- Whether the phones and apps operation scales onto the multiple cores to make use of them?
- How well the O/S has been optimised to make use of the processor features?
- Whether the O/S and apps are optimised to make use of cache well?
- If you're going to be waiting on I/O all the time?
So - if you're using your S4 to run matlab I think this is great news. If you're wanting to use it as a smart-phone, perhaps more subjective tests will tell you more if you get on with it.
Personally having spent my teens and twenties fascinated and overly keen on benchmarks in computing, these days I pick up a device and use it for a while. If I like how it feels to use and how fast it feels then I'll keep it. (Caveat: I use benchmarks all the time developing embedded platforms to verify optimisation but that's a whole different kettle of fish)
Actually, it is only fleecing if customers aren't willing to pay the price asked.... If happy customers pay the retail price it's just good business!
Er... 441ppi would have been great if this was a thread about the occulus rift (250ppi ish IIRC) but the design of your eyeballs just means this is pointless....
Common sense : taking regular breaks to re-focus, have a walk around the office and walking to get lunch at lunchtime.
Exercise : I personally do Capoeira a couple of times a week at the moment. Helps fitness and flexibility and strength but equally importantly its a good source of social interaction in the evening which is important when working alone and living alone much of the time!
Of course they can - however, people buy cars for looks in general not efficiency. For example spoilers that boy racers wet their pants over generally do nothing much to aid downforce and add a lot of efficiency reducing drag...
Especially people like the ecomodder folk :
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/aerocivic-how-drop-your-cd-0-31-0-a-290.html#post2111
There are quite a few devices that have multiple TV tuners and encode / stream the TV over your LAN / WLAN. I've got a Hauppauge one somewhere which works well (although must remember to ebay it soon now I've re-wired my house). There are plenty of options available.
Personally I'd do a bit of DIY and put an aerial splitter in the roof and drop a few more cables in. Much better solution long term, DIY really isn't that hard...
I've been there myself and the number 1 advice I can give is "don't rush".
Getting a big chunk of money to replace is really great but be a bit more tactical. You can live without all of it for a little while so bone up on whats current and upgrade cycles and spend wisely. Also as someone wisely mentioned above - re-evaluate if you *really* need everything back like for like!
Personally if it was me, if it's cash and not receipted value I'd replace most kit with nearly new via ebay / gumtree / whatever and save the leftover money for a rainy day. It's a recession after all and chunks of cash are hard to come by! Also, being harsh but logical - lots of people hit hard by the recession sell off expensive kit cheap when they need the money desperately. It sucks for them big time but for you it could be a boon.
On your point about writing style, did you never read the twitter argument between Donald Trump and Alan Sugar? People with financial power can be as big a dick as those without.
Totally true for you and I, but someone driving with an adapted hand control car won't be able to drive with a clutch so still same problem as reported...
Not all cars have a kill switch you can just shut things down.
And that's the problem right there then.
Having a kill switch would cause more danger than it prevents. Driving with either idiotic drivers or kids...? Look at how close people drive to each other, not nearly enough space for a safe stop if the car in front of your average tail gater suddenly lost power.
Turning off? You've heard of steering locks right?