But when it comes to ease of use, the iPhone has Android beat in every way.
In much the same way that Apple's desktop OS has always had Windows beat in ease-of-use in every way. I've never seen two versions of Control Panel (to use your example) that were the same from version to version, either. Still doesn't get Apple any more than 10% of the market. Lots and lots of people like (pick any one): more flexibility, (including carriers!) more power, or lower price than they do (only) ease-of-use.
Operator overloading is only useful for a miniscule number of BigNum math classes that have all already been written - ages ago. By the way, did you ever notice how Java overrides '+' for the String class? So you CAN use overloading in the language spec without exposing it to the world for ametuer abuse. My 2Â.
1) Multiple inheritance "it's a floor wax! it's a desert topping! it's both!"
2) Operator overloading: because TimeCard + MoveTicket + WorkOrder is so much more readable
3) Virtual destructors: because the concept is so easy to explain.
Errrr. Give me a minute. I'm sure I'll think of something.
I'm going to cautiously take this as a Good Thing(tm). Samsung makes decent enough hardware, equipped with awe-UNinspiring software, so they could certainly use the help. While we might be looking at the end of his involvement in Cyanogen, we could be looking at the beginning of the first real Android fork/distro. Meanwhile, had he let Google hire him, we never would have heard of him again - he'd have disappeared into Google's Android development team.
How do you know if the machine is up to date? And how do you avoid the dot zero releases? I've always said i'd wait for the dot one release of eternal life.
Ofcourse, the difference iz that you need physical access to plug something in. With wireless, I don't even have to be on the same floor of the building.
1) Dell (and every other system builder) have always installed the heatsink themselves, so nothing has changed there.
2) Dell (and every other system builder) don't buy CPUs in retail boxes, and they usually buy coolers from a third party, not from Intel, so nothing has changed there, either.
3) Yes, OEM chip prices are lower without the cooler.
4) Enthusiasts are going to buy and install their own bling-bling cooler anyways.
In other words, this won't do anything about warranty claims, it merely keeps the cost down on the RETAIL-packaged chips.
If I had said "Intel makes all-aluminum, barely adequate for stock-only speed heat sinks, with low-quality fans that have zero tolerance for dust" would that have made you happier?
Intel heatsinks NEVER DID come attached to the CPU. It was ALWAYS on the system builder to install the heatsink, even on Intel motherboards. The real issue is that 1) Intel makes really crappy heatsinks, and 2) including a decent (copper and/or heatpipe) cooler would move them out of the performance price-point they've been occupying for many years now.
Intel has been doing that forever, from the 486SX, which just had a broken FPU, to todays chips which are numbered/rated by which tests they pass/fail.
There's nothing wrong with patents for things you can hold in your hand, it's the software and business-method patents that never should have been allowed in the first place, and need to go away.
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In much the same way that Apple's desktop OS has always had Windows beat in ease-of-use in every way. I've never seen two versions of Control Panel (to use your example) that were the same from version to version, either. Still doesn't get Apple any more than 10% of the market. Lots and lots of people like (pick any one): more flexibility, (including carriers!) more power, or lower price than they do (only) ease-of-use.
I got cancer just reading that.
It's not even NewsFor Nerds, it's just a "Insert 'Oh noes! The radiations!' flamewar here" story. Must be a really really slow news day.
Operator overloading is only useful for a miniscule number of BigNum math classes that have all already been written - ages ago. By the way, did you ever notice how Java overrides '+' for the String class? So you CAN use overloading in the language spec without exposing it to the world for ametuer abuse. My 2Â.
Sadly no one thought to throw an exception when it did.
1) Multiple inheritance "it's a floor wax! it's a desert topping! it's both!"
2) Operator overloading: because TimeCard + MoveTicket + WorkOrder is so much more readable
3) Virtual destructors: because the concept is so easy to explain.
Errrr. Give me a minute. I'm sure I'll think of something.
Transportable like a Compaq lunchbox, or luggable like a Kaypro?
I'm going to cautiously take this as a Good Thing(tm). Samsung makes decent enough hardware, equipped with awe-UNinspiring software, so they could certainly use the help. While we might be looking at the end of his involvement in Cyanogen, we could be looking at the beginning of the first real Android fork/distro. Meanwhile, had he let Google hire him, we never would have heard of him again - he'd have disappeared into Google's Android development team.
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Optimus Prime is a Cylon.
How do you know if the machine is up to date? And how do you avoid the dot zero releases? I've always said i'd wait for the dot one release of eternal life.
You've been watching too much Burn Notice.
Ofcourse, the difference iz that you need physical access to plug something in. With wireless, I don't even have to be on the same floor of the building.
1) Dell (and every other system builder) have always installed the heatsink themselves, so nothing has changed there.
2) Dell (and every other system builder) don't buy CPUs in retail boxes, and they usually buy coolers from a third party, not from Intel, so nothing has changed there, either.
3) Yes, OEM chip prices are lower without the cooler.
4) Enthusiasts are going to buy and install their own bling-bling cooler anyways.
In other words, this won't do anything about warranty claims, it merely keeps the cost down on the RETAIL-packaged chips.
If I had said "Intel makes all-aluminum, barely adequate for stock-only speed heat sinks, with low-quality fans that have zero tolerance for dust" would that have made you happier?
The symmetry is broken. Now if we could just explain it from first principles.
Thanks for elaborating on that. That's what I was alluding to, but I was posting from mobile.
Intel heatsinks NEVER DID come attached to the CPU. It was ALWAYS on the system builder to install the heatsink, even on Intel motherboards. The real issue is that 1) Intel makes really crappy heatsinks, and 2) including a decent (copper and/or heatpipe) cooler would move them out of the performance price-point they've been occupying for many years now.
Intel has been doing that forever, from the 486SX, which just had a broken FPU, to todays chips which are numbered/rated by which tests they pass/fail.
Modded "Flamebait". Thanks, I needed that LOL. I stand corrected. The Standard Model is the epitome of an elegant theory.
Nowadays we like to call the Aether the "Higgs Particle".
And it's "intents and purposes", not "intensive purposes".
So, an ugly kludge on an ugly kludge then?
There's nothing wrong with patents for things you can hold in your hand, it's the software and business-method patents that never should have been allowed in the first place, and need to go away.
I have a box of 8" Dysan floppies, still in the shrinkwrap.
When I did, it went into plaid.
Didn't realize that. I assumed that being marked "i386" meant it was i386. Silly me.