nope, modern laptops are just as good as desktops now. Apart from the small screen (which can be good as a secondary thing to run your email or whatnot on), the laptop has as much power as your desktop.
I have a i7 laptop with 8 Gb RAM on it - that's plenty for development and running the dev environment, including db and services. If I need more than that, I'll be running the code on a server box, not a desktop.
Desktops are just cheaper, that's their only advantage nowadays.
don't - although the COM interop tooling for VB.NET is quite good, its all a massive performance penalty, and isn't quite as nice as its presented. The cross environment marshalling that's required (plus some pinning of data so the garbage collector becomes less efficient) means its there for convenience only. You wouldn't want to use it for heavy applications.
Microsoft wants you to rewrite in.net (well, then they did, now they want you to rewrite it all in WinRT).
.net did not get it right - they basically said "there is 1 language, the CLR and it runs in its own little sandbox. We might add some crappy hooks to let others play with us, but they'll be terribly inefficient and difficult to use".
Its the same with Java - the environment is almost deliberately designed to be "java only".
If.net had built its tooling to run natively instead of in the managed sandbox then I think they could have done better with the interoperability. As it is, they really want you to become a.net-only shop. (even things like WCF have the crappy options for interop, so if you want to interact with a.NET WCF service, you either have to go with shitty SOAP, as the fast and efficient socket option is.NET only).
I know you meant lots of languages can be run in.NET, like VB.NET or C# or F# or IronPython, but really they are just syntactic sugar on top of the underlying bytecode. All that is different is the words used to code up your program, some have curly braces, some have BEGIN/END.. the difference is superficial.
I'd have thought the camera would be part of the back cover.. so you could replace it with better ones, or a keyboard, or... shock, a cover that did not have a camera at all - think how many they could sell to the military or other sensitive agencies for their workers as company phones then!
This is the 2nd AC post saying the same FUD that Jolla wants the cover to be a marketing revenue earner.
and I should refer you to the Three provider's PaYG sims that currently offer a tariff of 1 penny per megabyte, or the £15 deal that gives you unlimited data.
In europe, phone contracts are still the most popular way to get a phone but the phones are nearly always unlocked (especially nowadays) and can be reused after the contract ends by putting a payg sim in, or migrating to a sim-only contract (which seem to be increasingly popular)
The thing the US carriers don't get is that people will always go with a contract as it spreads the cost of their new phone out, like buying one with a finance deal. They don't need to be locked at all. Even if you sell a sim-only contract, you make money off the punter, you only need to subsidise handsets if you have an exclusive deal for a must-have new model,and even then.. people will come to you to buy them anyway.
The US carrier lockdown is simply stupid, something in place by executives who can only think they exist to abuse their customers rather than provide a competitive service. America, ha.
Its got nothing to do with ARM guys, or ARM chips. You'll get the same 'custom configured OS software' if these devices were powered by anything, including x86 Atom or Bay Trail processors.
The problem is device manufacturers looking at devices as if they were one-off products, rather than a more maintainable software ecosystem. These guys are applying the same throwaway project processes from making a new microwave to tech toys.
so loads of elected MPs made noises about blocking gay marriage.. you just justify that the Lords view was in keeping with the people's when you consider that.
Consider history, the Commons was full of what we'd call the aristocracy today (only without the titles maybe, but with the land and financial influence). You can complain about the Lords being out of touch, but how many of our current crop of MPs can stand up to the same scrutiny?
My point is that the Lords is at least independant, and i think that matter significantly more than stuffing it full of party cronies with the expectation that they will simply be there to rubber stamp whatever the party of the day wants. I'd say an elected house of lords would be worse than not having one at all (at least then we woulnd't have to pay them)
nope, Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones.
The problem with Democracy is its like an American movie high school, the leaders are that bitchy cheerleader and the school jock. No-one intelligent or sensible makes it to the positions of power because its a popularity contest between the psychopath and the celebrity. The only good thing about it is they have to try to appear normal in order to keep us voting for them.
So yes, we do need to teach our children better, but guess who sets the education agenda, and keeps us sedated with reality TV shows. They like it that way, and it appears so, as a whole, do we:(
To be honest, I always thought the Lords did a fine job of basically not being too politically tied to the morons in the Commons. This is almost certainly why they want to reform the Lords - so that the upper chamber stops being a reasonably impartial bunch of old guys who do what's right because its right, and starts being a bunch of young tossers who only got their because the political parties helped with their election campaigns.
All wrapped up in the guise of "but they're not democratic".
At worst the UK will get a form of democracy that rivals the US for stupidity, infighting and intransigence.
I can see one such a democratic split between the houses would work though - if the upper house was only made available to those who have never held membership of any political party. Then the cronies of the lower houses would not be allowed in, and would not expect a cushy "retirement" in the upper house either. Imagine if the upper house was stocked only with ordinary people, now *that* would be democratic.
If you expect documentation, and probably support too, then you will find a commercial package (eg Landscape) will fit your needs better than the free equivalents.
That's not to say the commercial equivalent is better in any way, or necessarily does more, or has better features.. just that they are the ones to go with if you need that level of support.
Or you could just hire someone to provide you with that support internally, the fat sysadmin that was mentioned:)
not really possible - the point of such high level languages is that the levels of abstraction involved in such things are quite large. So to reduce this to something that can be turned into efficient assembly requires the abstractions be simplified, which effectively means turning the high level language into a lower level one.
it also says a lot about lousy high-level languages layers on layers in the quest to make developers more productive.
You can code C and get good assembler out of it that is also efficient and fast; or you can code a script language that will not produce decent assembler but will let you code things a lot quicker. I think there's probably a sweet spot between these two extremes but it will shift depending on your work - some people will want the extra power of C++ that still gives you good assembler, while others will go for C# or Java that gives you good productivity.
their customers are the people who used to pay them to display ads before everyone left for the competitor sites that didn't spew disingenuous ad buttons over every download.
I think you're being too lenient toward him.. in the future, everyone will still have to hand the government information, only now Fuckerberg will demand a licence payment each time.
A lot of anons are criticising this - saying medication is total evil and so on.
For a normally introverted person I guess this is true, but then, we don't medicate people who are just a bit shy.
Think of it in the opposite extreme, we do medicate lots of people who are excessively extrovert. I think they call it ADHD though many just think they're poorly adjusted to a life of sitting down and doing boring work. Whether this is the case or not is beyond my pay grade, but the same kind of thing can be applied to people who are so introvertedly 'depressed' they can't leave the house or look at anyone. I assume the OP is one of these, or had similar mental health issues that were successfully resolved using medication. Not all meds are bad you know, and not all phrases of 'introverted' mean simply being at the quiet end of normal human interaction.
Unless, of course, when the OP says "medicated", he meant "drunk", in which case I too am being medicated for all social dysfunctions.
IIRC Plato suggested the only truly just society (and just means perfect here) was to remove all worldly goods from those in the top rank (the golds) so their welbeing was intricately linked to the happiness and success of the society they governed. Imagine if there was no lobbyists or other vested interests able to sway a politician with promises of a cushy non-exec directorship, or speaking tours, or just buckets of cash.. not only would it discourage the psychopaths from running, it'd also mean they might concentrate of doing a decent job instead!
I think these people were also chosen at random, but its been a very long time since I read the Republic. Worth are-read I think.
OSMAnd - openstreetmaps for Android. I worry the devs are going in a free-version-but-buy the paid upgrade route, but on the other hand, the paid version isn't very much money at all.
Its different to Google, but you can download offline map data, and it does have all the local map data users have uploaded that Google can't get.
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fine, let him.. He'll quickly find out that no-one likes a whiner.
nope, modern laptops are just as good as desktops now. Apart from the small screen (which can be good as a secondary thing to run your email or whatnot on), the laptop has as much power as your desktop.
I have a i7 laptop with 8 Gb RAM on it - that's plenty for development and running the dev environment, including db and services. If I need more than that, I'll be running the code on a server box, not a desktop.
Desktops are just cheaper, that's their only advantage nowadays.
don't - although the COM interop tooling for VB.NET is quite good, its all a massive performance penalty, and isn't quite as nice as its presented. The cross environment marshalling that's required (plus some pinning of data so the garbage collector becomes less efficient) means its there for convenience only. You wouldn't want to use it for heavy applications.
Microsoft wants you to rewrite in .net (well, then they did, now they want you to rewrite it all in WinRT).
.net did not get it right - they basically said "there is 1 language, the CLR and it runs in its own little sandbox. We might add some crappy hooks to let others play with us, but they'll be terribly inefficient and difficult to use".
Its the same with Java - the environment is almost deliberately designed to be "java only".
If .net had built its tooling to run natively instead of in the managed sandbox then I think they could have done better with the interoperability. As it is, they really want you to become a .net-only shop. (even things like WCF have the crappy options for interop, so if you want to interact with a .NET WCF service, you either have to go with shitty SOAP, as the fast and efficient socket option is .NET only).
I know you meant lots of languages can be run in .NET, like VB.NET or C# or F# or IronPython, but really they are just syntactic sugar on top of the underlying bytecode. All that is different is the words used to code up your program, some have curly braces, some have BEGIN/END.. the difference is superficial.
I'd have thought the camera would be part of the back cover.. so you could replace it with better ones, or a keyboard, or... shock, a cover that did not have a camera at all - think how many they could sell to the military or other sensitive agencies for their workers as company phones then!
This is the 2nd AC post saying the same FUD that Jolla wants the cover to be a marketing revenue earner.
and I should refer you to the Three provider's PaYG sims that currently offer a tariff of 1 penny per megabyte, or the £15 deal that gives you unlimited data.
In europe, phone contracts are still the most popular way to get a phone but the phones are nearly always unlocked (especially nowadays) and can be reused after the contract ends by putting a payg sim in, or migrating to a sim-only contract (which seem to be increasingly popular)
The thing the US carriers don't get is that people will always go with a contract as it spreads the cost of their new phone out, like buying one with a finance deal. They don't need to be locked at all. Even if you sell a sim-only contract, you make money off the punter, you only need to subsidise handsets if you have an exclusive deal for a must-have new model,and even then.. people will come to you to buy them anyway.
The US carrier lockdown is simply stupid, something in place by executives who can only think they exist to abuse their customers rather than provide a competitive service. America, ha.
Its got nothing to do with ARM guys, or ARM chips. You'll get the same 'custom configured OS software' if these devices were powered by anything, including x86 Atom or Bay Trail processors.
The problem is device manufacturers looking at devices as if they were one-off products, rather than a more maintainable software ecosystem. These guys are applying the same throwaway project processes from making a new microwave to tech toys.
no, the reason they changed the name was because a large German company already used it and had trademarks on it.
true, but I see Metro apps ported to the desktop in Stardock's 3rd party extension that lets you run them in windows on the desktop!
so loads of elected MPs made noises about blocking gay marriage.. you just justify that the Lords view was in keeping with the people's when you consider that.
Consider history, the Commons was full of what we'd call the aristocracy today (only without the titles maybe, but with the land and financial influence). You can complain about the Lords being out of touch, but how many of our current crop of MPs can stand up to the same scrutiny?
My point is that the Lords is at least independant, and i think that matter significantly more than stuffing it full of party cronies with the expectation that they will simply be there to rubber stamp whatever the party of the day wants. I'd say an elected house of lords would be worse than not having one at all (at least then we woulnd't have to pay them)
nothing ordinary about those privileged bunch of old Etonians and their bumlicker chums :-)
nope, Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones.
The problem with Democracy is its like an American movie high school, the leaders are that bitchy cheerleader and the school jock. No-one intelligent or sensible makes it to the positions of power because its a popularity contest between the psychopath and the celebrity. The only good thing about it is they have to try to appear normal in order to keep us voting for them.
So yes, we do need to teach our children better, but guess who sets the education agenda, and keeps us sedated with reality TV shows. They like it that way, and it appears so, as a whole, do we :(
To be honest, I always thought the Lords did a fine job of basically not being too politically tied to the morons in the Commons. This is almost certainly why they want to reform the Lords - so that the upper chamber stops being a reasonably impartial bunch of old guys who do what's right because its right, and starts being a bunch of young tossers who only got their because the political parties helped with their election campaigns.
All wrapped up in the guise of "but they're not democratic".
At worst the UK will get a form of democracy that rivals the US for stupidity, infighting and intransigence.
I can see one such a democratic split between the houses would work though - if the upper house was only made available to those who have never held membership of any political party. Then the cronies of the lower houses would not be allowed in, and would not expect a cushy "retirement" in the upper house either. Imagine if the upper house was stocked only with ordinary people, now *that* would be democratic.
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that's because they don't want you to learn the transferable skills that make you attractive to other employers. Just saying :)
If you expect documentation, and probably support too, then you will find a commercial package (eg Landscape) will fit your needs better than the free equivalents.
That's not to say the commercial equivalent is better in any way, or necessarily does more, or has better features.. just that they are the ones to go with if you need that level of support.
Or you could just hire someone to provide you with that support internally, the fat sysadmin that was mentioned :)
not really possible - the point of such high level languages is that the levels of abstraction involved in such things are quite large. So to reduce this to something that can be turned into efficient assembly requires the abstractions be simplified, which effectively means turning the high level language into a lower level one.
Its just another of life's compromises.
it also says a lot about lousy high-level languages layers on layers in the quest to make developers more productive.
You can code C and get good assembler out of it that is also efficient and fast; or you can code a script language that will not produce decent assembler but will let you code things a lot quicker. I think there's probably a sweet spot between these two extremes but it will shift depending on your work - some people will want the extra power of C++ that still gives you good assembler, while others will go for C# or Java that gives you good productivity.
their customers are the people who used to pay them to display ads before everyone left for the competitor sites that didn't spew disingenuous ad buttons over every download.
TFTFY.
I think you're being too lenient toward him..
in the future, everyone will still have to hand the government information, only now Fuckerberg will demand a licence payment each time.
lucky there's ghostery available that stops such tracking.
A lot of anons are criticising this - saying medication is total evil and so on.
For a normally introverted person I guess this is true, but then, we don't medicate people who are just a bit shy.
Think of it in the opposite extreme, we do medicate lots of people who are excessively extrovert. I think they call it ADHD though many just think they're poorly adjusted to a life of sitting down and doing boring work. Whether this is the case or not is beyond my pay grade, but the same kind of thing can be applied to people who are so introvertedly 'depressed' they can't leave the house or look at anyone. I assume the OP is one of these, or had similar mental health issues that were successfully resolved using medication. Not all meds are bad you know, and not all phrases of 'introverted' mean simply being at the quiet end of normal human interaction.
Unless, of course, when the OP says "medicated", he meant "drunk", in which case I too am being medicated for all social dysfunctions.
IIRC Plato suggested the only truly just society (and just means perfect here) was to remove all worldly goods from those in the top rank (the golds) so their welbeing was intricately linked to the happiness and success of the society they governed. Imagine if there was no lobbyists or other vested interests able to sway a politician with promises of a cushy non-exec directorship, or speaking tours, or just buckets of cash.. not only would it discourage the psychopaths from running, it'd also mean they might concentrate of doing a decent job instead!
I think these people were also chosen at random, but its been a very long time since I read the Republic. Worth are-read I think.
OSMAnd - openstreetmaps for Android. I worry the devs are going in a free-version-but-buy the paid upgrade route, but on the other hand, the paid version isn't very much money at all.
Its different to Google, but you can download offline map data, and it does have all the local map data users have uploaded that Google can't get.