but the point was : they had already done the development-efficiency thing and needed to update it to something more runtime-efficient.
So to choose Java is doing a half-hearted job, if you rewrite your entire codebase you could have done it much better with C++ modules in their old code, and then migrate the whole lot if necessary. Doing a whole rewrite in java means they lost out on incremental development (which would have been much more development-efficient) and lost out on the most efficient runtime performance too.
But.NET is missing loads of stuff, the last one I found was the lack of a graph or tree container, a dictionary just doesn't cut it. Oh, and I keep using Single() in my EF LINQ calls.. which doesn't support it, even though its a method on IEnumerable... lovely that, an interface that supports some methods some of the time.
So no, the API is not a good thing as it constrains you into using it and the bigger the API the more people think they have to use it, and only it. Other languages do much better in this regard, by letting you add in libraries for various functionality as you need it, so if I needed a tree container, there would be one, or more, standard libs available for me to fetch and pull in. Then my library of libraries would be filled with whatever was needed today - not what was hot 5 years ago when that API was thought up.
I guess the wheels will be left pointed in the direction required to get out, the way they got in so you just need ot start up and drive off. Its not like the computer is squeezing you into a spot its impossible to get out of,just that the spot you get is one the computer has calculated you can fit into, not one that you look at and think "hmm, won't risk it"
Besides, is this new tech? Skoda had the magic parking for a few years now. I guess that they've just stuck it on the Ford brand and are kicking off marketing.
this is also probably the reason people are annoyed at targeted ads - the intrusion of totally wrong adverts tells people that you're not only watching what they so and making it so obvious, but also giving them no (or less) benefit from this intrusion.
no, targetted advertising is bad fort advertisers. (as well as the rest of us).
My case: I need a new pair of windscreen wipers, so I googled for them, found the kind I wanted and the shops that sold them. Placed my order and when they arrived, stuck them on my car.
So now, when I browse the web (without adblock, for some sites) guess what adverts I get... and guess how many additional pairs of windscreen wipers I'm likely to purchase. So those advertisers are paying good money to show me adverts that I will definitely not be interested in. Which is ironic as targeted adverts are supposed to do exactly the opposite.
There is another argument in that the targetting is too easily gamed. I look at the hungersite.com, and click whatever advert is on there. So now I get ads for womens clothing and telecoms products. None of which I bother to look at anyway, but still shows that the targetting is pointless.
Ad systems that work, work based on the demographic of the website visited. You gather info about the kind of user you have, and then sell ad space directly to advertisers that are likely to want to advertise to your users. So a technology site is not going to do well with adverts for baby products, but will do much better with adverts for computer hardware. Its the same model used for television - people who watch soaps will want adverts for household products, those who watch space documentaries.. something else. Advertisers who want to maximise their advertising budgets would do well to understand this.
more than that, if I want to transfer a few gig of music or movies to my phone, its much easier to slip the sd card out and put it in a reader on my PC. Or better - swap with a sd card that already has the required files present (ie I have 2).
the other thing that I always worry about is the battery. I have had to reboot my old Galaxy S1 by removing the battery before now. What do I do if it really goes belly up and needs a hard reset?
I don't know - often its just a matter of knowing the tooling that's there, so if you don;t know the Linux ways you're not going to be as efficient as a Windows admin who does know the Windows tools. Pretty obvious.
However, In his presentation, Drumond also pointed out that the "Direct benefits (license costs) are only the tip of the iceberg (PDF Link). The force is also saving money with Linux's easier management and a " Huge decrease of local technical interventions on Ubuntu's desktops."
I guess a "huge decrease of local technical interventions" suggests that you're not right in that Linux doesn't have the same ease-of-management than GP has. I wish he's said more about it, but they're obviously making it work well. That means there must be an equivalent to GP (puppet maybe, or Canonical's proprietary Landscape tool, or possibly just webmin:) ) Maybe its because they didn't know how to administer XP, or that they had such an old Windows infrastructure they didn't have effective GP anyway.
However, these types are the ones who are most likely to attempt some bullshit to reaffirm minority interests and cultures - so just tell her that "yo bitch" is the predominant means of addressing women in your cultural environment and she should be good with that.:-)
Fortunately you can go to the options and enable classic view - at least that's what I did when I saw the beta. The pictures were nice, but I think ArsTechnica does it better, and the chap who does them (Aurich) is awesome.
They still load only a few posts per article, and still don't have a rich editor for posting. I don't really see the point in using the new design.
That was the case, but Microsoft has been making those awesome management decisions....
Obviously the first one was the Surface RT - ARM based and though it could be backwards-compatible with a recompile for the most part, MS won't allow you to run your old stuff on it, they want you to rewrite as Modern app using the new APIs and sell it only via their 30%-cut store.... In other areas they are dropping support for technologies they don't really want to support - Silverlight anyone?
The UI situation on Linux is good, its just that the geek media is full of bull and hype - Ubuntu makes a good UI but the geeks will jump up and down shouting how its different and how Canonical has sold out, etc etc. Its still a decent UI that works well, even if not to your rabid geek's taste.
well no. understand that racism is just prejudice - ie pre-judging someone based entirely on trivial differences. Note that the most racist person I ever met was an Indian, who honestly thought India should nuke Pakistan before they did it back to them! Its very liberal to think racism is about skin colour, but its not. Mind you, such prejudices exist in all kinds of areas not common associated with racism - hillbillies are dumb, blondes are stupid, black guys are going to rob you, old people are bad drivers, etc etc. All based on nothing more that judgements that have nothing to do with any individual.
I'd say what has made humanity is our instinct to control the world around us, including other people. Most of our major discoveries come about due to war after all. Its just that war all the time would not be productive, like everything, moderation is good. But from a society point of view, we need the occasional war to shake us back to life. Strange, but true.
There are ways to overcome all this - you need to go places like Sweden where they have a very progressive system of criminal re-education and rehabilitation, but they still lock criminals away for some time.
As for your line "kill the gays", well there are groups that think this is what should happen, but then there are groups that embrace gay culture. Note that this affirms what I said - its the society herd that matters, whether you're different in that group or not. You can be gay in San Francisco and no-one will care - you fit in to that herd, but you can be a gun-nut white supremacist in San Francisco and be persecuted by your fellows. Until you recognise the rabid NRA member who thinks that homosexuality is the work of the devil and should be stopped is someone you are persecuting, will you truly understand the fact that you're viewing the world from the PoV of your herd that you are trying to protect.
a knoblette of blu-tack works well too - especially as it can be pushed in over the camera lens to form a nice smooth and flat surface so it doesn't look as unsightly as a band-aid or tape.
or paint, that works well too. Course, if you do that you'll need an external webcam - that can be unplugged or turned to face the wall when you're not using it
Well, from my knowledge of cold war spying activities - knowledge I admit is entirely gleaned from books and films and tabloid media - 'honey trap' activities is a well known means to obtain information from a target.
'course government have hot spies to do this activity in person, no grainy webcam needed.
I have to think about it because my natural tendency is to watch someone's mouth when they speak because that is where the information is coming from.
but my natural tendency is to watch someone's cleavage when they speak because... well, 'cos I'm a bloke. Maybe this is why women think all men are autistic:-)
I think you have it slightly wrong - Do you not observe the dual nature of understanding we have of behavior? On one hand, we want to blame the individual for his behavior. "I wouldn't do it. I don't think it's right. He must be an asshole."
that's not the case, its "WE decided it shouldn't be done, we don't think its right. He must be not part of our society". Its a standard herd instinct to have a mostly-conforming community to protect ourselves from predatory factors. So this guy, if he's not behaving how we as a society think is acceptable, then he must be a danger to us. Which, when you consider what he's done, is entirely true.
So punishment is less about him and more about what kind of society we want (or need) to have. We don't accept when drugs etc influence people - the crazed killer still gets locked up for everyone's good, even if he was under the influence at the time. This also shows why drunk driving is treated less harshly - because its something 'ordinary' (ie normal members of our herd) people might do, and not the anti-societal external 'predators'.
its becoming more common for these "baseless" (my opinion) claims. Look at Prenda Law and the bonds they're being asked to stump up - strangely they want to drop the cases the moment the bonds are set but the judges are not letting them.
The bonds in the Prenda cases are of the order of $10,000, not millions and appear to be awarded only in these extreme cases where it doesn't appear that there is a 'real' plaintiff.
shareholders launched a court battle to prevent the takeover, and claim compensation and/or charges against Elop and while that dragged through the courts for years (as they do) the new CEO decided that actually, Windows phone isn't the profit thing he wants and changes the OS platform to Android across the board of Lumia phones, dropping Windows Phone completely.
Years later when the courts finally decide that "meh" is the answer to the charges, Microsoft can go ahead with the purchase for the manufacturing arm, if they still wanted to, and Elop could then find a new job - as I doubt even Microsoft would appoint him as CEO whilst he was fighting an active court case.
Could happen? hehehe. and you never know, Nokia could turn things around like Samsung did with Android.
(and yes, they could do Meego, but frankly this isn't about making a success of the company for Microsoft's benefit..)
Unfortunately Microsoft hasn't grasped what exactly that is - they make a PC in a slightly smaller form factor than a laptop, and a tablet that has no software to run on it. (I exaggerate for effect before any MS marketeer comes along to tell me how many hundreds of thousands of apps they are).
So they have neither the benefit of their existing market - people buy an ultrabook to do real content-producing work (which is cheaper than the surface pro with its accessories) or an iPad that does all the content consuming you could want for less money (or an Android tablet that does just as well for considerably less).
It beats me why anyone would still want to buy either of Microsoft's offerings, they had no differentiation before and now they have.. still no differentiation (unless you count that there's no place to put the stylus so you'll lose it as a feature)
So you see why even the Microsoftie demonstrating the things looks so glum
yeah, like who'd make a Windows PC device besides Microsoft? no one because Microsoft is going to be making all the money.
I say you'd be wrong, every cheapass brand will make them, because they can. They can then sell the steam hardware with their brand name slapped on it, and they'll be happy with that arrangement. Especially as Valve will be charging them $0 for the privilege (though hopefully ensuring a standard set of the more important components).
Can I see a Dell console? Probably not. Can I see an Asus one, or a Western Digital one, or an Archos one, a Belkin one, or a Netgear one, an ACRyan one, or a Toshiba one, a LG one or a Sumvision one, or even a Panasonic one... quite possibly.
yeah, but how many of those devs coding for XBone also port it to the PS4? If they can do that, then its not a huge (ie costly) step to make it portable to steamOS too.
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but the point was : they had already done the development-efficiency thing and needed to update it to something more runtime-efficient.
So to choose Java is doing a half-hearted job, if you rewrite your entire codebase you could have done it much better with C++ modules in their old code, and then migrate the whole lot if necessary. Doing a whole rewrite in java means they lost out on incremental development (which would have been much more development-efficient) and lost out on the most efficient runtime performance too.
Why didn't they switch to C++ and do it properly!
sort of. .NET is good simply because of Visual Studio and intellisense and all the other "make it easy" features they have - features I'm sure they could have added to other languages.
But .NET is missing loads of stuff, the last one I found was the lack of a graph or tree container, a dictionary just doesn't cut it. Oh, and I keep using Single() in my EF LINQ calls.. which doesn't support it, even though its a method on IEnumerable... lovely that, an interface that supports some methods some of the time.
So no, the API is not a good thing as it constrains you into using it and the bigger the API the more people think they have to use it, and only it. Other languages do much better in this regard, by letting you add in libraries for various functionality as you need it, so if I needed a tree container, there would be one, or more, standard libs available for me to fetch and pull in. Then my library of libraries would be filled with whatever was needed today - not what was hot 5 years ago when that API was thought up.
I guess the wheels will be left pointed in the direction required to get out, the way they got in so you just need ot start up and drive off. Its not like the computer is squeezing you into a spot its impossible to get out of,just that the spot you get is one the computer has calculated you can fit into, not one that you look at and think "hmm, won't risk it"
Besides, is this new tech? Skoda had the magic parking for a few years now. I guess that they've just stuck it on the Ford brand and are kicking off marketing.
this is also probably the reason people are annoyed at targeted ads - the intrusion of totally wrong adverts tells people that you're not only watching what they so and making it so obvious, but also giving them no (or less) benefit from this intrusion.
no, targetted advertising is bad fort advertisers. (as well as the rest of us).
My case: I need a new pair of windscreen wipers, so I googled for them, found the kind I wanted and the shops that sold them. Placed my order and when they arrived, stuck them on my car.
So now, when I browse the web (without adblock, for some sites) guess what adverts I get... and guess how many additional pairs of windscreen wipers I'm likely to purchase. So those advertisers are paying good money to show me adverts that I will definitely not be interested in. Which is ironic as targeted adverts are supposed to do exactly the opposite.
There is another argument in that the targetting is too easily gamed. I look at the hungersite.com, and click whatever advert is on there. So now I get ads for womens clothing and telecoms products. None of which I bother to look at anyway, but still shows that the targetting is pointless.
Ad systems that work, work based on the demographic of the website visited. You gather info about the kind of user you have, and then sell ad space directly to advertisers that are likely to want to advertise to your users. So a technology site is not going to do well with adverts for baby products, but will do much better with adverts for computer hardware. Its the same model used for television - people who watch soaps will want adverts for household products, those who watch space documentaries .. something else. Advertisers who want to maximise their advertising budgets would do well to understand this.
I can transfer them over wifi, but its much quicker to do it with the card directly connected to a card reader. ... is what I meat to say.
more than that, if I want to transfer a few gig of music or movies to my phone, its much easier to slip the sd card out and put it in a reader on my PC. Or better - swap with a sd card that already has the required files present (ie I have 2).
the other thing that I always worry about is the battery. I have had to reboot my old Galaxy S1 by removing the battery before now. What do I do if it really goes belly up and needs a hard reset?
I don't know - often its just a matter of knowing the tooling that's there, so if you don;t know the Linux ways you're not going to be as efficient as a Windows admin who does know the Windows tools. Pretty obvious.
However, In his presentation, Drumond also pointed out that the "Direct benefits (license costs) are only the tip of the iceberg (PDF Link). The force is also saving money with Linux's easier management and a " Huge decrease of local technical interventions on Ubuntu's desktops."
I guess a "huge decrease of local technical interventions" suggests that you're not right in that Linux doesn't have the same ease-of-management than GP has. I wish he's said more about it, but they're obviously making it work well. That means there must be an equivalent to GP (puppet maybe, or Canonical's proprietary Landscape tool, or possibly just webmin :) ) Maybe its because they didn't know how to administer XP, or that they had such an old Windows infrastructure they didn't have effective GP anyway.
Forgive me if its not the best link (at work, no youtube) but Yes Minister way back when knew about this issue too...
[Sir Humphrey demonstrates how public surveys can reach opposite conclusions]
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think there is lack of discipline and vigorous training in our Comprehensive Schools?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think young people welcome some structure and leadership in their lives?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do they respond to a challenge?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Might you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?
Bernard Woolley: Er, I might be.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes or no?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Of course, after all you've said you can't say no to that. On the other hand, the surveys can reach opposite conclusions.
[survey two]
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Are you unhappy about the growth of armaments?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think there's a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think it's wrong to force people to take arms against their will?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Would you oppose the reintroduction of conscription?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
[does a double-take]
Sir Humphrey Appleby: There you are, Bernard. The perfectly balanced sample.
However, these types are the ones who are most likely to attempt some bullshit to reaffirm minority interests and cultures - so just tell her that "yo bitch" is the predominant means of addressing women in your cultural environment and she should be good with that. :-)
Fortunately you can go to the options and enable classic view - at least that's what I did when I saw the beta. The pictures were nice, but I think ArsTechnica does it better, and the chap who does them (Aurich) is awesome.
They still load only a few posts per article, and still don't have a rich editor for posting. I don't really see the point in using the new design.
That was the case, but Microsoft has been making those awesome management decisions ....
Obviously the first one was the Surface RT - ARM based and though it could be backwards-compatible with a recompile for the most part, MS won't allow you to run your old stuff on it, they want you to rewrite as Modern app using the new APIs and sell it only via their 30%-cut store.... In other areas they are dropping support for technologies they don't really want to support - Silverlight anyone?
The UI situation on Linux is good, its just that the geek media is full of bull and hype - Ubuntu makes a good UI but the geeks will jump up and down shouting how its different and how Canonical has sold out, etc etc. Its still a decent UI that works well, even if not to your rabid geek's taste.
well no. understand that racism is just prejudice - ie pre-judging someone based entirely on trivial differences. Note that the most racist person I ever met was an Indian, who honestly thought India should nuke Pakistan before they did it back to them! Its very liberal to think racism is about skin colour, but its not. Mind you, such prejudices exist in all kinds of areas not common associated with racism - hillbillies are dumb, blondes are stupid, black guys are going to rob you, old people are bad drivers, etc etc. All based on nothing more that judgements that have nothing to do with any individual.
I'd say what has made humanity is our instinct to control the world around us, including other people. Most of our major discoveries come about due to war after all. Its just that war all the time would not be productive, like everything, moderation is good. But from a society point of view, we need the occasional war to shake us back to life. Strange, but true.
There are ways to overcome all this - you need to go places like Sweden where they have a very progressive system of criminal re-education and rehabilitation, but they still lock criminals away for some time.
As for your line "kill the gays", well there are groups that think this is what should happen, but then there are groups that embrace gay culture. Note that this affirms what I said - its the society herd that matters, whether you're different in that group or not. You can be gay in San Francisco and no-one will care - you fit in to that herd, but you can be a gun-nut white supremacist in San Francisco and be persecuted by your fellows. Until you recognise the rabid NRA member who thinks that homosexuality is the work of the devil and should be stopped is someone you are persecuting, will you truly understand the fact that you're viewing the world from the PoV of your herd that you are trying to protect.
a knoblette of blu-tack works well too - especially as it can be pushed in over the camera lens to form a nice smooth and flat surface so it doesn't look as unsightly as a band-aid or tape.
or paint, that works well too. Course, if you do that you'll need an external webcam - that can be unplugged or turned to face the wall when you're not using it
Well, from my knowledge of cold war spying activities - knowledge I admit is entirely gleaned from books and films and tabloid media - 'honey trap' activities is a well known means to obtain information from a target.
'course government have hot spies to do this activity in person, no grainy webcam needed.
I have to think about it because my natural tendency is to watch someone's mouth when they speak because that is where the information is coming from.
but my natural tendency is to watch someone's cleavage when they speak because... well, 'cos I'm a bloke. Maybe this is why women think all men are autistic :-)
I think you have it slightly wrong - Do you not observe the dual nature of understanding we have of behavior? On one hand, we want to blame the individual for his behavior. "I wouldn't do it. I don't think it's right. He must be an asshole."
that's not the case, its "WE decided it shouldn't be done, we don't think its right. He must be not part of our society". Its a standard herd instinct to have a mostly-conforming community to protect ourselves from predatory factors. So this guy, if he's not behaving how we as a society think is acceptable, then he must be a danger to us. Which, when you consider what he's done, is entirely true.
So punishment is less about him and more about what kind of society we want (or need) to have. We don't accept when drugs etc influence people - the crazed killer still gets locked up for everyone's good, even if he was under the influence at the time. This also shows why drunk driving is treated less harshly - because its something 'ordinary' (ie normal members of our herd) people might do, and not the anti-societal external 'predators'.
its becoming more common for these "baseless" (my opinion) claims. Look at Prenda Law and the bonds they're being asked to stump up - strangely they want to drop the cases the moment the bonds are set but the judges are not letting them.
The bonds in the Prenda cases are of the order of $10,000, not millions and appear to be awarded only in these extreme cases where it doesn't appear that there is a 'real' plaintiff.
What would be funny is if....
shareholders launched a court battle to prevent the takeover, and claim compensation and/or charges against Elop and while that dragged through the courts for years (as they do) the new CEO decided that actually, Windows phone isn't the profit thing he wants and changes the OS platform to Android across the board of Lumia phones, dropping Windows Phone completely.
Years later when the courts finally decide that "meh" is the answer to the charges, Microsoft can go ahead with the purchase for the manufacturing arm, if they still wanted to, and Elop could then find a new job - as I doubt even Microsoft would appoint him as CEO whilst he was fighting an active court case.
Could happen? hehehe. and you never know, Nokia could turn things around like Samsung did with Android.
(and yes, they could do Meego, but frankly this isn't about making a success of the company for Microsoft's benefit..)
I wonder why they don't have an Android compatibility layer on it, just to get the apps
arrogance, pride and stupidity.
Unfortunately Microsoft hasn't grasped what exactly that is - they make a PC in a slightly smaller form factor than a laptop, and a tablet that has no software to run on it. (I exaggerate for effect before any MS marketeer comes along to tell me how many hundreds of thousands of apps they are).
So they have neither the benefit of their existing market - people buy an ultrabook to do real content-producing work (which is cheaper than the surface pro with its accessories) or an iPad that does all the content consuming you could want for less money (or an Android tablet that does just as well for considerably less).
It beats me why anyone would still want to buy either of Microsoft's offerings, they had no differentiation before and now they have .. still no differentiation (unless you count that there's no place to put the stylus so you'll lose it as a feature)
So you see why even the Microsoftie demonstrating the things looks so glum
quite true, so its seems that coding games for the PS4 means you get Steambox for almost-free, and then xbone becomes the costly port.
yeah, like who'd make a Windows PC device besides Microsoft? no one because Microsoft is going to be making all the money.
I say you'd be wrong, every cheapass brand will make them, because they can. They can then sell the steam hardware with their brand name slapped on it, and they'll be happy with that arrangement. Especially as Valve will be charging them $0 for the privilege (though hopefully ensuring a standard set of the more important components).
Can I see a Dell console? Probably not. Can I see an Asus one, or a Western Digital one, or an Archos one, a Belkin one, or a Netgear one, an ACRyan one, or a Toshiba one, a LG one or a Sumvision one, or even a Panasonic one... quite possibly.
yeah, but how many of those devs coding for XBone also port it to the PS4? If they can do that, then its not a huge (ie costly) step to make it portable to steamOS too.