For programmers best suggestion would be XNA and C# as it is really powerful while still being to program with, and you get support to all Windows, Xbox360 and Windows Phone 7. However, you noted that even XNA is probably a bit much.
However, MS Research also has come up with Kodu which is basically XNA and C# in even more suited package for kids. It's really easy to use and you can actually modify your game a lot. It's fully interface based, so there is no need for coding, but it is still fairly powerful and the best of all, you see
China has a huge amount of their own infrastructure, so this isn't really surprising. Unlike U.S., China likes to do everything themselves. This also means you're not dependent on other countries like the U.S. is. What you don't understand is that China thinks long term, and everything they've done will grant them the leading country status some day, probably even within 10-15 years, especially when considering how much U.S. and EU are struggling now after thinking only short term financial gains.
Namecheap is one of the largest registrars on planet, so I'm somewhat surprised that you haven't heard of them. I think it may depend on what you work with - they don't spend money to advertise during Super Bowl, or aren't Network Solutions with their overpriced domains. What they do is offer good service and cheap prices compared to other leading registrars, which probably has something to do with the fact that they don't spend millions to advertise during Super Bowl.
The reason why there are so many references to Namecheap on Slashdot and forums? Because people who know about different registrars also know that Namecheap is a good registrar and are really happy with them.
Yes, you can use either their hosted DNS or your webhost/own server. Configuration is really easy and fast too, but still offers all the advanced options too. registrar-servers.com is their domain for hosted DNS, and I've never had problems with them (and they're one of the largest DNS hosters, too).
I have used many registrars and Namecheap has always been the best one. Their interface is also super clean and efficient. Their prices are one of the most competitive ones, they offer free private registration, dns hosting and everything you need. And did I say their interface is super clean? You get everything done easily and quickly, without them trying to shove extra services as premium prices down to you. If you have ever tried to register domain with GoDaddy you know what I'm talking about - the whole registration process itself is pain in the ass and you need to keep unticking all those extra services they try to offer you.
With my years of experience and managing over hundred domains, I can only recommend Namecheap.
Using something like touchdevelop where you have no real access to anything doesn't teach kids shit. At least with the android scripting layer, you have access to many of the underlying api's and actual real apps can be written and distributed in the market.
It teaches them the fun side of programming, which is even more important for beginners. If you're starting out and just want to try something, you shouldn't have to spend hours putting up your environment and do lots of googling and asking for help. It takes the fun out of it and kills your interest in programming completely.
Everything else you can learn later anyway, but first impression counts hugely. You can either throw something fun together in a hour or go read tons of material about APIs, pros and cons of different programming languages, libraries you need to import and best coding practices. Guess which one gives better first impression to novices.
That's the whole point of BASIC and TouchDevelop. You don't have to know about the APIs, libraries, and how to load all that stuff together so that you would actually get something done. The whole purpose is to be easy to use and something that can be used to quickly throw something together, without worrying about the details. This approach does come with limitations, but it doesn't matter.
Funnily, Microsoft is the only one providing stuff like TouchDevelop for their phones. It even says on their page "bringing the excitement of the first programmable personal computers to the phone", so it's particularly well suited for what this whole story is about. It's better than Python too, as it's specifically targeted at touch phones (and Python is horrible with its indents for code blocks like if and for - seriously?). Yet Slashdot crowd likes to discredit MS everywhere they can and hope that Windows Phone 7 never catches on, while MS is the only one providing what the same crowd wants on phones.
Yes, thanks for calling almost any programmer who started with BASIC a retard. When I was 7 years old I obviously should had went with ASM instead of something that was easily understandable and gave instant results, and hence motivated me to keep programming all the way to the current day.
As you can see the two largest inputs are materials and Apple’s own profit margin. Despite the machine being assembled in China it’s still true that the value of that labour is trivial: 2% or so of the cost of the machine.
So what? It's not like iPads and iPhones are the only devices they're making. In fact, China, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand and other Asian countries are making almost all of electronics in the whole world. They might only profit 2% of every device, but the sheer scale of the whole manufacturing industry more than makes up for that.
Besides, Apple's devices are notoriously known for having huge profit margin going to Apple, without actual technical or manufacturing reasons for that. It is, however, only true for Apple as every other manufacturer is actually also working on really thin profit margins. When taking into account every electronics company and not just Apple, this makes the Chinese manufacturers share comparatively much larger. Comparing it to Apple tells absolutely nothing.
There are many uses for cables that really are perfect quality, made with best parts and are harder and more professional than your usual home cables. Usually they are required in production environments, not for your home HDTV. Same is true for video as in this case, but also audio. The prices can seemingly look high, but remember that these products are used for professional work.
But it may be able to cope with such slow changes. You aren't going to get fat in one day, and even less so leaner. If it can dynamically update such changes, then there's no problem.
How is detecting your rear any more stupid than your fingerprint? It's way more convenient, and especially so with cars as you're going to be sitting down anyway.
Some people apply their rear pressure differently based on if their rear load is full, empty or something in between. Not only does your overall weight change, but also the formation of rear pressing against the seat will be different, especially depending on your nutrition and different days. Is it going to be able to detect such load changes without many problems? Obviously there needs to be some kind of threshold, but if your rear pressure varies a lot the device could even lock you out from using your car.
And do you really think harpooning and electrocuting the largest mammals on earth whose brain power and emotional states are generally compared to say YOU , don't you think thats a little...off?
Are you saying killing is ok as long as the target is dumber than you? Does this also expand to other humans?
Anti-whalers, PETA and for example those who oppose nuclear power aren't usually known to be all that wise. For example with the latter group they don't get that nuclear power is actually good for them because it's the least polluting energy source there is. But they cannot comprehend that and probably want us to have no energy at all. Same goes for anti-whalers and PETA. They just think killing animals is somehow bad, and don't look into matters past that.
Disappointment? Things work both ways. But since the whalers are in international waters, they should just shoot down those drones. It's not like the anti-whalers have tons of cash to spend on them.
Rack doesn't make any sense for home environments. It's best used in data-center environments because it saves space and is highly standardized, meaning it also has fast and easy ways to connect input devices and everything else in a environment that hosts thousands of servers. The guy isn't going to be hosting so many servers, so rack doesn't really help with anything. It just costs more and will actually restrict you with size limitations and customization. On top of that you need to get something to mount it to. With a standard box you can just put it anywhere.
Why would you change away from x264 and mkv. They are the industry standards. Not just in computers, but every way in the distribution chain. Going about it for some FOSS reason is just stupid because they're only for your own use, not for distribution. You would be either spending double the space or get half the quality by going with something other than H.264, and on top of that you introduce yourself additional problems because they are not what everyone uses.
Google earns money from Chrome by reducing costs that are now going to other browser vendors. Saved costs are still money earned. When people are using Google's own browser then they don't need to pay other companies to gain those users. It's a difference of continuously paying others to bring users, or investing to gain those users yourself and in long term not having the need to pay so much to other companies. Most likely Google will always do so, like they do with Opera and other browsers, but since Google already has over 25%, higher than Firefox, Google gets to have much larger percentage of revenue because they don't need to pay Mozilla so much.
On of top that they can do a lot more datamining more easily when they have their own browsers. This increases their income, because that data is really valuable for Google.
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you see instant results so beginners love it.
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For programmers best suggestion would be XNA and C# as it is really powerful while still being to program with, and you get support to all Windows, Xbox360 and Windows Phone 7. However, you noted that even XNA is probably a bit much.
However, MS Research also has come up with Kodu which is basically XNA and C# in even more suited package for kids. It's really easy to use and you can actually modify your game a lot. It's fully interface based, so there is no need for coding, but it is still fairly powerful and the best of all, you see
China has a huge amount of their own infrastructure, so this isn't really surprising. Unlike U.S., China likes to do everything themselves. This also means you're not dependent on other countries like the U.S. is. What you don't understand is that China thinks long term, and everything they've done will grant them the leading country status some day, probably even within 10-15 years, especially when considering how much U.S. and EU are struggling now after thinking only short term financial gains.
Namecheap is one of the largest registrars on planet, so I'm somewhat surprised that you haven't heard of them. I think it may depend on what you work with - they don't spend money to advertise during Super Bowl, or aren't Network Solutions with their overpriced domains. What they do is offer good service and cheap prices compared to other leading registrars, which probably has something to do with the fact that they don't spend millions to advertise during Super Bowl.
The reason why there are so many references to Namecheap on Slashdot and forums? Because people who know about different registrars also know that Namecheap is a good registrar and are really happy with them.
Yes, you can use either their hosted DNS or your webhost/own server. Configuration is really easy and fast too, but still offers all the advanced options too. registrar-servers.com is their domain for hosted DNS, and I've never had problems with them (and they're one of the largest DNS hosters, too).
Please, don't compare GoDaddy to prostitutes. At least the services prostitutes offer are honest.
I have used many registrars and Namecheap has always been the best one. Their interface is also super clean and efficient. Their prices are one of the most competitive ones, they offer free private registration, dns hosting and everything you need. And did I say their interface is super clean? You get everything done easily and quickly, without them trying to shove extra services as premium prices down to you. If you have ever tried to register domain with GoDaddy you know what I'm talking about - the whole registration process itself is pain in the ass and you need to keep unticking all those extra services they try to offer you.
With my years of experience and managing over hundred domains, I can only recommend Namecheap.
Using something like touchdevelop where you have no real access to anything doesn't teach kids shit. At least with the android scripting layer, you have access to many of the underlying api's and actual real apps can be written and distributed in the market.
It teaches them the fun side of programming, which is even more important for beginners. If you're starting out and just want to try something, you shouldn't have to spend hours putting up your environment and do lots of googling and asking for help. It takes the fun out of it and kills your interest in programming completely.
Everything else you can learn later anyway, but first impression counts hugely. You can either throw something fun together in a hour or go read tons of material about APIs, pros and cons of different programming languages, libraries you need to import and best coding practices. Guess which one gives better first impression to novices.
Can you point me to any particularly great apps that have been developed by one of these beginners and sold well?
You're completely missing the point of this story and having a simple BASIC interpreter or TouchDevelop on phone.
That's the whole point of BASIC and TouchDevelop. You don't have to know about the APIs, libraries, and how to load all that stuff together so that you would actually get something done. The whole purpose is to be easy to use and something that can be used to quickly throw something together, without worrying about the details. This approach does come with limitations, but it doesn't matter.
Funnily, Microsoft is the only one providing stuff like TouchDevelop for their phones. It even says on their page "bringing the excitement of the first programmable personal computers to the phone", so it's particularly well suited for what this whole story is about. It's better than Python too, as it's specifically targeted at touch phones (and Python is horrible with its indents for code blocks like if and for - seriously?). Yet Slashdot crowd likes to discredit MS everywhere they can and hope that Windows Phone 7 never catches on, while MS is the only one providing what the same crowd wants on phones.
Yes, thanks for calling almost any programmer who started with BASIC a retard. When I was 7 years old I obviously should had went with ASM instead of something that was easily understandable and gave instant results, and hence motivated me to keep programming all the way to the current day.
That's exactly how it works in rest of the world. Apart from U.S., of course.
As you can see the two largest inputs are materials and Apple’s own profit margin. Despite the machine being assembled in China it’s still true that the value of that labour is trivial: 2% or so of the cost of the machine.
So what? It's not like iPads and iPhones are the only devices they're making. In fact, China, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand and other Asian countries are making almost all of electronics in the whole world. They might only profit 2% of every device, but the sheer scale of the whole manufacturing industry more than makes up for that.
Besides, Apple's devices are notoriously known for having huge profit margin going to Apple, without actual technical or manufacturing reasons for that. It is, however, only true for Apple as every other manufacturer is actually also working on really thin profit margins. When taking into account every electronics company and not just Apple, this makes the Chinese manufacturers share comparatively much larger. Comparing it to Apple tells absolutely nothing.
There are many uses for cables that really are perfect quality, made with best parts and are harder and more professional than your usual home cables. Usually they are required in production environments, not for your home HDTV. Same is true for video as in this case, but also audio. The prices can seemingly look high, but remember that these products are used for professional work.
Because your ass will change gradually over time, not instantly.
But it may be able to cope with such slow changes. You aren't going to get fat in one day, and even less so leaner. If it can dynamically update such changes, then there's no problem.
How is detecting your rear any more stupid than your fingerprint? It's way more convenient, and especially so with cars as you're going to be sitting down anyway.
Some people apply their rear pressure differently based on if their rear load is full, empty or something in between. Not only does your overall weight change, but also the formation of rear pressing against the seat will be different, especially depending on your nutrition and different days. Is it going to be able to detect such load changes without many problems? Obviously there needs to be some kind of threshold, but if your rear pressure varies a lot the device could even lock you out from using your car.
And do you really think harpooning and electrocuting the largest mammals on earth whose brain power and emotional states are generally compared to say YOU , don't you think thats a little...off?
Are you saying killing is ok as long as the target is dumber than you? Does this also expand to other humans?
Anti-whalers, PETA and for example those who oppose nuclear power aren't usually known to be all that wise. For example with the latter group they don't get that nuclear power is actually good for them because it's the least polluting energy source there is. But they cannot comprehend that and probably want us to have no energy at all. Same goes for anti-whalers and PETA. They just think killing animals is somehow bad, and don't look into matters past that.
Disappointment? Things work both ways. But since the whalers are in international waters, they should just shoot down those drones. It's not like the anti-whalers have tons of cash to spend on them.
Rack doesn't make any sense for home environments. It's best used in data-center environments because it saves space and is highly standardized, meaning it also has fast and easy ways to connect input devices and everything else in a environment that hosts thousands of servers. The guy isn't going to be hosting so many servers, so rack doesn't really help with anything. It just costs more and will actually restrict you with size limitations and customization. On top of that you need to get something to mount it to. With a standard box you can just put it anywhere.
Why would you change away from x264 and mkv. They are the industry standards. Not just in computers, but every way in the distribution chain. Going about it for some FOSS reason is just stupid because they're only for your own use, not for distribution. You would be either spending double the space or get half the quality by going with something other than H.264, and on top of that you introduce yourself additional problems because they are not what everyone uses.
Google earns money from Chrome by reducing costs that are now going to other browser vendors. Saved costs are still money earned. When people are using Google's own browser then they don't need to pay other companies to gain those users. It's a difference of continuously paying others to bring users, or investing to gain those users yourself and in long term not having the need to pay so much to other companies. Most likely Google will always do so, like they do with Opera and other browsers, but since Google already has over 25%, higher than Firefox, Google gets to have much larger percentage of revenue because they don't need to pay Mozilla so much.
On of top that they can do a lot more datamining more easily when they have their own browsers. This increases their income, because that data is really valuable for Google.