Actually Tesla has already partnered with gas stations to provide on site batterie exchanges in an attempt to extend the range. The newest Tesla is designed to allow easy swap of the batterie. A friend of mine who owns one claims it's quicker than filling up.
I understand this "prototype" is capable of 80 miles but lets say it was able to do 400 miles, I would still be limited to 400 miles. What Tesla is trying to do is have gas stations keep charged batteries in storage for quick swaps. The Telsa batterie is a quick disconnect/reconnect so that you can extend the range beyond its current limited range. I think in the near future it is the best option for EVs.
I can't see the value of those panels being high enough to justify stealing and reselling. The trouble involved in taking off a panel without damaging it is reason enough to discourage thieves. Catalytic converters on the other hand could quickly be chopped off a car that you could slide under and resold as raw materials instead of attempting to sell an actual car part at a ridiculously lower value than new.
I understand what you went through. I dealt with it differently and it's because my parents though me how to deal with bullies and made themselves available to me if I needed help. In this particular case I first blame the girls who did the bullying, second the parents of the victim who weren't there to support her and third the parents of the girls bullying because clearly those girls didn't understand the impact of bullying other kids.
In today's society there is so much advertisement and various other coverages on this topic that the girls had NO excuse to continue the excessive bullying.
I believe that our schools and government are properly educating children and parent on this topic. I would never consider blocking access to technology to children because it's important for them to be hands on as early as possible (My daughter browses youtube since she's 4). To consider regulating ANYTHING over one incident is extreme to say the least. IMHO we need to focus efforts on regulating firearms before the Internet.
Yeah but you get E10 (10Mbps up/down) for less than $800/month. That's 10 times the speed for the same price at T1s in the 90s. T1s are still expensive because of their large overhead and expensive equipment.
I love my signed/unsigned variables. When you do high level programming this is the kind of shit you don't want to worry about. It makes code easier to read and understand AND it has zero impact on the performance of the final product. The compiler brings it back to it's native form.
Now, if you do low level programming I understand you don't want the signed/unsigned BS but Java is mostly for high level programming so it's a moo point.
As for your comment about the "Microsoft Tax", my belief is that for a company to be viable for a business or end user, it must support its products. MS has done that (some will argue but they speak from their wind hole). If I have an issue with their software I can actually call someone and get up and running quickly or at the least get a ticket to devs put in. On the open source side I have to post in a forum and HOPE someone helps me. That isn't viable for people who need their systems to run. My point is, if you aren't paying anything for software, then all your getting is hardware support and that stinks for those who aren't techies.
There are no games tying people to the PC anymore.
That's just your opinion. Games like League of Legends are mapping the way gaming is heading with a truly world class competitive scene, paid players and more. The population of that game alone is huge. There's tones of MMORPG that are very popular on PC and not available on other platforms.The big commercial titles like COD and BF are now available on console but even those titles still have a huge following on PC.
And what plans does Android have to provide a client server environment for companies? There's tones of large user base software being used out there that still lives in the MS world. Sure, the end users have options but businesses are still tied due to lack of options that are easy to setup and maintain. Even Mac doesn't have a solution for that yet.
The guy was an extremist. Does that mean Osama Bin Laden also was motivated by the news? The answer here is yes, but not because of what he saw on TV but rather because he liked making the headlines.
I'm willing to believe that but I don't have factual examples to tell me this is true. Do you have an example of continuous slanted media coverage causing drastic action. By drastic I don't mean people taking the streets for 1 day, I mean game changing actions or even violence.
In a perfect world this kind of power would first be used to shutdown drug distribution, fishing scams and other types of cyber content that can endanger/ruin people's lives. It would then become available to shutdown piracy and other copyright issues and that would be fine by me. Unfortunately John Doe gets a brown envelope and all this goes to hell. You can't trust anybody with any amount of power. Even groups cannot be trusted with any amount of power. So as much as I would defend these corporate interests I'm thorn by the fact that this means always appear to benefit the ones that already take advantage of society.
People don't take drastic action from what they see in the news, they take action when they see it affect them directly and it impedes their ability to see a future for themselves. E.g. The Egypt situation
I would compare the situation of a tracker to one of a pimp. The pimp doesn't provide the service nor takes the money directly, he points you to the service.
The media doesn't put guns in children's hands, bad men do.
Regardless of all this, I wonder if the tracker was first notified of the offending content. I'm a strong believer that if you don't even know it's happening, how can you prevent it. Maybe it isn't the tracker's intention to link to pirated content. If on the other hand 80% of the content linked is pirated, he should be shut down immediately.
This is another example of our society trying to inject morality in our lives.
It's a game. It's like a sandbox to do things you can't do in real life. If you weren't raised to understand this then your parents failed and you'll probably pick up a gun and do bad things anyway.
Lets stop shielding our children so much and instead take some time to teach the right way. We tend to give our children video games and television entertainment and expect them to figure out right from wrong on their own.
It's time for people to be start being accountable and stop pointing fingers!!!
People don't buy a phone to mess around with it and the 99% number is based on my surroundings. Even the techiest of my friends doesn't give a damn about upgrading firmware or doing anything remotely close to that. They purchased a smart phone that does what they need it to do. Do you buy a calculator with the intent of modifying it? Probably not. Most consumers feel the same way about the purchase of a phone. A smart phone is just another fancy calculator. They pick a brand and move on.
As for dominance, yes, Android did a good job making sure everybody has access to putting it on their hardware which in my opinion is why Apple is loosing ground. Currently in NA, IOS is still dominating with 50% of the market and Android with 39%. MS on the other hand is struggling at 1.7% but if you look at growth (it is an important number in the business world), it has more than doubled it's presence in the last 365 days.
To deny that a big market like the smart phone market can be dominated by only 2 players is foolish at best. That kind of thinking is what happened back when Ford released it's model T. Everybody though that Ford and Chrysler (later) would be the only car manufacturers for centuries. Guess what? They were all wrong. As wrong as the people who though IOS would dominate forever and the same as those who think Android will dominate forever.
To answer your questions because clearly we are both learning here: - Windows phone doesn't have a console option that I know of - Hook up the phone and it's files can be copied, modified, viewed, deleted like a USB stick. The OS files cannot be viewed or modified from what I can tell - Tools to develop apps are free. Deploying them may not be
My earlier comment was that the windows phone can be used for Android as well. It's almost identical hardware.
From where I'm sitting, most users (99%) will never want to change anything about the OS. On top of that, by the time a new OS is worth switching to, the phone hardware will either be old or in rough shape and replacing it at no charge on your plan is more logical. For those reasons alone I can't see a company focusing it's efforts to provide any customizability for users. I'm happy Android does it for it's hardcore users but it's not what will make or break a phone OS.
You appear to have been in the industry for a long time and you are clearly very experienced but I believe you may be out of date on how much MS SQL has progressed. The last benchmarks I've seen didn't put much of a gap between Oracle and MS SQL performance. The only major advantage noted for Oracle was that it can live outside of the MS platform (For some this is a big deal, for others it's a "meh!"). On the plus side for MS SQL initial cost + integration cost was almost 10 times lower. In addition to this it was more feature rich and included tones of new features to optimize database usage further. Now, don't take me wrong, I have experience with many database include Postgres, MySQL and Oracle. My experience with Postgres was terrible.
My opinion about MS SQL: - Best DB on MS platform - Best developer DB as it's easy to install, includes all tools and it's free.(speaking of express) - Smallest learning curve of all Dbs I've worked with
Maybe just me but I use a phone for business and some entertainment. I don't have time to fiddle with an already perfectly working phone. If you like fiddling then I understand you wanting an Android phone over a Windows Phone although both use the same hardware in this case.
I'd like to see what you have to say about whatever products you use. I bet you love Linux and specifically one flavour of it. I know people like you, nothing other than what you know is good enough because you can't get out of your own square box. A good integrator knows what products fit what job. MS has proven it belongs in the business market since it has grown it's business in that area.
All of MS's dev tools have gone from good to great over the years. Windows server since 2003 although I prefer to talk about 2008 R2 and on are amazing servers that just work great! Windows 7 a robust and flexible OS for everybody. SQL Server is an amazing database (Simply the best product for Windows environments as I don't have experience installing/managing database in other platforms).
I've supported Microsoft for many years and I still believe they do some things right but on the consumer side they are lacking to say the least. They need new blood that will change the face of MS. They need to continue what they do for MS developers but improve their approach to their users. Innovation is key in today's technology market and MS needs to show they can still innovate at all business levels.
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Actually Tesla has already partnered with gas stations to provide on site batterie exchanges in an attempt to extend the range. The newest Tesla is designed to allow easy swap of the batterie. A friend of mine who owns one claims it's quicker than filling up.
I understand this "prototype" is capable of 80 miles but lets say it was able to do 400 miles, I would still be limited to 400 miles. What Tesla is trying to do is have gas stations keep charged batteries in storage for quick swaps. The Telsa batterie is a quick disconnect/reconnect so that you can extend the range beyond its current limited range. I think in the near future it is the best option for EVs.
You're the moron for posting such empty and non factually backed comment.
I can't see the value of those panels being high enough to justify stealing and reselling. The trouble involved in taking off a panel without damaging it is reason enough to discourage thieves. Catalytic converters on the other hand could quickly be chopped off a car that you could slide under and resold as raw materials instead of attempting to sell an actual car part at a ridiculously lower value than new.
I understand what you went through. I dealt with it differently and it's because my parents though me how to deal with bullies and made themselves available to me if I needed help. In this particular case I first blame the girls who did the bullying, second the parents of the victim who weren't there to support her and third the parents of the girls bullying because clearly those girls didn't understand the impact of bullying other kids.
In today's society there is so much advertisement and various other coverages on this topic that the girls had NO excuse to continue the excessive bullying.
I believe that our schools and government are properly educating children and parent on this topic. I would never consider blocking access to technology to children because it's important for them to be hands on as early as possible (My daughter browses youtube since she's 4). To consider regulating ANYTHING over one incident is extreme to say the least. IMHO we need to focus efforts on regulating firearms before the Internet.
Yeah but you get E10 (10Mbps up/down) for less than $800/month. That's 10 times the speed for the same price at T1s in the 90s. T1s are still expensive because of their large overhead and expensive equipment.
I love my signed/unsigned variables. When you do high level programming this is the kind of shit you don't want to worry about. It makes code easier to read and understand AND it has zero impact on the performance of the final product. The compiler brings it back to it's native form.
Now, if you do low level programming I understand you don't want the signed/unsigned BS but Java is mostly for high level programming so it's a moo point.
I think Microsoft's monopoly was lost years ago.
As for your comment about the "Microsoft Tax", my belief is that for a company to be viable for a business or end user, it must support its products. MS has done that (some will argue but they speak from their wind hole). If I have an issue with their software I can actually call someone and get up and running quickly or at the least get a ticket to devs put in. On the open source side I have to post in a forum and HOPE someone helps me. That isn't viable for people who need their systems to run. My point is, if you aren't paying anything for software, then all your getting is hardware support and that stinks for those who aren't techies.
There are no games tying people to the PC anymore.
That's just your opinion. Games like League of Legends are mapping the way gaming is heading with a truly world class competitive scene, paid players and more. The population of that game alone is huge. There's tones of MMORPG that are very popular on PC and not available on other platforms.The big commercial titles like COD and BF are now available on console but even those titles still have a huge following on PC.
And what plans does Android have to provide a client server environment for companies? There's tones of large user base software being used out there that still lives in the MS world. Sure, the end users have options but businesses are still tied due to lack of options that are easy to setup and maintain. Even Mac doesn't have a solution for that yet.
The guy was an extremist. Does that mean Osama Bin Laden also was motivated by the news? The answer here is yes, but not because of what he saw on TV but rather because he liked making the headlines.
I'm willing to believe that but I don't have factual examples to tell me this is true. Do you have an example of continuous slanted media coverage causing drastic action. By drastic I don't mean people taking the streets for 1 day, I mean game changing actions or even violence.
I like your arguments.
In a perfect world this kind of power would first be used to shutdown drug distribution, fishing scams and other types of cyber content that can endanger/ruin people's lives. It would then become available to shutdown piracy and other copyright issues and that would be fine by me. Unfortunately John Doe gets a brown envelope and all this goes to hell. You can't trust anybody with any amount of power. Even groups cannot be trusted with any amount of power. So as much as I would defend these corporate interests I'm thorn by the fact that this means always appear to benefit the ones that already take advantage of society.
People don't take drastic action from what they see in the news, they take action when they see it affect them directly and it impedes their ability to see a future for themselves. E.g. The Egypt situation
I would compare the situation of a tracker to one of a pimp. The pimp doesn't provide the service nor takes the money directly, he points you to the service.
The media doesn't put guns in children's hands, bad men do.
Regardless of all this, I wonder if the tracker was first notified of the offending content. I'm a strong believer that if you don't even know it's happening, how can you prevent it. Maybe it isn't the tracker's intention to link to pirated content. If on the other hand 80% of the content linked is pirated, he should be shut down immediately.
This is another example of our society trying to inject morality in our lives.
It's a game. It's like a sandbox to do things you can't do in real life. If you weren't raised to understand this then your parents failed and you'll probably pick up a gun and do bad things anyway.
Lets stop shielding our children so much and instead take some time to teach the right way. We tend to give our children video games and television entertainment and expect them to figure out right from wrong on their own.
It's time for people to be start being accountable and stop pointing fingers!!!
People don't buy a phone to mess around with it and the 99% number is based on my surroundings. Even the techiest of my friends doesn't give a damn about upgrading firmware or doing anything remotely close to that. They purchased a smart phone that does what they need it to do. Do you buy a calculator with the intent of modifying it? Probably not. Most consumers feel the same way about the purchase of a phone. A smart phone is just another fancy calculator. They pick a brand and move on.
As for dominance, yes, Android did a good job making sure everybody has access to putting it on their hardware which in my opinion is why Apple is loosing ground. Currently in NA, IOS is still dominating with 50% of the market and Android with 39%. MS on the other hand is struggling at 1.7% but if you look at growth (it is an important number in the business world), it has more than doubled it's presence in the last 365 days.
To deny that a big market like the smart phone market can be dominated by only 2 players is foolish at best. That kind of thinking is what happened back when Ford released it's model T. Everybody though that Ford and Chrysler (later) would be the only car manufacturers for centuries. Guess what? They were all wrong. As wrong as the people who though IOS would dominate forever and the same as those who think Android will dominate forever.
To answer your questions because clearly we are both learning here:
- Windows phone doesn't have a console option that I know of
- Hook up the phone and it's files can be copied, modified, viewed, deleted like a USB stick. The OS files cannot be viewed or modified from what I can tell
- Tools to develop apps are free. Deploying them may not be
My earlier comment was that the windows phone can be used for Android as well. It's almost identical hardware.
From where I'm sitting, most users (99%) will never want to change anything about the OS. On top of that, by the time a new OS is worth switching to, the phone hardware will either be old or in rough shape and replacing it at no charge on your plan is more logical. For those reasons alone I can't see a company focusing it's efforts to provide any customizability for users. I'm happy Android does it for it's hardcore users but it's not what will make or break a phone OS.
You appear to have been in the industry for a long time and you are clearly very experienced but I believe you may be out of date on how much MS SQL has progressed. The last benchmarks I've seen didn't put much of a gap between Oracle and MS SQL performance. The only major advantage noted for Oracle was that it can live outside of the MS platform (For some this is a big deal, for others it's a "meh!"). On the plus side for MS SQL initial cost + integration cost was almost 10 times lower. In addition to this it was more feature rich and included tones of new features to optimize database usage further. Now, don't take me wrong, I have experience with many database include Postgres, MySQL and Oracle. My experience with Postgres was terrible.
My opinion about MS SQL:
- Best DB on MS platform
- Best developer DB as it's easy to install, includes all tools and it's free.(speaking of express)
- Smallest learning curve of all Dbs I've worked with
Maybe just me but I use a phone for business and some entertainment. I don't have time to fiddle with an already perfectly working phone. If you like fiddling then I understand you wanting an Android phone over a Windows Phone although both use the same hardware in this case.
Thank you. I would give you points if I had some.
Not sure the chinese or north koreans would agree with you.
That's funny that you're concern with privacy and fair use considering the track record Google has right now. I bet you have a Gmail account.
And you're friend is too dumb to use a phone from his own company? What does Android have more to offer? I own both so I can tell you NOTHING!
I'd like to see what you have to say about whatever products you use. I bet you love Linux and specifically one flavour of it. I know people like you, nothing other than what you know is good enough because you can't get out of your own square box. A good integrator knows what products fit what job. MS has proven it belongs in the business market since it has grown it's business in that area.
All of MS's dev tools have gone from good to great over the years. Windows server since 2003 although I prefer to talk about 2008 R2 and on are amazing servers that just work great! Windows 7 a robust and flexible OS for everybody. SQL Server is an amazing database (Simply the best product for Windows environments as I don't have experience installing/managing database in other platforms).
Don't dare using retard. I though they called them special now?
I've supported Microsoft for many years and I still believe they do some things right but on the consumer side they are lacking to say the least. They need new blood that will change the face of MS. They need to continue what they do for MS developers but improve their approach to their users. Innovation is key in today's technology market and MS needs to show they can still innovate at all business levels.