Um, since when does anyone (person, corporation or otherwise) get to ignore the courts?
Do no evil? Obeying the law isn't evil, its their corporate responsibility. If the people of Isreal have a problem with those laws, they can address that with their government. Its not Google's business ethically or otherwise to do that.
And I don't mean just the government -- it seems to be a culture around here from the public on up to the government that they have to just find something, anything, to spend money on. If the Christmas season isn't proof enough of that, this is another perfect example.
Why even waste money talking about maglev trains when they could improve existing infrastructure using technology a generation or two ahead of the antiquated stuff we have in the US and get the same result using five percent of the money?
Its seriously like the whole damn country has this attitude of "oh, we can still borrow more money, so lets find something to spend it on before they stop lending it to us!"
What happened to humanity? We used to dream about bright space future, flying cars, scientific progress and stuff like that. And we had hope to achieve all of this if we put enough effort into it. And now I think we lost that hope.
I don't see people dreaming about anything more than getting a million dollars and doing 2 chicks at the same time.../quote>
WTF, I don't get flying cars, space ships, a million dollars or two chicks at once.
I can't even have a good present, much less future!
What happened? For a long time people's lives were getting better as time progressed. Life was easier, less stressful, healthier. Science and technology were improving the world in very real ways that were visible to people all the time.
Now we live in a polluted world of mass-media violence, government oppression; people have lost all the power they believed they once had. Education is not valued; the long term doesn't matter.
When those "retrofuture" pieces were being produced, there was a real sense around the world that tomorrow was going to be better than today.
Who here honestly thinks tomorrow is going to be better than today? Who here honestly thinks their kids are going to live in a world better than we are?
That sort of mass human space exploration was a powerful vision of where the future was leading back then... whereas these days something between Mad Max and Bladerunner is probably more accurate.
Times have changed, thats what happened to mankind's fascination with space.
I'm not really sure why you're getting moderated insightful... what was your signal before? There's a huge range of levels that would still show up as full strength. You could easily get a 10db drop in the signal and still show full strength without knowing it.
Did you have spotty reception? Thats where you're going to notice a change is sensitivity.
Same here. My T616 on ATT works poorly, but generally works in my house. My iPhone is unusuable in my house.
I don't think that should be a surprise -- every phone is a little different. iPhone is definitely on the "bad" end of the reception spectrum. Its bad enough that I debated most of the fourteen days I could return it if I actually wanted to return it. I looked long and hard at the Verizon Voyager but nothing else really compares with the iPhone.
I can pull the SIM out of the iPhone (which has no signal in this room) and pop it in the HTC Touch I have sitting here, and get at least one bar.
Or you can buy one, donate one for $400 and donate the second one as well. Two donated, $200 a piece, $400 tax deduction and you still get a year of T-Mobile internet access.
7) The disks use standard ResiserFS as their F/S. Want to pull one and take it someplace to mount to a Linux box? Sure, go for it. Need to do a data recovery for some odd reason? It's ResierFS so whatever works for that works for this. Thats a killer idea!
This thread is ripe for turning into a flame-fest, but you may want to do at least some casual reading on what insulin is and the processes the body goes through to process fats, proteins and sugars. There's a thousand variables involved in how the body processes raw materials it takes in and what it does with the materials it creates from them. No combination of those will result in your blanket statement.
Nothing, its a device serial number... not associated with your SIM and therefore not with your account. It proves its an iPhone to the webservice. Not much more.
In memory you have an object. You have another n objects holding a weak reference to it. You garbage collect that object. Are you suggesting walking every reference to every method jump or inlined member access is a better implementation of weak references than doing a test? Even ignoring how you do that across process spaces (since.NET objects can reference events via remoting), how would you get around the fact that once the code has been optimized into native code, you can't change it again?
I don't know if we're talking past each other or if you really don't understand how compilers (and a computer in general) works down at the metal. Give a specific example of what you're talking about...
At the CPU level, how is that implemented? If you have something other than a jump instruction, you are incurring overhead. The CPU doesn't have a "jump if not set" instruction, so unless the teardown of the object physically went and altered code in memory, you'd still be doing a lookup or test at jump to ensure the weak reference is still valid.
I'd hazard a guess that its good that 9/10 engineers don't know what a weak reference is because 9/10 of those who do have no idea what the use of them leads to. (In the case of Java, I've seen people using them who had no idea what effect their use has on garbage collection priorities, for example.)
In the case of wiring up an event system, you'd want the event registration to hold the object the vast majority of the time because you want it to be deterministic about when the event stops firing to that code -- "well, it'll get picked up as long as the garbage collector hasn't cleaned up the object" is a lousy model. In the case of the original post, extend the object with IDisposable and implement a dispose method to unregister the object. Smack anyone upside the head who doesn't know to use the "using" keyword.
Weak references also incur the overhead of a check on every call to ensure the object hasn't been cleaned up. This was sloppy, poorly tested code. The engineers on it made a mistake and caught it too late. It happens.
The poster of the article was trolling, and not only trolled with the post, managed to get a troll posted to a slashvertisement which was not even trolling.
Impressive on the part of the person who submitted it, but disappointing considering Taco's comments a few weeks back about articles that are truly nothing but advertisements.
Seriously, its weird there are people who watch their fingers typing on a keyboard, but the damn text is RIGHT ABOVE your fingers on the iPhone.
If you fat finger something, back up and fix it. Its not the phones fault, its the end user's fault.
I find I can be really freakin' sloppy typing on it and the only times it really screws something up is if I miss the space bar and run two words together.
If anything, the biggest problem is you can type significantly ahead of the word corrections with it, and may have a word come up wrong when you are 2-3 words ahead.
I suspect part of the problem is people using abbreviations it isn't expecting.
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The solution to this problem must be out on the internet somewhere... if only I had a website I could use to try to find it...
Um, since when does anyone (person, corporation or otherwise) get to ignore the courts?
Do no evil? Obeying the law isn't evil, its their corporate responsibility. If the people of Isreal have a problem with those laws, they can address that with their government. Its not Google's business ethically or otherwise to do that.
Back in my day, we had the choice of ASCII art porn or 72dpi black and white dithered porn.
It was quite the day when you could get 256 color 320x200 porn!
Unless its porn. Porn works better as video than text.
And I don't mean just the government -- it seems to be a culture around here from the public on up to the government that they have to just find something, anything, to spend money on. If the Christmas season isn't proof enough of that, this is another perfect example.
Why even waste money talking about maglev trains when they could improve existing infrastructure using technology a generation or two ahead of the antiquated stuff we have in the US and get the same result using five percent of the money?
Its seriously like the whole damn country has this attitude of "oh, we can still borrow more money, so lets find something to spend it on before they stop lending it to us!"
I don't see people dreaming about anything more than getting a million dollars and doing 2 chicks at the same time.../quote>
WTF, I don't get flying cars, space ships, a million dollars or two chicks at once.
I can't even have a good present, much less future!
What happened? For a long time people's lives were getting better as time progressed. Life was easier, less stressful, healthier. Science and technology were improving the world in very real ways that were visible to people all the time.
Now we live in a polluted world of mass-media violence, government oppression; people have lost all the power they believed they once had. Education is not valued; the long term doesn't matter.
When those "retrofuture" pieces were being produced, there was a real sense around the world that tomorrow was going to be better than today.
Who here honestly thinks tomorrow is going to be better than today? Who here honestly thinks their kids are going to live in a world better than we are?
That sort of mass human space exploration was a powerful vision of where the future was leading back then... whereas these days something between Mad Max and Bladerunner is probably more accurate.
Times have changed, thats what happened to mankind's fascination with space.
I'm not really sure why you're getting moderated insightful... what was your signal before? There's a huge range of levels that would still show up as full strength. You could easily get a 10db drop in the signal and still show full strength without knowing it.
Did you have spotty reception? Thats where you're going to notice a change is sensitivity.
Same here. My T616 on ATT works poorly, but generally works in my house. My iPhone is unusuable in my house.
I don't think that should be a surprise -- every phone is a little different. iPhone is definitely on the "bad" end of the reception spectrum. Its bad enough that I debated most of the fourteen days I could return it if I actually wanted to return it. I looked long and hard at the Verizon Voyager but nothing else really compares with the iPhone.
I can pull the SIM out of the iPhone (which has no signal in this room) and pop it in the HTC Touch I have sitting here, and get at least one bar.
Or you can buy one, donate one for $400 and donate the second one as well. Two donated, $200 a piece, $400 tax deduction and you still get a year of T-Mobile internet access.
If anyone needs to hide a plane, you can park it in my driveway if you'd like.
*ducks*
What, too soon?
This thread is ripe for turning into a flame-fest, but you may want to do at least some casual reading on what insulin is and the processes the body goes through to process fats, proteins and sugars. There's a thousand variables involved in how the body processes raw materials it takes in and what it does with the materials it creates from them. No combination of those will result in your blanket statement.
They would know them... but facts don't make for interesting flames.
Nothing, its a device serial number... not associated with your SIM and therefore not with your account. It proves its an iPhone to the webservice. Not much more.
:)
Bet I get modded down for saying it though
I'd hope there are more people on here who know what an IMEI is, what its used for, when it is used on ANY GSM phone and how it relates to the IMSI...
/., I expect the flamefest to be shorter...
This is
Okay, fess up. You hit submit and your first thought was "D'OH!" and you wished, as we all have, that Slashdot let you edit posts...
And install Flash on the damn thing so the kid doesn't have to suffer like the grandparent poster.
I don't think you're following me.
.NET objects can reference events via remoting), how would you get around the fact that once the code has been optimized into native code, you can't change it again?
In memory you have an object. You have another n objects holding a weak reference to it. You garbage collect that object. Are you suggesting walking every reference to every method jump or inlined member access is a better implementation of weak references than doing a test? Even ignoring how you do that across process spaces (since
I don't know if we're talking past each other or if you really don't understand how compilers (and a computer in general) works down at the metal. Give a specific example of what you're talking about...
At the CPU level, how is that implemented? If you have something other than a jump instruction, you are incurring overhead. The CPU doesn't have a "jump if not set" instruction, so unless the teardown of the object physically went and altered code in memory, you'd still be doing a lookup or test at jump to ensure the weak reference is still valid.
I'd hazard a guess that its good that 9/10 engineers don't know what a weak reference is because 9/10 of those who do have no idea what the use of them leads to. (In the case of Java, I've seen people using them who had no idea what effect their use has on garbage collection priorities, for example.)
In the case of wiring up an event system, you'd want the event registration to hold the object the vast majority of the time because you want it to be deterministic about when the event stops firing to that code -- "well, it'll get picked up as long as the garbage collector hasn't cleaned up the object" is a lousy model. In the case of the original post, extend the object with IDisposable and implement a dispose method to unregister the object. Smack anyone upside the head who doesn't know to use the "using" keyword.
The point is the people designing those languages do have to think about that level of performance.
.NET is wired up with events, that would start turning into a significant overhead.
Damn near everything in
A better question is what the heck are managed language programmers not thinking about object references for?
Weak references also incur the overhead of a check on every call to ensure the object hasn't been cleaned up. This was sloppy, poorly tested code. The engineers on it made a mistake and caught it too late. It happens.
The poster of the article was trolling, and not only trolled with the post, managed to get a troll posted to a slashvertisement which was not even trolling.
Impressive on the part of the person who submitted it, but disappointing considering Taco's comments a few weeks back about articles that are truly nothing but advertisements.
Please add number porting to Grand Central so I don't lose my home number when Vonage goes under.
K thx bye.
Seriously, its weird there are people who watch their fingers typing on a keyboard, but the damn text is RIGHT ABOVE your fingers on the iPhone.
If you fat finger something, back up and fix it. Its not the phones fault, its the end user's fault.
I find I can be really freakin' sloppy typing on it and the only times it really screws something up is if I miss the space bar and run two words together.
If anything, the biggest problem is you can type significantly ahead of the word corrections with it, and may have a word come up wrong when you are 2-3 words ahead.
I suspect part of the problem is people using abbreviations it isn't expecting.
Thats funny, I've actually stopped into Apple stores to look up movies and restaurants on an iPhone.
Go figure.