Thanks for the info; I haven't tried (and didn't list) Windows Mobile. Is there an equivalent to the app store for Windows Mobile? Or can I deploy the apps directly from my site?
I guess this AC thinks that redundancy, emergency failsafe systems, watchdog hardware, proper code design, testing and code validation should not exist or be done? All of the above only exists because computer hardware and computer software can and does fail - because you should not trust the computer or computer software to always work correctly. When lives are at risk, you MUST NOT trust the computer or software. So, AC, remind me to never get in a car or airplane that you helped design the firmware for.
I agree - in fact besides OpenMoko (which never got out really) every other cell phone was more closed than the iPhone when the iPhone got the App Store.
All sorts of phones had Java ME in it but being able to program the phone that I bought with my JavaME program I designed was never possible without closed agreements with my wireless service provider and Motorola or who ever.
the current iPhone/iPad scheme is based on the Video Game Console model; And it is even better! If I buy an XBox, Wii, or PS3, I need special agreements to make a real video game and need to purchase very expensive development kits, and if I make a video game either Microsoft, Nintendo, or Sony has to approve it if I want to sell it.
Apple's iphone/ipad dev tools are fantastic and cost $100/year.
There is competition in all of these domains; people are free to make and buy and support microsoft or linux based phones and tablets. The Nokia N900 looks great, perhaps Nokia could make a tablet version!
So? Why couldn't they put it in neutral with a push-button shifter?
I think he was saying that the push buttons stopped working because the computer system crashed.
If that was the case, the only thing the driver could have done different would be to pull the emergency brake.
There are lots of formal safety and reliability requirements and testing required for fly-by-wire systems in airplanes and helicopters. What formal safety and reliability requirements and testing are required for drive-by-wire systems in cars?
IPv6, on the other hand, has repeatedly proven itself fragile in production use, incompatible with critical older servers, and a genuine security issue with its tendency to advertise its hosts very broadly and act in a much more "mobile" fashion. This mobility is, in and of itself, a profound security issue. Many of these issues can be addressed with thoughtful configuration, but so far, I'm not seeing it in practice.
Your post is absolutely correct except that the CD Audio Error Correction is not always 'perfect'. On larger errors it will generate interpolated data.
Does Australia have a military where people are trained in various ways to kill other people?
And those same people who are allowed to kill people during conflicts in places like Iraq or Afghanistan are not allowed to play a video game where they could kill space aliens?
Is adult virtual violence against aliens worse than real violence against real people?
Where one Baby boy was snipped way too much and the doctor's decided to give him hormones to become a girl instead.
Doctors told her that her discomfort was due to a passing phase of ``tomboyishness.''
What they didn't tell her was that she had in fact been born ``Bruce'' and had been subjected to gender reassignment surgery at 18 months, 10 months after doctors botched a circumcision and destroyed most of his penis.
This is why I like Mercurial better; It integrates easier and better with apache and is much faster than svn for the same source code!
However I decided to not use 3 branches (dev,test,release) inside one repository - I use 3 separate repositories. They are all related, and the release repo has different authentication requirements so you have to be certain that you want to push to the release repo.
In addition, I set up hudson to do automatic builds of each repo and automatic deploy to the related servers. This is more controversial, some people prefer to have release deployments to be triggered manually. Either way they are fairly easy to revert.
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Thanks for the info; I haven't tried (and didn't list) Windows Mobile. Is there an equivalent to the app store for Windows Mobile? Or can I deploy the apps directly from my site?
--jeffk++
Brillant!
It's a feature, not a bug!
--jeffk++
An AC wrote:
I guess this AC thinks that redundancy, emergency failsafe systems, watchdog hardware, proper code design, testing and code validation should not exist or be done?
All of the above only exists because computer hardware and computer software can and does fail - because you should not trust the computer or computer software to always work correctly.
When lives are at risk, you MUST NOT trust the computer or software.
So, AC, remind me to never get in a car or airplane that you helped design the firmware for.
--jeffk++
Oh come one, an airbus didn't have that problem... like sensing what it thinks you are trying to do and switching to autopilot silently...
--jeffk++
I agree - in fact besides OpenMoko (which never got out really) every other cell phone was more closed than the iPhone when the iPhone got the App Store.
All sorts of phones had Java ME in it but being able to program the phone that I bought with my JavaME program I designed was never possible without closed agreements with my wireless service provider and Motorola or who ever.
the current iPhone/iPad scheme is based on the Video Game Console model; And it is even better! If I buy an XBox, Wii, or PS3, I need special agreements to make a real video game and need to purchase very expensive development kits, and if I make a video game either Microsoft, Nintendo, or Sony has to approve it if I want to sell it.
Apple's iphone/ipad dev tools are fantastic and cost $100/year.
There is competition in all of these domains; people are free to make and buy and support microsoft or linux based phones and tablets. The Nokia N900 looks great, perhaps Nokia could make a tablet version!
--jeffk++
Thank you for the fantastic information.
I used to have a 2005 Toyota Matrix and did experience unintended acceleration ONCE. At the time just thought it was the mat sticking.
I could not imagine that the system would give priority to the gas pedal over the brake!!!! OMG
--jeffk++
You said:
I think he was saying that the push buttons stopped working because the computer system crashed.
If that was the case, the only thing the driver could have done different would be to pull the emergency brake.
There are lots of formal safety and reliability requirements and testing required for fly-by-wire systems in airplanes and helicopters.
What formal safety and reliability requirements and testing are required for drive-by-wire systems in cars?
--jeffk++
People would understand a set of "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" buttons on the dash..
--jeffk++
I design computer hardware and software and I always tell people:
But No On Believes Me...
--jeffk++
MS may be different in some people:
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/11/23/multiple-sclerosis-zamboni-ccsvi.html
--jeffk++
But... But.... Then what laptop could I buy? not a nice Mac Book Pro!
no iphone! no ipod! no fun!
There are limits to a person's ability to sacrifice, man!!!
--jeffk++
[citation needed]
--jeffk++
Your post is absolutely correct except that the CD Audio Error Correction is not always 'perfect'. On larger errors it will generate interpolated data.
--jeffk++
Huh? Proof that martians are coming this year???
OMG
--jeffk++
But... But.. If I stop buying stuff from china, what laptop, cell phone, or motherboard can I buy?
--jeffk++
This is good news for http://www.millimeterwaveporn.com/ - Perhaps someone can contribute some anonymous scans of interesting people!
--jeffk++
Sorry for the double posting but it looks like today's XKCD answered my qustion best!
http://xkcd.com/687/
--jeffk++
RGOOMH!!
So, therefore the model for PI Is more accurate than any measurement of it.
--jeffk++
While I agree with your basic premise, let's examine your statement with regards to the number PI.
We have a whole bunch of different equations that calculate what PI is to billions of digits of accuracy.
Is our model of PI more accurate than our measurement of a circle in reality?
Does this mean our model of PI can not be more accurate than our measurements?
Or is there some other way to 'prove' that our model of PI is exact regardless of what our universe measures it as?
--jeffk++
Eventually the scanner resolution will increase.
Check out the new hotness;
http://www.millimeterwaveporn.com/
jeffk
Perhaps this will increase the actual quality of the Drivers which have been historically so bad?
--jeffk++
I wonder if any change to Canada's Copyright law would change the fact that The Canadian Record Agencies owe billions of dollars to artists due to copyright infringement?
--jeffk++
Does Australia have a military where people are trained in various ways to kill other people?
And those same people who are allowed to kill people during conflicts in places like Iraq or Afghanistan are not allowed to play a video game where they could kill space aliens?
Is adult virtual violence against aliens worse than real violence against real people?
--jeffk++
One good reason to be against circumcision is the high propensity of the botched circumcision, often not noticed until adulthood.
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/botch.htm
The most scary case is this one:
http://www.moss-fritch.com/medical_error.htm
Where one Baby boy was snipped way too much and the doctor's decided to give him hormones to become a girl instead.
--jeffk++
This is why I like Mercurial better; It integrates easier and better with apache and is much faster than svn for the same source code!
However I decided to not use 3 branches (dev,test,release) inside one repository - I use 3 separate repositories. They are all related, and the release repo has different authentication requirements so you have to be certain that you want to push to the release repo.
In addition, I set up hudson to do automatic builds of each repo and automatic deploy to the related servers. This is more controversial, some people prefer to have release deployments to be triggered manually. Either way they are fairly easy to revert.
--jeffk++