They aren't at zero - they are negative. You have to count the false detections against them as well. Their mistakes have had lasting impacts on their poor victims.
Boxoffice mojo claims it was the #116 in popularity in 2009. Going by popularity, it got its ass kicked by "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The squekquel" ( no I didn't make that up ); and nudged by a few million dollars by "Astro Boy".
I haven't seen any of them; but I think I might go with the experts on this one.
Flash uses big loop style programming to poll all the conditions to take action on. This a good model for a small control system where RM analysis has been properly applied; but really sucks as a general programming model.
There are lots of ways to make crappy code, and Adobe doesn't have the market cornered by a long margin.
Too bad the general media don't get this idea. They are way to busy gazing at the medium is the message to understand that the medium is transitory.
The TP (Tea Party, or something for wiping you ass with) get this; they don't say anything that is explicitly racist - as an example -, but almost everything they say is inherently racist. Like a magician slipping a card, you can't pin him to what he did, but the end result is the same. It is way more McLuhan than McLuhan itself [ sorry, stolen from a stoned friend who gushed 'it is more chocolaty than chocolate itself' ]
More on opic, front-ways, to you sir, I say "*WHOOSH*".
Great intro topic; lets see if we can order them: 1. Leaving your machine open to all sorts of opportunistic malware. 2. Attempting to see how much heat your machine can actually generate [ bonus points for 'while actually doing nothing ' ] 3. Bringing a really crappy experience to a larger audience.
I was working for Sun (now Snoracle) when they way dissed the macromedia/flash experience. As an employee, I thought they were being little shits since it got in the way of experiencing the really slow alternative Java offered.
Over time, I agree with Jobs' 'flash is shit' stance. In my office, there are 5 macs, and the only time there is a problem with a machine, it tracks to some stupid flash app. Well, not really, once it was a dead hard drive, but the rotten million don't get to spoil it for the good few.
Adobe knows it is crap, but that isn't going to stop them.
It won't help you much with c++, other than in its commonality with C; but they are great programs to study. The code is clean; there is a minimum of comments, and there are lots of programs ranging from the trivial, like echo, cat; through interesting like ed, awk, to more ambitious bits like compilers, cpu emulators, debuggers, etc...
Gnu code is often very difficult to understand - huge variable names, #ifdef insanity, strange control flows. over-blown. Spend a little time with clean C, and you'll want to forget all about the foggy, incoherent monster C++ has become.
Pick an '-ism'; the same applies. I don't think human nature can be blamed; the whole point 'theory' is to account for human nature.
Marx ( Smith, Malthus, Mill, Keynes,...) didn't write about organizing mice or chickens. That they grossly misunderstood the core of their subject, people, demonstrates how trivial their philosophies were. Without people, it is just a novel mathematical model.
All economic systems end up in the plight of the modern farmer: How long you remain a farmer depends upon how much money you started with.
I'm not - the ipod touch (no gps, no cell) had/has the same tracking issues. If the phone didn't cache 'what is local', it would have to reload its info every time, which is slow and would yield a bunch of weenies whining "my iphone is killing my data plan". Unfortunately, part of caching is tracking - from reversing the age of the cached locations, I can effectively track you. The appearance problem is maintaining the tracking explicitly. If I delete the explicit track, I can infer most of the information by inverting the 'what is local' cache. Alternatively, when I arrive at a location, I can send a "whats near me" to a server somewhere, which causes weenie whining about privacy.
in short; your privacy or your data plan is the choice; the weenies will whine either way.
Try an experiment:
turn your phone off (off, off) when you are travelling somewhere.
When you reach where ever, turn your phone on and attempt to find something around you. How long does it take? Look at some over your other 'location dependent' apps, and try the same thing. Notice taking pictures takes longer? Tempest in a teapot, and as much as I'd like to jump to the defence of those poor 7 windows phone users, there is likely nothing nefarious here.
I think I see your point. If we left it up to people to understand sarcasm and satire, it might lead to embarrassing situations. Perhaps we should take it upon our selves to surround such whimsical utterances with some sort of warning. A pictogram constructed of punctuation symbols might be able to serve as a literary laugh track, so we can avoid this awkwardness.
Yea, you got it, but look - if I have to pay another $0.1 per litre for this to work, then get lost. I like my standing in the world, and I don't want everybody else to enjoy anything even close to it.
So stick your solar utopian dream into your next bowl and puff away. If we wanted to help the world, why would we behave like we do?
I bet this sets the record for the number of people that read the referenced articles. For the record, if a 48-year-old mechanic can pretend to be an 18-year-old hot CO-ED; an 18-year-old hot CO-ED can pretend to be a 52-year-old school teacher.
well, first I thought the subject line says it all; but even ignoring that, we have technology at our service to make such an idea quite feasible.
It would require a shift in thinking. It would make technology - clocks, computers, watches - subservient to our needs, instead of the status quo.
It is obvious from the entire discussion that the nerd crowd has considerable difficultly handling dates - who would have guessed that? Perhaps part of the curriculum should include a course on what the purpose of a date is, how to treat a date, and how to make your date handling repeatable (in a good way). I don't think it could hurt.
How about fixing time around the more experiential notion of sunrise and sunset. On every day of the year the sun would rise at 6am, and set at 6pm. Noon and midnight would be the other midpoints.
In this model, the discreet unit of time is not 'fixed', rather it is determined by geographic and 'solar' location. No need for DST or TimeZones per se, rather a continuous function over the globe.
It would have been 'hard' with mechanical gears for tracking time, but we have better mechanisms available.
The jury is out searching for more of those discounted hp touchpads. The jury don't give a tinkers cuss for open source, etc... they want something usable and inexpensive. Shocking, I know, but you can't account for the behaviour of the commoners.
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They aren't at zero - they are negative. You have to count the false detections against them as well. Their mistakes have had lasting impacts on their poor victims.
You know, it is actually funnier if you don't tell him.
Boxoffice mojo claims it was the #116 in popularity in 2009. Going by popularity, it got its ass kicked by "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The squekquel" ( no I didn't make that up ); and nudged by a few million dollars by "Astro Boy".
I haven't seen any of them; but I think I might go with the experts on this one.
Flash uses big loop style programming to poll all the conditions to take action on. This a good model for a small control system where RM analysis has been properly applied; but really sucks as a general programming model.
There are lots of ways to make crappy code, and Adobe doesn't have the market cornered by a long margin.
Q: But how does that app render so fast?
A: It doesn't use Flash
I shit you not.
Too bad the general media don't get this idea. They are way to busy gazing at the medium is the message to understand that the medium is transitory.
The TP (Tea Party, or something for wiping you ass with) get this; they don't say anything that is explicitly racist - as an example -, but almost everything they say is inherently racist. Like a magician slipping a card, you can't pin him to what he did, but the end result is the same. It is way more McLuhan than McLuhan itself [ sorry, stolen from a stoned friend who gushed 'it is more chocolaty than chocolate itself' ]
More on opic, front-ways, to you sir, I say "*WHOOSH*".
I believe they are considered competition. The scammers need to be sent to Libya for some special interrogation.
Your right; the really lazy would just hire someone local to do their 'wet work'. Good thing they haven't thought of that.
Great intro topic; lets see if we can order them:
1. Leaving your machine open to all sorts of opportunistic malware.
2. Attempting to see how much heat your machine can actually generate [ bonus points for 'while actually doing nothing ' ]
3. Bringing a really crappy experience to a larger audience.
I was working for Sun (now Snoracle) when they way dissed the macromedia/flash experience. As an employee, I thought they were being little shits since it got in the way of experiencing the really slow alternative Java offered.
Over time, I agree with Jobs' 'flash is shit' stance. In my office, there are 5 macs, and the only time there is a problem with a machine, it tracks to some stupid flash app. Well, not really, once it was a dead hard drive, but the rotten million don't get to spoil it for the good few.
Adobe knows it is crap, but that isn't going to stop them.
It won't help you much with c++, other than in its commonality with C; but they are great programs to study. The code is clean; there is a minimum of comments, and there are lots of programs ranging from the trivial, like echo, cat; through interesting like ed, awk, to more ambitious bits like compilers, cpu emulators, debuggers, etc...
Gnu code is often very difficult to understand - huge variable names, #ifdef insanity, strange control flows. over-blown.
Spend a little time with clean C, and you'll want to forget all about the foggy, incoherent monster C++ has become.
This is slashdot, and using a topic to pursue your own agenda is part of what makes this a shitty experience.
Pick an '-ism'; the same applies. I don't think human nature can be blamed; the whole point 'theory' is to account for human nature.
Marx ( Smith, Malthus, Mill, Keynes, ...) didn't write about organizing mice or chickens. That they grossly misunderstood the core of their subject, people, demonstrates how trivial their philosophies were. Without people, it is just a novel mathematical model.
All economic systems end up in the plight of the modern farmer: How long you remain a farmer depends upon how much money you started with.
HP have a long history of blunders. They are a bit like Shark Tank, but backwards. They embrace the dogs and bury the gems.
The more recent meltdown has put WebOS in some mighty fine company - presuming HP continues destroying it.
I'm not - the ipod touch (no gps, no cell) had/has the same tracking issues. If the phone didn't cache 'what is local', it would have to reload its info every time, which is slow and would yield a bunch of weenies whining "my iphone is killing my data plan". Unfortunately, part of caching is tracking - from reversing the age of the cached locations, I can effectively track you.
The appearance problem is maintaining the tracking explicitly. If I delete the explicit track, I can infer most of the information by inverting the 'what is local' cache.
Alternatively, when I arrive at a location, I can send a "whats near me" to a server somewhere, which causes weenie whining about privacy.
in short; your privacy or your data plan is the choice; the weenies will whine either way.
Try an experiment:
turn your phone off (off, off) when you are travelling somewhere.
When you reach where ever, turn your phone on and attempt to find something around you. How long does it take?
Look at some over your other 'location dependent' apps, and try the same thing. Notice taking pictures takes longer?
Tempest in a teapot, and as much as I'd like to jump to the defence of those poor 7 windows phone users, there is likely nothing nefarious here.
I didn't know Pakistan was in Arkansas. I really have to get an atlas.
I think I see your point. If we left it up to people to understand sarcasm and satire, it might lead to embarrassing situations. Perhaps we should take it upon our selves to surround such whimsical utterances with some sort of warning. A pictogram constructed of punctuation symbols might be able to serve as a literary laugh track, so we can avoid this awkwardness.
I wonder what Stephen Colbert would do?
Yea, you got it, but look - if I have to pay another $0.1 per litre for this to work, then get lost. I like my standing in the world, and I don't want everybody else to enjoy anything even close to it.
So stick your solar utopian dream into your next bowl and puff away. If we wanted to help the world, why would we behave like we do?
Big Oily Brother protects our superiority.
I bet this sets the record for the number of people that read the referenced articles.
For the record, if a 48-year-old mechanic can pretend to be an 18-year-old hot CO-ED; an 18-year-old hot CO-ED can pretend to be a 52-year-old school teacher.
I've always thought of Big Macs as being quite similar to fertilizer. Do you think they have some benefit?
It is no wonder how the math department always fielded the best baseball team. ...crickets...
In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory; in practice there is.
well, first I thought the subject line says it all; but even ignoring that, we have technology at our service to make such an idea quite feasible.
It would require a shift in thinking. It would make technology - clocks, computers, watches - subservient to our needs, instead of the status quo.
It is obvious from the entire discussion that the nerd crowd has considerable difficultly handling dates - who would have guessed that?
Perhaps part of the curriculum should include a course on what the purpose of a date is, how to treat a date, and how to make your date handling repeatable (in a good way). I don't think it could hurt.
How about fixing time around the more experiential notion of sunrise and sunset. On every day of the year the sun would rise at 6am, and set at 6pm. Noon and midnight would be the other midpoints.
In this model, the discreet unit of time is not 'fixed', rather it is determined by geographic and 'solar' location. No need for DST or TimeZones per se, rather a continuous function over the globe.
It would have been 'hard' with mechanical gears for tracking time, but we have better mechanisms available.
The jury is out searching for more of those discounted hp touchpads. The jury don't give a tinkers cuss for open source, etc... they want something usable and inexpensive.
Shocking, I know, but you can't account for the behaviour of the commoners.
the looters will get nice, clean firearms after they shoot your eejit head off.