Rubbish. I gave aid myself for Katrina, and I'm in the UK. Other countries most certainly did offer aid.
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When it was at Cardiff University, I helped out for free as did many other people around the internet at the time. It was then taken commercial without any notice or recompense, with really quite sketchy and dubious claims of ownership, and it was quite a controversy at the time. I have still not forgotten it, and a lesson was learned that day.
For those that don't know, KHTML formed the basis of Webkit, and so then formed Safari on the Mac/iOS and for a long time powered Chrome as well. It caused a minor storm when Apple picked that over Gecko, which had been what people assumed would have been picked.
Yes, I agree with the AC above - KHTML has had huge impact, probably wider impact than the KDE project itself, purely because it dominated mobile browsing for so long.
In my experience, everything learned in school is CS is outdated by time you graduate.
...then you didn't learn CS. The theories behind computation, information theory, boolean algebra...none of this is outdated and indeed a lot of it is relying on hundred year-old+ mathematical discoveries. You can then advance to 'recent' times, like 1930s/40s Turing, 40s/50s Von Neumann etc..
For coding I learned Ada at University. I do not use Ada today. I have never, in fact, professionally coded in Ada. It doesn't matter - that wasn't the point of my Computer Science degree. I have quite definitely used the theoretical aspects of it, and I expect those to stay true for multiple generations to come.
Apple aren't taking legal action against iFixIt either, they're revoking their development account for breach of terms of conditions. iFixIt has the right to tear it down and Apple has the right to revoke the account as a result.
My favourite is a somewhat optimistic one that appears on my iPad when it looks at hereisthecity.com. I always read in landscap - what happens is the site appears for a second or so, then an enormous black square appears blotting out all the content and the text "Please rotate your device" inside it.
Err...no. No I am not going to rotate my device purely in order to see some advert that;s meant to be inside this giant black square that I don't want to see in the first place. I've had that happen quite a lot on the site, and I've still got no idea what's meant to appear because I just close the site when it happens. Meh.
'this country'. I'm UK-based, and this will be a large number of vehicles indeed. Porsche Cayennes are often diesel, and there's the new Panamara thingy too.
Disagree - the linked video shows a very desktop-oriented device, not tablet. They do seem to have some UI guidelines around touch which they alude to in the video, but on the whole - it looks like a nice desktop update.
What bothers me most about things like this is trying to relate it back to what is supposed to have changed in the latest versions. I can't think of anything in iOS 9 that should have touched code like this, which makes me wonder about the state of source control.
Happy to be wrong, but Apple have had a few regression-type bugs before which again make me think their branching/merging strategies may not quite be up to snuff. Would like to be wrong though - anyone know of a changed area in iOS 9 that would have necessitated playing with something like this?
So first up - I am not saying he must be wrong about this but equally it follows that it is not necessarily true that he must be right. For my own position - yes, I am indeed asserting he was wrong. The spiel about increasing poverty through provision of public services is standard rhetoric recognisable through into the Victorian era, and to some extent today, and is simply not born out by the experience of post-war Britain when public services really started to appear on a large scale.
The experience of nations with state welfare systems is usually a good-with-problems style affair. I live in the UK and for example whilst I recognise the NHS has problems (it can be inefficient) I also recognise the huge benefits (I am alive, when in a purely paid-for system I would have been dead from polio aged 10 months).
Basic income I'm not really arguing about - I simply don't know enough about the evidence. But provision of public services as being a bad thing...yes, I am stating he was wrong.
You know he wasn't right about everything, yes? And for Franklin to be complaining about lack of sobriety when he was a regular visitor to the Earl of Dashwood's Hellfire Club...hmm.
I'm equally interested - there's room in the market for more than one kind of car.
I currently have a Boxster (987.2), and previously a 911 (996, was twenty years old when I had it and then the engine blew up as early 996's are wont to do...). I've looked at the Tesla and would really like it, but the handling of the Boxster is something I'd miss and there's no convertible either.
That doesn't make the Tesla bad of course, it just makes a different segment. So I'm equally interested in the new Porsche designs and the new Tesla ones - different cars for different purposes.
This is excellent news for me. I have a Synology and a 10.6.8-based original Intel Mac Mini that just acts as an iTunes and Crashplan server. All my films converted from DVD/blu-ray are stored on the Synology, but I need iTunes running to be able to access it on the Apple TV. With this I should be able to use Plex on the Synology and remove the need for iTunes. Crashplan can also be made to run on a Synology, so I can completely eliminate the need for that Mac Mini.
With a few more apps, like Amazon Instant and BBC iPlayer, this thing could then completely cover what I do. One caveat - just please, please, please give me paid app options and not freebies with adverts in the UI.
I imagine there's re-re-insurance as well. And re-re-re-insurance. But who re-re-re-re-insures th re-re-re-insurers? That's the burning question that I want an answer to, anyway.
"a way to turn something you used to pay for once into a monthly forever and ever payment"
Not necessarily, no. If I buy my own kit, I need to care about support contracts for that kit, end of life status for that kit, upgrades, system design for (infrastructure-level) uptime etc.. If I use a cloud service (I hate the word, but it's stuck so there we go) then I don't need to do that.
It's trade-off. Cloud is not all good, but it's not all bad either. A lot of gardening-style detail of looking after kit goes away, but clearly there are still things you need to worry about.
Wait a few days for the Apple announcements. You don't have to be an Apple fan necessarily, but at least then you'll know what the actual 2015 range of available tablets will be and be able to make comparisons. At the moment you'll be comparing current gen Android to just-about-last-gen Apple. You'll want to compare current to current.
It was about speed of loading. Google had a blank white page with a search box. Altavista had gone the horrible "portlet"-style approach of gluing loads of things together. Google's page loaded quickly, Altavista's did not.
When I, and those I was working with, first switched to Google the actual search results were different to what you'd "expect" (Altavista's results were the gold standard, any deviation was looked on suspciously) but they were about the same in quality. Later they became better, but it wasn't the driver at first - was all about the clean page.
Err...nope. They are using m4a and standard h.264 (and h.265), and have been doing for ages. You could possibly say their.mov container is proprietary I suppose, but for years and years they've always used standard formats.
There was a brief time at the beginning when they used Fairplay DRM on audio because they were forced to, despite many pushes from them to get that dropped. I believe Amazon broke that one and was the first DRM-free store - not entirely sure on that one. iTunes store followed shortly after, as soon as the studios let them.
Apple do use DRM on their bought/rented video from the iTunes store. But then so does Amazon, and so does Netflix, and so does MS. They're in exactly the same situation.
"Shooting drones down will not solve the problem."
Shooting drones down will solve the problem of having drones in the air. That's the problem this device is designed to solve. None of the other things you mention come under the remit of this device, and the device was not intended to address or solve them. This is just the latest in anti-aircraft evolution.
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Rubbish. I gave aid myself for Katrina, and I'm in the UK. Other countries most certainly did offer aid.
When it was at Cardiff University, I helped out for free as did many other people around the internet at the time. It was then taken commercial without any notice or recompense, with really quite sketchy and dubious claims of ownership, and it was quite a controversy at the time. I have still not forgotten it, and a lesson was learned that day.
Wolfram Alpha says otherwise - over two and a half times the number of accidents per person in America (0.00625) vs the number of accidents per person in Europe (0.0024).
Sadly, Racquel Welsh is not included.
For those that don't know, KHTML formed the basis of Webkit, and so then formed Safari on the Mac/iOS and for a long time powered Chrome as well. It caused a minor storm when Apple picked that over Gecko, which had been what people assumed would have been picked.
Yes, I agree with the AC above - KHTML has had huge impact, probably wider impact than the KDE project itself, purely because it dominated mobile browsing for so long.
In my experience, everything learned in school is CS is outdated by time you graduate.
...then you didn't learn CS. The theories behind computation, information theory, boolean algebra...none of this is outdated and indeed a lot of it is relying on hundred year-old+ mathematical discoveries. You can then advance to 'recent' times, like 1930s/40s Turing, 40s/50s Von Neumann etc..
For coding I learned Ada at University. I do not use Ada today. I have never, in fact, professionally coded in Ada. It doesn't matter - that wasn't the point of my Computer Science degree. I have quite definitely used the theoretical aspects of it, and I expect those to stay true for multiple generations to come.
Apple aren't taking legal action against iFixIt either, they're revoking their development account for breach of terms of conditions. iFixIt has the right to tear it down and Apple has the right to revoke the account as a result.
My favourite is a somewhat optimistic one that appears on my iPad when it looks at hereisthecity.com. I always read in landscap - what happens is the site appears for a second or so, then an enormous black square appears blotting out all the content and the text "Please rotate your device" inside it.
Err...no. No I am not going to rotate my device purely in order to see some advert that;s meant to be inside this giant black square that I don't want to see in the first place. I've had that happen quite a lot on the site, and I've still got no idea what's meant to appear because I just close the site when it happens. Meh.
'this country'. I'm UK-based, and this will be a large number of vehicles indeed. Porsche Cayennes are often diesel, and there's the new Panamara thingy too.
1.0? 1.0? Pah - noob. 0.99alpha crew checking in. Bragging rights a go-go...
Disagree - the linked video shows a very desktop-oriented device, not tablet. They do seem to have some UI guidelines around touch which they alude to in the video, but on the whole - it looks like a nice desktop update.
What bothers me most about things like this is trying to relate it back to what is supposed to have changed in the latest versions. I can't think of anything in iOS 9 that should have touched code like this, which makes me wonder about the state of source control.
Happy to be wrong, but Apple have had a few regression-type bugs before which again make me think their branching/merging strategies may not quite be up to snuff. Would like to be wrong though - anyone know of a changed area in iOS 9 that would have necessitated playing with something like this?
So first up - I am not saying he must be wrong about this but equally it follows that it is not necessarily true that he must be right. For my own position - yes, I am indeed asserting he was wrong. The spiel about increasing poverty through provision of public services is standard rhetoric recognisable through into the Victorian era, and to some extent today, and is simply not born out by the experience of post-war Britain when public services really started to appear on a large scale.
The experience of nations with state welfare systems is usually a good-with-problems style affair. I live in the UK and for example whilst I recognise the NHS has problems (it can be inefficient) I also recognise the huge benefits (I am alive, when in a purely paid-for system I would have been dead from polio aged 10 months).
Basic income I'm not really arguing about - I simply don't know enough about the evidence. But provision of public services as being a bad thing...yes, I am stating he was wrong.
You know he wasn't right about everything, yes? And for Franklin to be complaining about lack of sobriety when he was a regular visitor to the Earl of Dashwood's Hellfire Club...hmm.
Franklin wasn't exactly Mr Everyman.
I'm equally interested - there's room in the market for more than one kind of car.
I currently have a Boxster (987.2), and previously a 911 (996, was twenty years old when I had it and then the engine blew up as early 996's are wont to do...). I've looked at the Tesla and would really like it, but the handling of the Boxster is something I'd miss and there's no convertible either.
That doesn't make the Tesla bad of course, it just makes a different segment. So I'm equally interested in the new Porsche designs and the new Tesla ones - different cars for different purposes.
This is excellent news for me. I have a Synology and a 10.6.8-based original Intel Mac Mini that just acts as an iTunes and Crashplan server. All my films converted from DVD/blu-ray are stored on the Synology, but I need iTunes running to be able to access it on the Apple TV. With this I should be able to use Plex on the Synology and remove the need for iTunes. Crashplan can also be made to run on a Synology, so I can completely eliminate the need for that Mac Mini.
With a few more apps, like Amazon Instant and BBC iPlayer, this thing could then completely cover what I do. One caveat - just please, please, please give me paid app options and not freebies with adverts in the UI.
Yes. It's called re-insurance.
I imagine there's re-re-insurance as well. And re-re-re-insurance. But who re-re-re-re-insures th re-re-re-insurers? That's the burning question that I want an answer to, anyway.
That is called 'insurance'.
"a way to turn something you used to pay for once into a monthly forever and ever payment"
Not necessarily, no. If I buy my own kit, I need to care about support contracts for that kit, end of life status for that kit, upgrades, system design for (infrastructure-level) uptime etc.. If I use a cloud service (I hate the word, but it's stuck so there we go) then I don't need to do that.
It's trade-off. Cloud is not all good, but it's not all bad either. A lot of gardening-style detail of looking after kit goes away, but clearly there are still things you need to worry about.
Wait a few days for the Apple announcements. You don't have to be an Apple fan necessarily, but at least then you'll know what the actual 2015 range of available tablets will be and be able to make comparisons. At the moment you'll be comparing current gen Android to just-about-last-gen Apple. You'll want to compare current to current.
It was about speed of loading. Google had a blank white page with a search box. Altavista had gone the horrible "portlet"-style approach of gluing loads of things together. Google's page loaded quickly, Altavista's did not.
When I, and those I was working with, first switched to Google the actual search results were different to what you'd "expect" (Altavista's results were the gold standard, any deviation was looked on suspciously) but they were about the same in quality. Later they became better, but it wasn't the driver at first - was all about the clean page.
Bit of an omission at this point in the game I think.
Err...nope. They are using m4a and standard h.264 (and h.265), and have been doing for ages. You could possibly say their .mov container is proprietary I suppose, but for years and years they've always used standard formats.
There was a brief time at the beginning when they used Fairplay DRM on audio because they were forced to, despite many pushes from them to get that dropped. I believe Amazon broke that one and was the first DRM-free store - not entirely sure on that one. iTunes store followed shortly after, as soon as the studios let them.
Apple do use DRM on their bought/rented video from the iTunes store. But then so does Amazon, and so does Netflix, and so does MS. They're in exactly the same situation.
"Shooting drones down will not solve the problem."
Shooting drones down will solve the problem of having drones in the air. That's the problem this device is designed to solve. None of the other things you mention come under the remit of this device, and the device was not intended to address or solve them. This is just the latest in anti-aircraft evolution.
Those are the tech nightmare that keep me up at night, anyway.