"Latest major version"? OK, but what does it mean in practice?
I understand it means, among other things, that apps that are perfectly capable of running on earlier models (e.g. Siri) are deliberately held back in order to encourage buying a new model.
It comes at a price, though. At these levels, I think I'd prefer battery life over a few more pixels. I'd prefer most things above a few more pixels, really - better graphics chips, more cores, more memory etc.
That's a pretty big "besides". Also, what developers make for either platform varies wildly - it's better on average on Apple devices (yet), but the app's merits matter more than the venue. The only good reason for going Apple-only these days is if you have lack of multiplatform development competence.
Look at This list. There are already 6 devices with higher PPI than the highest Apple device (iPhone 4), and 20+ devices which have more than 220 PPI (220PPI is the pixel density of the 2012 third-generation MacBook Pro, which is the least pixel-packed Apple device marketed as having a retina display).
So definitively don't get fooled by advertising. Apple displays have much going for them, but PPI isn't everything, and Apple aren't even best by that metric anymore. (Considering Apple's displays are mostly manufactured by LG, it's not surprising that other manufacturers sell devices with excellent displays)
Of course if I was an Android user, I may be worried about Samsung creating their own fork which is almost guaranteed to be worse than vanilla.
It's a bit premature to worry about that, isn't it? Right now, Samsung is one of the better Android citizens. Let's punish them when/if they stop being that, not based on cynicism about what we think they will do.
Choosing the tight margins on their (unquestionably superior) hardware, is akin to choosing the tight margins of open source software rather than lock-in of proprietary software. It's a brave choice to customers' benefit.
Probably, he lives by the idea that all publicity is good publicity. Hey, it worked for SA founder Richard Kyanka, no? Clearly, Commander Taco's unwillingness to engage in such antics are responsible for slashdot's decline in importance.
And just like manual memory management is a clamp on the foot for modularity in a single-threaded environment, manual locking and mutexes is an additional clamp on the foot for modularity in the multithreaded realm.
Erlang's actor model is an attempt to enable the production of modular concurrent communication software, just as Java's garbage collection model is an attempt to enable the production of modular business data software.
They should cooperate so that when their drivers crash and corrupt data on my encrypted home partition, they can get help to make sure it does not do that any longer.
Ubuntu Precise Pangolin, straight out of the box, with the standard proprietary Nvidia driver. GeForce GTX 2**M card. Crashes sporadically on heavy load, causing a hard kernel panic.
The important part is not rejecting data because you disagree with it. Which you apparently do. Or is there something in climatecentral's interpretation of the data that you would like to criticize?
No your just insane. Plenty of people are still using 32 bit linux, and I'm sure plenty are still using it on 64-bit hardware even.
I was one until fairly recently. I tried to switch many times, but inevitably there would be some pain which would make it not worth it. Problems with Flash and graphics card drivers mostly. For quite a while, I had to choose between utilizing the 8 GB memory on my laptop or the NVidia graphics card (the driver still has issues, it crashes the kernel and corrupts my files, but at least I get good 3d acceleration when it works.)
Slackware packages are also tarballs, but they contain some standardized scripts for configuration and installation on slackware. They are typically binary-only packages as well, as opposed to regular tarballs which typically (but far from always) are used for source distribution.
Google+ Hangouts. The only people I regularly video chat with is my family.
There are a lot of interesting tech contacts I have too, that it could be potentially interesting to video chat with. They are also on Google+. My old high school classmates aren't on Google+, but I wasn't planning on video chatting with them.
We also have to get rid of the myth that climate is something stable.
Yes, we need to get rid of that strawman.
The earth is on a journey from creation to end. No year will ever be the same as the last one. The distance to the moon changes, the distance to the Sun changes, the solar output changes.
And we need to get the ecclesiastes-like poetry out of climate discussions.
What we need to determine is what kind of climate we want
We want the climate we evolved in, the climate our civilizations grew and thrived in. If it must change into something less hospitable to us - that is basically anything different with regards to global temperature - it should change as slowly as possible, so we have time to adapt.
"Determining" that is so trivial, and non-political, that anyone calling for it is just calling for more delay and obfuscation.
But sure, you go ahead and play with Mars first before you decide what kind of earth you want. Sounds like you've got your head on Mars already, so it should be easy.
Contrary to some misunderstandings, Arrhenius does not explicitly suggest in this paper that the burning of fossil fuels will cause global warming,though it is clear that he is aware that fossil fuels are a potentially significant source of carbon dioxide (page 270), and he does explicitly suggest this outcome in later work...
Emphasis mine this time around.
No one was putting forth the idea that earth was warming then due to greenhouse gas emissions because
1. At that point in time, greenhouse gas levels were not much above preindustrial levels (and they couldn't easily measure preindustrial levels as we can today, e.g. from sealed bottles).
2. The earth wasn't in fact warming (on a scale measurable at the time).
But this could change, and Arrhenius recognized it. So yes, he wasn't putting forth the idea that it did warm. But he was putting forth (in later papers) the idea that it would if greenhouse gas levels increased, which they have.
Anyone who had good formal music training should know that chord function is not identical with chord progression, and function may vary from style to style. Also that different styles of music vary along different parameters. Expecting a brave new chord progression in most styles is silly. And, in those styles where you're supposed to expect "original" chord progressions like prog rock, they usually turn out to not be all that original in the big picture.
If variation is all you want in music, white noise is provably the perfect kind of music for you.
The current state of music is that it's more diverse and plentiful than ever.
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"Latest major version"? OK, but what does it mean in practice?
I understand it means, among other things, that apps that are perfectly capable of running on earlier models (e.g. Siri) are deliberately held back in order to encourage buying a new model.
It comes at a price, though. At these levels, I think I'd prefer battery life over a few more pixels. I'd prefer most things above a few more pixels, really - better graphics chips, more cores, more memory etc.
That's a pretty big "besides". Also, what developers make for either platform varies wildly - it's better on average on Apple devices (yet), but the app's merits matter more than the venue. The only good reason for going Apple-only these days is if you have lack of multiplatform development competence.
Look at This list. There are already 6 devices with higher PPI than the highest Apple device (iPhone 4), and 20+ devices which have more than 220 PPI (220PPI is the pixel density of the 2012 third-generation MacBook Pro, which is the least pixel-packed Apple device marketed as having a retina display).
So definitively don't get fooled by advertising. Apple displays have much going for them, but PPI isn't everything, and Apple aren't even best by that metric anymore. (Considering Apple's displays are mostly manufactured by LG, it's not surprising that other manufacturers sell devices with excellent displays)
The triominoes will be boring, the pentominoes will be very, very hard.
Looking at patents is, sadly, not something that should be recommended.
I didn't miss Taco leaving, but the site's decline in relative importance predates that by a lot. And also, it was a joke.
I'm really more sad about Slashdot still not having unicode support, than I am about decreasing traffic numbers.
First time protecting their customers was part of these people's business model.
No, you need to jump on the bandwagons to stay in the lead! If Apple and Amazon are doing it, it must be right! /s
It's a bit premature to worry about that, isn't it? Right now, Samsung is one of the better Android citizens. Let's punish them when/if they stop being that, not based on cynicism about what we think they will do.
Choosing the tight margins on their (unquestionably superior) hardware, is akin to choosing the tight margins of open source software rather than lock-in of proprietary software. It's a brave choice to customers' benefit.
Probably, he lives by the idea that all publicity is good publicity. Hey, it worked for SA founder Richard Kyanka, no? Clearly, Commander Taco's unwillingness to engage in such antics are responsible for slashdot's decline in importance.
And just like manual memory management is a clamp on the foot for modularity in a single-threaded environment, manual locking and mutexes is an additional clamp on the foot for modularity in the multithreaded realm.
Erlang's actor model is an attempt to enable the production of modular concurrent communication software, just as Java's garbage collection model is an attempt to enable the production of modular business data software.
And you still hang out on slashdot, rather than reddit or Y combinator. Don't worry, you're probably not in a minority here.
They should cooperate so that when their drivers crash and corrupt data on my encrypted home partition, they can get help to make sure it does not do that any longer.
Ubuntu Precise Pangolin, straight out of the box, with the standard proprietary Nvidia driver. GeForce GTX 2**M card. Crashes sporadically on heavy load, causing a hard kernel panic.
The important part is not rejecting data because you disagree with it. Which you apparently do. Or is there something in climatecentral's interpretation of the data that you would like to criticize?
In your own words, please.
I was one until fairly recently. I tried to switch many times, but inevitably there would be some pain which would make it not worth it. Problems with Flash and graphics card drivers mostly. For quite a while, I had to choose between utilizing the 8 GB memory on my laptop or the NVidia graphics card (the driver still has issues, it crashes the kernel and corrupts my files, but at least I get good 3d acceleration when it works.)
Tarball: .tar.gz. .tgz.
Slackware package:
Slackware packages are also tarballs, but they contain some standardized scripts for configuration and installation on slackware. They are typically binary-only packages as well, as opposed to regular tarballs which typically (but far from always) are used for source distribution.
Google+ Hangouts. The only people I regularly video chat with is my family.
There are a lot of interesting tech contacts I have too, that it could be potentially interesting to video chat with. They are also on Google+. My old high school classmates aren't on Google+, but I wasn't planning on video chatting with them.
They have to do in in the other order. And they can only pull that trick once.
Yes, we need to get rid of that strawman.
And we need to get the ecclesiastes-like poetry out of climate discussions.
We want the climate we evolved in, the climate our civilizations grew and thrived in. If it must change into something less hospitable to us - that is basically anything different with regards to global temperature - it should change as slowly as possible, so we have time to adapt.
"Determining" that is so trivial, and non-political, that anyone calling for it is just calling for more delay and obfuscation.
But sure, you go ahead and play with Mars first before you decide what kind of earth you want. Sounds like you've got your head on Mars already, so it should be easy.
Don't rely on stories. It's better to rely on data. Best of all if the data is presented in a nice way, such as here.
Contrary to some misunderstandings, Arrhenius does not explicitly ..
suggest in this paper that the burning of fossil fuels will cause global
warming,though it is clear that he is aware that fossil fuels are a
potentially significant source of carbon dioxide (page 270), and he does
explicitly suggest this outcome in later work.
Emphasis mine this time around.
No one was putting forth the idea that earth was warming then due to greenhouse gas emissions because
1. At that point in time, greenhouse gas levels were not much above preindustrial levels (and they couldn't easily measure preindustrial levels as we can today, e.g. from sealed bottles).
2. The earth wasn't in fact warming (on a scale measurable at the time).
But this could change, and Arrhenius recognized it. So yes, he wasn't putting forth the idea that it did warm. But he was putting forth (in later papers) the idea that it would if greenhouse gas levels increased, which they have.
How disingenuous...
The same place as the reviews that challenge the core hypothesis of evolution. The dust bin of history.
I read that as "Ability to lie convincingly essential", and I wouldn't apply. An ex-colleague of mine posted the following job ad:
https://www.varnish-software.com/about/employment/kld-labs
I think he's suggesting that the bolded portion should be applied to the job ad itself. At least some employers have self-insight.
Anyone who had good formal music training should know that chord function is not identical with chord progression, and function may vary from style to style. Also that different styles of music vary along different parameters. Expecting a brave new chord progression in most styles is silly. And, in those styles where you're supposed to expect "original" chord progressions like prog rock, they usually turn out to not be all that original in the big picture.
If variation is all you want in music, white noise is provably the perfect kind of music for you.
The current state of music is that it's more diverse and plentiful than ever.