You're assuming that this device is intended to (probably unsuccessfully) take market share away from camera phones. More likely, it is intended to take market share away from other (non-phone) cameras by adding functionality that they lack. For example, if the camera has a GPS it may be able to display a map with your photos organized by where they were shot, similar to turning on the "photos" option in Google maps. Such functionality would presumably be much easier to add as an app on top of Android rather than building it from scratch on a simpler phone OS. Of course, what functionality they really plan to add is an open question since the article doesn't say very much.
P.S. Calculus is (in my opinion) conceptually way cooler than any of the math that comes before it, so you are really depriving yourself if you skip it. I strongly advocate taking calculus and physics at the same time. Calculus was invented to solve physics problems, and you'll understand it much better if you do them together. Complex analysis (calculus with complex numbers) is also very cool -- some surprising and powerful things happen (Cauchy's residue theorem).
Whether or not you need math really depends on the type of programming that you're doing, but it can creep up in pretty mundane areas. For example, suppose your program is doing some sort of tedious calculation and you want to display a progress bar or an estimate of the amount of time remaining. If things are somewhat complicated, you may need to fit some parameters to estimate time remaining. Fitting generally means finding parameter values that minimize some quantity (like squared error), so now you're into calculus (take partial derivative, set to zero, solve for parameter value). Of course, you can probably find a formula in a book but you may not truly understand it, or when it is applicable, if don't have a basic math background.
Morningstar has had "growth of $10,000" for a long time. I used to get frustrated with their charts being too small, but it seems much better now. I don't know if they changed things, or if I just didn't poke around enough when I used it before. Here is an example. To get that chart, I entered the symbol in the "Quote" input, and then clicked the "More..." link in the upper right corner of the small graph. Maybe I should just give up completely on Yahoo! Finance now...
You can safely bet that every major corporation have people on their payroll to make friendly articles for them.
Yes, corporate PR hands off press releases which then get changed very little and then printed.
It's not really fair to assume that is due to money changing hands -- it's just easier/cheaper to reprint a press release than write something from scratch.
In addition to the comment above, which would make charts on Yahoo! significantly more useful, I'll also point out a bug:
Since you started displaying live, auto-updating security prices recently, I've noticed that the price change and percent change are not kept in sync. Sometimes, one value will be positive while the other is negative for the same security. Just in case this is a browser compatibility issue, I'm using Seamonkey 2.3.3 on Linux.
I've said this several times before (including in feedback to Yahoo), but I'll say it here just in case anyone from Yahoo! is actually paying attention:
In Yahoo! finance, you really need to give users the option to chart dividend-adjusted price (or, equivalently, "growth of $10,000 investment"). Charting the raw stock price isn't very useful, especially for mutual funds that pay out substantial dividends or capital gains distributions at the end of the year (when the market isn't tanking). Those payouts cause the price to drop, but it's not an economically meaningful drop -- no money was lost. If you try to compare two securities, or compare a security to an index, and the price drops off a cliff every December (again, the drop means nothing), it's just not useful. Yahoo! has the adjusted price data needed to make a useful chart (it's called "Adj Close" in the "Historical Prices" table), it just doesn't give the user a way to chart it.
Yeah, they also didn't say what time the tweet went out. What lazy reporting. Apparently, this is the twitter feed. The first announcement went out at 9:59am. You can see a price spike a little after 10am (sadly, that link will probably be invalid after today), but the price stays up even after it was revealed as a hoax.
Yep, my high school AP Chem teacher suggested the same thing. I did it in classes where I was pushing myself to do better, and it did help. I recopied the notes with colored pens to categorize the information and added supplemental info from the textbook. The effort of producing a good set of notes makes you think about what parts are important and ingrains it all in your brain better.
I used to be puzzled by the fact that I often fell asleep during lectures at conferences, but I never fell asleep in class as a student. I eventually realized that I didn't fall asleep in class because I was taking notes instead of just sitting there. Of course, YMMV if you aren't as perpetually sleep-deprived as I am.
What's stopping you from changing up your advertisement a bit on different websites?
Probably nothing, as long as it is different enough to not be seen as a derivative work.
You'd probably end up doing that anyway to cater to the specific medium you're advertising on.
That, I tend to doubt. People are lazy, and cut-and-paste is easy. I would imagine most companies posting job ads would post the exact same ad to multiple job sites, which is now (apparently) prohibited by Craigslist.
Sure, but how do you prove that it is written from scratch, especially when there would need to be a high degree of similarity when describing the same item? For example, a job ad is going to contain a list of qualifications -- how are you going to advertise the same job without copying the list of qualifications?
you could write up a separate ad for another site if you wanted
It explicitly prohibits preparing derivative works without Craigslist's consent. IANAL, so I don't know if they could enforce that against the original author, but it seems they could certainly go after whatever other website published/distributed your derivative post. Since that other website's Terms of Use would probably require you to post only things that you legally have the right to post, you could presumably wind up with them coming after you if Craigslist comes after them.
Yes, I know. I made an approximation because I thought it would make it easier for readers to follow. I should not have written the numbers out to so many digits since I knew they were approximate, though.
Good point. But, Chrome uses 1449 MB for 40 tabs, so 36 MB per tab, and uses 91 MB when there is only one tab open, so Chrome has an overhead (unlike IE) of 55 MB for the software.
It is interesting that IE uses 1276 MB for 40 tabs, so 1276/40 = 31.9 MB/tab, while with only one tab open it takes 31 MB, i.e. there seems to be no memory overhead for the software itself. For comparison, Firefox uses 794 MB for 40 tabs, so 19.85 MB/tab, and 61 MB when there is only one tab open, so an overhead 41 MB for the software itself.
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Is it just me, or does this sound like an episode of South Park?
You just talked me out of it.
You're assuming that this device is intended to (probably unsuccessfully) take market share away from camera phones. More likely, it is intended to take market share away from other (non-phone) cameras by adding functionality that they lack. For example, if the camera has a GPS it may be able to display a map with your photos organized by where they were shot, similar to turning on the "photos" option in Google maps. Such functionality would presumably be much easier to add as an app on top of Android rather than building it from scratch on a simpler phone OS. Of course, what functionality they really plan to add is an open question since the article doesn't say very much.
The Microsoft logo used for this story is outdated.
Hey, rounded corners make all the difference. You should know that by now.
This article shows a history of Microsoft's logos.
I believe it is One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
P.S. Calculus is (in my opinion) conceptually way cooler than any of the math that comes before it, so you are really depriving yourself if you skip it. I strongly advocate taking calculus and physics at the same time. Calculus was invented to solve physics problems, and you'll understand it much better if you do them together. Complex analysis (calculus with complex numbers) is also very cool -- some surprising and powerful things happen (Cauchy's residue theorem).
Whether or not you need math really depends on the type of programming that you're doing, but it can creep up in pretty mundane areas. For example, suppose your program is doing some sort of tedious calculation and you want to display a progress bar or an estimate of the amount of time remaining. If things are somewhat complicated, you may need to fit some parameters to estimate time remaining. Fitting generally means finding parameter values that minimize some quantity (like squared error), so now you're into calculus (take partial derivative, set to zero, solve for parameter value). Of course, you can probably find a formula in a book but you may not truly understand it, or when it is applicable, if don't have a basic math background.
Morningstar has had "growth of $10,000" for a long time. I used to get frustrated with their charts being too small, but it seems much better now. I don't know if they changed things, or if I just didn't poke around enough when I used it before. Here is an example. To get that chart, I entered the symbol in the "Quote" input, and then clicked the "More..." link in the upper right corner of the small graph. Maybe I should just give up completely on Yahoo! Finance now...
You can safely bet that every major corporation have people on their payroll to make friendly articles for them.
Yes, corporate PR hands off press releases which then get changed very little and then printed.
It's not really fair to assume that is due to money changing hands -- it's just easier/cheaper to reprint a press release than write something from scratch.
In addition to the comment above, which would make charts on Yahoo! significantly more useful, I'll also point out a bug:
Since you started displaying live, auto-updating security prices recently, I've noticed that the price change and percent change are not kept in sync. Sometimes, one value will be positive while the other is negative for the same security. Just in case this is a browser compatibility issue, I'm using Seamonkey 2.3.3 on Linux.
I've said this several times before (including in feedback to Yahoo), but I'll say it here just in case anyone from Yahoo! is actually paying attention:
In Yahoo! finance, you really need to give users the option to chart dividend-adjusted price (or, equivalently, "growth of $10,000 investment"). Charting the raw stock price isn't very useful, especially for mutual funds that pay out substantial dividends or capital gains distributions at the end of the year (when the market isn't tanking). Those payouts cause the price to drop, but it's not an economically meaningful drop -- no money was lost. If you try to compare two securities, or compare a security to an index, and the price drops off a cliff every December (again, the drop means nothing), it's just not useful. Yahoo! has the adjusted price data needed to make a useful chart (it's called "Adj Close" in the "Historical Prices" table), it just doesn't give the user a way to chart it.
That describes 99% of reporting on the financial markets.
Yeah, they also didn't say what time the tweet went out. What lazy reporting. Apparently, this is the twitter feed. The first announcement went out at 9:59am. You can see a price spike a little after 10am (sadly, that link will probably be invalid after today), but the price stays up even after it was revealed as a hoax.
Yep, my high school AP Chem teacher suggested the same thing. I did it in classes where I was pushing myself to do better, and it did help. I recopied the notes with colored pens to categorize the information and added supplemental info from the textbook. The effort of producing a good set of notes makes you think about what parts are important and ingrains it all in your brain better.
I used to be puzzled by the fact that I often fell asleep during lectures at conferences, but I never fell asleep in class as a student. I eventually realized that I didn't fall asleep in class because I was taking notes instead of just sitting there. Of course, YMMV if you aren't as perpetually sleep-deprived as I am.
Very interesting point. I wish I had mod points for you...
What's stopping you from changing up your advertisement a bit on different websites?
Probably nothing, as long as it is different enough to not be seen as a derivative work.
You'd probably end up doing that anyway to cater to the specific medium you're advertising on.
That, I tend to doubt. People are lazy, and cut-and-paste is easy. I would imagine most companies posting job ads would post the exact same ad to multiple job sites, which is now (apparently) prohibited by Craigslist.
Sure, but how do you prove that it is written from scratch, especially when there would need to be a high degree of similarity when describing the same item? For example, a job ad is going to contain a list of qualifications -- how are you going to advertise the same job without copying the list of qualifications?
you could write up a separate ad for another site if you wanted
It explicitly prohibits preparing derivative works without Craigslist's consent. IANAL, so I don't know if they could enforce that against the original author, but it seems they could certainly go after whatever other website published/distributed your derivative post. Since that other website's Terms of Use would probably require you to post only things that you legally have the right to post, you could presumably wind up with them coming after you if Craigslist comes after them.
Yes, I know. I made an approximation because I thought it would make it easier for readers to follow. I should not have written the numbers out to so many digits since I knew they were approximate, though.
Good point. But, Chrome uses 1449 MB for 40 tabs, so 36 MB per tab, and uses 91 MB when there is only one tab open, so Chrome has an overhead (unlike IE) of 55 MB for the software.
It is interesting that IE uses 1276 MB for 40 tabs, so 1276/40 = 31.9 MB/tab, while with only one tab open it takes 31 MB, i.e. there seems to be no memory overhead for the software itself. For comparison, Firefox uses 794 MB for 40 tabs, so 19.85 MB/tab, and 61 MB when there is only one tab open, so an overhead 41 MB for the software itself.
to recreate the 'feeling of recognition you get in a favourite restaurant'
So, now the airline is going to spit in my food too?