As a student in computer engineering, I suggest you switch schools. An idea is mostly worthless if you cannot communicate it. When you go in to industry and have to write a report or proposal to higher ups, it's not going to look good for you if its written in the language of a high school student. You can pretty much forget about moving past the level of code monkey if you're not able to communicate with your peers.
I certainly hope so. I've been using random access voicemail here in Japan for the past year and it rocks. I dread my return back to Canada and the stone age of cellular...
At my university, the papers weren't submitted to Turnitin.com by the instructor, students had to upload them themselves. I guess that's one way of avoiding this particular issue.
Only server users? I don't think so... anyone frequently doing file operations during their regular usage will be affected. That includes anyone from people processing documents, programming, working with graphics, photos, multimedia, etc. Maybe if you're just browsing the web or playing games it won't be a big deal, but anyone doing real actual work on their computer will be taking a hit.
Even when the music/multimedia side is activated, you will have to use the phone side whenever you need to input text--for example, to create a playlist, search the Sprint Store's music catalog, or specify a URL for a site you wish to visit in the small-screen-optimized browser.
I was a little confused the first time I encountered a text-input box on the music side, since no alphanumeric keys and no software keyboard appeared. But the device is smart enough to recognize the need to use the phone side, and I noticed that "Flip" had appeared on screen as a soft-key option.
When I used it and began entering text from the phone keypad (T9 text input mode is a welcome option here), "Save/Flip" also appeared as a soft-key option to return me seamlessly to the multimedia side. Ok, is it just me, or does that sound like it would get incredibly annoying to use? Why even allow text-input boxes on the music side if it requires flipping the phone over to the other side to input text? This device sounds like an absolutely confusing usability nightmare. No thanks... next please.
Metal music often uses similar scales (harmonic minor is very popular..) as much of what most people think of as "classical music". Many of the movements and progressions are also very similar.
Some don't even try to hide it, for example "Classical Metal" like some of the works of Yngwie Malmsteen...
Jokes aside, I've loved metal, punk, thrash, etc. since I first heard it. Oddly enough I love classical music too (even Joyce Hatto. Ha!) but can't stand country music, rap, hip hop.... Not surprising really. Most metal music is actually quite similar to classical.
Of course you could, for example, not visit it any more. Block it out in your hosts file, or whatever. There's lots of sites on the net, most of them suck, just don't go there.
Typing in the program and worrying about syntax and language details is probably the easiest part of programming. Developing a good design and actually engineering an application is the hard part. If you can do that, you can surely program it in to a computer.
Alternatively in a world with no remote control system: Say the terrorists take over a plane. They leave the pilots alive. The terrorists say "Pilots, take us to *insert Middle Eastern or African country here* or we start killing hostages every 10 minutes until you turn to heading 180 or what have you.."
Exactly. Canon has been using MEMS based sensors in their image stabilized lenses since the mid 1990s. The technology is nothing new. In fact, one of the professors from my university created the first MEMS accelerometer without moving parts in the late 1990s and commercialized it in 2001: http://www.memsic.com/memsic/news/press_release.as p?itemid=5
In the case of Canon and Nikon, their IS (Image Stabilizer) and VR (Vibration Reduction) lens, draw power from the main camera body through electrical contacts in the lens mount. I don't shoot Nikon, but at least with Canon you can still get hundreds of shots off one charge when using an IS lens.
I don't know the fine details of this technology, but doesn't its quantum nature also make it highly susceptible to denial of service by a man in the middle attack? All they would have to do is intercept part of the key exchange and keep the parties from every successfully exchanging keys without even having to take down the whole link. Maybe not as bad as being able to intercept the transmission but a potential problem I think...
You also seem to have left out Windows Mobile in your list of companies that you seem to think don't know how to make a user interface. People can hate Windows concepts and MS, sure, but MS spends a lot of money with real people to ensure their crap is easy to use.
Oh, and Windows Mobile has been around for quite a while now, and with 6.0 pushes the envelope of mobile usage and connectivity far beyond anything Apple has promised for the iPhone. As someone who's developed on a product that used Windows Mobile (and still owns a few units...) I can't help but laugh at this. Windows Mobile is anything BUT easy to use. "Pushing the envelope of mobile usage and connectivity", yes, perhaps the envelope of poor design and badly implemented functionality...
I'd like Logitech if it wasn't for all the shit that they include with their drivers. A keyboard driver to enable some of their multimedia keys runs at 20+ MB because for some stupid reason they decide that I'd like to install Musicmatch Jukebox, and it doesn't even ask during the installation. At least this was the case with models we had at my previous workplace about 2 years ago, I hope they've cleaned up that act a little because otherwise I like their products.
I don't know which world you live in but here real companies have ongoing costs ("being drained of money indefinitely") all the time. It's just part of the cost of doing business. Think about maintenance contracts for hardware, offsite backups, yearly software licenses. The company I work at already has their groupware and email administered by a third party as we're small (around 35 people) and have no dedicated IT staff, but by outsourcing these services we don't really need them.
Yep. I live in Japan right now, and these parking garages are everywhere. I pass about 3 on the walk to work each day, and I don't even live in a major metropolitan area.
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As a student in computer engineering, I suggest you switch schools. An idea is mostly worthless if you cannot communicate it. When you go in to industry and have to write a report or proposal to higher ups, it's not going to look good for you if its written in the language of a high school student. You can pretty much forget about moving past the level of code monkey if you're not able to communicate with your peers.
I've never been late for work because of that. My alarm clocks have a battery backup, or I just use the alarm on my cell phone.
Furthermore, in Japan, carriers typically have common power connectors for their phones, even if the phone itself is from a different maker.
I certainly hope so. I've been using random access voicemail here in Japan for the past year and it rocks. I dread my return back to Canada and the stone age of cellular...
At my university, the papers weren't submitted to Turnitin.com by the instructor, students had to upload them themselves. I guess that's one way of avoiding this particular issue.
You just did a great job of describing exactly why Microsoft would never support Mono...
I'm curious. What's the purpose of the cache if the implementation with the cache is so much slower than without?
Only server users? I don't think so... anyone frequently doing file operations during their regular usage will be affected. That includes anyone from people processing documents, programming, working with graphics, photos, multimedia, etc. Maybe if you're just browsing the web or playing games it won't be a big deal, but anyone doing real actual work on their computer will be taking a hit.
I was a little confused the first time I encountered a text-input box on the music side, since no alphanumeric keys and no software keyboard appeared. But the device is smart enough to recognize the need to use the phone side, and I noticed that "Flip" had appeared on screen as a soft-key option.
When I used it and began entering text from the phone keypad (T9 text input mode is a welcome option here), "Save/Flip" also appeared as a soft-key option to return me seamlessly to the multimedia side. Ok, is it just me, or does that sound like it would get incredibly annoying to use? Why even allow text-input boxes on the music side if it requires flipping the phone over to the other side to input text? This device sounds like an absolutely confusing usability nightmare. No thanks... next please.
Metal music often uses similar scales (harmonic minor is very popular..) as much of what most people think of as "classical music". Many of the movements and progressions are also very similar.
Some don't even try to hide it, for example "Classical Metal" like some of the works of Yngwie Malmsteen...
Of course you could, for example, not visit it any more. Block it out in your hosts file, or whatever. There's lots of sites on the net, most of them suck, just don't go there.
Hari Seldon, is that you?
Typing in the program and worrying about syntax and language details is probably the easiest part of programming. Developing a good design and actually engineering an application is the hard part. If you can do that, you can surely program it in to a computer.
Alternatively in a world with no remote control system: Say the terrorists take over a plane. They leave the pilots alive. The terrorists say "Pilots, take us to *insert Middle Eastern or African country here* or we start killing hostages every 10 minutes until you turn to heading 180 or what have you.."
Hmm...
The 1960's called, they want their computing paradigms back. Future of software? More like the past, we're coming full circle...
Exactly. Canon has been using MEMS based sensors in their image stabilized lenses since the mid 1990s. The technology is nothing new. In fact, one of the professors from my university created the first MEMS accelerometer without moving parts in the late 1990s and commercialized it in 2001: http://www.memsic.com/memsic/news/press_release.as p?itemid=5
In the case of Canon and Nikon, their IS (Image Stabilizer) and VR (Vibration Reduction) lens, draw power from the main camera body through electrical contacts in the lens mount. I don't shoot Nikon, but at least with Canon you can still get hundreds of shots off one charge when using an IS lens.
I don't know the fine details of this technology, but doesn't its quantum nature also make it highly susceptible to denial of service by a man in the middle attack? All they would have to do is intercept part of the key exchange and keep the parties from every successfully exchanging keys without even having to take down the whole link. Maybe not as bad as being able to intercept the transmission but a potential problem I think...
Oh, and Windows Mobile has been around for quite a while now, and with 6.0 pushes the envelope of mobile usage and connectivity far beyond anything Apple has promised for the iPhone. As someone who's developed on a product that used Windows Mobile (and still owns a few units...) I can't help but laugh at this. Windows Mobile is anything BUT easy to use. "Pushing the envelope of mobile usage and connectivity", yes, perhaps the envelope of poor design and badly implemented functionality...
Damn, mis-moderated. Posting here to undo my moderation.
... has Netcraft confi.... aw, forget it.
I'd like Logitech if it wasn't for all the shit that they include with their drivers. A keyboard driver to enable some of their multimedia keys runs at 20+ MB because for some stupid reason they decide that I'd like to install Musicmatch Jukebox, and it doesn't even ask during the installation. At least this was the case with models we had at my previous workplace about 2 years ago, I hope they've cleaned up that act a little because otherwise I like their products.
I don't know which world you live in but here real companies have ongoing costs ("being drained of money indefinitely") all the time. It's just part of the cost of doing business. Think about maintenance contracts for hardware, offsite backups, yearly software licenses. The company I work at already has their groupware and email administered by a third party as we're small (around 35 people) and have no dedicated IT staff, but by outsourcing these services we don't really need them.
Yep. I live in Japan right now, and these parking garages are everywhere. I pass about 3 on the walk to work each day, and I don't even live in a major metropolitan area.