No matter how good the antenna on a geostationary satellite, you can't make light go faster. There will always be an annoying delay when using GEO sats.
Yes, but there is certainly some ideological differences between those who rigorously demand evidence and insist on controlling for cognitive bias, and those who are more prone to accept things on intuition and hearsay.
why shouldn't Wal-Mart be allowed to choose which customers it sells to on any grounds whatsoever?
Because we live in a society with rules. Although it's very indirect, ultimately those rules are chosen by the people (all the way back to the people that chose to ratify the Constitution). And those people don't want Wal-Mart to be allowed to do that.
I think you missed his point. Apple isn't under any obligation to help you to use their product outside of their intended use for it, but Europe isn't under any obligation to let Apple sell iPhones in Europe. If you don't want to go by Europe's rules, you can do business in another continent. Works both ways.
There are many users who view Javascript as inherently evil and think the Web would be better off without it.
How many, really? Are these the same users who think the web would be better off without any advertising? Just a guess, but those users probably don't weigh heavily in google's priorities.
Its *my* PC and should only be running open source code which many eyes have looked at (not true for a majority of Javascript loose in the wild).
If you apply that to sandboxed, interpreted languages....you might as well also apply it to html. Html, while not really a programming langage per se, does instruct your computer what to do. If the browser has a bug, malicious html can cause harm to your computer or compromise your privacy. What it the difference?
Unless Lua runs in all popular web browsers as a replacement for Javascript, using it as for the Android SDL would defeat much of the purpose of what I suggested.
Well aware of phonegap. It works by doing everything in WebViews, which makes it slow, clunky, and unable to do a lot of things that you can do in native views. For what it's worth, I do a lot of work on WebViews with javascript in Android apps (without phonegap), but it is a hacky solution at best.
Since Android already has Google's JS engine (in the browser), why not make it so you can write native apps in it? As in, ones that can access everything you can access from java. It might be slightly slower, but I doubt by much....especially since most of the intensive stuff (say, animations) can be done by OS. I work with both languages on the platform, and having to use java is just painful for the stuff that is so easy in javascript. Javascript may not be a perfect language, but its got so many advantages over java in a mobile device. Also the relationship of Java to XML/view layout on Android is so close to the relationship of Javascript to HTML/DOM in browsers.
The other obvious benefit would be that with Chrome OS and Android being effectively competitors, this would help tie the two together....easier to write apps for both if they use the same language. (and then there's that Oracle thing)
Why is it silly to fear the former? Fear of death is of course deep in us for obvious Darwinian reasons....there is no real "rationality" behind wanting to continue living except that natural selection put it at the very center of our motivational system. And there was no reason for evolution to make us *only* fear early death.....the important thing was that we do everything in our power to avoid death. -- no good reason to have it be selective between early or late death.
When a web developer speaks in terms of which browsers they do and don't support that is a direct indication that they don't understand even the most basic and fundamental concepts of website design.
Well, with the exception of IE6. I wouldn't fault a site for not caring anymore if their site looks crappy on IE6.
when you browse with Javascript enabled -- you are allowing websites to run essentially arbitrary code on your computer.
Wow, really? That's pretty scary. I guess no one has ever thought about the implications of that, or considered putting it in a sandbox so it can't do anything it wants to your computer. I think a strongly worded letter to the browser makers is in order!
Luckily, supreme court justices, who have read the constitution carefully, don't agree with your assessment.
Regardless you lose all credibility when you say evolution is a religion. Nothing in science is "proven", of course. Are you suggesting that "being convinced based upon the evidence" makes something a religion? I believe a mouse was in my kitchen because I saw what appeared to be poop on the counter. Is my belief a religion?
I like autocomplete, it saves me typing a lot of the time and I'd miss it if it were gone. Then again, if a few words are missing, it's not worth getting worked up over.
As much as I wince at some of the worst scenes throughout the prequels, it always saddens me to see people slam on Lucas so much. Kirschner did a fine job directing ESB, but come on....Lucas is the visionary behind the whole thing and deserves a lot of credit for the amazingly rich world he built.
Well if you are a big enough nation, you can choose to make laws that provide economic disincentives to "dirty" ships, you don't have to stop them altogether. You can grandfather in existing ships if you want. If you are a smaller nation, you can join treaties with other nations, so you share the burden and the benefits.
We aren't totally helpless to do something about these sorts of things.
Maybe they're going to focus on local apps written in html+css+js?
Problem is, they can't do that for iPhone, but they certainly could for Android.
I suppose they could do it for mobile web apps and work out a way of blocking access to people who haven't paid, like you seem to suggest. I'm sure people would be annoyed by that though (even though there's no reason it's really any worse that just selling the app itunes-style)
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If your teaching style is to frustrate your students, rather than get them doing something fun and satisfying as quickly as possible.
You have to wonder though, did they think about this before they decided to move to antarctica?
No matter how good the antenna on a geostationary satellite, you can't make light go faster. There will always be an annoying delay when using GEO sats.
It may be 360 degree, but not 3d. It doesn't process depth any more than a traditional 2d camera, it just takes a wider angle of view.
Yes, but there is certainly some ideological differences between those who rigorously demand evidence and insist on controlling for cognitive bias, and those who are more prone to accept things on intuition and hearsay.
Because we live in a society with rules. Although it's very indirect, ultimately those rules are chosen by the people (all the way back to the people that chose to ratify the Constitution). And those people don't want Wal-Mart to be allowed to do that.
I think you missed his point. Apple isn't under any obligation to help you to use their product outside of their intended use for it, but Europe isn't under any obligation to let Apple sell iPhones in Europe. If you don't want to go by Europe's rules, you can do business in another continent. Works both ways.
How many, really? Are these the same users who think the web would be better off without any advertising? Just a guess, but those users probably don't weigh heavily in google's priorities.
If you apply that to sandboxed, interpreted languages....you might as well also apply it to html. Html, while not really a programming langage per se, does instruct your computer what to do. If the browser has a bug, malicious html can cause harm to your computer or compromise your privacy. What it the difference?
Unless Lua runs in all popular web browsers as a replacement for Javascript, using it as for the Android SDL would defeat much of the purpose of what I suggested.
Well aware of phonegap. It works by doing everything in WebViews, which makes it slow, clunky, and unable to do a lot of things that you can do in native views. For what it's worth, I do a lot of work on WebViews with javascript in Android apps (without phonegap), but it is a hacky solution at best.
Since Android already has Google's JS engine (in the browser), why not make it so you can write native apps in it? As in, ones that can access everything you can access from java. It might be slightly slower, but I doubt by much....especially since most of the intensive stuff (say, animations) can be done by OS. I work with both languages on the platform, and having to use java is just painful for the stuff that is so easy in javascript. Javascript may not be a perfect language, but its got so many advantages over java in a mobile device. Also the relationship of Java to XML/view layout on Android is so close to the relationship of Javascript to HTML/DOM in browsers.
The other obvious benefit would be that with Chrome OS and Android being effectively competitors, this would help tie the two together....easier to write apps for both if they use the same language. (and then there's that Oracle thing)
There can be any number of users, but they all have to be looking at the same part of the internet.
Why is it silly to fear the former? Fear of death is of course deep in us for obvious Darwinian reasons....there is no real "rationality" behind wanting to continue living except that natural selection put it at the very center of our motivational system. And there was no reason for evolution to make us *only* fear early death.....the important thing was that we do everything in our power to avoid death. -- no good reason to have it be selective between early or late death.
Well, with the exception of IE6. I wouldn't fault a site for not caring anymore if their site looks crappy on IE6.
Wow, really? That's pretty scary. I guess no one has ever thought about the implications of that, or considered putting it in a sandbox so it can't do anything it wants to your computer. I think a strongly worded letter to the browser makers is in order!
Luckily, supreme court justices, who have read the constitution carefully, don't agree with your assessment.
Regardless you lose all credibility when you say evolution is a religion. Nothing in science is "proven", of course. Are you suggesting that "being convinced based upon the evidence" makes something a religion? I believe a mouse was in my kitchen because I saw what appeared to be poop on the counter. Is my belief a religion?
I like autocomplete, it saves me typing a lot of the time and I'd miss it if it were gone. Then again, if a few words are missing, it's not worth getting worked up over.
Good luck with that boycott. (BTW, does altavista even have auto-complete?)
We've already seen it, over and over again.
Oh I'm sorry, you are talking about reality, not science fiction...? Yeah. 50 years. Sure. And you forgot using people as batteries.
As much as I wince at some of the worst scenes throughout the prequels, it always saddens me to see people slam on Lucas so much. Kirschner did a fine job directing ESB, but come on....Lucas is the visionary behind the whole thing and deserves a lot of credit for the amazingly rich world he built.
And probably over those thousands of years, the number of pound / miles shipped equalled about one weeks worth of shipping in the modern world.
Well if you are a big enough nation, you can choose to make laws that provide economic disincentives to "dirty" ships, you don't have to stop them altogether. You can grandfather in existing ships if you want. If you are a smaller nation, you can join treaties with other nations, so you share the burden and the benefits.
We aren't totally helpless to do something about these sorts of things.
What I meant was they can't sell (non-jailbreak) iPhone apps in a non-Apple store.
Is this restricted to mozilla users? I assume you can access it with mobile safari and mobile chrome (or whatever you call the android browser)
Problem is, they can't do that for iPhone, but they certainly could for Android.
I suppose they could do it for mobile web apps and work out a way of blocking access to people who haven't paid, like you seem to suggest. I'm sure people would be annoyed by that though (even though there's no reason it's really any worse that just selling the app itunes-style)