And in all these years, they just never noticed the name is now Microsoft? Give me a fucking break. It's on purpose.
It's the same as those who use Ipad instead of iPad. For all the pedantic grammar and spelling nazi's on Slashdot, I've never understood why this kind of thing is accepted, and indeed, encouraged.
I'm sorry, why do you write it "MicroSoft"? Their company name isclearly "Microsoft". Is it your like subtle way to say you hate them, like people who write M$ or Micro$oft?
It seems childish and naive, especially since I'm pretty sure you know better.
You are right, mostly. Canada actually has "insurance" as well, it's just that the health insurance is done provincially. For example, here is OHIP, which anyone who lives in Ontario will tell you, is our Ontario Health Insurance Plan: OHIP. And, I do pay for this every month as well, but it's indirect. It's through my income tax fees, which is much higher than in the US, and through our 13% HST tax.
Our gov't health insurance also doesn't cover everything. For example optometrist visits and dental is not covered, nor are drugs. Typically these are augmented by company insurance plans. But you are right in that all required surgery/doctor appts/tests (i.e. non-elective), are covered, and there's no deductible. I wish ACA had of gone all the way, for the sake of the US citizens.
Isn't that how a free market works? Groups of people get paid what the entities want to pay, and if they don't like it, they work elsewhere forcing wages to rise, or they just do it anyways and potentially form a union.
If it's so much better to work as a grocery clerk financially, and that's what your measure of 'success' is, then do that. Nobody is entitled to any salary, nor is anyone forced into any career. In fact, if workers for these jobs were more rare, you can bet salary would go up.
I find the "OMGZ i have to get health insurance this is slavery!!!11!!" posts to be insane.
Canada's health care isn't perfect, but I have never had to pay a dime for going to the doctor, hospital, or any operation (and I've had a few). I've never even thought about it. When I was kid, I just always assumed doctor's were free. In addition, I make "normal" (slightly above the national average) money, and I can afford a reasonable house, a normal car, etc. without more debt than just a mortgage. I am not a slave, my quality of life is high, and I have no complaints.
So, what's the problem here? Why is there such an irrational fear to a health system that is obviously working in many other countries? Health care shouldn't be something you worry about because you can't afford it. That's a totally asinine approach to me.
It would seem, the mAH doesn't seem to matter: KitKat (and presumably, with ART as well, as people have reported, but not the example I'm about to cite) have improved battery performance immensely. Here is one example of many.
Personally, I am getting 4 hours screen-on with 16 hours standby, and still have 15% battery left, using Dalvik, Google now (all options on), WiFi+LTE (but GPS and bluetooth off), which is more than acceptable IMO and great.
So maybe, much like the CPU MHz, we should stop concentrating on the numbers so much, and instead concentrate on the actual results.
While I agree with liberty first and foremost, transfats are an artificial creation used to save money regardless of health risks. No consumer, if properly educated, would ever choose to eat transfats because they "taste better", or something like this. They don't. There's no advantage, to the consumer to eat them.
So, attempting to bring in liberty to this argument I think is an overreaction, which is why I didn't really want to relate smoking to it (as smoking does "have" a reason why people do it: they enjoy it), and it also isn't in a lot of foods as a "hidden" ingredient that is simply there to replace something else that is not dangerous in order to save the manufacturer money.
That's not the point of removing trans fats. Rather (from the wikipedia article) "In humans, consumption of trans fats increases the risk of coronary heart disease[2][3] by raising levels of the protein LDL (so-called "bad cholesterol") and lowering levels of the protein HDL ("good cholesterol")."
Should we not ban something that is directly linked to an increased risk in heart disease? I suppose smoking is also directly linked, but not banned, so I leave that debate up to everyone who isn't me.
Agreed 100%. This article is blaming Google for admins who had bad site design. Doing a GET should not have done this; it's their fault for embedding bad links in their HTML that is exposed to a crawler.
I honestly I think this, like the Samsung Round, is a "shot in the market" to see what people want. Basically Korean makers now have flexible screens, but can't (yet) make fully flexible phones, so they're just sort of coming up with random phones to see where the interest lies.
It's basically early alpha editions of what will eventually be fully flexible phones. That's my take, anyways, from visiting Korea and seeing this stuff.
The summary is slightly miss-leading. There isn't 1 standard for ActiveX control, every single goddamn site uses their one ActiveX or Java applet, and you have to install it. I have never seen a more backwards methodology than what Korea has for online purchasing.
The strange thing is, if you use a phone, things are much simpler (generally there is an app). In addition, because of Naver's dominance in the country, almost all sites are integrated with it, and at least offer ways of finding information through it (but not purchasing).
I don't know what you are talking about, EF does support.Single() just as any other LINQ method works on an IEnumerable (here's a question about it). If it was throwing an exception, it's because you had more than 1 item meeting the criteria, and you don't know what you're doing. Try.FirstOrDefault(), which will not throw an exception.
As for why there is no Tree class in.NET, you can refer to this question, where the answer is enumerated for you. Having worked with.NET since 2003 when it came out, and in the interim having to work with Java, Obj-C, and other platforms,.NET is without question the most "well done." Typically if you're having problems like you cited above, it's due to a lack of understanding on your part.
Well, you're not incorrect technically, but haven't you wondered why everyone is so afraid of buying them?
Blackberry's assets are far beyond their current $4.5 billion market cap, so technically if you sold all their pieces you'd get more than what you'd pay in stock for the company.
The reason nobody is buying them is because they are losing $1 billion per quarter, and it would cost almost $2 billion to shutdown the hardware manufacturing unit. So let's say you pay $5 billion for the company, and you sell off all the assets (but you'll be at least another 2 quarters in by then), so now you've got another 2 quarters of $1 bln losses, and you've gotta shut down the manufacturing unit, and find buyers for the rest (assuming you want to sell). The deal isn't looking so great now, and it's got a lot of overhead (the Canadian gov't who is protecting them rather fiercely).
I can't really agree. I've developed for BBOS pre 10, and it was a *nightmare*. BBOS10 is a bit better, but it's not great. While nothing really compares to VS and.NET (IMO), Eclipse isn't that bad to do Android development, and I had no issues with the SDK or API. The tablet emulator, however, is so slow on Windows that it's impossible to use.
As for the UI, I actually think Google has done a really nice job (now, in JB) on it. They enforce a lot of standards, and in general it looks "better" (YMMV) than iOS7. The biggest thing though is customization. I can customize my font, wallpaper, launcher, icons (and I have done all of those) to make it look good.
As an owner of a Q10 (though I use my S3 almost always), I agree. The phone is great. I just dislike the OS (compared to Android), and I hate that there's no apps (yes I'm sideloading, but I don't consider those "apps").
As the author of the post, I can't predict what everyone will need (as someone mentioned below). If you want specifics, I need the timeplay app (Canada cineplex), and there is no.bar file for sideloading (and I'm too lazy to re-build it myself). In addition, I need Kakaotalk to talk to some Korean friends. And while the latest version (4.0.1) seems to sort of work sideloaded, there are a *lot* of disadvantages to sideloading. Here they are:
- You have to know how to sideload. As a developer, it's "easy" for me, but it's not as easy as just going to an app store.. it involves enabling development mode, hooking the device up to the computer, finding a.bar file (or compiling one using the Android SDK), and then moving it over.
- No Android EMU app can run in the background like other BB apps can. So, if you close it, it's gone, and can't notify you.
- Many Android apps have exceptions when run on the EMU. Try Kakaotalk 3.8.3 (the one on bb10bars). Or the youtube bar.
- Often when the Android apps do work, there is touch screen or other small annoying problems.
Do I really need to go on? It's pathetic to expect "regular" users to put up with all that shit just to get access to a "normal" appstore, because no matter what you say (i.e. "well the BB appstore has everything *i* need"), it's seriously lacking apps.
I'm sorry, but the 5C is $99 on contract, which is similar to many Android phones that are better. In addition, the off-contract price is $599 (CAD) for 5C 16GB... how is that a "cheap" phone? The nexus is, what, $350? Give me a break.
All the comments on that book about "3 felonies a day" say:
...
This is the first sentence of the book description. It's the most exciting concept in the book. I wanted to know what felonies "I" was committing. However, I am not out in the woods gathering shell casings from federal land, politicking my way through life, doctoring or practicing law. Where is the chapter on the common man?...
You can find more there, but in essence, there is no mention of what 3 felonies the "common man" is doing per day. Is there any? Is this not FUD?
Don't get me wrong, I think everyone should have privacy, and we do have "stuff" to hide, but I also believe in the truth, and it would seem you, and that book, are spreading FUD.
"[muzzle velocity is] over 9000 feet per second" - this is from the uploader of the video. How exactly is that less than a.22? The issue with the weapon shown right now is the rounds used (inefficient).
I could buy a car for $5k to get me to/from work, or a car for $100k to also get me to/from work.
Assuming both are reliable, what's the difference other than class/comfort/social statement/etc.? So, yes, if you want to compare "a car" vs. "public transit" vs. "no way at all to get around", it is an "investment", but I think it's pretty obvious that what I was referring to was buying a high end car when you only need to get from a-to-b and a cheaper car would do.
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And in all these years, they just never noticed the name is now Microsoft? Give me a fucking break. It's on purpose.
It's the same as those who use Ipad instead of iPad. For all the pedantic grammar and spelling nazi's on Slashdot, I've never understood why this kind of thing is accepted, and indeed, encouraged.
I'm sorry, why do you write it "MicroSoft"? Their company name is clearly "Microsoft". Is it your like subtle way to say you hate them, like people who write M$ or Micro$oft?
It seems childish and naive, especially since I'm pretty sure you know better.
You are right, mostly. Canada actually has "insurance" as well, it's just that the health insurance is done provincially. For example, here is OHIP, which anyone who lives in Ontario will tell you, is our Ontario Health Insurance Plan: OHIP. And, I do pay for this every month as well, but it's indirect. It's through my income tax fees, which is much higher than in the US, and through our 13% HST tax.
Our gov't health insurance also doesn't cover everything. For example optometrist visits and dental is not covered, nor are drugs. Typically these are augmented by company insurance plans. But you are right in that all required surgery/doctor appts/tests (i.e. non-elective), are covered, and there's no deductible. I wish ACA had of gone all the way, for the sake of the US citizens.
Isn't that how a free market works? Groups of people get paid what the entities want to pay, and if they don't like it, they work elsewhere forcing wages to rise, or they just do it anyways and potentially form a union.
If it's so much better to work as a grocery clerk financially, and that's what your measure of 'success' is, then do that. Nobody is entitled to any salary, nor is anyone forced into any career. In fact, if workers for these jobs were more rare, you can bet salary would go up.
I find the "OMGZ i have to get health insurance this is slavery!!!11!!" posts to be insane.
Canada's health care isn't perfect, but I have never had to pay a dime for going to the doctor, hospital, or any operation (and I've had a few). I've never even thought about it. When I was kid, I just always assumed doctor's were free. In addition, I make "normal" (slightly above the national average) money, and I can afford a reasonable house, a normal car, etc. without more debt than just a mortgage. I am not a slave, my quality of life is high, and I have no complaints.
So, what's the problem here? Why is there such an irrational fear to a health system that is obviously working in many other countries? Health care shouldn't be something you worry about because you can't afford it. That's a totally asinine approach to me.
We're almost there. Awesome.
It would seem, the mAH doesn't seem to matter: KitKat (and presumably, with ART as well, as people have reported, but not the example I'm about to cite) have improved battery performance immensely. Here is one example of many.
Personally, I am getting 4 hours screen-on with 16 hours standby, and still have 15% battery left, using Dalvik, Google now (all options on), WiFi+LTE (but GPS and bluetooth off), which is more than acceptable IMO and great.
So maybe, much like the CPU MHz, we should stop concentrating on the numbers so much, and instead concentrate on the actual results.
While I agree with liberty first and foremost, transfats are an artificial creation used to save money regardless of health risks. No consumer, if properly educated, would ever choose to eat transfats because they "taste better", or something like this. They don't. There's no advantage, to the consumer to eat them.
So, attempting to bring in liberty to this argument I think is an overreaction, which is why I didn't really want to relate smoking to it (as smoking does "have" a reason why people do it: they enjoy it), and it also isn't in a lot of foods as a "hidden" ingredient that is simply there to replace something else that is not dangerous in order to save the manufacturer money.
That's not the point of removing trans fats. Rather (from the wikipedia article) "In humans, consumption of trans fats increases the risk of coronary heart disease[2][3] by raising levels of the protein LDL (so-called "bad cholesterol") and lowering levels of the protein HDL ("good cholesterol")."
Should we not ban something that is directly linked to an increased risk in heart disease? I suppose smoking is also directly linked, but not banned, so I leave that debate up to everyone who isn't me.
Agreed 100%. This article is blaming Google for admins who had bad site design. Doing a GET should not have done this; it's their fault for embedding bad links in their HTML that is exposed to a crawler.
I honestly I think this, like the Samsung Round, is a "shot in the market" to see what people want. Basically Korean makers now have flexible screens, but can't (yet) make fully flexible phones, so they're just sort of coming up with random phones to see where the interest lies.
It's basically early alpha editions of what will eventually be fully flexible phones. That's my take, anyways, from visiting Korea and seeing this stuff.
The summary is slightly miss-leading. There isn't 1 standard for ActiveX control, every single goddamn site uses their one ActiveX or Java applet, and you have to install it. I have never seen a more backwards methodology than what Korea has for online purchasing.
The strange thing is, if you use a phone, things are much simpler (generally there is an app). In addition, because of Naver's dominance in the country, almost all sites are integrated with it, and at least offer ways of finding information through it (but not purchasing).
I don't know what you are talking about, EF does support .Single() just as any other LINQ method works on an IEnumerable (here's a question about it). If it was throwing an exception, it's because you had more than 1 item meeting the criteria, and you don't know what you're doing. Try .FirstOrDefault(), which will not throw an exception.
As for why there is no Tree class in .NET, you can refer to this question, where the answer is enumerated for you. Having worked with .NET since 2003 when it came out, and in the interim having to work with Java, Obj-C, and other platforms, .NET is without question the most "well done." Typically if you're having problems like you cited above, it's due to a lack of understanding on your part.
But make sure you send them an e-mail as per the summary. I doubt they read the comments.
Well, you're not incorrect technically, but haven't you wondered why everyone is so afraid of buying them?
Blackberry's assets are far beyond their current $4.5 billion market cap, so technically if you sold all their pieces you'd get more than what you'd pay in stock for the company.
The reason nobody is buying them is because they are losing $1 billion per quarter, and it would cost almost $2 billion to shutdown the hardware manufacturing unit. So let's say you pay $5 billion for the company, and you sell off all the assets (but you'll be at least another 2 quarters in by then), so now you've got another 2 quarters of $1 bln losses, and you've gotta shut down the manufacturing unit, and find buyers for the rest (assuming you want to sell). The deal isn't looking so great now, and it's got a lot of overhead (the Canadian gov't who is protecting them rather fiercely).
I can't really agree. I've developed for BBOS pre 10, and it was a *nightmare*. BBOS10 is a bit better, but it's not great. While nothing really compares to VS and .NET (IMO), Eclipse isn't that bad to do Android development, and I had no issues with the SDK or API. The tablet emulator, however, is so slow on Windows that it's impossible to use.
As for the UI, I actually think Google has done a really nice job (now, in JB) on it. They enforce a lot of standards, and in general it looks "better" (YMMV) than iOS7. The biggest thing though is customization. I can customize my font, wallpaper, launcher, icons (and I have done all of those) to make it look good.
As an owner of a Q10 (though I use my S3 almost always), I agree. The phone is great. I just dislike the OS (compared to Android), and I hate that there's no apps (yes I'm sideloading, but I don't consider those "apps").
I like this post. I don't usually ever compliment posts, but you made an interesting story to prove the hypothetical math, and I enjoyed reading it.
As the author of the post, I can't predict what everyone will need (as someone mentioned below). If you want specifics, I need the timeplay app (Canada cineplex), and there is no .bar file for sideloading (and I'm too lazy to re-build it myself). In addition, I need Kakaotalk to talk to some Korean friends. And while the latest version (4.0.1) seems to sort of work sideloaded, there are a *lot* of disadvantages to sideloading. Here they are:
Do I really need to go on? It's pathetic to expect "regular" users to put up with all that shit just to get access to a "normal" appstore, because no matter what you say (i.e. "well the BB appstore has everything *i* need"), it's seriously lacking apps.
I'm sorry, but the 5C is $99 on contract, which is similar to many Android phones that are better. In addition, the off-contract price is $599 (CAD) for 5C 16GB... how is that a "cheap" phone? The nexus is, what, $350? Give me a break.
I doubt it, because thankfully I don't live in the USA :)
All the comments on that book about "3 felonies a day" say:
You can find more there, but in essence, there is no mention of what 3 felonies the "common man" is doing per day. Is there any? Is this not FUD?
Don't get me wrong, I think everyone should have privacy, and we do have "stuff" to hide, but I also believe in the truth, and it would seem you, and that book, are spreading FUD.
Right from the youtube comments (from poster):
"[muzzle velocity is] over 9000 feet per second" - this is from the uploader of the video. How exactly is that less than a .22? The issue with the weapon shown right now is the rounds used (inefficient).
2013 Corolla comes with 5-speed manual option, at base.
I could buy a car for $5k to get me to/from work, or a car for $100k to also get me to/from work.
Assuming both are reliable, what's the difference other than class/comfort/social statement/etc.? So, yes, if you want to compare "a car" vs. "public transit" vs. "no way at all to get around", it is an "investment", but I think it's pretty obvious that what I was referring to was buying a high end car when you only need to get from a-to-b and a cheaper car would do.