I wroked in a place with about 5,000 lines of PL-SQL. That was a nightmare.
OTOH, Oracle need not fear people using pirate copies: there are so many bugs that without being signed up for an expensive support program, your system will never fly.
I cant get a job because I have got experience. That makes me over qualified. What they really want is people who will work for nothing, regardless of whether they can actually do the job - it is called "equal oportunities". (The ultimate problem is the HR department.)
Since 90% of the Android apps are worthless, this set an expectation among users that apps were not worth paying for.
Personally, after over 4 years of installing free apps, I have paid for several, because the free version worked properly, and i wanted an upgrade, or donated cos I wanted the developer to keep supporting his nice app.
There is no way I would buy an Android app I could not test first ever again. If i test it, and it does not work (anything with WinPhone in it) I still won't buy it!
If you are a consumer and you have a 4 year old version of Android on your phone, you will not exactly be shocked that it wont run apps that need a new phone. If you cared, you would upgrade. People with 2.1 are not going to buy your app.
Fragmentation would be if people were launching products with wildly different versions of the OS: eg with HTC or Samsung's own APIs. Yes they do have manuf specific APIs. just dont use them and you will be fine. The generic APIs will be there and work.
Can you get Cyanogenmod for your iPhone? I thought not.
Have you seen Cobol? It takes several hundred lines to write a "Hello World" program. 7 million lines of Cobol can probably be replaced by 70 lines of Perl (at the expense of any possibility of anyone ever reading it).
This is the equivalent of tranlating the COMMENTS and hosting them separately from the actual code, IANAL but if I were Swidish, I would be pissed. As it is, I only watch Nigerian moves, so I dont care.
Anyone who deserves a geek card could make a punched tape reader in half a day with one hand tied behind is hback, and probably read it by running his fingers over it witha few days practice. However, a few megabytes takes quite a lot of space. 10 chars per inch, tape is 1 inch wide and 1/100 inch thick. You do the math (I am too busy drinking whiskey)
How is that going to help? It is not a legit UK plate - automatic arrest after you pass the nearest APNR camera (allegedly 50 metres, but might be more if you live in a rural area).
All plates have either
two letters, two digits, three letters
or
one letter, one to three digits, three letters.
or (if more that about 40 years old)
three letters, one to three digits, one letter
or, if dating from before 1960,
three letters, and one to three digits.
if the vehicle dates from before 1939, there may be even fewer characters, but there were never very many cars before 1940, and very few of them still work .
Well the UK is not a US State. Here the plate follows the vehicle, and all vehicles must have a place if they are in a public place. Yes, the police can and do track your every move, and the data IS archived for ever. I understand that there is no one with sufficent authority to request deletion of the data.
However, the system is gloriously incompetent. I once bought a car with a plate that had been cloned. The cloner had run over some children in the entrance to a school and been arrested, and this fact was recorded on the DVLA database. However, several local authorities in the area where the cloner operated continued to hound us for various motoring offences committed by the cloner before we bought the (innocent) car. Only when we managed to get one of the officers prosecuting the cloner to call the local authorities did the harassment cease.
They routinely collect the data "to go after terrorists" but use it haphazardly on innocent people, and it costs money and time (their time and money is your time and money) to perform this stupidity.
what value would there be in the government sharing my travel data with Visa/Mastercard?
What makes you think that the commerical entities ask first? Most government databases appear to leak like sieves. In all probability. the data is freely available on servers in Afganistan/NIgeria/Russia for anyone who wants it.
What is at stake here is the definition of "works". Canonical shipped Unity - which gave users the impression that their definition of "works" does not include "able to carry out the user's most basic tasks", or "shipped with a viable way to avoid the use of an untested and serverely restricted UI".
In short, given their track record. "works" is unlikely to be the average user's experience of Mir.
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Before you believe this post, you might want to do your own research (not rely on mine;-)
Lots of us DID move when pg was nowhere near as good as it is. I don't know of anyone who regretted never having to call Oracle support again.
In soviet xxx, Oracle forks you!
So that is where the sex-bots are kept. I have always wanted to know.
OTOH, Oracle need not fear people using pirate copies: there are so many bugs that without being signed up for an expensive support program, your system will never fly.
I cant get a job because I have got experience. That makes me over qualified. What they really want is people who will work for nothing, regardless of whether they can actually do the job - it is called "equal oportunities". (The ultimate problem is the HR department.)
Marx's economics is just plain stupid. In particular, you don't need to own something to control it. (It is possible to drive a rented or stolen car.)
Personally, after over 4 years of installing free apps, I have paid for several, because the free version worked properly, and i wanted an upgrade, or donated cos I wanted the developer to keep supporting his nice app.
There is no way I would buy an Android app I could not test first ever again. If i test it, and it does not work (anything with WinPhone in it) I still won't buy it!
Fragmentation would be if people were launching products with wildly different versions of the OS: eg with HTC or Samsung's own APIs. Yes they do have manuf specific APIs. just dont use them and you will be fine. The generic APIs will be there and work.
Can you get Cyanogenmod for your iPhone? I thought not.
Have you seen Cobol? It takes several hundred lines to write a "Hello World" program. 7 million lines of Cobol can probably be replaced by 70 lines of Perl (at the expense of any possibility of anyone ever reading it).
This is the equivalent of tranlating the COMMENTS and hosting them separately from the actual code, IANAL but if I were Swidish, I would be pissed. As it is, I only watch Nigerian moves, so I dont care.
The software you are loking for is called FVWM95.
BS has more than one meaning.
I currently prefer mine to be made of steel in a giant forge. (Same goes for diesel tractor cylinder blocks).
Anyone who deserves a geek card could make a punched tape reader in half a day with one hand tied behind is hback, and probably read it by running his fingers over it witha few days practice. However, a few megabytes takes quite a lot of space. 10 chars per inch, tape is 1 inch wide and 1/100 inch thick. You do the math (I am too busy drinking whiskey)
If you want long life: 8-hole paper tape is good. It is humean readable (with a struggle), but the data density is crap.
My key is a cat photo, you insensitive clod!
You failed to mention "Sold your soul, and that of your firstborn, even up to the seventh generation" This is MS we are talking about.
As a matter of interest, was this Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, or present day America?
I use "dailyroads" its an Android app, and definitely works on HTC and Samsung, even in Russia. (No APNR feature yet).
That is not done by APNR cameras. The public CCTV cameras with face recognition are there do that (we are talking about the UK here).
All plates have either
two letters, two digits, three letters
or
one letter, one to three digits, three letters.
or (if more that about 40 years old)
three letters, one to three digits, one letter
or, if dating from before 1960,
three letters, and one to three digits.
if the vehicle dates from before 1939, there may be even fewer characters, but there were never very many cars before 1940, and very few of them still work .
However, the system is gloriously incompetent. I once bought a car with a plate that had been cloned. The cloner had run over some children in the entrance to a school and been arrested, and this fact was recorded on the DVLA database. However, several local authorities in the area where the cloner operated continued to hound us for various motoring offences committed by the cloner before we bought the (innocent) car. Only when we managed to get one of the officers prosecuting the cloner to call the local authorities did the harassment cease.
They routinely collect the data "to go after terrorists" but use it haphazardly on innocent people, and it costs money and time (their time and money is your time and money) to perform this stupidity.
What makes you think that the commerical entities ask first? Most government databases appear to leak like sieves. In all probability. the data is freely available on servers in Afganistan/NIgeria/Russia for anyone who wants it.
What is at stake here is the definition of "works". Canonical shipped Unity - which gave users the impression that their definition of "works" does not include "able to carry out the user's most basic tasks", or "shipped with a viable way to avoid the use of an untested and serverely restricted UI".
In short, given their track record. "works" is unlikely to be the average user's experience of Mir.