Not in a real emergency situation only in hard break situations, I usually tend to check the rearview in regular intervals to know what is behind me and if the driver behind me does not keep a safety distance i either let him pass or try to get away from him. This probably safed my neck several times in the last 20 years in real emergency break situations.
Well usually the companies translate 1€ to 1 USD, and despite getting the VAT out of the calculation, cash in 10-20% extra depending on the Euro Dollar fluctuation.
Good advice but I rather doubt you have the time to check your rearview if you are in a dangerous emergency break situation. As far as I can remember i never had it.
Actually GPS is by far not the only one. Russia currently overhauls its old Glonass System which should be up to par in a few years, and I assume China also is working on its own system. And I agree the more the better to have redundancy.
Actually that is the main reason why I have given up on Dragon dictate which Siri is based upon and the google voice recognition, it fails way too often and it is not funny when it fails.
for a fully built reality disortion field. Apple just uses a variant of Dragon Dictate, and everyone knows how good/bad this works. The main difference is that it is now deeply entrenched in IOS just as the google voice recognition is. Both systems have more flaws than advantages.
Apples main audience are not really hackers, while I agree with your sentiments i cannot see how apple really has any interest into serving that public.
Well if a version control system is bad then it is a bad idea to use it especially if there are free alternatives with good plugins into the ide. The only developers I know who like VSS are the ones who either come from clearcase which is even worse or who have never used anything else.
Actually I like the new model ( I could get one for cheap) it is more or less a nice push box where you can push movies etc.. from any idevice or mac to the box. If you hack it open or use itunes, you even can make it a upnp pull/streaming device. It is not a full featured mini pc but it is a nice device nevertheless and while I dont think apple has any plans it could be a great gaming console for small to casual games. All which it lacks is a decent controller for games.
Everyone who uses Visual Source Safe as version control system should rething his job. Sorry, but Microsoft does not use VSS in their own development because they know what junk it it. Using this system as version control system given the myriads of really good free alternatives is inexcusable.
Actually VStudio is only the most professional way if you are in a windows only world. I do server programming in banks and there you dont even see Microsoft outside of the desktops by miles. Eclipse btw. is pretty much standard there, although I dont like that IDE to much, I prefer Idea.
I would not count on a 6 months cycle anymore here. Apple seems to have settled down to an ipad revision in march and an iphone revision in october. So it is another year.
The problem with this thinking is, that if they think they can keep their wealth if the economy goes down the gutters, they are wrong. If we have a worldwide economic collapse then nothing can help you not even gold reserves.
Well people want to pay for content, but only content which is worthwhile (without the usual you are a criminal spots etc...) and they do not want the content locked down to whatever the studio bosses think. The studio bosses themselves for them is the content gold, and they do not want to let it go, they cannot even see that their controlling is their own downfall. Their ideal would be having people to pay for it without being able to get the media into their hands, aka watch it only but under superveillance. I personally think, any studio which bows to some degree to what people want is bound for success, while any control freak studio will ultimately fail or will fall under the rule of something like itunes which takes the terms and distribution chains from them. Either live with it or die.
They are run mostly by bean counters who dont have a clue about music but mostly try to push stuff out as risk free as possible. Generally a problem of the western industry. While the asian companies still mostly are run by their founders ours are mostly run by beancounters who should never have gotten into management. The japanese industry to some degree also has that problem already and china will run into the same issue in 10-20 years when the founder generation retires.
One of the reasons why Apple was so successful the last 10 years was that it was run by its founder who was willing to try new stuff and take risks. If it would have been run by MBAs in that era it already would have gone the way of the dodo. MBAs are good for bookkeeping etc.. but defnitely bad in areas of human resource management or running any company outside of the financial industries.
I rather doubt you find the telltale stuff, or for instance avadon on android. I have both systems and consider the game selection on android less polished, sure you have angry birds and co, but the more interesting stuff from better indy developers cannot be found there. Also i have yet to find a steaming solution as well executed and polished as airvideo.
Actually there is a load of really good games on iOS much more than on Android, and generally the games are way more polished. The problem simply is that they are drowned in a myriad of shovelware and ripoffs of other games. I have about 40-50 games I consider to be really good on the Ipad, but once I am done with this list the new interesting stuff to be found becomes thin. About 1-2 games per month slighly catch my attention and about 1 every three months I consider worth to be bought.
Yes, and generally the situation is really bad, you really have to look hard to find real gems, like for instance Avadon. Those games make their money, but the possible target audience have a hard time to find them. Instead you constantly either see a) Another hidden object game b) another physics puzzle variation of the same game c) another even worse canabalt clone d) another 2d zombie shooter e) another bad tower of defense game
That does not mean iOS has not a really good games, but they are drowned in ripoff shovelware. The same probably goes for apps as well, but I have my eye simply more on games.
Well it is also the situation of production value. If you look at the app store, then you have 100 clones of one existing successful program, with myriads of developers trying to cash in on the same concept. Those really getting money are either ones
a) with very high production value b) with a very good concept and good implementation which has not been cloned to death
Its as easy and as hard as that. I just wonder who is constantly buying all the canabald clones all the zombie shooter clones and hidden object games which come out a dime a dozend every week? Obviously someone must do it otherwise they would not come out anymore.
Actually it is not only opera turbo, they were the first, but google also has this kind of offloading facility, early versions of the android browser used it.
You have to make a difference, overwritten blocks are recognized instantaneously as being erasable by the SSDs gc, and blocks which are deleted are recognized at a time when the operating system wants to write them anew. In both cases the GC of the ssd can work given it has enough free blocks for reallocation of the write operation (hence most sandforce drives spare about 10% of their cells for the gc) So there is not too much of a difference to a trim, except that the hd does it itself. And given that I have seen enough user run benchmarks the impact of not using trim is neglectable on such drives. (which also is what I am getting here on my SSD)
Trim is relatively pointless if you have a good garbage collection. Most Sandforce drives have a gc mechanism which works like a deferred trim. (Aka once a block should be overwritten and already is allocated it is stored and marked as deletable, the new data is written elsehwhere and when the drive idles the block is erased.
Samsungs however in the past relied on filesystem features and hence only worked with NTFS properly in this area. It would be more interesting to see if Samsung finally has resolved that issue.
The board basically has a really bad track record of hiring the worst CEOs they can get. I wonder if someone in there has shorted stock options.
Apotheker was known to be a totally incompetent tech company CEO after having gotten the boot at SAP after 8 months for total ignorance and incompetence. The one who gave him the boot was the company founder himself, who did not want to look at the misery anymore. He ousted him before the damage was permanent. Sure Apothekers strategies at SAP would have increased revenue in the short term (Price hikes, offhoring development etc...) but in the long term it would have ruined the company, and Plattner could see it by the reactions of his most loyal customers and by the reactions of his employees.
Guess Apotheker is fired from HP a few weeks after the permanent damage was done. Thats what you get by hiring pure bean counters as CEOs of tech companies. Apotheker is the prime example of such a man.
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Not in a real emergency situation only in hard break situations, I usually tend to check the rearview in regular intervals to know what is behind me and if the driver behind me does not keep a safety distance i either let him pass or try to get away from him. This probably safed my neck several times in the last 20 years in real emergency break situations.
Well usually the companies translate 1€ to 1 USD, and despite getting the VAT out of the calculation, cash in 10-20% extra depending on the Euro Dollar fluctuation.
Good advice but I rather doubt you have the time to check your rearview if you are in a dangerous emergency break situation.
As far as I can remember i never had it.
Actually GPS is by far not the only one. Russia currently overhauls its old Glonass System which should be up to par in a few years, and I assume China also is working on its own system.
And I agree the more the better to have redundancy.
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Answer: The Beancounters
Actually that is the main reason why I have given up on Dragon dictate which Siri is based upon and the google voice recognition, it fails way too often and it is not funny when it fails.
for a fully built reality disortion field. Apple just uses a variant of Dragon Dictate, and everyone knows how good/bad this works.
The main difference is that it is now deeply entrenched in IOS just as the google voice recognition is. Both systems have more flaws than advantages.
Apples main audience are not really hackers, while I agree with your sentiments i cannot see how apple really has any interest into serving that public.
Well if a version control system is bad then it is a bad idea to use it especially if there are free alternatives with good plugins into the ide.
The only developers I know who like VSS are the ones who either come from clearcase which is even worse or who have never used anything else.
Actually I like the new model ( I could get one for cheap) it is more or less a nice push box where you can push movies etc.. from any idevice or mac to the box.
If you hack it open or use itunes, you even can make it a upnp pull/streaming device.
It is not a full featured mini pc but it is a nice device nevertheless and while I dont think apple has any plans it could be a great gaming console for small to casual games. All which it lacks is a decent controller for games.
Everyone who uses Visual Source Safe as version control system should rething his job. Sorry, but Microsoft does not use VSS
in their own development because they know what junk it it. Using this system as version control system given the myriads of really good free alternatives is inexcusable.
Actually VStudio is only the most professional way if you are in a windows only world. I do server programming in banks and there you dont even see Microsoft outside of the desktops by miles.
Eclipse btw. is pretty much standard there, although I dont like that IDE to much, I prefer Idea.
I would not count on a 6 months cycle anymore here. Apple seems to have settled down to an ipad revision in march and an iphone revision in october.
So it is another year.
The problem with this thinking is, that if they think they can keep their wealth if the economy goes down the gutters, they are wrong. If we have a worldwide economic collapse then nothing can help you not even gold reserves.
Well people want to pay for content, but only content which is worthwhile (without the usual you are a criminal spots etc...) and they do not want the content locked down to whatever the studio bosses think.
The studio bosses themselves for them is the content gold, and they do not want to let it go, they cannot even see that their controlling is their own downfall. Their ideal would be having people to pay for it without being able to get the media into their hands, aka watch it only but under superveillance.
I personally think, any studio which bows to some degree to what people want is bound for success, while any control freak studio will ultimately fail or will fall under the rule of something like itunes which takes the terms and distribution chains from them.
Either live with it or die.
They are run mostly by bean counters who dont have a clue about music but mostly try to push stuff out as risk free as possible.
Generally a problem of the western industry. While the asian companies still mostly are run by their founders ours are mostly run by beancounters who should never have gotten into management.
The japanese industry to some degree also has that problem already and china will run into the same issue in 10-20 years when the founder generation retires.
One of the reasons why Apple was so successful the last 10 years was that it was run by its founder who was willing to try new stuff and take risks. If it would have been run by MBAs in that era it already would have gone the way of the dodo.
MBAs are good for bookkeeping etc.. but defnitely bad in areas of human resource management or running any company outside of the financial industries.
Actually outsourcing their own forces brought the romans to their downfall both the western and eastern empire.
I rather doubt you find the telltale stuff, or for instance avadon on android. I have both systems and consider the game selection on android less polished, sure you have angry birds and co, but the more interesting stuff from better indy developers cannot be found there. Also i have yet to find a steaming solution as well executed and polished as airvideo.
Actually there is a load of really good games on iOS much more than on Android, and generally the games are way more polished. The problem simply is that they are drowned in a myriad of shovelware and ripoffs of other games.
I have about 40-50 games I consider to be really good on the Ipad, but once I am done with this list the new interesting stuff to be found becomes thin.
About 1-2 games per month slighly catch my attention and about 1 every three months I consider worth to be bought.
Yes, and generally the situation is really bad, you really have to look hard to find real gems, like for instance Avadon.
Those games make their money, but the possible target audience have a hard time to find them. Instead you constantly either see
a) Another hidden object game
b) another physics puzzle variation of the same game
c) another even worse canabalt clone
d) another 2d zombie shooter
e) another bad tower of defense game
That does not mean iOS has not a really good games, but they are drowned in ripoff shovelware.
The same probably goes for apps as well, but I have my eye simply more on games.
Well it is also the situation of production value. If you look at the app store, then you have 100 clones of one existing successful program, with myriads of developers trying to cash in on the same concept.
Those really getting money are either ones
a) with very high production value
b) with a very good concept and good implementation which has not been cloned to death
Its as easy and as hard as that. I just wonder who is constantly buying all the canabald clones all the zombie shooter clones and hidden object games which come out a dime a dozend every week?
Obviously someone must do it otherwise they would not come out anymore.
Actually it is not only opera turbo, they were the first, but google also has this kind of offloading facility, early versions of the android browser used it.
You have to make a difference, overwritten blocks are recognized instantaneously as being erasable by the SSDs gc, and blocks which are deleted are recognized at a time when the operating system wants to write them anew. In both cases the GC of the ssd can work given it has enough free blocks for reallocation of the write operation (hence most sandforce drives spare about 10% of their cells for the gc)
So there is not too much of a difference to a trim, except that the hd does it itself. And given that I have seen enough user run benchmarks the impact of not using trim is neglectable on such drives. (which also is what I am getting here on my SSD)
Trim is relatively pointless if you have a good garbage collection. Most Sandforce drives have a gc mechanism which works like a deferred trim.
(Aka once a block should be overwritten and already is allocated it is stored and marked as deletable, the new data is written elsehwhere and when the drive idles the block is erased.
Samsungs however in the past relied on filesystem features and hence only worked with NTFS properly in this area. It would be more interesting to see if Samsung finally has resolved that issue.
The board basically has a really bad track record of hiring the worst CEOs they can get. I wonder if someone in there has shorted stock options.
Apotheker was known to be a totally incompetent tech company CEO after having gotten the boot at SAP after 8 months for total ignorance and incompetence. The one who gave him the boot was the company founder himself, who did not want to look at the misery anymore. He ousted him before the damage was permanent. Sure Apothekers strategies at SAP would have increased revenue in the short term (Price hikes, offhoring development etc...) but in the long term it would have ruined the company, and Plattner could see it by the reactions of his most loyal customers and by the reactions of his employees.
Guess Apotheker is fired from HP a few weeks after the permanent damage was done. Thats what you get by hiring pure bean counters as CEOs of tech companies. Apotheker is the prime example of such a man.