Google is not in e-mail advertising business. If you got any ads from maps visit, they would be the usual ones in your search results or banners on 3rd party sites (which do not get access to your e-mail or other identity info). Either you shared your e-mail in some other context related to the event, or your browser and/or mobile device are infected by keylogging/location logging malware.
You should get even more paranoid about your privacy!
Apple is the world famous patent troll, demanding billions for trivial recreation of bathroom slide lock on a phone screen. It's like patenting cat videos in the world full of cats.
This patent, on the other hand, appears to be a genuine, non-trivial invention. I hope they pay through their nose and get impacted enough to rethink what kind of IP laws they want to lobby for in future.
There are plenty of non-lethal options already available, it's just that cops still bring a gun to every confrontation. 99% of the time it's the only gun at the scene, and massively increases the chances of either officer or suspect getting killed.
Police officers should be required to leave the gun behind AND have an armed buddy stand back away from the heat of the confrontation to cover their back, call for help and importantly provide accountability.
Source control with git is like using (char *) &myStruct in C. Very flexible, but impossible to explain to someone who wants to do simple tasks, and most commands result in corrupting your work. Including correct commands accidentally used twice. Worked with it for two years, still regularly find things that baffle me.
Better to start with a comprehensible tool like svn and a good IDE with a source control plugin such as IntelliJ. You might migrate several years down the road, but by that time either team will become experienced enough to use git, or hopefully something better comes along.
Between CNN and Flipboard, I can read lots of news for free, then subscribe to both HBO and Netflix for same money to get much more varied entertainment. These must be loyal long term subscribers who switched from paper to digital. A healthy price point is around $99/year, where people can view subscription is a reasonable infrequent expense.
That people install Bluestacks to run Android apps on Windows because there is nothing decent available natively. And older enterprise apps this will be good for are terrible with small screen/touch/onscreen keyboard. Sounds like a solution in search of a problem.
I am glad Sarah decided to look for projects that suit her personal and professional style better. I suspect though that the project is filled with developers who can never be their best in subdued, politically correct culture. When people care that much about code, they sometimes can not be impartial when they think something bad is being done to it.
To each their own. It's trivial to fork Linux kernel and work on your own interesting things, all the while benefiting from the work done by rude bastards who took it from a school break project to ubiquitous presence in the last two decades.
Nobody prefers vigilante anything to doing things the right way. The question is, would these devices be realistically fixed over time, or just left open and exploited? If the later, maybe vigilante fix is better than no fix. If I left my door unlocked in a seedy neighborhood, I would rather somebody came and locked it for me than come back and find my house burglarized. The entry point for this thing is simply telnet with default username/password. There is little doubt that chances of malicious exploit are high and owners are not technologically savvy enough to fix the device by themselves even if there was some way to warn them.
The best model for education is to mirror environment in which skills will be applied in real life. Most of programmers do enjoy independent work for hours on end, yet need to effectively collaborate with many people to reach any career success. On the other hand, born extraverts need to know when to shut up, make reasonable choices on their own and produce some finished work.
Ideal classroom will teach both group work and independent work, ESPECIALLY to students who are struggling with either. How you spend your leasure time is entirely up to you, although I would still suggest challenging yourself out of your comfort zone once in a while.
Get any Samsung device and, while Google services are present, Samsung's own stuff is front and center. Too bad in case of Samsung's craft, but I accept that someone (Microsoft?) might implement a decent e-mail client, word processor and so on. But in any case, I don't see how making a few apps available, along with any other software manufacturer/career wants to include, is unfair. Maybe unfair in the sense that someone's alternatives are inferior and can not hold their own in side-by-side comparison.
This is very different then Microsoft keeping OEMs from including Netscape on equal basis.
The purpose of Cassandra is to optimize durable writes to disk. If you don't care about occasional data loss or your main concern is read performance, it's probably not the right tool. If you want correct results, the node you are talking to has to wait for data hash from at least one other node, and these network hops can not be THAT fast, even if everything is memory.
Why not put a nice, optimized C, memcached instance in front of your cluster for the cases where you don't care about durability or consistency?
Databases are usually I/O bound and improvement of storage structure/network protocol is more important than spot optimization of code. A more likely statement is that scylladb performed ten times faster than Cassandra in one particular benchmark for which Cassandra has not been specifically optimized for yet and is ten percent faster in an average case.
In either case, good luck maintaining speed and stability after 5 releases when you implement every corner case of every feature and have to deal with legacy support.
(When internet access is available), it's often expensive. That's due in part to a lack of competition among providers - sounds familiar!
We need to at least ensure that Comcast does not get any exclusive arrangements with government to build infrastructure, so that competitors that want to try are able to.
Why would an advanced civilization want to fry their planet? I find it more likely that they invented birth control, kept their population at reasonable level and are exploring universe by watching miniaturized robotic probes from the comfort of their beach bungalows. We are defining ourselves as an example of advanced. And civilizations that do that are usually not very advanced.
Suppose the project was successful, how would the kids make any practical use of their skills or improve them further on their own? Learning English or another common language opens a huge window into outside world and access to knowledge in all subjects, including computers. Personally I grew up in Soviet Union and studying English rather than any less common foreign language in school opened up tremendous options later in life.
Cable companies have an inherent conflict of interest when it comes to Internet access. Making Netflix work well only erodes their main source of revenue. When there are competing providers dedicated only to Internet, they will provide both a good maximum speed and peering/caching infrastructure to ensure this speed is what users experience in practice.
I am afraid there is no general answer, it depends on what you are trying to achieve. Snowden found safe haven in Russia, the country not known for freedom or privacy, because Putin is not interested in protecting western powers. You may well find a totalitarian king who is not interesting in enforcing copyrights. Now imagine your perfect pro-privacy, anti-surveillance country under attack from NSA? Don't you think they would do some surveillance to catch the spooks?
If you just want to avoid mass surveillance, just locate in any poor country that doesn't have the resources. Syria sounds about right. If you actually want respect for your rights, you have to look for people who share your values.
Those processors are likely designed to safely shutdown before any damage happens. And the company is cool with collecting premium for unlocked devices and paying for replacement in rare cases the chip is fried.
Between wireless charging and bluetooth there is no need for ports or air spaces inside the device. Customers get a cool scuba diving phone and manufacturers end up with much better reputation and lower repair costs for water/sand/dust damage. Win-win!
There is no practical need for theatrics, just a controller that supports reliable overwrite of data. If permanent hardware alteration is needed, there is a mainstream, inexpensive e-fuse technology.
Stressed glass chip destruction could be triggered unintentionally. Since you are a secret agent, you might drop things or travel to hot places. Wouldn't want to lose all your secret photos just because you left your phone on car dash or something.
FSF has definitely made the world a better place by given users choices, but also, ironically, by improving quality of proprietary software. I would hate to think how buggy SSL would be if every vendor rolled their own copy. If they could agree on a protocol standard at all without a mature free software stack that is.
But I wonder if nowadays software is really the most important thing that needs to be made more free as in freedom. How about free culture (copyrights that expire in time to share your favouring movies with grandkids)? Free food (planting seeds without Monsanto permission)? Free medicine (generic drugs would save millions of lives worldwide)? Free immigration/religion/politics?
Wish we had folks like RMS to achieve concrete progress in these causes.
Why is this a negative? Cyanogenmod is an independent company that has formed a partnership with Microsoft, and the OS is 100% open source. But say these were commercial ROMs from microsoft.com. Why would a ROM from Microsoft be any worse than a ROM from Samsung? From what I saw so far, the former will probably be a little less bloated.
If not, just pick the specs important to you - say 1080p screen, at least 32GB flash, 2GB RAM and quad core CPU - and get the best deal available. You should be able to find even a factory refurbished 9 inch tablet for under $200. They are all pretty good.
There is no single credible new Sci Fi show, let alone anything of the caliber of Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica. If there is audience saturation, is because every network is trying to copy plot lines that made money a few years ago, but people are looking for variety. Imagine a VR-based series which is also a game, and top players get to interact with professional actors on national TV. Think there will be a few folks who are interested to watch the show and play the game?
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An American politician who understood and respected science - this must have been the last time in nation's history that this occurred.
Google is not in e-mail advertising business. If you got any ads from maps visit, they would be the usual ones in your search results or banners on 3rd party sites (which do not get access to your e-mail or other identity info). Either you shared your e-mail in some other context related to the event, or your browser and/or mobile device are infected by keylogging/location logging malware.
You should get even more paranoid about your privacy!
Apple is the world famous patent troll, demanding billions for trivial recreation of bathroom slide lock on a phone screen. It's like patenting cat videos in the world full of cats.
This patent, on the other hand, appears to be a genuine, non-trivial invention. I hope they pay through their nose and get impacted enough to rethink what kind of IP laws they want to lobby for in future.
There are plenty of non-lethal options already available, it's just that cops still bring a gun to every confrontation. 99% of the time it's the only gun at the scene, and massively increases the chances of either officer or suspect getting killed.
Police officers should be required to leave the gun behind AND have an armed buddy stand back away from the heat of the confrontation to cover their back, call for help and importantly provide accountability.
Source control with git is like using (char *) &myStruct in C. Very flexible, but impossible to explain to someone who wants to do simple tasks, and most commands result in corrupting your work. Including correct commands accidentally used twice. Worked with it for two years, still regularly find things that baffle me.
Better to start with a comprehensible tool like svn and a good IDE with a source control plugin such as IntelliJ. You might migrate several years down the road, but by that time either team will become experienced enough to use git, or hopefully something better comes along.
Between CNN and Flipboard, I can read lots of news for free, then subscribe to both HBO and Netflix for same money to get much more varied entertainment. These must be loyal long term subscribers who switched from paper to digital. A healthy price point is around $99/year, where people can view subscription is a reasonable infrequent expense.
That people install Bluestacks to run Android apps on Windows because there is nothing decent available natively. And older enterprise apps this will be good for are terrible with small screen/touch/onscreen keyboard. Sounds like a solution in search of a problem.
I am glad Sarah decided to look for projects that suit her personal and professional style better. I suspect though that the project is filled with developers who can never be their best in subdued, politically correct culture. When people care that much about code, they sometimes can not be impartial when they think something bad is being done to it.
To each their own. It's trivial to fork Linux kernel and work on your own interesting things, all the while benefiting from the work done by rude bastards who took it from a school break project to ubiquitous presence in the last two decades.
Nobody prefers vigilante anything to doing things the right way. The question is, would these devices be realistically fixed over time, or just left open and exploited? If the later, maybe vigilante fix is better than no fix. If I left my door unlocked in a seedy neighborhood, I would rather somebody came and locked it for me than come back and find my house burglarized. The entry point for this thing is simply telnet with default username/password. There is little doubt that chances of malicious exploit are high and owners are not technologically savvy enough to fix the device by themselves even if there was some way to warn them.
The best model for education is to mirror environment in which skills will be applied in real life. Most of programmers do enjoy independent work for hours on end, yet need to effectively collaborate with many people to reach any career success. On the other hand, born extraverts need to know when to shut up, make reasonable choices on their own and produce some finished work.
Ideal classroom will teach both group work and independent work, ESPECIALLY to students who are struggling with either. How you spend your leasure time is entirely up to you, although I would still suggest challenging yourself out of your comfort zone once in a while.
Get any Samsung device and, while Google services are present, Samsung's own stuff is front and center. Too bad in case of Samsung's craft, but I accept that someone (Microsoft?) might implement a decent e-mail client, word processor and so on. But in any case, I don't see how making a few apps available, along with any other software manufacturer/career wants to include, is unfair. Maybe unfair in the sense that someone's alternatives are inferior and can not hold their own in side-by-side comparison.
This is very different then Microsoft keeping OEMs from including Netscape on equal basis.
The purpose of Cassandra is to optimize durable writes to disk. If you don't care about occasional data loss or your main concern is read performance, it's probably not the right tool. If you want correct results, the node you are talking to has to wait for data hash from at least one other node, and these network hops can not be THAT fast, even if everything is memory.
Why not put a nice, optimized C, memcached instance in front of your cluster for the cases where you don't care about durability or consistency?
Databases are usually I/O bound and improvement of storage structure/network protocol is more important than spot optimization of code. A more likely statement is that scylladb performed ten times faster than Cassandra in one particular benchmark for which Cassandra has not been specifically optimized for yet and is ten percent faster in an average case.
In either case, good luck maintaining speed and stability after 5 releases when you implement every corner case of every feature and have to deal with legacy support.
(When internet access is available), it's often expensive. That's due in part to a lack of competition among providers - sounds familiar!
We need to at least ensure that Comcast does not get any exclusive arrangements with government to build infrastructure, so that competitors that want to try are able to.
Why would an advanced civilization want to fry their planet? I find it more likely that they invented birth control, kept their population at reasonable level and are exploring universe by watching miniaturized robotic probes from the comfort of their beach bungalows. We are defining ourselves as an example of advanced. And civilizations that do that are usually not very advanced.
Suppose the project was successful, how would the kids make any practical use of their skills or improve them further on their own? Learning English or another common language opens a huge window into outside world and access to knowledge in all subjects, including computers. Personally I grew up in Soviet Union and studying English rather than any less common foreign language in school opened up tremendous options later in life.
Cable companies have an inherent conflict of interest when it comes to Internet access. Making Netflix work well only erodes their main source of revenue. When there are competing providers dedicated only to Internet, they will provide both a good maximum speed and peering/caching infrastructure to ensure this speed is what users experience in practice.
I am afraid there is no general answer, it depends on what you are trying to achieve. Snowden found safe haven in Russia, the country not known for freedom or privacy, because Putin is not interested in protecting western powers. You may well find a totalitarian king who is not interesting in enforcing copyrights. Now imagine your perfect pro-privacy, anti-surveillance country under attack from NSA? Don't you think they would do some surveillance to catch the spooks?
If you just want to avoid mass surveillance, just locate in any poor country that doesn't have the resources. Syria sounds about right. If you actually want respect for your rights, you have to look for people who share your values.
Those processors are likely designed to safely shutdown before any damage happens. And the company is cool with collecting premium for unlocked devices and paying for replacement in rare cases the chip is fried.
Between wireless charging and bluetooth there is no need for ports or air spaces inside the device. Customers get a cool scuba diving phone and manufacturers end up with much better reputation and lower repair costs for water/sand/dust damage. Win-win!
There is no practical need for theatrics, just a controller that supports reliable overwrite of data. If permanent hardware alteration is needed, there is a mainstream, inexpensive e-fuse technology.
Stressed glass chip destruction could be triggered unintentionally. Since you are a secret agent, you might drop things or travel to hot places. Wouldn't want to lose all your secret photos just because you left your phone on car dash or something.
FSF has definitely made the world a better place by given users choices, but also, ironically, by improving quality of proprietary software. I would hate to think how buggy SSL would be if every vendor rolled their own copy. If they could agree on a protocol standard at all without a mature free software stack that is.
But I wonder if nowadays software is really the most important thing that needs to be made more free as in freedom. How about free culture (copyrights that expire in time to share your favouring movies with grandkids)? Free food (planting seeds without Monsanto permission)? Free medicine (generic drugs would save millions of lives worldwide)? Free immigration/religion/politics?
Wish we had folks like RMS to achieve concrete progress in these causes.
Why is this a negative? Cyanogenmod is an independent company that has formed a partnership with Microsoft, and the OS is 100% open source. But say these were commercial ROMs from microsoft.com. Why would a ROM from Microsoft be any worse than a ROM from Samsung? From what I saw so far, the former will probably be a little less bloated.
If you want quick updates to the latest version of Android, it's got to be Nexus 7 (2013), Nexus 9 - or you could buy a device supported by Cyanogenmod and install Google Apps on top if required.
If not, just pick the specs important to you - say 1080p screen, at least 32GB flash, 2GB RAM and quad core CPU - and get the best deal available. You should be able to find even a factory refurbished 9 inch tablet for under $200. They are all pretty good.
There is no single credible new Sci Fi show, let alone anything of the caliber of Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica. If there is audience saturation, is because every network is trying to copy plot lines that made money a few years ago, but people are looking for variety. Imagine a VR-based series which is also a game, and top players get to interact with professional actors on national TV. Think there will be a few folks who are interested to watch the show and play the game?