How the heck do you even know you are connecting to starbucks hotspot and not my credential-grabbing Linux laptop? If you need security, you need it all the way to your destination, as in https://www.facebook.com/. If SSL doesn't scale, let's develop a lightweight replacement that may be susceptible to pattern analysis or stream corruption but not theft of data transmitted in regular use. Even HTTP digest authentication would do more good than known password sent to an unknown wireless service for many sites.
Certainly the greatest value of any weapon is as a deterrent. How many graffiti punks will keep going when shown a business end of a mean looking cannon? It may or may not do much damage or be practical in a fight, but who would want to be the first to find out?
You got to be kidding. How much of multimedia delivered by flash do people actually "want"? For that too an optimized video decoder using platform's GPU and vector processing capabilities got to be better than interpreted ActionScript.
I doubt that bees are any good at playing Quake so I wonder if a dedicated massively parallel TSPU wouldn't do wonders for running time of the algorithm on silicon. Add fuzzy logic as I doubt bees are interested in the theoretically best path, only one that lets the hive survive.
Sun had the foresight to make their major products, including Java, available under open source community's preferred license. So get off your butts already and start coding. Its freedom of information, not freedom to be lazy bums who want to leech free stuff from Oracle.
It takes a sick groupie to keep buying stuff from people who are trying to put you in jail for using your own paid for product. Just say no with your wallet. There are plenty of inexpensive desktops, laptops and other devices that officially support Linux or even come with it pre installed. Or you take free old hardware from your friends, coworkers, Goodwill and other situations where the original vendor doesn't benefit or the indirect benefit is offset by public good. Eventually some company, big or small, will get the message that there is a need for a different kind of product. And serving even one in 100K people on planet earth can sustain a small business.
Does Oracle maintain Quicktime for Solaris? Should Apple be responsible for Silverlight on OSX? Then what's the big hang up with either Oracle or OpenJDK folks taking up Java on Mac. Now that it's Intel, the only port-specific part is UI and Open Source communities have potted UI toolkits to Mac before - see GTK+ and Qt.
Apple requesting that a 3rd party open source product is from now on maintained by either the 3rd party or open source community. I mean, they sure maintain Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's flash in house so why is poor Java singled out?
T-mobile should have a right to establish radio standards and congestion control protocols and require that any device on the network obeys these standards. They have no right to control end user applications as long as the operating system/radio firmware enforces these standards uniformly. In practical terms it means that apps with sustained high data rate or strict latency requirements may not work, or may stop working when network becomes congested. It's fine as long as "partner apps' also exhibit the same behavior.
Transmutation of a cheap material into one, for whatever reason, valuable in society is a worthwhile pursuit. It was not impossible in Newton's era and it is possible/practical today - think of U238 to Pu239 breeder reactors. To say that he should have envisioned that he should have given up and left the work to future generations is very unscientific. As it is he made important discoveries while working onto ultimately unsuccessful project.
I got cheap and switched to 200MB plan. As a result I now have two devices - iPhone and iPad - on their network for the price of one. Neither comes close to the limit - last month was 66MB - as I am nearly always in range of a free wireless network when using phone extensively. Had they only offered old unlimited $30/month plans for both, I would be paying them double the money for data without putting any extra strain on their network. Effectively they are encouraging people to reduce their dependence on cellular and look for alternative ways to access the data. The trouble is, once they have started thinking along these lines, they just might end up turning off cellular on the iPhone and getting a cheap prepaid phone for actual calls.
This is the FIRST FLIGHT of the FIRST PROTOTYPE built by a college student who further chose to pilot it himself rather than hiring a professional athlete (although he did train and even lose weight). If the first prototype of a software application you wrote in school was more impressive than that, we would love to hear of it. Otherwise tone down the skepticism. One day people might fly this as a sports/hobby thing after being boosted by a friend or a ski lift-type thingy or it would be a cool spy gadget you can assemble from your backpack. Add a two person model or a very small motor to supplement human power and it becomes vastly more practical.
Anyone complaining about the cost is missing the point of this phone. Satellite mode is not for idle chatter. It's for essential weather/safety/navigation/professional needs. And perhaps brief family communication such as when to expect you home. I would expect boaters to lease this just for the trip rather than purchase their own $800 device. All in all AT&T should be able to sell the service even for 5x rate with the right marketing.
Hey, document what the code does, not what it used to do. I *really* hate seeing this:
// Rexdude: added a null pointer check if (s != null) out.println(s); doSomethingElse(otherVariable);
Especially if someone else later deletes the println block but not the comment.
If you document usable APIs well, there is usually little need to comment the code, except maybe to name non-trivial algorithms used. It's likely that two years later we will need to make fundamental enhancements to your product rather than just fixing bugs. In this case we need to know how to write some more code based on your frameworks rather than NullPointerExceptions you fixed long time ago.
In this day and age when we want to save energy, not mess up our environment, communications and bodies by leaking it to unwanted places? Standardize on USB charges instead and wire clutter will be kept to a minimum. I see important uses in implanted medical devices, waterproof equipment and other cases when direct physical access to the device is impractical. But for cell phones/laptops this is positively silly.
One example of a very stupid "right" is that students are allowed to pay half price at any entertainment event. This means that, either you get some fake ID which says you're a student, or you pay double price to watch a movie, sports event, etc.
Yeah, blame the constitution instead of petty crooks. I understand cheating when you need survival essentials, but nobody HAS TO go to entertainment events, especially past student age. Save money till you can afford the ticket - or a bit longer to assure those essentials.
And all of them really don't mind 1 in 5 chance of getting AIDS even if we disregard other aspects of the job? Not saying it should be completely illegal, just that prostitution will become much more rare and expensive if we get serious about combatting criminal, health and educational issues. Maybe so much so you will consider regular dating again.
How many people do you think REALLY want to make a living sucking your dick as opposed to those forced to by mafia collecting drug debt or some such thing? A lot of things - suicide, riding motorcycle without helmet, hot schoolteachers putting it out for students - should be theoretically legal but in practice come with issues.
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What and you don't have any say on what is sent to your home?
How the heck do you even know you are connecting to starbucks hotspot and not my credential-grabbing Linux laptop? If you need security, you need it all the way to your destination, as in https://www.facebook.com/. If SSL doesn't scale, let's develop a lightweight replacement that may be susceptible to pattern analysis or stream corruption but not theft of data transmitted in regular use. Even HTTP digest authentication would do more good than known password sent to an unknown wireless service for many sites.
Certainly the greatest value of any weapon is as a deterrent. How many graffiti punks will keep going when shown a business end of a mean looking cannon? It may or may not do much damage or be practical in a fight, but who would want to be the first to find out?
if you want multimedia on your whatever device
You got to be kidding. How much of multimedia delivered by flash do people actually "want"? For that too an optimized video decoder using platform's GPU and vector processing capabilities got to be better than interpreted ActionScript.
I doubt that bees are any good at playing Quake so I wonder if a dedicated massively parallel TSPU wouldn't do wonders for running time of the algorithm on silicon. Add fuzzy logic as I doubt bees are interested in the theoretically best path, only one that lets the hive survive.
Sun had the foresight to make their major products, including Java, available under open source community's preferred license. So get off your butts already and start coding. Its freedom of information, not freedom to be lazy bums who want to leech free stuff from Oracle.
It takes a sick groupie to keep buying stuff from people who are trying to put you in jail for using your own paid for product. Just say no with your wallet. There are plenty of inexpensive desktops, laptops and other devices that officially support Linux or even come with it pre installed. Or you take free old hardware from your friends, coworkers, Goodwill and other situations where the original vendor doesn't benefit or the indirect benefit is offset by public good. Eventually some company, big or small, will get the message that there is a need for a different kind of product. And serving even one in 100K people on planet earth can sustain a small business.
Does Oracle maintain Quicktime for Solaris? Should Apple be responsible for Silverlight on OSX? Then what's the big hang up with either Oracle or OpenJDK folks taking up Java on Mac. Now that it's Intel, the only port-specific part is UI and Open Source communities have potted UI toolkits to Mac before - see GTK+ and Qt.
Apple requesting that a 3rd party open source product is from now on maintained by either the 3rd party or open source community. I mean, they sure maintain Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's flash in house so why is poor Java singled out?
T-mobile should have a right to establish radio standards and congestion control protocols and require that any device on the network obeys these standards. They have no right to control end user applications as long as the operating system/radio firmware enforces these standards uniformly. In practical terms it means that apps with sustained high data rate or strict latency requirements may not work, or may stop working when network becomes congested. It's fine as long as "partner apps' also exhibit the same behavior.
Transmutation of a cheap material into one, for whatever reason, valuable in society is a worthwhile pursuit. It was not impossible in Newton's era and it is possible/practical today - think of U238 to Pu239 breeder reactors. To say that he should have envisioned that he should have given up and left the work to future generations is very unscientific. As it is he made important discoveries while working onto ultimately unsuccessful project.
I can think of situations when something realistic down to heat signature would come handy.
I got cheap and switched to 200MB plan. As a result I now have two devices - iPhone and iPad - on their network for the price of one. Neither comes close to the limit - last month was 66MB - as I am nearly always in range of a free wireless network when using phone extensively. Had they only offered old unlimited $30/month plans for both, I would be paying them double the money for data without putting any extra strain on their network. Effectively they are encouraging people to reduce their dependence on cellular and look for alternative ways to access the data. The trouble is, once they have started thinking along these lines, they just might end up turning off cellular on the iPhone and getting a cheap prepaid phone for actual calls.
This is the FIRST FLIGHT of the FIRST PROTOTYPE built by a college student who further chose to pilot it himself rather than hiring a professional athlete (although he did train and even lose weight). If the first prototype of a software application you wrote in school was more impressive than that, we would love to hear of it. Otherwise tone down the skepticism. One day people might fly this as a sports/hobby thing after being boosted by a friend or a ski lift-type thingy or it would be a cool spy gadget you can assemble from your backpack. Add a two person model or a very small motor to supplement human power and it becomes vastly more practical.
Anyone complaining about the cost is missing the point of this phone. Satellite mode is not for idle chatter. It's for essential weather/safety/navigation/professional needs. And perhaps brief family communication such as when to expect you home. I would expect boaters to lease this just for the trip rather than purchase their own $800 device. All in all AT&T should be able to sell the service even for 5x rate with the right marketing.
Hey, document what the code does, not what it used to do. I *really* hate seeing this:
// Rexdude: added a null pointer check
if (s != null)
out.println(s);
doSomethingElse(otherVariable);
Especially if someone else later deletes the println block but not the comment.
If you document usable APIs well, there is usually little need to comment the code, except maybe to name non-trivial algorithms used. It's likely that two years later we will need to make fundamental enhancements to your product rather than just fixing bugs. In this case we need to know how to write some more code based on your frameworks rather than NullPointerExceptions you fixed long time ago.
It's wrong to think that people with their own plane should follow the same rules as someone booking one seat among hundreds of passengers?
become crazy mechas in Japan
In this day and age when we want to save energy, not mess up our environment, communications and bodies by leaking it to unwanted places? Standardize on USB charges instead and wire clutter will be kept to a minimum. I see important uses in implanted medical devices, waterproof equipment and other cases when direct physical access to the device is impractical. But for cell phones/laptops this is positively silly.
And especially please no viral licenses.
One example of a very stupid "right" is that students are allowed to pay half price at any entertainment event. This means that, either you get some fake ID which says you're a student, or you pay double price to watch a movie, sports event, etc.
Yeah, blame the constitution instead of petty crooks. I understand cheating when you need survival essentials, but nobody HAS TO go to entertainment events, especially past student age. Save money till you can afford the ticket - or a bit longer to assure those essentials.
... not returning kidnapped american children ...
And all of them really don't mind 1 in 5 chance of getting AIDS even if we disregard other aspects of the job? Not saying it should be completely illegal, just that prostitution will become much more rare and expensive if we get serious about combatting criminal, health and educational issues. Maybe so much so you will consider regular dating again.
How many people do you think REALLY want to make a living sucking your dick as opposed to those forced to by mafia collecting drug debt or some such thing? A lot of things - suicide, riding motorcycle without helmet, hot schoolteachers putting it out for students - should be theoretically legal but in practice come with issues.
Where attorney generals can curse at links to all the unregulated adult services websites outside US jurisdiction.