So I did pay you, or someone like you, and you did not deliver...
You got what you paid for -- if you want a totally bug-free phone, and you're willing to foot the bill for a few hundred developers to work for a few decades on nothing but polish, you can have that too; companies just don't advertise that option because the high cost makes it a very small market
Am I misunderstanding, or is the headline "open codec designed for voip is slightly better for voip than closed codec designed for music"? How does it compare to the other voip codecs?
Facebook originally said it would not remove the page but would monitor it instead. The company later pulled the page after discussions degraded into violence and hatred.
Facebook allowing free speech, only removing things once they get to the TOS (and law)-breaching point of hate-speech? It it still April 1st over there? o_O
tricking the brain into making you think you are physically moving
I think you'll find it's the people in the little rectangle a few feet in front of me who are doing all the moving o_O
Also, the 3DS has the most immersive 3D I've seen so far, to the point that I was instinctively dodging when things came out of the screen towards me (something that 3D movie makers seem to advertise, but I've never remotely felt); the 5 minute demo did make my eyes feel weird for about 15 minutes after though:-(
Protip to all musicians (and indeed, everyone everywhere): for about $10/year you can buy a domain name, put that on your CDs / business cards / etc, and stick up a redirect to whichever social network you're on this week
Find a machine with a decent screen and you'll find a decent laptop
In my experience, find a machine with a decent screen resolution and you've found something less portable than a bag of lead bricks... but yeah, if there exists a lightweight laptop with high resolution, go for it.
Is it just me who finds ruby even more cryptic than perl? Reading why's poignant guide, I loved the presentation of the book, and really wanted to love the language, but every time he said "read this code out loud, it makes perfect sense, doesn't it?" all I could think of was "you, my dear little cartoon foxy friend, have clearly been snorting too much of the good white stuff. I'm going back to python now":-(
Just as I thought my computer was running basic office and email tasks too quickly, more abstraction layers \o/ Thanks, generation of developers who don't know about ports other than 80~
That causes browser warnings about parts of the page being insecure -- in most browsers it means the lock icon in the url bar is broken, which would be just about OK as we can reassure users that their actual data is safe -- but in IE the warning is a giant "THIS SITE HAS SOME UNENCRYPTED BITS. CLICK CONTINUE TO HAVE YOUR BABIES EATEN BY RABID WOLVES" or something like that...
Speaking as someone in exactly the situation you describe -- running our current site on a small single-core VPS, over HTTP we can serve ~400 static files per second, limited by bandwidth. Using HTTPS, we can serve 10 static files per second, limited by CPU speed. For dynamic pages, the limits are more like 50/sec (limited by CPU) and 5/sec (limited by CPU -- page load times go up a lot as the database and processing are competing with the encryption)
Current plan to deal with this, because we want to be HTTPS by default, is to offload static files to an HTTPS-enabled CDN, and have a front-end reverse proxy or several dedicated to SSL processing -- unless anyone has any better ideas?
the treasures of world literature, painting or music
I think these things are kind of overrated; if we rated them realistically, it'd be easier to see that games are equally worthy of attention (where the worth is "sure, enjoy them if you want, but they aren't universally life-changing")
Industries make products
There are also literature, painting, and music industries; and indie games created by individuals with vision
What are you suggesting? That there's some sort of secret conspiracy, planning to take over the world by posting an unusually high number of phone-related news articles on a tech news site?
I wish 250GB was considered a ridiculous cap in my country -- here in the UK, £15/mo for 25GB is pretty common (in the case of my parents' ISP, they advertise this as "unlimited", and then throttle to dialup speeds for the rest of the month if you go over the limit -- then permanently, if you go over the cap 3 months in a row)
In order to get my scanner working on Windows 7, I had to... wait, no, I never did get it working; and with the source unavailable I can't even fix it myself:( How can we expect normal users to deal with that?
Thankfully I normally run ubuntu, and it runs fine there (plugged in and worked immediately, didn't even need to spend hours online hunting for drivers)
when he lowered the price of his book The List from $2.99 to 99 cents, he started selling 20 times as many copies
And when 20 other people see this profit and copy him, will they still sell such high volumes, or will they go back to their old volumes at 1/3rd the price?
My school had a blanket ban on all phones; it worked excellently while I was there, but this was a few years ago -- I wonder if the youth of today are more attached to their phones than we were...
How does the school district even have jurisdiction in this case?
Maybe it's just the school I went to, or just this country (England), but when I started high school we had to sign some sort of contract thing essentially saying that if the school is involved in any way (with "actions committed while wearing the school uniform" as the example) then the school has jurisdiction in addition to the regular authorities.
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So I did pay you, or someone like you, and you did not deliver...
You got what you paid for -- if you want a totally bug-free phone, and you're willing to foot the bill for a few hundred developers to work for a few decades on nothing but polish, you can have that too; companies just don't advertise that option because the high cost makes it a very small market
Looking at that example, a more confusing thing comes to mind: why would their systems be built with MS-Paint o_O?
These changes are due to take effect from the 1st of may
Am I misunderstanding, or is the headline "open codec designed for voip is slightly better for voip than closed codec designed for music"? How does it compare to the other voip codecs?
What, customers can't file bugs in Bugzilla?
I've been programming for 15 years and *I* can't figure out how to do anything useful with bugzilla...
Facebook originally said it would not remove the page but would monitor it instead. The company later pulled the page after discussions degraded into violence and hatred.
Facebook allowing free speech, only removing things once they get to the TOS (and law)-breaching point of hate-speech? It it still April 1st over there? o_O
That would be way more nerdy than most of the news we get here :-(
tricking the brain into making you think you are physically moving
I think you'll find it's the people in the little rectangle a few feet in front of me who are doing all the moving o_O
Also, the 3DS has the most immersive 3D I've seen so far, to the point that I was instinctively dodging when things came out of the screen towards me (something that 3D movie makers seem to advertise, but I've never remotely felt); the 5 minute demo did make my eyes feel weird for about 15 minutes after though :-(
... if you're talking about the number of models of handset, and not about number of users
Protip to all musicians (and indeed, everyone everywhere): for about $10/year you can buy a domain name, put that on your CDs / business cards / etc, and stick up a redirect to whichever social network you're on this week
Find a machine with a decent screen and you'll find a decent laptop
In my experience, find a machine with a decent screen resolution and you've found something less portable than a bag of lead bricks... but yeah, if there exists a lightweight laptop with high resolution, go for it.
Is it just me who finds ruby even more cryptic than perl? Reading why's poignant guide, I loved the presentation of the book, and really wanted to love the language, but every time he said "read this code out loud, it makes perfect sense, doesn't it?" all I could think of was "you, my dear little cartoon foxy friend, have clearly been snorting too much of the good white stuff. I'm going back to python now" :-(
Just as I thought my computer was running basic office and email tasks too quickly, more abstraction layers \o/ Thanks, generation of developers who don't know about ports other than 80~
That causes browser warnings about parts of the page being insecure -- in most browsers it means the lock icon in the url bar is broken, which would be just about OK as we can reassure users that their actual data is safe -- but in IE the warning is a giant "THIS SITE HAS SOME UNENCRYPTED BITS. CLICK CONTINUE TO HAVE YOUR BABIES EATEN BY RABID WOLVES" or something like that...
Speaking as someone in exactly the situation you describe -- running our current site on a small single-core VPS, over HTTP we can serve ~400 static files per second, limited by bandwidth. Using HTTPS, we can serve 10 static files per second, limited by CPU speed. For dynamic pages, the limits are more like 50/sec (limited by CPU) and 5/sec (limited by CPU -- page load times go up a lot as the database and processing are competing with the encryption)
Current plan to deal with this, because we want to be HTTPS by default, is to offload static files to an HTTPS-enabled CDN, and have a front-end reverse proxy or several dedicated to SSL processing -- unless anyone has any better ideas?
the treasures of world literature, painting or music
I think these things are kind of overrated; if we rated them realistically, it'd be easier to see that games are equally worthy of attention (where the worth is "sure, enjoy them if you want, but they aren't universally life-changing")
Industries make products
There are also literature, painting, and music industries; and indie games created by individuals with vision
What are you suggesting? That there's some sort of secret conspiracy, planning to take over the world by posting an unusually high number of phone-related news articles on a tech news site?
I wish 250GB was considered a ridiculous cap in my country -- here in the UK, £15/mo for 25GB is pretty common (in the case of my parents' ISP, they advertise this as "unlimited", and then throttle to dialup speeds for the rest of the month if you go over the limit -- then permanently, if you go over the cap 3 months in a row)
In order to get my scanner working on Windows 7, I had to... wait, no, I never did get it working; and with the source unavailable I can't even fix it myself :( How can we expect normal users to deal with that?
Thankfully I normally run ubuntu, and it runs fine there (plugged in and worked immediately, didn't even need to spend hours online hunting for drivers)
at least Microsoft isn't shaking stuff up just for the heck of it
Ribbon
when he lowered the price of his book The List from $2.99 to 99 cents, he started selling 20 times as many copies
And when 20 other people see this profit and copy him, will they still sell such high volumes, or will they go back to their old volumes at 1/3rd the price?
The only first I see is the specific things they used
Exactly -- they're making spaceships out of cheese, what's not awesome about that?
(And even if not particularly newsy, it is at least a lot more nerdy than most other front page stories :P)
My school had a blanket ban on all phones; it worked excellently while I was there, but this was a few years ago -- I wonder if the youth of today are more attached to their phones than we were...
"Guy uses computer for word processing and reading email" is news now?
How does the school district even have jurisdiction in this case?
Maybe it's just the school I went to, or just this country (England), but when I started high school we had to sign some sort of contract thing essentially saying that if the school is involved in any way (with "actions committed while wearing the school uniform" as the example) then the school has jurisdiction in addition to the regular authorities.