Only if there is only 1 clock wrong. Also if there are 2 clocks wrong by the same amount, the owner of the three clocks would be wrong in assuming that the third with a different time was wrong, when in fact it did have the right time.
Windows Vista was a different story. At that time there wasn't a viable 64-bit consumer operating system from Microsoft. Vendors were looking from something, anything that was 64 bit. Also Windows XP was getting quite old, and the vendors wanted something new to sell, so they pushed it. This time around, Windows 7 is still pretty shiny and new, and there aren't any new hardware features in Windows 8, except save for the touch screen interface. Maybe that's it though. Maybe with Windows 8, all the screens will start to become touch screens. I hope not though, Nothing beats keyabaord and mouse for efficient input.
If you live in a major city, there's always Wind, Mobilicity, or any of the other in-the-city providers. Their rates are amazing, especially if you use data. The downside is that their rates are only good if you're within the city limits. Many people I know think that's a big problem. But personally, for the few times a year I leave the city, I'm happy paying the roaming rates, or just not using my cell phone. If I was in the position where I had to use my phone a lot, like for a job, my employer would be covering the fees, and they can use whichever provider they want. But for personal use, I'd much rather stay away from RoBellus
Not to argue that there isn't a conflict of interest, but I guess that the alternative would be to appoint someone who hasn't worked in the telecom industry. I'm not sure which would end up worse. Having someone in charge who is old friends with the people running the telcos, or having somebody in charge who has no idea about telecommunications networks are run, and has never worked in the business.
Or even OpenID with the delegate feature. Get your own domain name, or set up a URL on a friend's domain name, and just post a page that delegates to some other open ID provider. That way if the OpenID provider gets hacked, disappears, or just needs to be replaced for whatever reason, you don't have to change your credentials at every web site. Plus it's easier to set up than being your own OpenID provider. It's the same reason I strongly discourage people from using their ISP or even things like Google/Yahoo/Hotmail for their email address. If for whatever reason they disappear, have unfavourable terms, or whatever the problem, you end up having to change your email address. The safest solution right now seems to be to have your own domain name. You can always switch hosting providers, switch registrars, and you almost never lose your domain name (somebody will probably point out a case where it's happened, expiry dates, name stolen, etc...).
We had a local independantly own video game store when we were kids. They had TVs and consoles set up so you could pay to play. They undercut the arcade big time. Most kids would rather pay $5.00 for half an hour than pop quarters into some machine and not know how long they might get to play for. Arcade games are kind of rigged to get as many quarters as possible, while console games were made to be not too difficult, as to be discouraging. Plus you could play cutting edge stuff like NEO GEO and Super Nintendo. Some of the stuff at the arcade was kind of dated. That place was always crowded.
Automated cars are so not the same thing as autopilot. Planes don't have traffic, pedestrian, cyclists, and other things of this nature that make automated cars a really hard problem.
Computerized cars could be a lot smarter than humans and reduce traffic. Take a simple traffic light. If there's 5 cars at the traffic light, it takes about 10 seconds for the 5th car to start moving (people really are this slow). If computers were driving, all the cars could start to move in unison. Also, take highway driving. People slow down to look at something interesting on the side of the road. Traffic piles up behind them. With a computer driving, this wouldn't happen. Automated cars will be able to make traffic much less of a problem. If you cut out accidents and stupid drivers, the amount of traffic will go down significantly.
You must not live in Canada. I ordered mine. It was $12 shipping. Plus they charged $38 CDN for it. Total price after tax was $56. I don't know why I had to pay $38. The Canadian dollar is doing better than the US dollar right now. According to xe.com, $35 US = 34.63 $CDN. I bought it anyway.
eBook prices are high because they don't want to screw over the sellers of dead tree books. They could sell eBooks for $2-$5 and make huge profits. But the stores selling physical books would get quite angry that their business was disappearing. It's the same reason you don't see HP selling machines on their website cheaper than the retailers sell them (even though there is less overhead). Because they don't want to screw over their channel partners. If they started selling computers for cheaper than the resellers did, the resellers would stop pushing HPs products. If the publishers offer people an alternative way of getting the books at a huge discount, then the books stores will stop pushing books from that advertiser.
You could probably build the technology right into the kindle. Highlight a word, and have an option to send it for review. Some real person looks over the problem, and corrects as necessary. Fixes are automatically distributed to people who have the book.
I'm not sure about you, but I don't know anybody with a 1 year lease. Usually a lease is 4 or 5 years. A car will lose about half it's value in the first year, especially if you drive it (not necessarily required, even demo cars that only have a few KM on them can be pretty cheap). For a $30,000 car, that means that you would have to spend $15000 a year replacing the car. Which is a lot of money to be paying out every year for a $30,000 car. That's 1250 a month. For that price you could lease a really nice car for 4 years, and it would still be in good condition (and under warranty) at the end of those 4 years.
If they took out the optical drive, you would have plenty of space for a pretty spiffy graphics card. I'm sure the majority of people would rather have a really nice interchangeable graphics card on their laptop than an optical drive. If you really need an optical drive, there's always an option for USB. Sure there's things like ThunderBolt, which is basically External PCIe, but I think it would make much more sense to just leave the graphics card in the main laptop body, and do away with the optical drive.
Also, I distinctly remember playing DVDs on my P2-266 without any decoder card at all. However, you had to be careful about which programs you used to play the DVDs. If I remember correctly, PowerDVD would play the movies just fine, but some other programs would introduce a lot of skipping, probably due to inefficient algorithms.
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One advantage I find with a 6 inch e-ink reader is that you can read them standing up on the bus. There's not always a seat on the bus, especially in rush hour. Having a book that you can read no matter the situation is quite nice. Getting the laptop out to read when you don't have a place to sit can be quite problematic.
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I would go for the last option, and start any new projects using only PDO. First there's the example of named parameters, and second, your library isn't tied by name to the database. So, in the event you wanted to write code that was database agnostic, or if you wanted to change databases mid project, you could do it. As a.Net developer, the whole idea of having completely different libraries for connecting to different databases is just absurd.
Somebody should make a computer program which generates homework questions. That way you don't have to worry about students finding the answers, and you don't have to worry about mistakes in the answer pages (assuming the program is done correctly). If you did fancy stuff, you could probably have the computer generate word problems as well. You could probably get a computer to generate problems all they way up to highschool math.
I don't even know why they added object oriented features in the first place. It's really hard to bolt something like Object Oriented features on to language that never had them. Not to mention that having half the standard library in OO and half in procedural just makes everything an even bigger mess. PHP would probably be a lot cleaner and more palatable had they never tried to add objects in the first place.
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Many languages provide fancy syntactic sugar type gotos so that developers can only make safe gotos. Some of these include things like "break" to exit a loop, or other commands like "exit for". As far as I'm concerned, Try/Catch is just fancy syntactic sugar for the old VB "On Error GoTo". Very much agree with you. There's nothing wrong with GoTo provided you use it right. Not having GoTo doesn't make terrible developers all of a sudden stop making crappy code.
PHP has had some security issues, but they can largely be avoid. First, always use parameterized queries (prepared statements) using PDO or MySQLi. Register Globals, which was a big problem in the past has been removed in 5.4. Most of the security problems I'm aware of can be summed up in those two things. I think the reason it has such a bad reputation is that it has so many newbie developers on it, and because there are a lot of bad tutorials out there (possibly written by newbies) that show bad practices, such as not using parameterized queries.
So what if the figure is impossible to attain? It's impossible to walk into McDonald's and get a hamburger that looks like the one in the commercial. They aren't even selling the body is most cases (diet products would be selling the body, or the illusion that you could have that body). They are selling clothes, or make-up, or cars, or beer. If they have to stop using skinny models, they should also have to stop using muscular men, because it causes steroid use. And they should have to stop using models with large breasts as it causes people to go to south america for dangerous breast augmentations by unqualified doctors, and they should stop using..... Ok maybe they should only be able to show the product against a white background. No talking allowed. Just a product shot. That should be nice and safe for everyone involved.
I remember using an MP2 (that's right MP2) encoder in that era because I still had a 486, and it wouldn't play MP3s without skipping. And I couldn't tell the quality difference on my terrible computer speakers either. I also remember using the TwinVQ (VQF) file format for encoding music.
This is exactly why it didn't take off. The internet didn't take off because of online banking, shopping, and news. It took off when any Joe could put up their own website. Most of the early users of the internet used it for chatting with other people, socializing, and as a creative medium. Without the ability for everybody to participate in the internet, it's just another TV channel.
My Kobo eReader wouldn't boot yesterday. Haven't tried it today, maybe it's a related thing. I'll try when I get home. I sent in a support request, and they said when it cycles at the boot screen it's defective. It would be interesting if it all of a sudden started working today.
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Only if there is only 1 clock wrong. Also if there are 2 clocks wrong by the same amount, the owner of the three clocks would be wrong in assuming that the third with a different time was wrong, when in fact it did have the right time.
Windows Vista was a different story. At that time there wasn't a viable 64-bit consumer operating system from Microsoft. Vendors were looking from something, anything that was 64 bit. Also Windows XP was getting quite old, and the vendors wanted something new to sell, so they pushed it. This time around, Windows 7 is still pretty shiny and new, and there aren't any new hardware features in Windows 8, except save for the touch screen interface. Maybe that's it though. Maybe with Windows 8, all the screens will start to become touch screens. I hope not though, Nothing beats keyabaord and mouse for efficient input.
If you live in a major city, there's always Wind, Mobilicity, or any of the other in-the-city providers. Their rates are amazing, especially if you use data. The downside is that their rates are only good if you're within the city limits. Many people I know think that's a big problem. But personally, for the few times a year I leave the city, I'm happy paying the roaming rates, or just not using my cell phone. If I was in the position where I had to use my phone a lot, like for a job, my employer would be covering the fees, and they can use whichever provider they want. But for personal use, I'd much rather stay away from RoBellus
Not to argue that there isn't a conflict of interest, but I guess that the alternative would be to appoint someone who hasn't worked in the telecom industry. I'm not sure which would end up worse. Having someone in charge who is old friends with the people running the telcos, or having somebody in charge who has no idea about telecommunications networks are run, and has never worked in the business.
Or even OpenID with the delegate feature. Get your own domain name, or set up a URL on a friend's domain name, and just post a page that delegates to some other open ID provider. That way if the OpenID provider gets hacked, disappears, or just needs to be replaced for whatever reason, you don't have to change your credentials at every web site. Plus it's easier to set up than being your own OpenID provider. It's the same reason I strongly discourage people from using their ISP or even things like Google/Yahoo/Hotmail for their email address. If for whatever reason they disappear, have unfavourable terms, or whatever the problem, you end up having to change your email address. The safest solution right now seems to be to have your own domain name. You can always switch hosting providers, switch registrars, and you almost never lose your domain name (somebody will probably point out a case where it's happened, expiry dates, name stolen, etc...).
We had a local independantly own video game store when we were kids. They had TVs and consoles set up so you could pay to play. They undercut the arcade big time. Most kids would rather pay $5.00 for half an hour than pop quarters into some machine and not know how long they might get to play for. Arcade games are kind of rigged to get as many quarters as possible, while console games were made to be not too difficult, as to be discouraging. Plus you could play cutting edge stuff like NEO GEO and Super Nintendo. Some of the stuff at the arcade was kind of dated. That place was always crowded.
Automated cars are so not the same thing as autopilot. Planes don't have traffic, pedestrian, cyclists, and other things of this nature that make automated cars a really hard problem.
Computerized cars could be a lot smarter than humans and reduce traffic. Take a simple traffic light. If there's 5 cars at the traffic light, it takes about 10 seconds for the 5th car to start moving (people really are this slow). If computers were driving, all the cars could start to move in unison. Also, take highway driving. People slow down to look at something interesting on the side of the road. Traffic piles up behind them. With a computer driving, this wouldn't happen. Automated cars will be able to make traffic much less of a problem. If you cut out accidents and stupid drivers, the amount of traffic will go down significantly.
You must not live in Canada. I ordered mine. It was $12 shipping. Plus they charged $38 CDN for it. Total price after tax was $56. I don't know why I had to pay $38. The Canadian dollar is doing better than the US dollar right now. According to xe.com, $35 US = 34.63 $CDN. I bought it anyway.
eBook prices are high because they don't want to screw over the sellers of dead tree books. They could sell eBooks for $2-$5 and make huge profits. But the stores selling physical books would get quite angry that their business was disappearing. It's the same reason you don't see HP selling machines on their website cheaper than the retailers sell them (even though there is less overhead). Because they don't want to screw over their channel partners. If they started selling computers for cheaper than the resellers did, the resellers would stop pushing HPs products. If the publishers offer people an alternative way of getting the books at a huge discount, then the books stores will stop pushing books from that advertiser.
You could probably build the technology right into the kindle. Highlight a word, and have an option to send it for review. Some real person looks over the problem, and corrects as necessary. Fixes are automatically distributed to people who have the book.
I'm not sure about you, but I don't know anybody with a 1 year lease. Usually a lease is 4 or 5 years. A car will lose about half it's value in the first year, especially if you drive it (not necessarily required, even demo cars that only have a few KM on them can be pretty cheap). For a $30,000 car, that means that you would have to spend $15000 a year replacing the car. Which is a lot of money to be paying out every year for a $30,000 car. That's 1250 a month. For that price you could lease a really nice car for 4 years, and it would still be in good condition (and under warranty) at the end of those 4 years.
If they took out the optical drive, you would have plenty of space for a pretty spiffy graphics card. I'm sure the majority of people would rather have a really nice interchangeable graphics card on their laptop than an optical drive. If you really need an optical drive, there's always an option for USB. Sure there's things like ThunderBolt, which is basically External PCIe, but I think it would make much more sense to just leave the graphics card in the main laptop body, and do away with the optical drive.
Also, I distinctly remember playing DVDs on my P2-266 without any decoder card at all. However, you had to be careful about which programs you used to play the DVDs. If I remember correctly, PowerDVD would play the movies just fine, but some other programs would introduce a lot of skipping, probably due to inefficient algorithms.
One advantage I find with a 6 inch e-ink reader is that you can read them standing up on the bus. There's not always a seat on the bus, especially in rush hour. Having a book that you can read no matter the situation is quite nice. Getting the laptop out to read when you don't have a place to sit can be quite problematic.
I would go for the last option, and start any new projects using only PDO. First there's the example of named parameters, and second, your library isn't tied by name to the database. So, in the event you wanted to write code that was database agnostic, or if you wanted to change databases mid project, you could do it. As a .Net developer, the whole idea of having completely different libraries for connecting to different databases is just absurd.
Somebody should make a computer program which generates homework questions. That way you don't have to worry about students finding the answers, and you don't have to worry about mistakes in the answer pages (assuming the program is done correctly). If you did fancy stuff, you could probably have the computer generate word problems as well. You could probably get a computer to generate problems all they way up to highschool math.
I don't even know why they added object oriented features in the first place. It's really hard to bolt something like Object Oriented features on to language that never had them. Not to mention that having half the standard library in OO and half in procedural just makes everything an even bigger mess. PHP would probably be a lot cleaner and more palatable had they never tried to add objects in the first place.
Many languages provide fancy syntactic sugar type gotos so that developers can only make safe gotos. Some of these include things like "break" to exit a loop, or other commands like "exit for". As far as I'm concerned, Try/Catch is just fancy syntactic sugar for the old VB "On Error GoTo". Very much agree with you. There's nothing wrong with GoTo provided you use it right. Not having GoTo doesn't make terrible developers all of a sudden stop making crappy code.
PHP has had some security issues, but they can largely be avoid. First, always use parameterized queries (prepared statements) using PDO or MySQLi. Register Globals, which was a big problem in the past has been removed in 5.4. Most of the security problems I'm aware of can be summed up in those two things. I think the reason it has such a bad reputation is that it has so many newbie developers on it, and because there are a lot of bad tutorials out there (possibly written by newbies) that show bad practices, such as not using parameterized queries.
Link to the image for anyone who's interested. Should be safe for work. Unless you work at somewhere very puritanical
So what if the figure is impossible to attain? It's impossible to walk into McDonald's and get a hamburger that looks like the one in the commercial. They aren't even selling the body is most cases (diet products would be selling the body, or the illusion that you could have that body). They are selling clothes, or make-up, or cars, or beer. If they have to stop using skinny models, they should also have to stop using muscular men, because it causes steroid use. And they should have to stop using models with large breasts as it causes people to go to south america for dangerous breast augmentations by unqualified doctors, and they should stop using ..... Ok maybe they should only be able to show the product against a white background. No talking allowed. Just a product shot. That should be nice and safe for everyone involved.
I remember using an MP2 (that's right MP2) encoder in that era because I still had a 486, and it wouldn't play MP3s without skipping. And I couldn't tell the quality difference on my terrible computer speakers either. I also remember using the TwinVQ (VQF) file format for encoding music.
This is exactly why it didn't take off. The internet didn't take off because of online banking, shopping, and news. It took off when any Joe could put up their own website. Most of the early users of the internet used it for chatting with other people, socializing, and as a creative medium. Without the ability for everybody to participate in the internet, it's just another TV channel.
My Kobo eReader wouldn't boot yesterday. Haven't tried it today, maybe it's a related thing. I'll try when I get home. I sent in a support request, and they said when it cycles at the boot screen it's defective. It would be interesting if it all of a sudden started working today.