Yeah, with static typing, there's a whole class of errors that simply can't happen. Any time you lose from having to explicitly declare variable types, or casting variables to the correct time is easily saved by the fact that you don't have to write as many tests. Unless you aren't writing any tests, in which case, you have other problems.
Are they distributing their own model of laptop, or do they just distribute generic laptops. I remember their original idea was to design a super cheap and rugged laptop for $100 that could easily be used in developing countries. The free market has made cheap tablets available to all. Is there still a need for them to have custom hardware?
Perhaps 30 years is the maximum for a single crime. However, many people are convicted of multiple crimes, and serve each sentence in series rather than in parallel, so people could indeed get sentenced to hundreds of years, while still only getting 30 years for individual charges.
What about rehabilitation? Sure some people do bad things, really bad things. But putting them on drugs to make a sentence seem longer isn't going to make them better members of society when they eventually get out. Solitary confinement also makes things seem longer, but eventually they get out and they go right on doing what they did before, because you didn't fix the underlying problem. If you just want them in jail for as long as possible, and don't strive to rehabilitate them, you might as well invoke the death penalty. The point of the justice system shouldn't be just to punish people, but rehabilitate them so they can be more useful members of society.
I've tried the x86 version, and while it is faster, it still runs slower than it does on a native phone, or it is at least much more intensive than it would be running on a native x86/atom device. I thought that Android used a VM anyway, so there should be no need to debug on an ARM emulator or even some Atom VM unless you are debugging with bugs specific to the platform.
I don't have a problem with Eclipse, but Android development as a whole is pretty terrible from my point of view. I've tried a few times to make an app, and I just found the whole process quite terrible.
This, or the computer it's attached to isn't fast enough, causing too much lag. From what I've heard, it requires quite a substantial computer to get the lag low enough. I'm sure the day it's released, a bunch of people with old PCs are going to run out and buy it, expecting it to work, feel sick, and it will tarnish the reputation of the product. This is probably why Sony has a better chance with a VR headset for the PS4. Because they'll be able to control how well it performs. With computers it's kind of dependent on the individual system. Even a fast computer would probably give too much lag if it was bogged down with malware or configured incorrectly.
The difference between the iPad and the Oculus Rift is that marketing and hype can convince people that the iPad is good, because it doesn't make you feel physically sick. If the Oculus Rift makes you feel physically sick, there is not amount of marketing that will make people want it. The iPad may be functionally crippled (unable to read from shared folders, for example),and miss out on basic hardware features like an SD card slot (and charging 5x the going rate for built in memory), but at least it doesn't make you physically sick.
If you give the programmer the ability to detect whether or not the screen is round, then the app could change appearance depending on whether the corners were visible or not.
Personally, I don't really care about the camera in my phone. I've never seen a camera on a phone that takes anywhere close to to as good pictures as a decent point and shoot digital camera. At least not in all situations. They seem to work well outside in the summer when there is plenty of sunlight, but in low-light situations, the small pinhole phone cameras seem to perform poorly. Also, the led flash tends to work terribly compared to an actual camera flash. I really don't understand why smartphones are so popular. For the same price you could get a cheap feature phone, a tablet, and a camera. Use the phone for tethering the tablet, which works better for browsing the web and other such functions, and use the camera for taking pictures. That way you don't have to worry about your $600+ phone when you just want to go hiking or go for a bike ride where you don't really need internet connectivity anyway.
I live in Ontario, and I've never heard of this. Got any more information? What grades does it start at? Is it the top 2% of students in each class, school, city, province? How does this work for small town? In my highschool, there was only about 700 students, and it was the only highschool in town. And the only town for a 40 minute drive in any direction. So that would be 14 students from the entire high school, across all grades. At my kids school there's only 300 students. 2% would mean 6 students across the entire school population. Doesn't sound like much of a reasonable program to me.
This is so true. I have received a few comments from my daughter's teachers that it's amazing to find a student who not only understands the material, but also participates in class.
I'd also like to point out that we shouldn't be directing the "gifted" children into certain fields but rather trying to figure out what they want to do. When I was in school, I got noticed as gifted, along with a few other kids, and they started a program for us. Mostly a lot of the older sciences like biology and chemistry, which I was really never interested in. They never bothered to ask me what I wanted to learn. Had there been extra computer courses or something along those lines, I would have got a lot more out of the extra work I had to do.
Yeah, but with all the sensors on iOS devices, you would think that they would be able to make it generate numbers that look very random. Between the wireless radios, cameras, ambient light sensors, GPS, acceleration and tilt, battery voltage, and probably a few sensors I'm forgetting, they could probably make it quite close to random.
Yes, this and putting the dollar/currency sign before the number. Some people, including the people in Quebec put the dollar sign after the number. Which makes a lot more sense, if you think of the $ (or other currency) as the units of measurement. Plus, it's the way we say it when read. We don't say "I have dollars 2". We say "I have 2 dollars" so it should be written 2$.
Kind of a slippery slope though. Sure it makes sense for most vaccines, but the bigger idea of "if you don't follow our medical advice, you don't get coverage" could lead to all other sorts of unintended outcomes.
I don't ever get the flu shot because it makes me have the same symptoms as the flu the few times I did get it. I know you can't get the flu from the flu shot, but if you get all the same symptoms, you "effectively" have the flu. Should I be denied care in the case where I do get the flu?
Should people who smoke be denied care because they were told many times that it's bad for them? What about people who refuse to eat well, even though they can afford to? What about those people who don't exercise, even though you can do so for free in your own spare time?
Just did this with stylish. Each of the ads are all within an "li" element with the class "ads-ad". Just add a custom style sheet such as the following and all the ads are not shown. Of course, you can add different styles to make them display differently if you want, but hiding them is also a good idea.
You can already play videos on your Windows RT tablet (such as the Surface) using the included video player. It supports x264 which is probable the most widely used format. I'm not sure if it supports MKV, but there are other apps that already support that. VLC is actually quite late to the game. They should have had something a long time ago. People who have a Windows RT tablet already have lots of options for playing videos.
This release cannot run on Windows RT, it says so right in the summary, and on the Windows App store, it says it only supports x86 and x86-64. Having it work on RT would require their codecs to work on ARM processors. Since they do have a version for Android, this probably shouldn't be too difficult, but the current release does not run on RT.
But that means the price is $2 for 100 GB. That doesn't mean it's $0.02 for 1 GB, because that option doesn't exist. Otherwise, I'm sure people would opt to pay 20 cents a month for an extra 10 GB. When you go to the gas station and buy gas for $3 a gallon, that's the actual price, because you can buy any quantity of gas you want (within the limits of their supplies and minimum measurements), and pay $3 for a gallon, or less for a fraction of a gallon.
But why would I want to pay for a monthly fee on storage on something like a laptop or desktop? I could just buy a bigger hard drive and save money in the long run.
I find it amazing how much Jules Verne envisioned in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Basically he came up with the idea of a nuclear submarine before the advent of nuclear power. What I also learned even in 1870 when it was published, that very little about Antarctica was known, and the first undisputed landing didn't take place until 1895.
His writings in Journey To The Center Of The Earth turned out to be much less real, but you still have to admire his imagination.
If the parent can't trust the kid not to make charges on their account, they shouldn't be giving the device to the child. I have a 6 and a 7 year old. Both of them are smart enough to know how to avoid in-app transactions, and know that they aren't allowed to make them. If you can't trust your kids, get them a Nintendo DS, or some other gaming system.
Also, isn't it possible to have a Google Play account without a credit card? Don't they have gift cards you can load on for those without credit cards? If you are required a credit card, You could just get a Visa/Mastercard Gift Card, and use that, which limits your liability to the amount pre-loaded on the card.
He's probably one of those guys who hordes pirated movies. No way to recreate from source because he never had the original movies to begin with.
Really, it's not a hard problem to solve anyway. If you have a 20 GB raid array, all you have to do is set up a second 20 GB raid array, and copy the files over every night. Once in a while (possibly run manually) delete any files that don't exist on the primary location. At most you'll lose a days' worth of data. If both raid arrays fail at the same time, you might be out of luck, but that's a pretty small chance.
Actually, I do. And at work we're still using VS 2008. And I still like it better than anything I've seen from the open source community. Trying to do Android development in Eclipse is a pain compared to doing stuff in Visual Studio. Despite it's problems (and it does have them), I don't think there's an IDE out there that compares to Visual Studio. I haven't tried developing for iOS though, as I don't want to go out and buy a Mac just to try something out for the fun of it.
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Yeah, with static typing, there's a whole class of errors that simply can't happen. Any time you lose from having to explicitly declare variable types, or casting variables to the correct time is easily saved by the fact that you don't have to write as many tests. Unless you aren't writing any tests, in which case, you have other problems.
Are they distributing their own model of laptop, or do they just distribute generic laptops. I remember their original idea was to design a super cheap and rugged laptop for $100 that could easily be used in developing countries. The free market has made cheap tablets available to all. Is there still a need for them to have custom hardware?
Perhaps 30 years is the maximum for a single crime. However, many people are convicted of multiple crimes, and serve each sentence in series rather than in parallel, so people could indeed get sentenced to hundreds of years, while still only getting 30 years for individual charges.
What about rehabilitation? Sure some people do bad things, really bad things. But putting them on drugs to make a sentence seem longer isn't going to make them better members of society when they eventually get out. Solitary confinement also makes things seem longer, but eventually they get out and they go right on doing what they did before, because you didn't fix the underlying problem. If you just want them in jail for as long as possible, and don't strive to rehabilitate them, you might as well invoke the death penalty. The point of the justice system shouldn't be just to punish people, but rehabilitate them so they can be more useful members of society.
I've tried the x86 version, and while it is faster, it still runs slower than it does on a native phone, or it is at least much more intensive than it would be running on a native x86/atom device. I thought that Android used a VM anyway, so there should be no need to debug on an ARM emulator or even some Atom VM unless you are debugging with bugs specific to the platform.
I don't have a problem with Eclipse, but Android development as a whole is pretty terrible from my point of view. I've tried a few times to make an app, and I just found the whole process quite terrible.
This, or the computer it's attached to isn't fast enough, causing too much lag. From what I've heard, it requires quite a substantial computer to get the lag low enough. I'm sure the day it's released, a bunch of people with old PCs are going to run out and buy it, expecting it to work, feel sick, and it will tarnish the reputation of the product. This is probably why Sony has a better chance with a VR headset for the PS4. Because they'll be able to control how well it performs. With computers it's kind of dependent on the individual system. Even a fast computer would probably give too much lag if it was bogged down with malware or configured incorrectly.
The difference between the iPad and the Oculus Rift is that marketing and hype can convince people that the iPad is good, because it doesn't make you feel physically sick. If the Oculus Rift makes you feel physically sick, there is not amount of marketing that will make people want it. The iPad may be functionally crippled (unable to read from shared folders, for example) ,and miss out on basic hardware features like an SD card slot (and charging 5x the going rate for built in memory), but at least it doesn't make you physically sick.
If you give the programmer the ability to detect whether or not the screen is round, then the app could change appearance depending on whether the corners were visible or not.
Personally, I don't really care about the camera in my phone. I've never seen a camera on a phone that takes anywhere close to to as good pictures as a decent point and shoot digital camera. At least not in all situations. They seem to work well outside in the summer when there is plenty of sunlight, but in low-light situations, the small pinhole phone cameras seem to perform poorly. Also, the led flash tends to work terribly compared to an actual camera flash. I really don't understand why smartphones are so popular. For the same price you could get a cheap feature phone, a tablet, and a camera. Use the phone for tethering the tablet, which works better for browsing the web and other such functions, and use the camera for taking pictures. That way you don't have to worry about your $600+ phone when you just want to go hiking or go for a bike ride where you don't really need internet connectivity anyway.
I live in Ontario, and I've never heard of this. Got any more information? What grades does it start at? Is it the top 2% of students in each class, school, city, province? How does this work for small town? In my highschool, there was only about 700 students, and it was the only highschool in town. And the only town for a 40 minute drive in any direction. So that would be 14 students from the entire high school, across all grades. At my kids school there's only 300 students. 2% would mean 6 students across the entire school population. Doesn't sound like much of a reasonable program to me.
This is so true. I have received a few comments from my daughter's teachers that it's amazing to find a student who not only understands the material, but also participates in class.
I'd also like to point out that we shouldn't be directing the "gifted" children into certain fields but rather trying to figure out what they want to do. When I was in school, I got noticed as gifted, along with a few other kids, and they started a program for us. Mostly a lot of the older sciences like biology and chemistry, which I was really never interested in. They never bothered to ask me what I wanted to learn. Had there been extra computer courses or something along those lines, I would have got a lot more out of the extra work I had to do.
Yeah, but with all the sensors on iOS devices, you would think that they would be able to make it generate numbers that look very random. Between the wireless radios, cameras, ambient light sensors, GPS, acceleration and tilt, battery voltage, and probably a few sensors I'm forgetting, they could probably make it quite close to random.
Yes, this and putting the dollar/currency sign before the number. Some people, including the people in Quebec put the dollar sign after the number. Which makes a lot more sense, if you think of the $ (or other currency) as the units of measurement. Plus, it's the way we say it when read. We don't say "I have dollars 2". We say "I have 2 dollars" so it should be written 2$.
Kind of a slippery slope though. Sure it makes sense for most vaccines, but the bigger idea of "if you don't follow our medical advice, you don't get coverage" could lead to all other sorts of unintended outcomes.
I don't ever get the flu shot because it makes me have the same symptoms as the flu the few times I did get it. I know you can't get the flu from the flu shot, but if you get all the same symptoms, you "effectively" have the flu. Should I be denied care in the case where I do get the flu?
Should people who smoke be denied care because they were told many times that it's bad for them? What about people who refuse to eat well, even though they can afford to? What about those people who don't exercise, even though you can do so for free in your own spare time?
You can already play videos on your Windows RT tablet (such as the Surface) using the included video player. It supports x264 which is probable the most widely used format. I'm not sure if it supports MKV, but there are other apps that already support that. VLC is actually quite late to the game. They should have had something a long time ago. People who have a Windows RT tablet already have lots of options for playing videos.
This release cannot run on Windows RT, it says so right in the summary, and on the Windows App store, it says it only supports x86 and x86-64. Having it work on RT would require their codecs to work on ARM processors. Since they do have a version for Android, this probably shouldn't be too difficult, but the current release does not run on RT.
But that means the price is $2 for 100 GB. That doesn't mean it's $0.02 for 1 GB, because that option doesn't exist. Otherwise, I'm sure people would opt to pay 20 cents a month for an extra 10 GB. When you go to the gas station and buy gas for $3 a gallon, that's the actual price, because you can buy any quantity of gas you want (within the limits of their supplies and minimum measurements), and pay $3 for a gallon, or less for a fraction of a gallon.
But why would I want to pay for a monthly fee on storage on something like a laptop or desktop? I could just buy a bigger hard drive and save money in the long run.
Except that many phones don't support plugging in USB drives. Come to think of it, a lot of tablets don't either.
I find it amazing how much Jules Verne envisioned in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Basically he came up with the idea of a nuclear submarine before the advent of nuclear power. What I also learned even in 1870 when it was published, that very little about Antarctica was known, and the first undisputed landing didn't take place until 1895.
His writings in Journey To The Center Of The Earth turned out to be much less real, but you still have to admire his imagination.
If the parent can't trust the kid not to make charges on their account, they shouldn't be giving the device to the child. I have a 6 and a 7 year old. Both of them are smart enough to know how to avoid in-app transactions, and know that they aren't allowed to make them. If you can't trust your kids, get them a Nintendo DS, or some other gaming system.
Also, isn't it possible to have a Google Play account without a credit card? Don't they have gift cards you can load on for those without credit cards? If you are required a credit card, You could just get a Visa/Mastercard Gift Card, and use that, which limits your liability to the amount pre-loaded on the card.
He's probably one of those guys who hordes pirated movies. No way to recreate from source because he never had the original movies to begin with.
Really, it's not a hard problem to solve anyway. If you have a 20 GB raid array, all you have to do is set up a second 20 GB raid array, and copy the files over every night. Once in a while (possibly run manually) delete any files that don't exist on the primary location. At most you'll lose a days' worth of data. If both raid arrays fail at the same time, you might be out of luck, but that's a pretty small chance.
Actually, I do. And at work we're still using VS 2008. And I still like it better than anything I've seen from the open source community. Trying to do Android development in Eclipse is a pain compared to doing stuff in Visual Studio. Despite it's problems (and it does have them), I don't think there's an IDE out there that compares to Visual Studio. I haven't tried developing for iOS though, as I don't want to go out and buy a Mac just to try something out for the fun of it.