While I couldn't see it being the only reason somebody bought a PS3, I can see it being a deciding factor. Let's say you have to decide between PS3 and XBox 360. There really isn't much difference. Both have their own exclusive titles, but many titles are released on both. If you chose to buy the PS3 because it had 1 extra thing in the "Pro" column in your Pro-Con list, then you might be well justified in being angry with them removing the feature. Also, the fact that they removed the features means that Linux might have not had enough time to mature on that platform. It's not like it was a standard x86 box where you can load Ubuntu on and start running. It used a whole different processor architecture, which means that you would at least have to recompile everything, and you'd probably run into a lot of issues just getting stuff running.
Yeah, Also, VB.Net, the only version of "BASIC" still worth talking about also supports "For Each". I'm sure there's still people using the older versions of BASIC, but I don't think it's like COBOL, which is equally bad, but sticks around because there's so much mission critical code written in it.
Speaking of iterating, I almost never need to write a loop that uses an integer index. All the programming languages I use have a "For each" construct that works with just about anything you'd want to iterate over. No more worrying about off-by-one bugs, and other such associated problems. I have trouble recalling the last time I actually used the For(i =0.... syntax.
Yeah, but as a programmer, I could see many of those functions ending up looking pretty much exactly the same. There's only so many ways to write a function, and if you're trying to make the code readable, maintainable and efficient, that narrows down the number of possible outcomes. For instance, if you're calculating the normal of a surface, it's a very mathematical thing. There aren't really a lot of variations.
I wonder why this isn't an option for the Tesla sedan. Put a gas generator out on a trailer, and run an extension cord back to the car, for those times when the range isn't quite enough. If electric cars catch on, there could be some serious money to be made in renting out generator trailers. Most people would only need one a handful of times a year when they're on vacation or travelling outside the city.
I'm not saying it's a Ponzi scheme, but it does seem like there's a lot of money to be made by the people who got in early. It's still useful as currency, as long as it holds it's value, but the value has gone up so much since it was first founded that anybody who bought a significant amount of bitcoins near the beginning is likely to have gained a lot of money. The fact that BitCoin has built in deflation, meaning the value of the money will tend to rise assuming outside factors don't make it less valuable seems to be an odd quirk of the system. It's like your account earning interest, but banks aren't lending it out to make money off of it.
So you're saying if I rewrite somebody else's code in a different language, then I can effectively license it however I want? Since all C is valid C++ (I think), it would be trivial to convert from C to C++, and the relicense the source code however I want. There's even programs that will translate from one language to another. Simply putting the code in another language shouldn't mean that you own it. How much code do I have to change in order to call something my own?
Well there were planes in the air long before there were cell phones. Surely they could have foreseen the problem with people in airplanes forgetting to turn their phone off.
I'm not that familiar with the route, but I can't imagine anybody taking such a short flight in anything but a private plane. It's only 1.5 hours by car, and, based on what Google maps says, they also have a train that runs 6 times a day. By the time you get to the airport, go through security, get on the plane, and get your rental car, you could have already driven there.
What was the previous license? I only ask because I remember being able to download the source code for a long time. The reason I remember this is because I built the source code on my Raspberry Pi, to do some benchmarking, and recall that it took quite a while to compile.
I think this is one of the reasons I'm not rich. I would jump on the first offer that netted me enough money to no work for the rest of my life. It seems like the only people who run these businesses just can't get enough. 10 million dollars divided by 70 years (I probably won't live much past 100), would mean I could spend 142 thousand dollars a year, every year, for the rest of my life. And that's not even counting Interest. Once you own a house, you can live off a pretty small amount of money.
I wonder why they don't put the minimum threshold higher on batteries. I've heard that completely discharging lithium batteries is really bad for them. But then why not just build in some extra capacity into the battery, and have it refuse to run once it reaches 20%. In certain devices like tablets, where the battery is non-replaceable, I'd rather have an 8 hour battery that lasted 4000 cycles than a 10 hour battery that only lasted 6 hours after the first year because I ran it down to empty a few times a week.
Only if the standard is actually used. Look how long it's taking IPV6 to get implemented. And there's a very real reason why we need to upgrade. I'm definitely not holding my breath until HTTP 2.0 get significant usage.
I don't think that's Time Warner. I'm with Rogers here in Canada, and I get the same experience. I've heard similar complaints from people with all kinds of ISPs. Basically the problem, as far as I know, is that Youtube is broken. Youtube tries to cut down on network usage, so they try to stream it to you just fast enough so that you only ever have a minimal amount in the buffer. The problem comes when the connection fails, or you sneeze, or it's tuesday, and the stream slows down just a bit. This causes your buffer to empty, which makes the video stop. There' also major problems with them reconnecting to the stream. Once the connection is dropped, or the buffer is empty, you pretty much have to reload the whole page before it can start streaming the video again. I spent 20 minutes trying to watch the last 10 minutes of a 1 hour video last weekend because this was happening continuously. I can watch videos all day every day with any other streaming service, but for some reason, Youtube just can't get it's act together.
Ideally you would have tried it on in the store, and you wouldn't have to drive back to the store. But I still see your point. Buying something like a Jacket can be problematic because to get a large selection like you would see at Amazon you have to go to many different stores, some of which may be on opposite ends of the city.
I've had the exact same experience. How long until they completely automate the manufacturing process for this stuff. It should be simple, especially for items such a pants. I'm just glad I'm not a woman. At least when i'm buying clothes, I can be pretty sure within a small margin of error if something will fit me right. With women's clothing, the whole system changes from one store to the next. In some stores you might be in a size 6, other stores size 10.
That's what most people forget about dieting, and where food labels are often misleading. Sure 1 cup of sugar contains the same number of calories as 2 cups of whole wheat pasta (according to Google). But the latter requires much more energy for your body to actually process, and it's questionable if you're body could even get at 100% of that energy, where as with sugar, it would be able to process it very efficiently.
I wonder why people choose to live in such inhospitable places. We aren't at the point where people are taking up every square meter of land, yet people still choose to live in ridiculous places.
Meh... While I can see the value, this is exactly the problem that Windows is stuck in. Although they aren't completely backwards compatible, they try to be backwards compatible for a lot of stuff, which means they have to hold on to libraries which are poorly designed, and in some cases incorrect implementations because so much software depends on the incorrect implementation. MacOS is much cleaner because it has maintained less backwards compatibility. If you want to run old software, do it in a virtual machine, and allow the OS itself to evolve and drop the baggage of keeping the compatibility. Not to say that everything should be changed every OS iteration, but there needs to be a process for getting rid of the cruft.
But there's a hundred Chinese websites out there that will ship stuff to you free of charge. It usually takes a few weeks to get there, so if you don't need something right away, it's a great way to save money. Even paying for the courier rates aren't that bad if you're buying more expensive items.
Or they could just implement things differently. When plugging your phone in, it presents itself as a network card (one that Windows already has a driver for), at the other end of the fake network is an FTP server. Plug in the phone, Computer thinks it's added a new network, On the screen of the phone, display the address they need to visit in Explorer (or anything else with FTP capabilities) to access the server. There you go, easy access to your phone's file system, without requiring people to implement a driver. I'm sure there's downsides to this too. But there's a million ways to work around this problem. Not wanting to use FAT/exFAT is absolutely not the reason they aren't putting SD Card slots in these things.
What does an SD card slot have to do with VFAT and exFAT patents. Couldn't they just format the card with EXT4, and ignore the patents. Sure you couldn't read the SD card on your windows machine, but I'm sure most people would still find the slot useful.
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While I couldn't see it being the only reason somebody bought a PS3, I can see it being a deciding factor. Let's say you have to decide between PS3 and XBox 360. There really isn't much difference. Both have their own exclusive titles, but many titles are released on both. If you chose to buy the PS3 because it had 1 extra thing in the "Pro" column in your Pro-Con list, then you might be well justified in being angry with them removing the feature. Also, the fact that they removed the features means that Linux might have not had enough time to mature on that platform. It's not like it was a standard x86 box where you can load Ubuntu on and start running. It used a whole different processor architecture, which means that you would at least have to recompile everything, and you'd probably run into a lot of issues just getting stuff running.
Yeah, Also, VB.Net, the only version of "BASIC" still worth talking about also supports "For Each". I'm sure there's still people using the older versions of BASIC, but I don't think it's like COBOL, which is equally bad, but sticks around because there's so much mission critical code written in it.
Speaking of iterating, I almost never need to write a loop that uses an integer index. All the programming languages I use have a "For each" construct that works with just about anything you'd want to iterate over. No more worrying about off-by-one bugs, and other such associated problems. I have trouble recalling the last time I actually used the For(i =0.... syntax.
Yeah, but as a programmer, I could see many of those functions ending up looking pretty much exactly the same. There's only so many ways to write a function, and if you're trying to make the code readable, maintainable and efficient, that narrows down the number of possible outcomes. For instance, if you're calculating the normal of a surface, it's a very mathematical thing. There aren't really a lot of variations.
I wonder why this isn't an option for the Tesla sedan. Put a gas generator out on a trailer, and run an extension cord back to the car, for those times when the range isn't quite enough. If electric cars catch on, there could be some serious money to be made in renting out generator trailers. Most people would only need one a handful of times a year when they're on vacation or travelling outside the city.
I'm not saying it's a Ponzi scheme, but it does seem like there's a lot of money to be made by the people who got in early. It's still useful as currency, as long as it holds it's value, but the value has gone up so much since it was first founded that anybody who bought a significant amount of bitcoins near the beginning is likely to have gained a lot of money. The fact that BitCoin has built in deflation, meaning the value of the money will tend to rise assuming outside factors don't make it less valuable seems to be an odd quirk of the system. It's like your account earning interest, but banks aren't lending it out to make money off of it.
So you're saying if I rewrite somebody else's code in a different language, then I can effectively license it however I want? Since all C is valid C++ (I think), it would be trivial to convert from C to C++, and the relicense the source code however I want. There's even programs that will translate from one language to another. Simply putting the code in another language shouldn't mean that you own it. How much code do I have to change in order to call something my own?
Well there were planes in the air long before there were cell phones. Surely they could have foreseen the problem with people in airplanes forgetting to turn their phone off.
I'm not that familiar with the route, but I can't imagine anybody taking such a short flight in anything but a private plane. It's only 1.5 hours by car, and, based on what Google maps says, they also have a train that runs 6 times a day. By the time you get to the airport, go through security, get on the plane, and get your rental car, you could have already driven there.
On most phones there's a setting to control specifically which network you want to connect to.
What was the previous license? I only ask because I remember being able to download the source code for a long time. The reason I remember this is because I built the source code on my Raspberry Pi, to do some benchmarking, and recall that it took quite a while to compile.
I think this is one of the reasons I'm not rich. I would jump on the first offer that netted me enough money to no work for the rest of my life. It seems like the only people who run these businesses just can't get enough. 10 million dollars divided by 70 years (I probably won't live much past 100), would mean I could spend 142 thousand dollars a year, every year, for the rest of my life. And that's not even counting Interest. Once you own a house, you can live off a pretty small amount of money.
I wonder why they don't put the minimum threshold higher on batteries. I've heard that completely discharging lithium batteries is really bad for them. But then why not just build in some extra capacity into the battery, and have it refuse to run once it reaches 20%. In certain devices like tablets, where the battery is non-replaceable, I'd rather have an 8 hour battery that lasted 4000 cycles than a 10 hour battery that only lasted 6 hours after the first year because I ran it down to empty a few times a week.
Only if the standard is actually used. Look how long it's taking IPV6 to get implemented. And there's a very real reason why we need to upgrade. I'm definitely not holding my breath until HTTP 2.0 get significant usage.
I don't think that's Time Warner. I'm with Rogers here in Canada, and I get the same experience. I've heard similar complaints from people with all kinds of ISPs. Basically the problem, as far as I know, is that Youtube is broken. Youtube tries to cut down on network usage, so they try to stream it to you just fast enough so that you only ever have a minimal amount in the buffer. The problem comes when the connection fails, or you sneeze, or it's tuesday, and the stream slows down just a bit. This causes your buffer to empty, which makes the video stop. There' also major problems with them reconnecting to the stream. Once the connection is dropped, or the buffer is empty, you pretty much have to reload the whole page before it can start streaming the video again. I spent 20 minutes trying to watch the last 10 minutes of a 1 hour video last weekend because this was happening continuously. I can watch videos all day every day with any other streaming service, but for some reason, Youtube just can't get it's act together.
Ideally you would have tried it on in the store, and you wouldn't have to drive back to the store. But I still see your point. Buying something like a Jacket can be problematic because to get a large selection like you would see at Amazon you have to go to many different stores, some of which may be on opposite ends of the city.
I've had the exact same experience. How long until they completely automate the manufacturing process for this stuff. It should be simple, especially for items such a pants. I'm just glad I'm not a woman. At least when i'm buying clothes, I can be pretty sure within a small margin of error if something will fit me right. With women's clothing, the whole system changes from one store to the next. In some stores you might be in a size 6, other stores size 10.
That's what most people forget about dieting, and where food labels are often misleading. Sure 1 cup of sugar contains the same number of calories as 2 cups of whole wheat pasta (according to Google). But the latter requires much more energy for your body to actually process, and it's questionable if you're body could even get at 100% of that energy, where as with sugar, it would be able to process it very efficiently.
This.
I wonder why people choose to live in such inhospitable places. We aren't at the point where people are taking up every square meter of land, yet people still choose to live in ridiculous places.
Meh... While I can see the value, this is exactly the problem that Windows is stuck in. Although they aren't completely backwards compatible, they try to be backwards compatible for a lot of stuff, which means they have to hold on to libraries which are poorly designed, and in some cases incorrect implementations because so much software depends on the incorrect implementation. MacOS is much cleaner because it has maintained less backwards compatibility. If you want to run old software, do it in a virtual machine, and allow the OS itself to evolve and drop the baggage of keeping the compatibility. Not to say that everything should be changed every OS iteration, but there needs to be a process for getting rid of the cruft.
But there's a hundred Chinese websites out there that will ship stuff to you free of charge. It usually takes a few weeks to get there, so if you don't need something right away, it's a great way to save money. Even paying for the courier rates aren't that bad if you're buying more expensive items.
Or they could just implement things differently. When plugging your phone in, it presents itself as a network card (one that Windows already has a driver for), at the other end of the fake network is an FTP server. Plug in the phone, Computer thinks it's added a new network, On the screen of the phone, display the address they need to visit in Explorer (or anything else with FTP capabilities) to access the server. There you go, easy access to your phone's file system, without requiring people to implement a driver. I'm sure there's downsides to this too. But there's a million ways to work around this problem. Not wanting to use FAT/exFAT is absolutely not the reason they aren't putting SD Card slots in these things.
One has to wonder how much faster it would go if you got rid all the unnecessary opulence built into this car.
Isn't fire just photons? Is it even effected by gravity?
What does an SD card slot have to do with VFAT and exFAT patents. Couldn't they just format the card with EXT4, and ignore the patents. Sure you couldn't read the SD card on your windows machine, but I'm sure most people would still find the slot useful.