While I think that object relational mappers are great for simple CRUD operations, I find they really start to break down once you want to do a somewhat complex queries. They can get the job done, but the biggest problem I have with them is the readability of the resulting code. SQL is much more readable than the equivalent for more complex queries.
Why not just have the batteries removed after you're dead. It's not like the operation would kill you. You could probably get it done for free if you let med students do the task for you.
Do you have a bank loan at 1.99% for your car, and pay the dealership in cash, or did you get the 1.99% through the dealership. In many cases, the "low" interest rates you get from the dealership are only offered because the price of the car is high to compensate. Tell the dealership you'll pay cash, and the price of the car will drop significantly.
How does market share equate to customer satisfaction? In Canada, the majority of people get their internet from Rogers or Bell, but most people pretty much despise both of them. There are alternatives, but since they have to feed through the Rogers and Bell systems, getting problems fixed can take days or weeks, because guess what? Rogers and Bell don't care about fixing problems for other companies' customers. Windows has like 85% (probably more) of the desktop market, and I don't think anybody would say their customers are happy with the experience.
While I personally have an Android phone, and I'm looking to buy an Android tablet, I find that the only reason I choose Android is because it's more appealing than iOS/Apple. There really aren't any other major players on the market out there. While Android does a pretty good job, I think it has some major problems which need to be addressed. Mainly, there should be a standard supported way of updating the OS on all devices.
The explosiveness of Subway just shows that people want something fast that isn't greasy. Harvey's has let you put whatever you want on a burger for decades, yet they still didn't take the market from McDonald's.
Yeah, but with computers racing, it's not as exciting, or at least it's a different kind of exciting. My point being, that driving on public roads is kind of a time waste as far as I'm concerned, and I'll be happy when I can just read a book or play angry birds while my car drives me.
Odds are that book wasn't very well optimized for digital distribution. Probably just a PDF of the scanned pages. Ideally you won't have many images at all. Most of my textbooks contain very few images, and even the images that are there could be stored quite easily in vector formats, as they are basically line drawings (charts, graphs, and other such things). Sure certain textbooks that required a lot of pictures wouldn't work very well, but it might even be easier in this case to have a paper book with just the pictures, and a digital book that contains all the text, and references the images.
I often wonder why anybody would want to run a commercial business venture off a home connection. With all the other options out there, like shared hosting, VPS, cloud servers, rented private servers, and renting racks in a proper datacenter, I wonder if there is even a point where somebody thinks it would be a good idea to host a commercial server out of their house. Sure people used to do it back in the earlier days of the internet, but currently I can't see any reason why somebody would want to do this.
I kind of agree.Everybody always points out this example of crash into field/off a bridge, or run over a bunch of kids. Firstly, that's probably about.00001% of crashes, and secondly, an autonomous car could have all kinds of sensors. It would be pretty simple to figure out where the human bodies are using an infrared camera, and pick the route with the least number of bodies in the way.
You could probably argue that the autonomous car would be much less likely to even have to make such a decision, since it would always be following at a safe distance, and wouldn't try to be passing a car around a blind corner, or over a hill like human drivers tend to do.
I only have two eyes, and they always face in the same direction. They also only see a very small part of the electromagnetic spectrum. I think it's inevitable that cars will eventually be better drivers than humans, and that one day we will look back and wonder why we ever wanted to drive cars in the first place (ignoring racing, but that has it's own place, and should not be on public roads). I don't think we're at the point where cars are better than a really good driver, but we're pretty much guaranteed to be there in the long term. It may take 50 more years, and I can't see why it would even take that long.
Assuming these are rural areas with little-to-no internet, they could even use standard radio signals to transmit textbooks. There was a time when some people experimented with transmiitting programs over FM. Record the signal to a tape, put it in your commodore, and you had a working program. I'm sure the same could be done with books. They aren't that big. You could probably even have people dial into a dedicated computer for downloading books via a modem. The added benefit that you don't even need internet service, so there's no ongoing monthly fees.
Granted, those who use a mouse still reach the edge of the mouse pad, and end up having to pick up the mouse and reposition it as well. Some mice are notoriously hard to actually pick up off the table, with slanted sides that don't let you get a good grip. Personally, I prefer using trackballs. They do have the inertial system by virtue of their design, and you never have to reposition them. Trackballs that let you use your fingers are the best, because you have multiple digits that control the same surface, so as one finger meets the edge, you can switch to another finger, and continue the motion.
Point of correction. the peacock with the big feathers is the male. Hence Pea-cock. The female of the same bird is called the peahen. The bird in general is known as the peafowl.
In most birds the male is the brightly colored of the two, while the female is usually not colored much, if at all, to aid in hiding while watching the eggs. The males are always always the ones putting on displays, or doing dances and such to attract the females.
I wonder if they considered kids vs. adults when doing the hand size comparisons. It says they used the relative finger sizes, and I don't know how that compares across men/women/children.
Also, how do they even know that the hand stencils belong to those who painted the pictures. Then men could still be doing the painting, and they also included the hand-stencils of each of the women in their family (or harem) in their cave paintings. The pictures of animals shows the hunts you made, the hand stencils show your conquests with women. Not saying this is how it went down. I'm just speculating, but so are the scientists.
The.Net library doesn't constrain you. If you don't like it, it's very easy to get another library that offers more functionality, and use that. Over the years, I've used third party libraries for things like FTP, Email, data charting, PDF rendering, and plenty of other tasks. Some of these, like data charting (bar graphs, pie charts), are now handled well by the.Net APIs, but they weren't always. But if you have more complex needs which they don't cover in their charting libraries, then there's tons of third party libraries which offer even more functionality.
Very much agree with this. The library/API that comes along with a language is just as important, if not more important than the language itself. You don't want your programmers spending any time writing their own hashtable or arraylist implementations. You don't want your developers writing their own sorting functions, and you don't want your developers spending time trying to write their own "date math" functionality. Thie is why I find that.Net is actually quite good. The API is amazing. It includes just about everything, and it's very consistently done. It's also relatively free of bugs, and extremely well documented.
Smart on Apple's behalf. Release a new model every year so that by the time legal proceedings are done, and your product gets banned for violating patents, the product is old news anyway.
Based on what I'm reading on Wikipedia, they have over 70,000 employees. I imagine they are gaining and losing employees all the time. The only time you hear about it in the news is when they lay off 10,000 employees, but you don't hear about it when some random division is doing well and hires 50-100 people. It may even be that big layoffs is the only way to get rid of people. Over time, you hire a few people here, a few people there, and numbers go up. But nobody really has a reason to get rid of everybody. All the managers want bigger operating budgets, and as long as people aren't actually being destructive, there's no reason to get rid of them. A big order has to come from higher up to get rid of people when there really isn't anything they are doing wrong.
As a side story, I was talking to a guy a few months back who said they had tons of jobs, and that they were hiring up a lot of people. A couples weeks later I heard about a bunch of layoffs. Maybe he was just uninformed, or maybe the particular division/building he was working in was actually doing quite well. It's hard to say.
Everytime I hear about Alcatel layoffs, I look across the street from my and don't notice their parking lot get any emptier. It's actually overflowing, and many of them take up spots that should be for our building. Maybe they are laying off 10,000 people, but I'm sure there's quite a few divisions in the company that are still hiring.
While I have found a good use for my Raspberry Pi (outgoing VPN Gateway), I have found there are some severe limitations. I would like the ability to have an actual SATA or IDE storage device. I'm not entirely sure, but I'm pretty sure it's the lack of DMA that causes all the problems. I could consistently crash my Pi running torrents and writing to the SD Card. Writing to the USB slot got rid of the crashes, but the disk I/O was still the limiting factor in how fast I could actually get the downloads, and my internet connection isn't really all that fast. I would also like a networking port, preferably Gigabit, but 100 mbit is fine, as long as it doesn't run off USB. USB is fine for mice and keyboards, but really sucks when you're trying to do heavy I/O, especially when you have such a weak processor.
As much as I don't like getting tickets, I think that enforcing traffic rules is actually a very useful service. When everyone is moving around in 3000 pound steel boxes, it's kind of a good thing if they don't just drive whichever speed they want, drive in other dangerous ways. People drive badly enough. I can't imagine how bad it would get if they stopped enforcing traffic laws. If not for fear of tickets, I'm sure people would do all sorts of stupid things when driving. It would probably be a lot like driving in India, which I don't think is something we should strive for. As scary as the thought of a burglary is, you're much more likely to be the victim of bad driving than you are to be a victim of burglary, even with all the enforcement going to stopping people from driving badly.
And the bigger the agenda they are trying to push, and the more they have to hide, the higher their budgets will be. Looking at the budgets of the Olympic games you'll see that Sochi Russia, and Beijing, are many times higher than what other, less oppressive, countries have spent on the games. Athens even spend an inordinate amount of money as well, and seems to be the only venue in recent history to have a big operating loss on the summer games. Somehow their profit was negative 14-15 billion, with a final operating budget of 15 billion. Apparently they took in no money. Smells of corruption to me.
Exactly. These new formats cannot exist without a transmission medium. I mean, they could have direct streaming to computers, but how many people around the world have connections that would be useful with 8K video? Even if your connection was fast enough, you'd blow through your bandwidth cap in no time trying to watch 8K video. 4K TV is already over the top, because the there is no delivery mechanism for getting content to the 4K TV. In 7 years, you'll be lucky if there's ubiquitous 4K TV let alone 8K TV. I'm still using a standard def TV.
Android has now control as to whether or not they support execution of Java programs. Unless you want to task them with writing their own JVM. The reason that Java programs don't run under Android is the same reason that MS SQL Server doesn't run on Android. (Java Applications)/(MS SQL Server) doesn't run on Android because (Oracle)/Microsoft) hasn't ported it yet. Android is an operating system. It makes no choices about which applications you choose to run on it. Windows doesn't run Java applications either. Unless you go and download a JVM from Oracle. If Oracle provided a version of the JVM that ran on Android, you could run Java applications.
Exactly. I don't even think we quite understand how the brain does what it does enough to build a computer that does what it does. If we really understood how the brain worked, we wouldn't have people battling drug addiction or mental illnesses, because we would be able to fix their problems. Building a computer that operates even close to the capabilities of the human brain doesn't just require a faster computer. It requires algorithms that don't even exist yet. If they could actually build this computer, they would already have a working prototype that worked, but at a slower speed than the human brain.
It would be more correct to say that Java doesn't support Android. Nobody is stopping Oracle from making a version of the JVM that runs on Android. It's not like a walled garden with IOS. I'm sure that with all the emulators on the Google Play store, that Google probably wouldn't care if Oracle put up a working version of the JVM on the store.
That's pretty much false. At the President's Cup, in Abu Dhabi, the record is 160 km in 6 hours, 21 minutes. Average speed, 25 km/h. That's faster than world record marathon runners go. It's in 6 stages, each longer than a marathon itself, but all in a single day. I don't think you'll ever see a human run 160 km in a single day, averaging 25 km/h while moving.
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While I think that object relational mappers are great for simple CRUD operations, I find they really start to break down once you want to do a somewhat complex queries. They can get the job done, but the biggest problem I have with them is the readability of the resulting code. SQL is much more readable than the equivalent for more complex queries.
Why not just have the batteries removed after you're dead. It's not like the operation would kill you. You could probably get it done for free if you let med students do the task for you.
Do you have a bank loan at 1.99% for your car, and pay the dealership in cash, or did you get the 1.99% through the dealership. In many cases, the "low" interest rates you get from the dealership are only offered because the price of the car is high to compensate. Tell the dealership you'll pay cash, and the price of the car will drop significantly.
How does market share equate to customer satisfaction? In Canada, the majority of people get their internet from Rogers or Bell, but most people pretty much despise both of them. There are alternatives, but since they have to feed through the Rogers and Bell systems, getting problems fixed can take days or weeks, because guess what? Rogers and Bell don't care about fixing problems for other companies' customers. Windows has like 85% (probably more) of the desktop market, and I don't think anybody would say their customers are happy with the experience.
While I personally have an Android phone, and I'm looking to buy an Android tablet, I find that the only reason I choose Android is because it's more appealing than iOS/Apple. There really aren't any other major players on the market out there. While Android does a pretty good job, I think it has some major problems which need to be addressed. Mainly, there should be a standard supported way of updating the OS on all devices.
The explosiveness of Subway just shows that people want something fast that isn't greasy. Harvey's has let you put whatever you want on a burger for decades, yet they still didn't take the market from McDonald's.
Yeah, but with computers racing, it's not as exciting, or at least it's a different kind of exciting. My point being, that driving on public roads is kind of a time waste as far as I'm concerned, and I'll be happy when I can just read a book or play angry birds while my car drives me.
Odds are that book wasn't very well optimized for digital distribution. Probably just a PDF of the scanned pages. Ideally you won't have many images at all. Most of my textbooks contain very few images, and even the images that are there could be stored quite easily in vector formats, as they are basically line drawings (charts, graphs, and other such things). Sure certain textbooks that required a lot of pictures wouldn't work very well, but it might even be easier in this case to have a paper book with just the pictures, and a digital book that contains all the text, and references the images.
I often wonder why anybody would want to run a commercial business venture off a home connection. With all the other options out there, like shared hosting, VPS, cloud servers, rented private servers, and renting racks in a proper datacenter, I wonder if there is even a point where somebody thinks it would be a good idea to host a commercial server out of their house. Sure people used to do it back in the earlier days of the internet, but currently I can't see any reason why somebody would want to do this.
I kind of agree.Everybody always points out this example of crash into field/off a bridge, or run over a bunch of kids. Firstly, that's probably about .00001% of crashes, and secondly, an autonomous car could have all kinds of sensors. It would be pretty simple to figure out where the human bodies are using an infrared camera, and pick the route with the least number of bodies in the way.
You could probably argue that the autonomous car would be much less likely to even have to make such a decision, since it would always be following at a safe distance, and wouldn't try to be passing a car around a blind corner, or over a hill like human drivers tend to do.
I only have two eyes, and they always face in the same direction. They also only see a very small part of the electromagnetic spectrum. I think it's inevitable that cars will eventually be better drivers than humans, and that one day we will look back and wonder why we ever wanted to drive cars in the first place (ignoring racing, but that has it's own place, and should not be on public roads). I don't think we're at the point where cars are better than a really good driver, but we're pretty much guaranteed to be there in the long term. It may take 50 more years, and I can't see why it would even take that long.
Assuming these are rural areas with little-to-no internet, they could even use standard radio signals to transmit textbooks. There was a time when some people experimented with transmiitting programs over FM. Record the signal to a tape, put it in your commodore, and you had a working program. I'm sure the same could be done with books. They aren't that big. You could probably even have people dial into a dedicated computer for downloading books via a modem. The added benefit that you don't even need internet service, so there's no ongoing monthly fees.
Granted, those who use a mouse still reach the edge of the mouse pad, and end up having to pick up the mouse and reposition it as well. Some mice are notoriously hard to actually pick up off the table, with slanted sides that don't let you get a good grip. Personally, I prefer using trackballs. They do have the inertial system by virtue of their design, and you never have to reposition them. Trackballs that let you use your fingers are the best, because you have multiple digits that control the same surface, so as one finger meets the edge, you can switch to another finger, and continue the motion.
Point of correction. the peacock with the big feathers is the male. Hence Pea-cock. The female of the same bird is called the peahen. The bird in general is known as the peafowl.
In most birds the male is the brightly colored of the two, while the female is usually not colored much, if at all, to aid in hiding while watching the eggs. The males are always always the ones putting on displays, or doing dances and such to attract the females.
I wonder if they considered kids vs. adults when doing the hand size comparisons. It says they used the relative finger sizes, and I don't know how that compares across men/women/children.
Also, how do they even know that the hand stencils belong to those who painted the pictures. Then men could still be doing the painting, and they also included the hand-stencils of each of the women in their family (or harem) in their cave paintings. The pictures of animals shows the hunts you made, the hand stencils show your conquests with women. Not saying this is how it went down. I'm just speculating, but so are the scientists.
The .Net library doesn't constrain you. If you don't like it, it's very easy to get another library that offers more functionality, and use that. Over the years, I've used third party libraries for things like FTP, Email, data charting, PDF rendering, and plenty of other tasks. Some of these, like data charting (bar graphs, pie charts), are now handled well by the .Net APIs, but they weren't always. But if you have more complex needs which they don't cover in their charting libraries, then there's tons of third party libraries which offer even more functionality.
Very much agree with this. The library/API that comes along with a language is just as important, if not more important than the language itself. You don't want your programmers spending any time writing their own hashtable or arraylist implementations. You don't want your developers writing their own sorting functions, and you don't want your developers spending time trying to write their own "date math" functionality. Thie is why I find that .Net is actually quite good. The API is amazing. It includes just about everything, and it's very consistently done. It's also relatively free of bugs, and extremely well documented.
Smart on Apple's behalf. Release a new model every year so that by the time legal proceedings are done, and your product gets banned for violating patents, the product is old news anyway.
Based on what I'm reading on Wikipedia, they have over 70,000 employees. I imagine they are gaining and losing employees all the time. The only time you hear about it in the news is when they lay off 10,000 employees, but you don't hear about it when some random division is doing well and hires 50-100 people. It may even be that big layoffs is the only way to get rid of people. Over time, you hire a few people here, a few people there, and numbers go up. But nobody really has a reason to get rid of everybody. All the managers want bigger operating budgets, and as long as people aren't actually being destructive, there's no reason to get rid of them. A big order has to come from higher up to get rid of people when there really isn't anything they are doing wrong.
As a side story, I was talking to a guy a few months back who said they had tons of jobs, and that they were hiring up a lot of people. A couples weeks later I heard about a bunch of layoffs. Maybe he was just uninformed, or maybe the particular division/building he was working in was actually doing quite well. It's hard to say.
Everytime I hear about Alcatel layoffs, I look across the street from my and don't notice their parking lot get any emptier. It's actually overflowing, and many of them take up spots that should be for our building. Maybe they are laying off 10,000 people, but I'm sure there's quite a few divisions in the company that are still hiring.
While I have found a good use for my Raspberry Pi (outgoing VPN Gateway), I have found there are some severe limitations. I would like the ability to have an actual SATA or IDE storage device. I'm not entirely sure, but I'm pretty sure it's the lack of DMA that causes all the problems. I could consistently crash my Pi running torrents and writing to the SD Card. Writing to the USB slot got rid of the crashes, but the disk I/O was still the limiting factor in how fast I could actually get the downloads, and my internet connection isn't really all that fast. I would also like a networking port, preferably Gigabit, but 100 mbit is fine, as long as it doesn't run off USB. USB is fine for mice and keyboards, but really sucks when you're trying to do heavy I/O, especially when you have such a weak processor.
As much as I don't like getting tickets, I think that enforcing traffic rules is actually a very useful service. When everyone is moving around in 3000 pound steel boxes, it's kind of a good thing if they don't just drive whichever speed they want, drive in other dangerous ways. People drive badly enough. I can't imagine how bad it would get if they stopped enforcing traffic laws. If not for fear of tickets, I'm sure people would do all sorts of stupid things when driving. It would probably be a lot like driving in India, which I don't think is something we should strive for. As scary as the thought of a burglary is, you're much more likely to be the victim of bad driving than you are to be a victim of burglary, even with all the enforcement going to stopping people from driving badly.
And the bigger the agenda they are trying to push, and the more they have to hide, the higher their budgets will be. Looking at the budgets of the Olympic games you'll see that Sochi Russia, and Beijing, are many times higher than what other, less oppressive, countries have spent on the games. Athens even spend an inordinate amount of money as well, and seems to be the only venue in recent history to have a big operating loss on the summer games. Somehow their profit was negative 14-15 billion, with a final operating budget of 15 billion. Apparently they took in no money. Smells of corruption to me.
Exactly. These new formats cannot exist without a transmission medium. I mean, they could have direct streaming to computers, but how many people around the world have connections that would be useful with 8K video? Even if your connection was fast enough, you'd blow through your bandwidth cap in no time trying to watch 8K video. 4K TV is already over the top, because the there is no delivery mechanism for getting content to the 4K TV. In 7 years, you'll be lucky if there's ubiquitous 4K TV let alone 8K TV. I'm still using a standard def TV.
Android has now control as to whether or not they support execution of Java programs. Unless you want to task them with writing their own JVM. The reason that Java programs don't run under Android is the same reason that MS SQL Server doesn't run on Android. (Java Applications)/(MS SQL Server) doesn't run on Android because (Oracle)/Microsoft) hasn't ported it yet. Android is an operating system. It makes no choices about which applications you choose to run on it. Windows doesn't run Java applications either. Unless you go and download a JVM from Oracle. If Oracle provided a version of the JVM that ran on Android, you could run Java applications.
Exactly. I don't even think we quite understand how the brain does what it does enough to build a computer that does what it does. If we really understood how the brain worked, we wouldn't have people battling drug addiction or mental illnesses, because we would be able to fix their problems. Building a computer that operates even close to the capabilities of the human brain doesn't just require a faster computer. It requires algorithms that don't even exist yet. If they could actually build this computer, they would already have a working prototype that worked, but at a slower speed than the human brain.
It would be more correct to say that Java doesn't support Android. Nobody is stopping Oracle from making a version of the JVM that runs on Android. It's not like a walled garden with IOS. I'm sure that with all the emulators on the Google Play store, that Google probably wouldn't care if Oracle put up a working version of the JVM on the store.
That's pretty much false. At the President's Cup, in Abu Dhabi, the record is 160 km in 6 hours, 21 minutes. Average speed, 25 km/h. That's faster than world record marathon runners go. It's in 6 stages, each longer than a marathon itself, but all in a single day. I don't think you'll ever see a human run 160 km in a single day, averaging 25 km/h while moving.