Depend on who those coders are. If I can pick from 55+ coders and 25- coders the best ones using my subjective knowledge my team will beat yours consisting of only senior coders.
As a senior coder myself i.e. though only 0x28 years old I do appreciate experience, but I do remember benefits of being young.
even if they are good on paper they might be crap in practice. If you need young hot talent then pay for it, but prepare yourself for disappointment. Cheaper coders might be just as good. Paying for good track record is probably worth the money.
Worst thing that companies do is to promote good coders to be managers instead of paying them premium salaries. My analogy that I throw around is that when your guitar player finally learns how to play you don't "promote" him to be a manager and pick new "talent" to fill vacancy.
I for one thank Steve though I never use alarm clock this makes me consider changing my habits.
iPhone alarms were advertised to work like magic and be magical and by magic all iPhone owners got extra snooze while other phone owners had to drag their hung over butts into work. Only question is who the heck works on new years day. Come on guys don't you have unions for this kind of thing.
After an evening of Blacksploitation movies and drinking beer at my office. Friend of mine found my old IBM XT from 1985 (or 86) in the storage. Booted it up and played police quest from original disks. So 25 years is no problem. Have to check if my Spectra Video tapes still work.
I had the map on on both and tried to keep the display on for about one hour. Battery indicator stayed full for both the whole time. Have to do a longer trek.
It's quite different. In your PC your application doesn't have to call a function to stream its state to permanent storage. Operating system can and will swap data from ram to disk, but it's not your job as an application writer to do this.
Have to try this tomorrow. I have a new iPhone 4 & new Nokia N8. Navigate all day and see how long each lasts. I don't have turn by turn navigation for iPhone, but perhaps there is some GPS based freeware in the app store.
You are right on the money. I just bought a iPhone and was surprised how "multitasking" worked on it.
I don't think suspend & resume operation on applications should be called multitasking. This is how Epoc worked way back. It's a neat trick that gives the illusion of multitasking and probably 9/10 is how applications in mobile phone should work, but to calling it multitasking is a misnomer.
Coding for modern phones is fun. And what makes it fun is the integrated hardware within, but commercially it is horrible when you release an application and it fails to run on some major hardware/os platform. This happens when you can't test it. Somewhere else in this forum Windows was mentioned. This happens in Windows too, it happens in Symbian, it propably happens in different versions of iPhones, pods pads (don't know from experience), and it happens in Linux.
Your statement about it being sign of success is true in away, but it is also threat for the whole platform.
Anyway Steve mentioned Nokia not HTC by name. Would there be some patent issue. Maybe Apple tried to circumvent a design to avoid more patent disputes. Nokia holds a huge array of antenna patents when they still did antenna research.
I don't know about HTC EVO, but I've never seen a sticker "don't touch here" on a phone and I've gone through 30 or 40 different kinds, because of my work. I remember that old phones that had antennas sticking out had this sort of problems, but I can't remember having this kind of problem in last five or so years. I have to say that these guys stoop pretty low when claiming that this is a general problem. Sounds like spin to me.
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Samsung sold billion toasters and million lady shavers I've heard. Does that count?
Depend on who those coders are. If I can pick from 55+ coders and 25- coders the best ones using my subjective knowledge my team will beat yours consisting of only senior coders. As a senior coder myself i.e. though only 0x28 years old I do appreciate experience, but I do remember benefits of being young.
even if they are good on paper they might be crap in practice. If you need young hot talent then pay for it, but prepare yourself for disappointment. Cheaper coders might be just as good. Paying for good track record is probably worth the money. Worst thing that companies do is to promote good coders to be managers instead of paying them premium salaries. My analogy that I throw around is that when your guitar player finally learns how to play you don't "promote" him to be a manager and pick new "talent" to fill vacancy.
Well, it's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56 '57, '58' 59' kit It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67 '68, '69, '70 kit
For those wondering what this means: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6q4T7Nlcr9M/SuDkRybbE3I/AAAAAAAAAYk/NHxVEUULLW0/s1600-h/NFC_Innography.png
Symbian rocks!
I for one thank Steve though I never use alarm clock this makes me consider changing my habits. iPhone alarms were advertised to work like magic and be magical and by magic all iPhone owners got extra snooze while other phone owners had to drag their hung over butts into work. Only question is who the heck works on new years day. Come on guys don't you have unions for this kind of thing.
After an evening of Blacksploitation movies and drinking beer at my office. Friend of mine found my old IBM XT from 1985 (or 86) in the storage. Booted it up and played police quest from original disks. So 25 years is no problem. Have to check if my Spectra Video tapes still work.
In Finland you can't find a soda machine that you can't pay with a mobile. You can also buy Pizza.
I had the map on on both and tried to keep the display on for about one hour. Battery indicator stayed full for both the whole time. Have to do a longer trek.
It's quite different. In your PC your application doesn't have to call a function to stream its state to permanent storage. Operating system can and will swap data from ram to disk, but it's not your job as an application writer to do this.
Have to try this tomorrow. I have a new iPhone 4 & new Nokia N8. Navigate all day and see how long each lasts. I don't have turn by turn navigation for iPhone, but perhaps there is some GPS based freeware in the app store.
You are right on the money. I just bought a iPhone and was surprised how "multitasking" worked on it. I don't think suspend & resume operation on applications should be called multitasking. This is how Epoc worked way back. It's a neat trick that gives the illusion of multitasking and probably 9/10 is how applications in mobile phone should work, but to calling it multitasking is a misnomer.
45 minutes? Doesn't that pretty much render the navigation useless? Is this normal?
Coding for modern phones is fun. And what makes it fun is the integrated hardware within, but commercially it is horrible when you release an application and it fails to run on some major hardware/os platform. This happens when you can't test it. Somewhere else in this forum Windows was mentioned. This happens in Windows too, it happens in Symbian, it propably happens in different versions of iPhones, pods pads (don't know from experience), and it happens in Linux. Your statement about it being sign of success is true in away, but it is also threat for the whole platform.
missing the point.
... or buttbook, which is perhaps where this lawsuite should be booked under.
Was that a Amiga game or C64?
My daughters Nokia has FM transmitter, which of course means that we listen to her mp3 collection on road trips. Do not recommend!
Nokia has maps for offline use. Navigated in Estonia without problems.
Hundred bucks? You can get a nokia for like $30 dollars and have GPS on it. I gues you can get a dedicated GPS navigator for less than that.
I would imagine that device should have a TPM so that secrets could be actually secured with hardware.
Put your iPhone in a latex condom. Sand stays out of crevices and reception stays up.
Anyway Steve mentioned Nokia not HTC by name. Would there be some patent issue. Maybe Apple tried to circumvent a design to avoid more patent disputes. Nokia holds a huge array of antenna patents when they still did antenna research.
I don't know about HTC EVO, but I've never seen a sticker "don't touch here" on a phone and I've gone through 30 or 40 different kinds, because of my work. I remember that old phones that had antennas sticking out had this sort of problems, but I can't remember having this kind of problem in last five or so years. I have to say that these guys stoop pretty low when claiming that this is a general problem. Sounds like spin to me.