This is a bullshit comparison that doesn't go deeper than "NDA bad, Linux good." What about the actual API? The tools available for profiling code and debugging? GUI designer? Simulator? I like Eclipse and Java, but Xcode and the tools in the iPhone SDK are pretty damn awesome, I doubt that Android is anywhere near that.
I don't mind using PayPal, but I really hate the fact that the site is swamped with commercial vendors rather than people selling stuff they don't need any more. eBay needs to be split into a marketplace where you can go to buy new things (like Amazon), and the good old auctioning of used personal stuff. Until they do that, they won't see me again.
I've seen this a few times myself, and I'm also in the process of releasing some research software as open source. People are usually happy to cite your software, because it adds weight to what they do (they haven't just made it up themselves, but they're building on a published base). You can't force them anyway, and if somebody is going to rip you off or use your software without mentioning it, there's no way you can stop them.
You can save yourself a lot of unnecessary work and headaches by just letting go and using an off-the-shelf FOSS license like GPL or better LGPL. That way at least, people will actually use your stuff, which should be the whole point of releasing it.
When people start to realize that these "gurus" won't help them with their problems, they will get more irritated than with the usual clueless Best Buy salesdrones. After all, what do you expect a guru to do? Answer questions!
So they will either have to figure out some kind of transition to make those gurus available for tech support (which of course means a lot more training), or end up doing more damage than good.
I'm sorry, but Creutzfeld-Jakob disease is a bit more than an "ailment." It's deadly and incurable. I think a slightly stronger word would be in order.
Maybe that's exactly the point? To find out if their results have any merit or if they apply in real-world scenarios. I don't know how much information T-Mobile has provided about these tests, but there's undoubtedly a completely other level of information sharing when their engineers get together and work on the same test.
If new domains cost $100 each, there would be a deterrent for people to just go out and register a few dozen. Renewals could then be even cheaper than now. But I guess the registrars are making good money with all those bogus crap domains, so they have no incentive to turn this off. The domain system is seriously broken (including that idiotic "domain tasting").
Absolutely! Arduino is a great little platform, and much more hackable. There's a shield with a little breadboard where you can build tons of interesting things to interface with. There's also one with an OLED display, and things like GPS modules are easy to connect. I'd take the "raw hardware" appeal of the Arduino over the polished, over-engineered flash of the BUG any day.
You obviously have no idea how a company works. They can't just say "oh too bad about this Christmas, maybe we'll get our stuff ready for next year. Happens. Let's just sit around for a year and hope Google can finish all those great features!" A real company needs to sell stuff, and needs to milk Christmas as much as possible to have money to spend on R&D, etc. Skipping Christmas will kill a company, even a large one.
They have to get FCC approval to be able to run their OS on consumer devices, this isn't some little program that people download and run on their machines. The idea of an open source mobile OS is a neat one in theory, but in practice it's just not that simple. The potential for exploits is huge, and with very severe consequences. The way Apple has locked down the iPhone may look draconian, but it also protects its users from all kinds of stuff you really don't want to worry about on your phone.
This isn't some CowboyNeal nonsense, this is about getting a product out in time for the Christmas buying frenzy. They have to get things done on time or there won't be any sales. A few missing features can always be added later, but if they don't sell any of those phones, they're done.
We've also had a few disks disappear in the mail, they either never got to us or they never arrived at Netflix after we definitely posted them. It was never a problem, you just mark the disk as missing and that's it. One or two of them actually re-appeared later, not sure if they were found in the back of a truck or if Netflix lost them. I guess they'll cancel your account if you "lose" a disk per month, but they deal well with the occasional problem.
IAESTE is the way to go. Talk to your international students office or similar, there are people there who know how these things work, what kind of support you might be able to get to cover your costs, etc.
Companies won't want to go through the hassle of getting the visa for you for an internship, they only do that for people they hire in fixed positions (and then only for people who are worth it). People are beating down their doors for internships, there is not shortage of potential interns.
Should you ever have something of value to post that you don't want your name attached to, you'll know how to do it. Great.
Not everybody spends his entire day here and knows exactly what shows up where. This is a major goof by the editor who posted this, who you can expect to know that, and who should have done something to prevent it. But blaming somebody who posts actual, original content (which happens here maybe once a year) for a small mistake is childish.
I'm sure the submitter had a reason to want to post this anonymously. He made a mistake, but his intention was clear. There was no reason to be an asshole and repost his name here, just in case it's removed by one of the editors.
Also, it's interesting that all the people posting his name here are posting as AC. Perhaps they weren't quite as sure about this as they claim.
The video is a joke. It's hard to tell if it's really the orientation sensor or if it's really the opening of the screen and there's just a long delay. He does turn it back to portrait briefly but there is no reaction (which could be due to the orientation sensor waiting a bit to see if the motion continues, though).
Until there's a video that's actually focused and where the guy doesn't jerk the phone around like crazy, we won't know for sure.
Interesting, I didn't know that. Still, the Las Vegas Strip is one hotel after the other, they're all bound to have open WiFi for their guests. If this was in a residential area or a business park without any hotels around, 1/3 unsecured would be a completely different matter.
Exactly. 1/3 is actually a pretty good number, and shows that the casinos are taking security seriously. Plus, I wonder how many networks they didn't even see because they weren't broadcasting their SSIDs. This whole thing seems to be much more about doing something cool and making a lot of noise than any kind of serious analysis.
Yeah, but there's a reason very few people program in assembly today. Structured programming was a huge step forward, and it matters very little that every structured OOP program ends up as a bunch of load, store, add, compare, and jump instructions.
By telling people to avoid goto, the overall quality of code and acceptance of structured programming has been increased tremendously, which has done a lot of good things for computing. There are always exceptions, and obviously there are cases where a goto (by that or another name) is the best way to do it. But in the overwhelming number of cases, a higher-level structure will be a much better choice. That's what this is about.
The only thing I wonder about is what that has to do with the Internet.
Then they also need to cut down on those stupid flashlight apps, and reduce the number of Bible apps to less than one billion. I think they're only weeding out the really bad stuff, but a lot of crap is still in the store (who needs five different Magic 8 Balls?), making it hard for the really interesting stuff to stand out.
Let the market decide, blahblah. But who's going to sift through thousands of shitty apps to find the few hidden gems? We can only hope that a lot of the developers of these nonsensical programs won't renew their developer status next year, which should reduce the amount of clutter considerably.
But that's assuming you know what will happen, which you don't. All you know is that radio contact has been lost with a plane and it's veering off course. It could be some failure on board and the crew is trying to do find a suitable spot for an emergency landing.
Are you going to give the order to kill several hundred people? Do you still think it's such an easy decision? You know what they say about hindsight?
It's really mostly CS, the engineering fields are doing a lot better right now in attracting women and being perceived as less of a geek stronghold. Remarks like these show that we need a lot more women in this field, this boys club is not doing anything good for us.
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They can already pinpoint your location pretty well using your IP address (and without your permission). So what's the point of this?
This is a bullshit comparison that doesn't go deeper than "NDA bad, Linux good." What about the actual API? The tools available for profiling code and debugging? GUI designer? Simulator? I like Eclipse and Java, but Xcode and the tools in the iPhone SDK are pretty damn awesome, I doubt that Android is anywhere near that.
I don't mind using PayPal, but I really hate the fact that the site is swamped with commercial vendors rather than people selling stuff they don't need any more. eBay needs to be split into a marketplace where you can go to buy new things (like Amazon), and the good old auctioning of used personal stuff. Until they do that, they won't see me again.
I've seen this a few times myself, and I'm also in the process of releasing some research software as open source. People are usually happy to cite your software, because it adds weight to what they do (they haven't just made it up themselves, but they're building on a published base). You can't force them anyway, and if somebody is going to rip you off or use your software without mentioning it, there's no way you can stop them.
You can save yourself a lot of unnecessary work and headaches by just letting go and using an off-the-shelf FOSS license like GPL or better LGPL. That way at least, people will actually use your stuff, which should be the whole point of releasing it.
When people start to realize that these "gurus" won't help them with their problems, they will get more irritated than with the usual clueless Best Buy salesdrones. After all, what do you expect a guru to do? Answer questions!
So they will either have to figure out some kind of transition to make those gurus available for tech support (which of course means a lot more training), or end up doing more damage than good.
I'm sorry, but Creutzfeld-Jakob disease is a bit more than an "ailment." It's deadly and incurable. I think a slightly stronger word would be in order.
Maybe that's exactly the point? To find out if their results have any merit or if they apply in real-world scenarios. I don't know how much information T-Mobile has provided about these tests, but there's undoubtedly a completely other level of information sharing when their engineers get together and work on the same test.
If new domains cost $100 each, there would be a deterrent for people to just go out and register a few dozen. Renewals could then be even cheaper than now. But I guess the registrars are making good money with all those bogus crap domains, so they have no incentive to turn this off. The domain system is seriously broken (including that idiotic "domain tasting").
Absolutely! Arduino is a great little platform, and much more hackable. There's a shield with a little breadboard where you can build tons of interesting things to interface with. There's also one with an OLED display, and things like GPS modules are easy to connect. I'd take the "raw hardware" appeal of the Arduino over the polished, over-engineered flash of the BUG any day.
1^2-1 = 0, not one! Besides, 1 is not a prime number, by definition.
Way to throw around those stereotypes! I bet they all run on Windows, too! Windows - the first choice for crooks and scammers!
You obviously have no idea how a company works. They can't just say "oh too bad about this Christmas, maybe we'll get our stuff ready for next year. Happens. Let's just sit around for a year and hope Google can finish all those great features!" A real company needs to sell stuff, and needs to milk Christmas as much as possible to have money to spend on R&D, etc. Skipping Christmas will kill a company, even a large one.
They have to get FCC approval to be able to run their OS on consumer devices, this isn't some little program that people download and run on their machines. The idea of an open source mobile OS is a neat one in theory, but in practice it's just not that simple. The potential for exploits is huge, and with very severe consequences. The way Apple has locked down the iPhone may look draconian, but it also protects its users from all kinds of stuff you really don't want to worry about on your phone.
This isn't some CowboyNeal nonsense, this is about getting a product out in time for the Christmas buying frenzy. They have to get things done on time or there won't be any sales. A few missing features can always be added later, but if they don't sell any of those phones, they're done.
We've also had a few disks disappear in the mail, they either never got to us or they never arrived at Netflix after we definitely posted them. It was never a problem, you just mark the disk as missing and that's it. One or two of them actually re-appeared later, not sure if they were found in the back of a truck or if Netflix lost them. I guess they'll cancel your account if you "lose" a disk per month, but they deal well with the occasional problem.
IAESTE is the way to go. Talk to your international students office or similar, there are people there who know how these things work, what kind of support you might be able to get to cover your costs, etc.
Companies won't want to go through the hassle of getting the visa for you for an internship, they only do that for people they hire in fixed positions (and then only for people who are worth it). People are beating down their doors for internships, there is not shortage of potential interns.
Should you ever have something of value to post that you don't want your name attached to, you'll know how to do it. Great.
Not everybody spends his entire day here and knows exactly what shows up where. This is a major goof by the editor who posted this, who you can expect to know that, and who should have done something to prevent it. But blaming somebody who posts actual, original content (which happens here maybe once a year) for a small mistake is childish.
I'm sure the submitter had a reason to want to post this anonymously. He made a mistake, but his intention was clear. There was no reason to be an asshole and repost his name here, just in case it's removed by one of the editors.
Also, it's interesting that all the people posting his name here are posting as AC. Perhaps they weren't quite as sure about this as they claim.
The video is a joke. It's hard to tell if it's really the orientation sensor or if it's really the opening of the screen and there's just a long delay. He does turn it back to portrait briefly but there is no reaction (which could be due to the orientation sensor waiting a bit to see if the motion continues, though).
Until there's a video that's actually focused and where the guy doesn't jerk the phone around like crazy, we won't know for sure.
Interesting, I didn't know that. Still, the Las Vegas Strip is one hotel after the other, they're all bound to have open WiFi for their guests. If this was in a residential area or a business park without any hotels around, 1/3 unsecured would be a completely different matter.
Exactly. 1/3 is actually a pretty good number, and shows that the casinos are taking security seriously. Plus, I wonder how many networks they didn't even see because they weren't broadcasting their SSIDs. This whole thing seems to be much more about doing something cool and making a lot of noise than any kind of serious analysis.
Yeah, but there's a reason very few people program in assembly today. Structured programming was a huge step forward, and it matters very little that every structured OOP program ends up as a bunch of load, store, add, compare, and jump instructions.
By telling people to avoid goto, the overall quality of code and acceptance of structured programming has been increased tremendously, which has done a lot of good things for computing. There are always exceptions, and obviously there are cases where a goto (by that or another name) is the best way to do it. But in the overwhelming number of cases, a higher-level structure will be a much better choice. That's what this is about.
The only thing I wonder about is what that has to do with the Internet.
Then they also need to cut down on those stupid flashlight apps, and reduce the number of Bible apps to less than one billion. I think they're only weeding out the really bad stuff, but a lot of crap is still in the store (who needs five different Magic 8 Balls?), making it hard for the really interesting stuff to stand out.
Let the market decide, blahblah. But who's going to sift through thousands of shitty apps to find the few hidden gems? We can only hope that a lot of the developers of these nonsensical programs won't renew their developer status next year, which should reduce the amount of clutter considerably.
But that's assuming you know what will happen, which you don't. All you know is that radio contact has been lost with a plane and it's veering off course. It could be some failure on board and the crew is trying to do find a suitable spot for an emergency landing.
Are you going to give the order to kill several hundred people? Do you still think it's such an easy decision? You know what they say about hindsight?
It's really mostly CS, the engineering fields are doing a lot better right now in attracting women and being perceived as less of a geek stronghold. Remarks like these show that we need a lot more women in this field, this boys club is not doing anything good for us.