they saved a ton by using a premade OS rather than building their own
But the parent doesn't really say that - much less prove it - all it says is that:
"just the same, they probably saved millions of dollars using a free kernel."
Comes with a full set of familiar - though significantly customized - development tools, APIs and so on.
DirectSound. Direct3D Mobile.
"The Automotive User Interface Toolkit (AUITK) - a GUI framework that makes it easy to create advanced user interfaces at a desktop PC and store them as XML markup.
This separates the user interface from the functional part of the application program." The UI designer does not have to be a programmer.
What does all this tell him about development costs, schedules and staffing?
It's about good citizenship, not an extra two cents profit per device.
That two cents can mean the difference between a stillborn project and product on the shelves at Target.
it really is true that linux users probably affect more sales than just the machines we buy for ourselves. I know I have personally influenced the buying habits 5 other users in the last 24 months (all non-linux users)
Twice nothing is still nothing.
Windows is approaching one billion users on the Desktop. Windows Vista has about the same market share as OSX and Linux - and got there in six months. OS Statistics
The bacteria isn't "winning" by killing it's host faster and faster and faster. This is a disadvantageous mutation from the bacteria's point of view . One needn't worry about it "getting into the wild".
Collateral damage.
The Black Plague killed one third of the human population of Europe. The fleas that were the primary carriers of the disease - its true hosts - were in no great danger as a species.
In the case of firmware causing damage on an arbitrary point in time, i would expect for that warranty act to enacted, the burden of proving beyond reasonable doubt that your firmware didn't cause the breakdown would rest on you.
This becomes a little tiresome.
But "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" has almost no meaning outside of a criminal trial.
Your burden of proof is simply to persuade a judge that it is reasonable to believe that your modifications didn't brick your phone, not so easy to do, of course, if your modified phone has - in fact - been bricked.
Except, AFAIK, the burden of proof is upon Apple to show that the SIM unlock process being employed by the customer is bricking the phone.
remember - that as a practical matter - you won't be going into court unless your phone has been bricked. that puts Apple in a very strong position to say that you botched it.
IMO you do kids a great disservice by insulating them from the hard parts of life, such as the fact that some people are pricks. It's better to learn how to deal with that yourself at a young age than to learn to rely on your parents or the government to come to your rescue.
You do your kids no better favor by not warning them that others may step in to protect their own.
To defend the most vulnerable.
That there are lines that cannot be crossed without paying a price.
Say kid A calls kid B a "cunt nigger bitch" on a forum somewhere, and Headmaster Brothinbersonshire sees that. Now, it's clearly mean, and offensive to some, but does it cross the line of cyber bullying?
You have been caught pitching racial and sexual insults to kids on a public forum.
You don't know or don't care that is inappropriate behavior? Then it is time for your Headmaster to step in.
"If you don't remove that post about Timmy RIGHT THIS INSTANCE YOUNG MAN!!!" That's teaching them how not to bully others by bullying them....
It is not bullying a kid to stop him from bullying others.
To warn him that his actions will have consequences. That entry into adulthood demands that you learn to respect some minimal standards of civilized behavior. That is also part of learning.
Perhaps a more important part of learning than what you will find in the textbooks.
The media is reporting that author Li Jun originally wrote the virus due to frustrations over being jobless.
You hire a guy with a record with of lashing out against the world when he meets with life's frustrations. What next? Do you offer him lifetime job security and rebuild your IT infrastructure every time he twitches?
It does not necessarily follow that since the space-mutated salmonella has a higher mortality rate in space that it will also have a higher mortality rate on Earth
The earth-bound lab mice were given oral doses of the mutated salmonella - which seemed to thrive in the similar environment of the intestinal tract.
I would personally find it worrying that anything so common and adaptable as salmonella would return so dramatically more lethal after no more than two weeks in space.
If the Feds had made the bust he would be serving far more time on the felony charge. The Feds are more than willing to play host to the Geek who thinks that jail is for others but never for him.
There was an article in our local paper last week about people throwing away malware infested computers because it cost more to clean them than replace them.
Does that sound like Windows is "just freakin' working"?
This has the flavor of a Geek-sanctioned urban legend.
The systems I see on the sidewalk are being trashed because they are the Packard Bells of a decade back.
An engineering friend of mine is into co-generation, and he asks, "How do we pipe hot stream around to people? How does that infrastructure get built?"
The right question to ask is where that infrastructure can be built:
Some 30 billion pounds of steam every year flow beneath the streets of Manhattan from the Battery to 96th Street. While it is unknown to most New Yorkers, Con Edison's subterranean steam system is the biggest steam district in the world, larger than the next four largest U.S. steam systems combined and boasting an annual steam production more than double that of Paris, Europe's largest system.
Rockefeller Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the United Nations [use steam] for heating and cooling - along with some 2,000 other customers and 100,000 buildings, from residential low-rises to commercial skyscrapers. All are in Manhattan, primarily because steam is most efficient and cost effective for high-rise buildings.
The number of steam customers has not increased in the past few years. "A lot of people don't know about it or don't know it's an option, or building owners don't want to go through the conversion process and don't want to spend the money to convert."
And so, for now at least, steam remains New York's neglected power source. "The steam system is a great asset to the city and delivers clean energy. We can clearly be doing more with it." Steam [2003]
Manhatten is a compact island with a population density of 67,000 people per square mile.
Manhatten is not hurting for lack of water - one gallon of water equals about eight pounds of steam.
The steam system is fueled by oil and natural gas. Manhatten draws its electricity from enormous hydroelectric plants upstate and in Canada.
Yeah, I know; "grief and humiliation"...heh. Poor thing! Probably traumatised and what not. Let's all thinkofthechildren! Surely, trying to get money out of it has nothing to do with it.
"Grief and humiliation" has a legal definition, as "pain and suffering" has a legal definition.
This is how you frame the issues for the court.
Virgin used the photograph of a minor out of context - and in a sexual context - in a large scale add campaign without demanding that the photographer produce a release. That is reckless and irresponsible.
If an artist wants to take care of their heirs, they need to do like the rest of us and take care of their heirs with the money they earn while they are still alive. I just don't see what gives artists the right to continue to profit from their works after they die. No one else has that "right".
There is of course nothing in your own estate that will continue to generate income or grow in value after you are dead.
No real property, no personal property.
You have gambled nothing - nothing - on the chance that something of your own creation might be of benefit to your children, your grandchildren.
If it were one of your family members wearing this thing, I suspect you'd feel differently.
The shirt is cute, clever. But the geek's "wearable tech" is simply not appropriate dress for an airport or a hospital. The security guard isn't obliged to believe that it is harmless.
Who's to say that any name is lame or not? More importantly, who cares?
This is the fiftieth anniversary of the Ford Edsel. Lame matters - as anyone in marketing - anyone with a nickname they haven't been able to shed since they were nine years old - will tell you.
The Geek is stereotyped as the eternal adolescent - and that carries over to every project burdened with a name like Harried Hare - or Gutsy Gibbon.
The problem is nobody really knows what is significant. So, they are scooping up whatever information they can find with the hope that someday there will be an important correlation.
But you should be paying attention to whatever seems inconsistent, improbable, out of place. You may remember Men in Black's comic take on Hogan's Alley. It's the sweet little girl who doesn't belong.
You aren't looking for a book. You are looking for a pattern. Five men of about the same age and appearance carrying the same book, a book with a very distinctive cover, perhaps, but not the latest best seller....
Contrary to popular belief, not all game developers are striving for photorealism.
The problem isn't photorealism.
The problem is drawing a player deeper into a game by creating a richer and more persuasive environment.
The alien world of the old LucasArts game The Dig was defined by water. There were pools, falls, founts and streams to be found everywhere. Bioshock's Rapture is a contemporary example. What could be more disorienting - and terrifying - than being trapped in a city whose protective shell is disintegrating?
Not consciously aware of being submerged until the truth is shoved in your face.
Special effects don't have to be "realistic" - movie makers learned long ago that what it is "real" is often not what is believable and dramatically effective.
For the record, those that voted for the Constitution were not "citizens" since the Constitution didn't exist when they voted for it.
The Articles of Confederation did exist from 1777 to 1788 and however strongly oriented towards the independence and power of the states does include language like this:
The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce...
The Constitutional language is sparse:
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.Article I Section 9
The suspension of habeas corpus is a policy decision - a decision to be made by the legislature and the executive in a time of great danger. The writ remains as it has always been - a "privilege" and not a "right."
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But the parent doesn't really say that - much less prove it - all it says is that: "just the same, they probably saved millions of dollars using a free kernel."
This is what the boss sees when he looks at Windows Automotive:
Based on WinCE 5.0.
Comes with a full set of familiar - though significantly customized - development tools, APIs and so on.
DirectSound. Direct3D Mobile.
"The Automotive User Interface Toolkit (AUITK) - a GUI framework that makes it easy to create advanced user interfaces at a desktop PC and store them as XML markup.
This separates the user interface from the functional part of the application program." The UI designer does not have to be a programmer.
What does all this tell him about development costs, schedules and staffing?
It's about good citizenship, not an extra two cents profit per device.
That two cents can mean the difference between a stillborn project and product on the shelves at Target.
it really is true that linux users probably affect more sales than just the machines we buy for ourselves. I know I have personally influenced the buying habits 5 other users in the last 24 months (all non-linux users)
Twice nothing is still nothing.
Windows is approaching one billion users on the Desktop. Windows Vista has about the same market share as OSX and Linux - and got there in six months. OS Statistics
Collateral damage.
The Black Plague killed one third of the human population of Europe. The fleas that were the primary carriers of the disease - its true hosts - were in no great danger as a species.
This becomes a little tiresome.
But "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" has almost no meaning outside of a criminal trial.
Your burden of proof is simply to persuade a judge that it is reasonable to believe that your modifications didn't brick your phone, not so easy to do, of course, if your modified phone has - in fact - been bricked.
remember - that as a practical matter - you won't be going into court unless your phone has been bricked. that puts Apple in a very strong position to say that you botched it.
You do your kids no better favor by not warning them that others may step in to protect their own.
To defend the most vulnerable.
That there are lines that cannot be crossed without paying a price.
You have been caught pitching racial and sexual insults to kids on a public forum.
You don't know or don't care that is inappropriate behavior? Then it is time for your Headmaster to step in.
It is not bullying a kid to stop him from bullying others.
To warn him that his actions will have consequences. That entry into adulthood demands that you learn to respect some minimal standards of civilized behavior. That is also part of learning.
Perhaps a more important part of learning than what you will find in the textbooks.
You hire a guy with a record with of lashing out against the world when he meets with life's frustrations. What next? Do you offer him lifetime job security and rebuild your IT infrastructure every time he twitches?
The earth-bound lab mice were given oral doses of the mutated salmonella - which seemed to thrive in the similar environment of the intestinal tract.
I would personally find it worrying that anything so common and adaptable as salmonella would return so dramatically more lethal after no more than two weeks in space.
and when it is your house that has beem stripped, or your identity stolen, what then?
If the Feds had made the bust he would be serving far more time on the felony charge. The Feds are more than willing to play host to the Geek who thinks that jail is for others but never for him.
For the Geek.
Not not for the billions who - for damn year thirty years - have known the PC only as a plug and play home appliance or office machine.
They will have nothing -nothing - to do with the bare-bones PC.
What the hell do you think made the PC mass market if it was not the OEM system bundle of hardware and software?
Windows is approaching a billion users on the desktop. You don't see the "naked" PC in retail sales because no one wants to buy the damn things.
Does that sound like Windows is "just freakin' working"?
This has the flavor of a Geek-sanctioned urban legend.
The systems I see on the sidewalk are being trashed because they are the Packard Bells of a decade back.
The right question to ask is where that infrastructure can be built:
Some 30 billion pounds of steam every year flow beneath the streets of Manhattan from the Battery to 96th Street. While it is unknown to most New Yorkers, Con Edison's subterranean steam system is the biggest steam district in the world, larger than the next four largest U.S. steam systems combined and boasting an annual steam production more than double that of Paris, Europe's largest system.
Rockefeller Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the United Nations [use steam] for heating and cooling - along with some 2,000 other customers and 100,000 buildings, from residential low-rises to commercial skyscrapers. All are in Manhattan, primarily because steam is most efficient and cost effective for high-rise buildings.
The number of steam customers has not increased in the past few years. "A lot of people don't know about it or don't know it's an option, or building owners don't want to go through the conversion process and don't want to spend the money to convert."
And so, for now at least, steam remains New York's neglected power source. "The steam system is a great asset to the city and delivers clean energy. We can clearly be doing more with it." Steam [2003]
Manhatten is a compact island with a population density of 67,000 people per square mile.
Manhatten is not hurting for lack of water - one gallon of water equals about eight pounds of steam.
The steam system is fueled by oil and natural gas. Manhatten draws its electricity from enormous hydroelectric plants upstate and in Canada.
"Grief and humiliation" has a legal definition, as "pain and suffering" has a legal definition.
This is how you frame the issues for the court.
Virgin used the photograph of a minor out of context - and in a sexual context - in a large scale add campaign without demanding that the photographer produce a release. That is reckless and irresponsible.
There is of course nothing in your own estate that will continue to generate income or grow in value after you are dead.
No real property, no personal property. You have gambled nothing - nothing - on the chance that something of your own creation might be of benefit to your children, your grandchildren.
The geek fallacy is to believe that the world is rational.
The bomb can tick. The bomb can beep - and still be a bomb.
Why do you suppose that after almost seventy years the most compelling and contemporary villain in the Batman mythos remains The Joker?
The shirt is cute, clever. But the geek's "wearable tech" is simply not appropriate dress for an airport or a hospital. The security guard isn't obliged to believe that it is harmless.
You prof gives you twenty seconds to look at a breadboard circuit at distance of six feet.
Now describe to your EE class what the circuit does. Bonus points if you can demonstate that the LED flashers are simply a distraction.
Explosives have electronics attached to something that goes boom.
Your argument being that a wireless detonation is impossible?
"Plastered Polecat" God help us all.
This is the fiftieth anniversary of the Ford Edsel. Lame matters - as anyone in marketing - anyone with a nickname they haven't been able to shed since they were nine years old - will tell you.
The Geek is stereotyped as the eternal adolescent - and that carries over to every project burdened with a name like Harried Hare - or Gutsy Gibbon.
But you should be paying attention to whatever seems inconsistent, improbable, out of place. You may remember Men in Black's comic take on Hogan's Alley. It's the sweet little girl who doesn't belong.
You aren't looking for a book. You are looking for a pattern. Five men of about the same age and appearance carrying the same book, a book with a very distinctive cover, perhaps, but not the latest best seller....
The problem isn't photorealism.
The problem is drawing a player deeper into a game by creating a richer and more persuasive environment.
The alien world of the old LucasArts game The Dig was defined by water. There were pools, falls, founts and streams to be found everywhere. Bioshock's Rapture is a contemporary example. What could be more disorienting - and terrifying - than being trapped in a city whose protective shell is disintegrating?
Not consciously aware of being submerged until the truth is shoved in your face.
Special effects don't have to be "realistic" - movie makers learned long ago that what it is "real" is often not what is believable and dramatically effective.
The Articles of Confederation did exist from 1777 to 1788 and however strongly oriented towards the independence and power of the states does include language like this:
The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce...
The Constitutional language is sparse:
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. Article I Section 9
The suspension of habeas corpus is a policy decision - a decision to be made by the legislature and the executive in a time of great danger. The writ remains as it has always been - a "privilege" and not a "right."