It's the same situation that causes sickness in boats and planes.
It may be possible to have while playing a FPS, but I've never heard of anybody that sensible. (Yet, some people have sickness while whatching TV, so it may just be due to a small sample.)
Ugly? This thing ataches to the back of the TV, you won't ever see it.
Those ports look like very good news, a keyboard will make the box PC-like (wireless keyboards still need a USB port), those SATA ports mean you'll be able to use it as a nice media center, and a network port means you'll be able to use a reliable high speed wired connection. Also, more ports won't hurt, less ports will.
But yeah, you are rignht in a point. If it requires those wires, it will be bad. It's great to make the ports available, it isn't good to require using them.
Internal fragmentation makes files bigger, but doesn't slow down the access. External fragmentation doesn't increase the files size, but slows down the access. The OS is able to trade one by the other by changing the block size. The biggest this size, the more internal fragmentation and less external fragmentation you'll have.
On memories with fast random access you can use very small block sizes, and thus avoid losing too much space.
Fragmentation in SSD does affect the system performance. It is just that the effects are much smaler than on disk, so everybody ignores it.
Except for the in die cache, all the levels of the memory hierarchy of a modern computer are affected by fragmentation. But only disks are completely ruinned by it.
There is quite a while that I don't write in C. My first language was MS Basic (the one that mutilates the mind of everyone who learns it - or so said Djigstra) and I migrated all the way into the newer languages. They are great, but they don't work on this domain, even if they technicaly run. Even C++ that somebody down in this thread cited is too complex, and environment complexity makes your life harder on the embbebed world, not easier.
Now, that said, the embbebed world is getting smaller by the day. Everything is becomming a full computer.
I predict that not many years from now there won't be a commonly-used platform where you can download whatever you want and run it.
Well, I predict that not many years from now, whatever plataform(s) that let you run whatever software you download/write will be the one(s) that is(are) commonly-used.
There were previsions similar to mine and yours before, the ones similar to mine were always right, the ones similar to yours were always wrong. Maybe this time it is different, but I'll only belive it if somebody comes with a good explanation for why.
Android isn't the only Linux distro that isn't GNU. You are correct in that.
Now, what part of that fact makes the GP complaint unfounded? Android could be a GNU/Linux distro, Google decided that it wouldn't, and this makes Android worse.
After you accept the constraints of an embbebed environment and low level access, C is not a bad language anymore. Any language useable on that kind of environment is at least as bad as C.
Well, when I see the government (at my country or yours, you can choose) mandating that companies to permit that their empoyees use their own devices at work, I'll cede my point. Not before that.
I've seen too many times the governement (lots of them) helpping companies that can't be productive.
You can't change the prototype of an object once it's been constructed
I never completely grasped that detail, but you can change the prototype of some objects after they are constructed. That's exactly what is done in "var i = {}; i.item1 = 'a';". I just don't know when you can do that, and when you can't.
And yes, that bothers me a lot too. I'm used to lots of languages, with static and dynamic classes. No category bothers me, but that "you have to change it, except when you can't" rule of Javascript do.
You are paid to work and presumably want your job. If not having your pacifier with you at all times makes you that uncomfortable, find a different job.
Exactly. And if the company can't find anybody competent to fill your role, it's their problem.
The only thing wrong with this argument is that companies always go screamming to the government, asking for help.
The OSS community has proven to be utterly incapable of developing or contributing to such projects in any meaningful capacity
Yet, they've just released a completely free alterneative. How can you say that the people can't contribute anything in the article about how they reached a huge milestone in their contribution?
Aren't batteries banned from checked in luggage? Or is that only for international flights?
They are banned in international flights (or better, there are packaging and labeling requirements). There aren't general rules about what is allowed or not in domestic flights, each country determines its own rules.
How much are we going to pay if somebody just averts their eyes and pretends there isn't a problem just to save a few bucks one time or another?
Using history as a guide, some 10 billion and 3 plane crash equivalent number of deaths each century somewhere in the world. Way below the monetary cost of doing nothing. It's too early to compare with the death toil of the new security measures (and we just don't collect the right stats), but they certainly wastes more lifetime than the do nothing option.
But that is if you do absolutely nothing. That's clearly not the right answer. There are cheap, relaiable and hassle free actions that almost guarantee that nobody will steal a plane anymore, and there are expensive actions that create a lot of hassle and won't stop people from taking over a plane. In an ideal world, people would do the first set of actions, and avoid the later set. In a political correctness ruled world, people will do both sets of action because "you can't spare any effort for saving a life".
Here at Brazil, the hotel is required to record you passport number. In paper (no, computers just won't serve). I have no idea where they send those papers to, or if they send them somewhere at all.
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Concentrating heat and then using it to do work violates the second law of thermodynamics.
If you can concentrate heat, it must be in a setup that would makes a thermal machine not work.
It's the same situation that causes sickness in boats and planes.
It may be possible to have while playing a FPS, but I've never heard of anybody that sensible. (Yet, some people have sickness while whatching TV, so it may just be due to a small sample.)
They'll probably share the 4k content. And the downscaled 1080p, the 720p and the 720x640 DVD like.
The Wii also stacks. The PS2 stacked, but the PS3 doesn't.
Ugly? This thing ataches to the back of the TV, you won't ever see it.
Those ports look like very good news, a keyboard will make the box PC-like (wireless keyboards still need a USB port), those SATA ports mean you'll be able to use it as a nice media center, and a network port means you'll be able to use a reliable high speed wired connection. Also, more ports won't hurt, less ports will.
But yeah, you are rignht in a point. If it requires those wires, it will be bad. It's great to make the ports available, it isn't good to require using them.
There are two different kinds of fragmentation.
Internal fragmentation makes files bigger, but doesn't slow down the access. External fragmentation doesn't increase the files size, but slows down the access. The OS is able to trade one by the other by changing the block size. The biggest this size, the more internal fragmentation and less external fragmentation you'll have.
On memories with fast random access you can use very small block sizes, and thus avoid losing too much space.
Fragmentation in SSD does affect the system performance. It is just that the effects are much smaler than on disk, so everybody ignores it.
Except for the in die cache, all the levels of the memory hierarchy of a modern computer are affected by fragmentation. But only disks are completely ruinned by it.
There is quite a while that I don't write in C. My first language was MS Basic (the one that mutilates the mind of everyone who learns it - or so said Djigstra) and I migrated all the way into the newer languages. They are great, but they don't work on this domain, even if they technicaly run. Even C++ that somebody down in this thread cited is too complex, and environment complexity makes your life harder on the embbebed world, not easier.
Now, that said, the embbebed world is getting smaller by the day. Everything is becomming a full computer.
Well, I predict that not many years from now, whatever plataform(s) that let you run whatever software you download/write will be the one(s) that is(are) commonly-used.
There were previsions similar to mine and yours before, the ones similar to mine were always right, the ones similar to yours were always wrong. Maybe this time it is different, but I'll only belive it if somebody comes with a good explanation for why.
Android isn't the only Linux distro that isn't GNU. You are correct in that.
Now, what part of that fact makes the GP complaint unfounded? Android could be a GNU/Linux distro, Google decided that it wouldn't, and this makes Android worse.
What? No Hippinotoad?
C# is the one with biggest variation. It's ranked in #4, bellow C++ and above C.
After you accept the constraints of an embbebed environment and low level access, C is not a bad language anymore. Any language useable on that kind of environment is at least as bad as C.
Well, when I see the government (at my country or yours, you can choose) mandating that companies to permit that their empoyees use their own devices at work, I'll cede my point. Not before that.
I've seen too many times the governement (lots of them) helpping companies that can't be productive.
Anyway, he'll have something to put on his CV.
Closure is not to blame for the insane scoping rules of Javascript.
(Yep, comparing it to Perl is quite apt.)
I never completely grasped that detail, but you can change the prototype of some objects after they are constructed. That's exactly what is done in "var i = {}; i.item1 = 'a';". I just don't know when you can do that, and when you can't.
And yes, that bothers me a lot too. I'm used to lots of languages, with static and dynamic classes. No category bothers me, but that "you have to change it, except when you can't" rule of Javascript do.
Exactly. And if the company can't find anybody competent to fill your role, it's their problem.
The only thing wrong with this argument is that companies always go screamming to the government, asking for help.
For some reason, my Debain desktop was doing the same thing last time I tried to get into Google Maps.
Yet, they've just released a completely free alterneative. How can you say that the people can't contribute anything in the article about how they reached a huge milestone in their contribution?
To make it short, everything with more energy (should I say hotter?) than the most likely state has a negative temperature.
We down't move downward from zero, we get into the negative by moving upward.
Aren't batteries banned from checked in luggage? Or is that only for international flights?
They are banned in international flights (or better, there are packaging and labeling requirements). There aren't general rules about what is allowed or not in domestic flights, each country determines its own rules.
Using history as a guide, some 10 billion and 3 plane crash equivalent number of deaths each century somewhere in the world. Way below the monetary cost of doing nothing. It's too early to compare with the death toil of the new security measures (and we just don't collect the right stats), but they certainly wastes more lifetime than the do nothing option.
But that is if you do absolutely nothing. That's clearly not the right answer. There are cheap, relaiable and hassle free actions that almost guarantee that nobody will steal a plane anymore, and there are expensive actions that create a lot of hassle and won't stop people from taking over a plane. In an ideal world, people would do the first set of actions, and avoid the later set. In a political correctness ruled world, people will do both sets of action because "you can't spare any effort for saving a life".
Here at Brazil, the hotel is required to record you passport number. In paper (no, computers just won't serve). I have no idea where they send those papers to, or if they send them somewhere at all.
Anyway, nobody ever verifies anything.
They know better than you think. They are right in carefully evaluating your toothbrush in the X-ray.
They just shouldn't get more scared because it's vibrating and making noise. In fact, they should get less scared.