Plenty of applications which get bundled with Android could claim millions of installs. That doesn't mean they actually get used though, so really stretches the meaning of the word "popular"
I don't understand the obsession with not offering a limited free product. I liked Pingdom, it has numerous quirks that I would not have over looked if they were asking for me to pay to use.
I think it often comes down to shareholder pressure. If your primary view of a business its the bottom line, then the people using the limited free product are just freeloaders....drive them out, remove the overhead of subsidising them, boost bottom line value.
I was at a classic car show a few weeks ago, and saw an old MG that had been converted in a similar way. The company who did it said that the conversion actually improved the car's handling - as well as being in the boot (trunk for USA-ians) batteries were also distributed along the car's floor, which lowered the centre of gravity compared to the regular car
We're getting to the point where cameras are to phones what cupholders are to cars - unless there are more than you can physically use, the manufacturer considers it to be under-specced
I think if it was only 12,000 years ago, we'd have known about it. Physical evidence, written evidence (it would be in the precursor texts to the old testament or something).
Extract from the diary of Olaf Gunnerson form Greenland....."February 27th. Sitting on the glacier looking up to the sky. There's something unusual there, and it's getting bigger. In fact, I think it's coming towards me. I think it m "
An interesting bit of trivia, the C64 was where the iconic "fake chord" was invented, where two or three notes are played in quick succession on a single channel to make up for the lack of greater polyphony.
I grew up with the VIC 20 and as far as I remember the C64 had the same (or possibly better) sound capabilities, as both machines used the SID chip.
There were 3 voices available (registers 36874, 36875 and 36876) so you could play 3 separate notes simultaneously.
(also from my distant memory, 36877 was a separate voice for white noise, and 36878 controlled the overall volume,
Doing something that you don't like because you've been instructed by an authority figure is part of life. Do it in school and learn from the experience.
I remember a school biology lesson where we were each given a cow's eyeball to dissect. One girl in the class was really grossed out and didn't want to do it. "It's part of the course work - you have to do it" was the blunt reply from the teacher. (And in response to a statement that the pupil was vegetarian "I'm not asking you to eat it, just cut it up")
Welcome to the wonderful world of Soviet indoctrination. The system is flawless. The problem is the human in the system. We need to eliminate the problem.
I see an unbelievable amount of scary and dangerous stuff on the roads.. the ability to report that to the police seems natural.
Agreed. If I saw somebody committing an assault or breaking into a building I'd snap something on my camera and call the police. It would feel ludicrous to let the incident go unreported because I'd be snitching on somebody and promoting a police state.
No, foreign country attempts to enforce observance of religious ritual on entire population.
I respect their right to choose not to use the internet for 24 hours for religious reasons. But forcing it on the irreligious is a bit shitty to say the least.
There are still parts of northern Scotland, especially out on the islands, where you can't get a drink on a Sunday as all pubs are closed on The Day Of Rest
The SR-71 was developed (like all military programs) to serve a specific need: the Communist nations were closed off to the world and their secret police did an enthusiastic and effective job catching traitors. America was simply cut off from intelligence on the ground. Hence, the super-fast spy plane was developed, capable of violating borders guaranteed by international law, racing in to take photos, and racing back out again before the outraged victim country could defend itself. Moreover this was when the space program was in its infancy, satellite photography was unreliable and took a long time from photo to print. There's simply no need today for a spy plane like this.
Or, to put it more succinctly, to do the same job as the U2,but while travelling fast enough not to get shot down by a Soviet missile.
I agree with you though, given state of the art in space-based imagery, I don't really see a need for this - certainly not at the cost it is likely to carry.,
I have quite a few documents, presentations, etc. which I couldn't consider to be especially complex or quirky...Full MS Office handles them OK, but LibreOffice and OpenOffice either fail to open, crash with, or open in some corrupted form. Even the free Office Mobile apps handle these files better than Libre/Open do.
Why would they target product at freetards who have demonstrated that they aren't prepared to pay for an operating system, and so aren't that likely to pay for applications.
Problem with that is the number of devices with lithium-based batteries, which are not supposed to be carried in the hold - they are perceived as a fire risk, and if carried in the cabin then a fire can be detected more quickly
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A napkin with a crude diagram, annotated with the text 18"
Seems to be standard practice nowadays - solve a problem that nobody has, and make a product worse.
Plenty of applications which get bundled with Android could claim millions of installs. That doesn't mean they actually get used though, so really stretches the meaning of the word "popular"
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/africa/helium-discovery-tanzania/index.html
And there's a finite supply of everything here on Earth. Some things are more finite than others.
Except stupidity - there's a limitless supply of that
I don't understand the obsession with not offering a limited free product. I liked Pingdom, it has numerous quirks that I would not have over looked if they were asking for me to pay to use.
I think it often comes down to shareholder pressure. If your primary view of a business its the bottom line, then the people using the limited free product are just freeloaders....drive them out, remove the overhead of subsidising them, boost bottom line value.
WTF DO YOU NEED AI FOR THIS?!
You don't...and I'm willing to bet that the only use of AI here is use of those letters in attention-grabbing headlines.
Seems like nowadays anyone who writes an algorithm in code classifies themselves as "doing AI"
I was at a classic car show a few weeks ago, and saw an old MG that had been converted in a similar way. The company who did it said that the conversion actually improved the car's handling - as well as being in the boot (trunk for USA-ians) batteries were also distributed along the car's floor, which lowered the centre of gravity compared to the regular car
We're getting to the point where cameras are to phones what cupholders are to cars - unless there are more than you can physically use, the manufacturer considers it to be under-specced
I think if it was only 12,000 years ago, we'd have known about it. Physical evidence, written evidence (it would be in the precursor texts to the old testament or something).
Extract from the diary of Olaf Gunnerson form Greenland....."February 27th. Sitting on the glacier looking up to the sky. There's something unusual there, and it's getting bigger. In fact, I think it's coming towards me. I think it m "
An interesting bit of trivia, the C64 was where the iconic "fake chord" was invented, where two or three notes are played in quick succession on a single channel to make up for the lack of greater polyphony.
I grew up with the VIC 20 and as far as I remember the C64 had the same (or possibly better) sound capabilities, as both machines used the SID chip.
There were 3 voices available (registers 36874, 36875 and 36876) so you could play 3 separate notes simultaneously.
(also from my distant memory, 36877 was a separate voice for white noise, and 36878 controlled the overall volume,
Alcohol may cause 1 in 20 deaths, but it probably play a part in about 1 in 20 conceptions, so overall its a zero-sum game
Doing something that you don't like because you've been instructed by an authority figure is part of life. Do it in school and learn from the experience.
I remember a school biology lesson where we were each given a cow's eyeball to dissect. One girl in the class was really grossed out and didn't want to do it. "It's part of the course work - you have to do it" was the blunt reply from the teacher. (And in response to a statement that the pupil was vegetarian "I'm not asking you to eat it, just cut it up")
Welcome to the wonderful world of Soviet indoctrination. The system is flawless. The problem is the human in the system. We need to eliminate the problem.
The beatings will continue until morale improves
It's completely old. It's like, how much further back can you go? The answer is none - none more back
I see an unbelievable amount of scary and dangerous stuff on the roads .. the ability to report that to the police seems natural.
Agreed. If I saw somebody committing an assault or breaking into a building I'd snap something on my camera and call the police. It would feel ludicrous to let the incident go unreported because I'd be snitching on somebody and promoting a police state.
No, foreign country attempts to enforce observance of religious ritual on entire population.
I respect their right to choose not to use the internet for 24 hours for religious reasons. But forcing it on the irreligious is a bit shitty to say the least.
There are still parts of northern Scotland, especially out on the islands, where you can't get a drink on a Sunday as all pubs are closed on The Day Of Rest
You should be letting other drivers know where you are going anyway, it's called using a turn signal.
The car in question is a Mercedes - your argument is invalid
The SR-71 was developed (like all military programs) to serve a specific need: the Communist nations were closed off to the world and their secret police did an enthusiastic and effective job catching traitors. America was simply cut off from intelligence on the ground. Hence, the super-fast spy plane was developed, capable of violating borders guaranteed by international law, racing in to take photos, and racing back out again before the outraged victim country could defend itself. Moreover this was when the space program was in its infancy, satellite photography was unreliable and took a long time from photo to print. There's simply no need today for a spy plane like this.
Or, to put it more succinctly, to do the same job as the U2,but while travelling fast enough not to get shot down by a Soviet missile.
I agree with you though, given state of the art in space-based imagery, I don't really see a need for this - certainly not at the cost it is likely to carry.,
Wjhy is Halloween like Christmas for a programmer?
Oct31 equals Dec25
The sort of mutation that you might expect to find in an environment with tons of radiation flying around?
True.
I have quite a few documents, presentations, etc. which I couldn't consider to be especially complex or quirky...Full MS Office handles them OK, but LibreOffice and OpenOffice either fail to open, crash with, or open in some corrupted form. Even the free Office Mobile apps handle these files better than Libre/Open do.
Why would they target product at freetards who have demonstrated that they aren't prepared to pay for an operating system, and so aren't that likely to pay for applications.
It's so FB can sell your friends targeted advertising from funeral directors and florists
Problem with that is the number of devices with lithium-based batteries, which are not supposed to be carried in the hold - they are perceived as a fire risk, and if carried in the cabin then a fire can be detected more quickly
Uber wants to make vertical take-off and landing vehicles. That will allow their flying cars to take off and land vertically.
Thanks for that useful clarification - I wondered what vertical take-off and landing vehicles would be able to do.