And of course the iPad is running iOS and apps build with XCode wich uses gcc as the compiler backend
iOS has never used gcc. The early iPhones used llvm-gcc, which used gcc for parsing and LLVM for code generation. By the time the iPad was released, the parser had been replaced by clang, so gcc is not involved at all, neither is the GNU linker.
The problem is not socialism, the problem is receiving government handouts while spouting rhetoric about government handouts being bad and how you got where you are by your own hard work. See also: Ayn Rand.
Actually, the Slashdot moderation system is a good counterexample. In the old days, your karma was a score value that was public. People used to brag about how good their karma was and post a lot of karma whoring things to make it bigger. When they made it private and capped, The discussions improved.
I've seen a couple of DVDs in the UK with a very brief thing at the start saying 'thank you for paying for this, look at the other films we've been able to make as a result of people doing this'. It's the same message, and it combines the anti-piracy warning with the trailers (and, yes, is skippable), but it somehow doesn't leave you thinking 'well, fuck you too, studios' like the older 'the pirates are out to get you' ones.
Really? I got this list as the top hit for a search for the best universities in the world. In the top 10, we have UK universities in spots 1, 5, 6, and 7. So somehow a country with cheap education and a population 20% that of the USA manages to have 40% of the top 10 spots. The cost of getting a degree at any of the UK universities in the top 10 is less than the cost of one year of tuition at any of the US universities in the top 10.
Looking at the methodology, it's somewhat flawed. 50% of the score is based on people's perception of the university (highly subjective and more based on how good their PR department is than their teaching), 20% is based on citations (so irrelevant for ranking universities in terms of teaching). Oh, and the citations score is not normalised by department size, so US universities do significantly better on this metric even when they have fewer good publications per researcher simply because they are considerably larger than most universities in the rest of the world.
Shareholders are suing Nokia. That isn't the normal day-to-day of running a handset business
I don't see why not. All of the handset makers are currently suing each other, it was only a matter of time before the shareholders joined the party...
Except that those aren't really GSM, they're UMTS, HSPA, and LTE. UMTS uses WCDMA, so talking about UMTS vs CDMA doesn't really make sense. The grandparent is stuck in the mid '90s, when GPRS was shoehorned into GSM. The problem is that GSM is used to refer to two things two things, a standards body and also their first standard. GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA and LTE are all standards in the GSM family.
The real advantage of the original GSM standard over CDMA was that it was a widely adopted standard. Outside of the USA, most countries licensed frequencies to mobile operators on the condition that they deploy GSM. This meant lots of competition among handset makers and among providers because it was easy to move between mobile phone companies (just swap the SIM, keep your handset) and phones (swap the SIM to the new one).
Saying that CDMA is better than TDMA is irrelevant because GSM standards haven't used TDMA since before UMTS (I got my first UMTS phone bundled with a very cheap contract about 10 years ago). To give an obligatory car analogy, it makes about as much sense as comparing two engine suppliers based on the relative merits of their steam engine designs.
You are depriving Facebook of access to your future comments though. You're also making Facebook just a little bit less valuable to your friends (who can't use it to contact you anymore) and to advertisers (who can't use it to sell you things anymore).
Add to that, the main advantage of a nuclear vessel is that it can spend a very long time without returning to port. In terms of operational cost, it looks like they will become slightly cheaper than diesel ships in the next few years, but the point of most commercial vessels is to get between two ports as quickly as possible so being able to sit in the middle of the ocean for months and still manoeuvre at full thrust is not a useful feature. If the price of oil keeps increasing, however, they become a lot more potentially feasible.
That said, a combination of wind from high-altitude kites, solar, and some electricity storage system charged in port (hydrogen, lead-acid batteries, whatever) may make non-nuclear electric cargo vessels (or, at least, ones where the nuclear power plants are at the ports) more interesting.
Taking a risk on expensive R&D to build a nuclear cargo vessel is not something that private enterprise is going to do due to what would be high capital costs. IMHO you would see non-government nuclear vessels anywhere until a government has done all the hard work and handed the results over on a plate
I'd draw your attention to the N.S. Savannah. The R&D was already done, funded by the US government, but the low price of oil in the '60s and labour disputes made it commercially unfeasible.
Are they shills? I thought they were parodies of some advert I've not seen. Wikipedia lists three GameMakers, none of which has been in production for the last 10 years, so I assume it's not a current product, and I don't think anyone would pay to shill for something that hasn't been on sale for years...
No they are not. A religion is an organisation based on superstition. Saying they are the same thing is like saying that corporations and capitalism are the same thing.
To hit on the news.bbc.co.uk search for PC returns this article, containing:
Mr Southey said Mrs Roberts had told one officer, Pc Jacqui Reid, that she did not mind being searched but would prefer it to be conducted at a police station as young people with whom she worked might see her being searched in the street.
It seems they're now inconsistent about it, because the next few articles all use PC, but going back a bit further you'll find a lot.
Possibly a biased source, but not exactly a shocking conclusion. The OS X kernel is a massive amount of C and embedded C++ code. On top of that is a huge pile more code. It's not going to be bug free, and at least some of those bugs will be exploitable. It does about the same set of things as other modern operating systems to reduce the damage that a compromised application can do (e.g. making it easy to run apps in sandboxes), but any network-exposed system running arbitrary code is vulnerable, the only question is whether the effort involved in finding and exploiting a vulnerability is greater than the reward.
Okay, give one example of a nation where these things all exist without taxpayer funding. In the UK, these are all government funded precisely because for hundreds of years the private sector failed at providing them - at best it provided them for a select few.
We had a few thousand years of trying to provide these things without government intervention so if, as you say, it is 'patently false' that these things will not be provided without taxpayer funding, I'm sure it will be trivial for you to provide a contemporary or historical example.
Because most people cannot charge their car at work. Because people that live in apartments or condos cannot charge their cars at "home".
If there's a standard for electric car charging, expect to see charging stations appear in business parking lots and on the streets. When I was in Paris a few months ago there were already a number of electric car charging stations dotted around the place. You can deploy one anywhere that has a connection to the electricity grid and the space required is about the same as a parking space.
Seriously? Microsoft paid to have a story about the automotive industry posted? In, what, the hopes that they would be subject to more favourable car analogies in the future?
The point is that the schools can afford to buy a load of them, and can let students take them home for homework assignments. Some students may also buy their own, and then they just need to move an SD card between their home and work ones.
Most of the people working on it are academics (two floors up from me), so they're paid out of research grants and so on. The ones at Broadcom are paid out of the profits from selling the CPU. I'm not sure about the distributor, presumably they make some money, as the computer lab isn't really set up for shipping tens of thousands of little computers...
I believe the Freedom Box is meant to run things like a dynamic DNS client and XMPP / mail server, so you can, for example, already use it to communicate with anyone with a mail client or chat with anyone using XMMP (including Google Talk). That just leaves the more advanced features, but once you're using them there's more incentive for other people that you communicate with to start.
Sure, no problem, just grab the sources for the Linux port of Skype and recompile for ARM. Oh, wait. Maybe there's a reason that depending on single-vendor communication technology is a bad idea...
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And of course the iPad is running iOS and apps build with XCode wich uses gcc as the compiler backend
iOS has never used gcc. The early iPhones used llvm-gcc, which used gcc for parsing and LLVM for code generation. By the time the iPad was released, the parser had been replaced by clang, so gcc is not involved at all, neither is the GNU linker.
The problem is not socialism, the problem is receiving government handouts while spouting rhetoric about government handouts being bad and how you got where you are by your own hard work. See also: Ayn Rand.
Actually, the Slashdot moderation system is a good counterexample. In the old days, your karma was a score value that was public. People used to brag about how good their karma was and post a lot of karma whoring things to make it bigger. When they made it private and capped, The discussions improved.
I've seen a couple of DVDs in the UK with a very brief thing at the start saying 'thank you for paying for this, look at the other films we've been able to make as a result of people doing this'. It's the same message, and it combines the anti-piracy warning with the trailers (and, yes, is skippable), but it somehow doesn't leave you thinking 'well, fuck you too, studios' like the older 'the pirates are out to get you' ones.
Really? I got this list as the top hit for a search for the best universities in the world. In the top 10, we have UK universities in spots 1, 5, 6, and 7. So somehow a country with cheap education and a population 20% that of the USA manages to have 40% of the top 10 spots. The cost of getting a degree at any of the UK universities in the top 10 is less than the cost of one year of tuition at any of the US universities in the top 10.
Looking at the methodology, it's somewhat flawed. 50% of the score is based on people's perception of the university (highly subjective and more based on how good their PR department is than their teaching), 20% is based on citations (so irrelevant for ranking universities in terms of teaching). Oh, and the citations score is not normalised by department size, so US universities do significantly better on this metric even when they have fewer good publications per researcher simply because they are considerably larger than most universities in the rest of the world.
Shareholders are suing Nokia. That isn't the normal day-to-day of running a handset business
I don't see why not. All of the handset makers are currently suing each other, it was only a matter of time before the shareholders joined the party...
Except that those aren't really GSM, they're UMTS, HSPA, and LTE. UMTS uses WCDMA, so talking about UMTS vs CDMA doesn't really make sense. The grandparent is stuck in the mid '90s, when GPRS was shoehorned into GSM. The problem is that GSM is used to refer to two things two things, a standards body and also their first standard. GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA and LTE are all standards in the GSM family.
The real advantage of the original GSM standard over CDMA was that it was a widely adopted standard. Outside of the USA, most countries licensed frequencies to mobile operators on the condition that they deploy GSM. This meant lots of competition among handset makers and among providers because it was easy to move between mobile phone companies (just swap the SIM, keep your handset) and phones (swap the SIM to the new one).
Saying that CDMA is better than TDMA is irrelevant because GSM standards haven't used TDMA since before UMTS (I got my first UMTS phone bundled with a very cheap contract about 10 years ago). To give an obligatory car analogy, it makes about as much sense as comparing two engine suppliers based on the relative merits of their steam engine designs.
You are depriving Facebook of access to your future comments though. You're also making Facebook just a little bit less valuable to your friends (who can't use it to contact you anymore) and to advertisers (who can't use it to sell you things anymore).
Add to that, the main advantage of a nuclear vessel is that it can spend a very long time without returning to port. In terms of operational cost, it looks like they will become slightly cheaper than diesel ships in the next few years, but the point of most commercial vessels is to get between two ports as quickly as possible so being able to sit in the middle of the ocean for months and still manoeuvre at full thrust is not a useful feature. If the price of oil keeps increasing, however, they become a lot more potentially feasible.
That said, a combination of wind from high-altitude kites, solar, and some electricity storage system charged in port (hydrogen, lead-acid batteries, whatever) may make non-nuclear electric cargo vessels (or, at least, ones where the nuclear power plants are at the ports) more interesting.
Taking a risk on expensive R&D to build a nuclear cargo vessel is not something that private enterprise is going to do due to what would be high capital costs. IMHO you would see non-government nuclear vessels anywhere until a government has done all the hard work and handed the results over on a plate
I'd draw your attention to the N.S. Savannah. The R&D was already done, funded by the US government, but the low price of oil in the '60s and labour disputes made it commercially unfeasible.
Are they shills? I thought they were parodies of some advert I've not seen. Wikipedia lists three GameMakers, none of which has been in production for the last 10 years, so I assume it's not a current product, and I don't think anyone would pay to shill for something that hasn't been on sale for years...
No they are not. A religion is an organisation based on superstition. Saying they are the same thing is like saying that corporations and capitalism are the same thing.
Ruby's not that bad, if you can manage to avoid having any interaction with the Ruby community...
Yes indeed, C and C++ are the languages I always think of when it comes to web development. Most especially used with the StrawMan++ framework.
Mr Southey said Mrs Roberts had told one officer, Pc Jacqui Reid, that she did not mind being searched but would prefer it to be conducted at a police station as young people with whom she worked might see her being searched in the street.
It seems they're now inconsistent about it, because the next few articles all use PC, but going back a bit further you'll find a lot.
Possibly a biased source, but not exactly a shocking conclusion. The OS X kernel is a massive amount of C and embedded C++ code. On top of that is a huge pile more code. It's not going to be bug free, and at least some of those bugs will be exploitable. It does about the same set of things as other modern operating systems to reduce the damage that a compromised application can do (e.g. making it easy to run apps in sandboxes), but any network-exposed system running arbitrary code is vulnerable, the only question is whether the effort involved in finding and exploiting a vulnerability is greater than the reward.
Okay, give one example of a nation where these things all exist without taxpayer funding. In the UK, these are all government funded precisely because for hundreds of years the private sector failed at providing them - at best it provided them for a select few.
We had a few thousand years of trying to provide these things without government intervention so if, as you say, it is 'patently false' that these things will not be provided without taxpayer funding, I'm sure it will be trivial for you to provide a contemporary or historical example.
Because most people cannot charge their car at work. Because people that live in apartments or condos cannot charge their cars at "home".
If there's a standard for electric car charging, expect to see charging stations appear in business parking lots and on the streets. When I was in Paris a few months ago there were already a number of electric car charging stations dotted around the place. You can deploy one anywhere that has a connection to the electricity grid and the space required is about the same as a parking space.
Ah, the 'it doesn't work for my atypical use case, therefore it's useless argument'. Obligatory for any technology article, well done.
So, your commute was about a mile and a half each way? Would you even bother driving that kind of distance?
Seriously? Microsoft paid to have a story about the automotive industry posted? In, what, the hopes that they would be subject to more favourable car analogies in the future?
The point is that the schools can afford to buy a load of them, and can let students take them home for homework assignments. Some students may also buy their own, and then they just need to move an SD card between their home and work ones.
Most of the people working on it are academics (two floors up from me), so they're paid out of research grants and so on. The ones at Broadcom are paid out of the profits from selling the CPU. I'm not sure about the distributor, presumably they make some money, as the computer lab isn't really set up for shipping tens of thousands of little computers...
I believe the Freedom Box is meant to run things like a dynamic DNS client and XMPP / mail server, so you can, for example, already use it to communicate with anyone with a mail client or chat with anyone using XMMP (including Google Talk). That just leaves the more advanced features, but once you're using them there's more incentive for other people that you communicate with to start.
Sure, no problem, just grab the sources for the Linux port of Skype and recompile for ARM. Oh, wait. Maybe there's a reason that depending on single-vendor communication technology is a bad idea...
Most of the Mac users I know have a PhD in computer science or engineering. Yay for selection bais...