Sure at my job are lots of Macs, not a one used for Objective C development but instead java, python, php, etc. the bulk of the world uses other langauges to move money and move data on the web.
I said data. An anecdote is not data.
Here's some more data: There's well over a million apps on the iOS app store. The overwhelming proportion of which use Obj-C. Which proves conclusively that you don't know what you are talking about.
Whether with programming languages or with studies it's the same: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Select mobile, and you'll find Objective-C listed 16th, 6 places after MATLAB, and two places after Visual Basic. Which is clearly nonsense.
We already have tried and tested (back to 1989!) rankings for this. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php... And Objective-C is currently number three across the board, never mind just mobile.
Apple found a valuable niche, to be sure, but could never be a dominant player.
The only way you can look at it that way is if you think market share is everything. But of course it's not, it's profit. And Apple is the most profitable tech company in the world. Their success s not qualified, they are absolutely the most successful tech company in the world right now.
Likewise with Tesla. They are clearly dedicated towards making the best pure electric vehicles, and selling them at the price that dictates. Don't blame this on my "cultural perspective" unless you can find anything to suggest Tesla would ever make a hybrid. They aren't the most successful car company in the world yet, but they very well may become so without changing their approach one jot.
What Apple has the sense to realise is that it's profit share that matters, not market share.
As regards the brand thing, a brand is a promise of quality. And so you only get to be a premium brand by delivering premium quality. Marketing and expensive prices alone don't cut it for long.
You're presenting the mid west as if it's the abnormal outlier. In reality Los Angeles is the outlier. Due to the influence of the movie industry, the body beautiful is more of an obsession there than most other places in the world. Whether it's achieved by genuine healthy living or fad diets, gym obsession, drugs or plastic surgery.
This is why anecdotes and gut-feel count for nothing next to data. You;'e overly biased towards thinking that your experiences are typical.
This is why processed food ingredients need to be regulated. Individuals cannot be expected to all check every product for each food type - even more so if it's not properly labelled. Free enterprise has been allowed to pull dirty tricks such as the one you describe for too long.
I don't believe the people of America have any less self-control than people in any other country. The problems therefore are cultural and systematic, not personal.
Why does the government get the blame for not preventing the processed food industry, rather than the processed food industry for making the unhealthy food?
You can't both believe in a hands off government, and then blame the government for not stopping businesses doing socially damaging things.
It's reasonable to assume that obesity in the rest of the world will continue to increase. But what makes you think the USA is going to slow down, stop or reverse enough for others to pass them?
Europe's one main advantage is you can actually take public transportation and walk to get to places.
Don't forget the advantages of traditions of healthier cuisine, and better regulation of food manufacturers.
UK: "reaching levels of 22-24% in 2008/9." USA: "As of 2007, 33% of men and 36% of women are obese." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
That's a fair difference. And that's comparing against what's probably the worst case in Europe. So no the whole "americans are fat" thing is not misinformation.
Worse, American cultural exports such as TV dinners, Big Macs and deep pan pizzas have had significant effect on the rising obesity around the world.
I didn't say they weren't. But their approach to doing that is uncompromising - where a compromise would mean a hybrid. And uncompromising can be a very good business plan. It drove Apple to be the most valuable company in the world. And seems to be working well for Tesla too.
If you think I run away from arguments, you haven't come across me before. There will be no attempt to defend my position though. I'll tell you exactly what is what, no attempting required.
You're a bigot. You've confessed it.
No, I explained why I wasn't. The fact that I took time to assess you individually, before describing what you are. Which is not what bigots do.
Now you are calling me names - "bigot", and "temper tantruming child". So by your own logic all this would apply to you too.
That's interesting. Thanks for the pointer to Moodle, I hadn't heard of it.
This issue interests me as I'm planning to create a language teaching app. I never really considered using REs for the answers because: 1) It seems like working out generic rules for a language is difficult. 2) Programmer expertise and language domain expertise is usually not the same person. And a language teacher is going to find REs hard, especially given point 1.
If it were just a few REs, then it would be less of a problem. But we're talking about a different RE for every question. (I assume). That's going to be hundreds of them.
To be fair, I live in the UK and they're only just starting to roll out.
To be even fairer, they were only launched in the UK a month ago. So you can't really expect a Tesla specific supercharger network just yet. But most of the existing UK charging stations will charge a Tesla as well as a Leaf - though of course it won't be as fast as a Tesla supercharger.
Do you watch the Robert Llewellyn Fully Charged vodcast? He drives various review EVs and his regular Leaf around the UK, and doesn't seem to have a problem.
Range anxiety seems to be something that's suffered by people who don't have EVs. If you actually had one, you'd be aware where the superchargers within 100 miles of you are, and even if you didn't, the map on the console would show you.
As other people point out, the gull wing doors need less horizontal space than traditional doors. But even if they didn't, they are for the rear doors, the driver's door open's conventionally.
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Sure at my job are lots of Macs, not a one used for Objective C development but instead java, python, php, etc. the bulk of the world uses other langauges to move money and move data on the web.
I said data. An anecdote is not data.
Here's some more data: There's well over a million apps on the iOS app store. The overwhelming proportion of which use Obj-C. Which proves conclusively that you don't know what you are talking about.
How old are you?
Unlike you I supplied a more reputable source of data. Objective-C is number 3.
And a long way above Ruby! ;-)
Why? In what way is it better to have companies allowed to fleece children and their parents like this? What benefit is there to allowing it?
Whether with programming languages or with studies it's the same: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Select mobile, and you'll find Objective-C listed 16th, 6 places after MATLAB, and two places after Visual Basic. Which is clearly nonsense.
We already have tried and tested (back to 1989!) rankings for this. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php...
And Objective-C is currently number three across the board, never mind just mobile.
I don't.
It must have been that comment moaning about government interference that had me fooled.
I was with you up until:
"That European doctors usually see the patients nude"
I'm reminded of Joey's belief n Friends that tailors are supposed to measure your inside leg like that!
In 50 years of European halthcare the only time a doctor has seen me nude is when I was born.
Apple found a valuable niche, to be sure, but could never be a dominant player.
The only way you can look at it that way is if you think market share is everything. But of course it's not, it's profit. And Apple is the most profitable tech company in the world. Their success s not qualified, they are absolutely the most successful tech company in the world right now.
Likewise with Tesla. They are clearly dedicated towards making the best pure electric vehicles, and selling them at the price that dictates. Don't blame this on my "cultural perspective" unless you can find anything to suggest Tesla would ever make a hybrid. They aren't the most successful car company in the world yet, but they very well may become so without changing their approach one jot.
Their market share is very, very small.
What Apple has the sense to realise is that it's profit share that matters, not market share.
As regards the brand thing, a brand is a promise of quality. And so you only get to be a premium brand by delivering premium quality. Marketing and expensive prices alone don't cut it for long.
You're presenting the mid west as if it's the abnormal outlier. In reality Los Angeles is the outlier. Due to the influence of the movie industry, the body beautiful is more of an obsession there than most other places in the world. Whether it's achieved by genuine healthy living or fad diets, gym obsession, drugs or plastic surgery.
This is why anecdotes and gut-feel count for nothing next to data. You;'e overly biased towards thinking that your experiences are typical.
And what you propose instead of data is your gut feel. And that's because you find your beliefs on the wrong side of the evidence so often.
The about History is that America doesn't have much of it. They typically think a 100 year old building is notably historic.
History didn't start in 1492. (or any of the earlier dates at which the current Americans can be deemed to have started.
In Europe when we talk about history, we're looking at at least a couple of millennia. And your race shared in much of it.
I mean, I'm guessing by your examples that you know as little about aboriginal American history as you do about European.
This is why processed food ingredients need to be regulated. Individuals cannot be expected to all check every product for each food type - even more so if it's not properly labelled. Free enterprise has been allowed to pull dirty tricks such as the one you describe for too long.
I don't believe the people of America have any less self-control than people in any other country. The problems therefore are cultural and systematic, not personal.
Why does the government get the blame for not preventing the processed food industry, rather than the processed food industry for making the unhealthy food?
You can't both believe in a hands off government, and then blame the government for not stopping businesses doing socially damaging things.
It's reasonable to assume that obesity in the rest of the world will continue to increase. But what makes you think the USA is going to slow down, stop or reverse enough for others to pass them?
Europe's one main advantage is you can actually take public transportation and walk to get to places.
Don't forget the advantages of traditions of healthier cuisine, and better regulation of food manufacturers.
UK: "reaching levels of 22-24% in 2008/9."
USA: "As of 2007, 33% of men and 36% of women are obese."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
That's a fair difference. And that's comparing against what's probably the worst case in Europe. So no the whole "americans are fat" thing is not misinformation.
Worse, American cultural exports such as TV dinners, Big Macs and deep pan pizzas have had significant effect on the rising obesity around the world.
Tesla is there to be a successful US automaker.
I didn't say they weren't. But their approach to doing that is uncompromising - where a compromise would mean a hybrid. And uncompromising can be a very good business plan. It drove Apple to be the most valuable company in the world. And seems to be working well for Tesla too.
If you think I run away from arguments, you haven't come across me before. There will be no attempt to defend my position though. I'll tell you exactly what is what, no attempting required.
You're a bigot. You've confessed it.
No, I explained why I wasn't. The fact that I took time to assess you individually, before describing what you are. Which is not what bigots do.
Now you are calling me names - "bigot", and "temper tantruming child". So by your own logic all this would apply to you too.
That's interesting. Thanks for the pointer to Moodle, I hadn't heard of it.
This issue interests me as I'm planning to create a language teaching app. I never really considered using REs for the answers because:
1) It seems like working out generic rules for a language is difficult.
2) Programmer expertise and language domain expertise is usually not the same person. And a language teacher is going to find REs hard, especially given point 1.
If it were just a few REs, then it would be less of a problem. But we're talking about a different RE for every question. (I assume). That's going to be hundreds of them.
To be fair, I live in the UK and they're only just starting to roll out.
To be even fairer, they were only launched in the UK a month ago. So you can't really expect a Tesla specific supercharger network just yet. But most of the existing UK charging stations will charge a Tesla as well as a Leaf - though of course it won't be as fast as a Tesla supercharger.
Do you watch the Robert Llewellyn Fully Charged vodcast? He drives various review EVs and his regular Leaf around the UK, and doesn't seem to have a problem.
Up to now I haven't been convinced by the stories of Apple's next category being a smart-watch. But this is pretty convincing.
Range anxiety seems to be something that's suffered by people who don't have EVs. If you actually had one, you'd be aware where the superchargers within 100 miles of you are, and even if you didn't, the map on the console would show you.
As other people point out, the gull wing doors need less horizontal space than traditional doors. But even if they didn't, they are for the rear doors, the driver's door open's conventionally.
The Model X is a crossover utility vehicle - you'd expect a compact saloon such as the Model E to have a lower roof.