No I think it was motivated by the writers and performers having to generate humorous material once a week for their job.
Had Palin been the Democratic running mate, and said the same things, there is no doubt that Tina Fey would have still parodied her, in much the same way. Palin was far too much of a gift for comedians to ignore. She'd have been a ridiculous candidate on either side of the fence.
Symbian OS was based on EPOC32. A PDA OS that in 1997 had a complete complement of touchscreen apps and a third party developer community. Had Telephony simply been added to what was already there at that time, they essentially had a decade lead on what Apple produced with the iPhone.
However Nokia killed the existing top layers of Symbian OS because it didn't match their existing phone OS UI. The resulting mess was Nokia's own fault.
OK, it's become clear that the whole thing is definatly a lie by a Conservative newspaper and politician.
But taking it at face value, such a system would not have to ensure that the car never brakes the speed limit, any more than the speed limiters on trucks and coaches already do. It's still the driver's ultimate responsibility. This kind of technology just reduces the number of people that are breaking the spped limit. Not guaranteeing that nobody does.
Indeed. This thing is a Conservative politician and a couple of Conservative newspapers doing the same old fairy tales about the EU. Even as applies to cars. But at least with cars it could actually work, techically. But it would be insane to do it with Motorbikes.
When I was in Holland last year, we had a car with a GPS and speed limit display. Only problem was, if you were on a main highway and passed over a local road, the speed limit would often switch to something like 50km/h as it briefly became confused about which road you were on.
That's a pretty fucked up navigation system then. Tracks should be sticky, and only easily change to other roads when there is a junction, or where the GPS position is significantly away from the road it previously thought you were on.
They can often believe you've taken a slip road (off ramp) when you haven't, and vice versa, before correcting. But to believe you're on a road you are simply passing over is a big fuck up.
Needless to say, having every car hitting the brakes at that point would probably be a bad idea.
That would be a pretty stupid way to implement it anyway, even for legitimate speed limit changes, so it wouldn't be done like that. A limit on acceleration would deal with the majority of cases. If they really cared enough about acceleration sue to downhill slopes, they could add in very gentle braking too.
All in all, it's a really stupid idea. Which is what you'd expect from the EU.
Actually, the stronger possibility is it's the kind of story you'd expect the Mail on Sunday (or it's sister the Daily Mail) to tell about the EU, regardless of whether there is any truth in it. Or if there is a grain of truth, with lots of untrue embellishments.
Yes it was, and I was uneasy about this assumption that all kids need access to coding tools when I read the summary.
For those kids that have the interest to code, or those teachers and parents that want their kids to explore that, the Raspberry Pi is excellent and cheap, and won't go away unless and until there is something even better for that. There's no need for every computing device to be easily programmable.
Somebody, or some team can. However, very few of the students that do some programming will ever progress to creating a significant app.
And there's no need. There's no shortage of apps. People don't tend to be limited by a lack of apps.
The big picture is that programming doesn't need to be a widespread activity. It's a specialism. We don't all need to dabble with architecture, plumbing or dentistry either.
I've no problem if they allow you to switch these improvements off via a user defaults line at the CLI. But I certainly wouldn't want the System Preferences app filled up with options to turn them off. One of the things that makes Apple products is not filling app UIs up with huge numbers of options.
Pointing out the hypocrisy doesn't mean that the person approves of chemical weapons. It more likely means their condemnation of WMDs goes wider than just chemical weapons, and includes WMDs that the USA considers their right to hold and use.
Put it another way, the people that can afford more technical weapons of mass destruction (such as the first world countries) don't like the democratisation of WMDs that chemical weapons represent.
If programming is desired, then a tablet is the wrong tool anyway. A laptop is the right tool for that job. Typing on a tablet is bad enough, where lots of punctuations symbols and cursor movements are required its terrible.
But the vast majority of students and indeed people do not have any need to do any programming. Ever.
On Slashdot, we all reminisce about the early programming experiences we had, and how rewarding they were. But we're a self selecting niche. If this was a music site, the assumption would be that any computing device would have to be good for creating music. Likewise if this was an art or design site, the emphasis would be on devices that get students doing those things. In both those cases, tablets are rather better.
Tablets have uses for which they excel, but programming isn't one of them.
Emulators and interpreted-code-players are still not allowed. Thanks a bunch, iOverlords.
That's simply not true. There are plenty of emulators and interpreters on the App Store. Provided that the "ROMS" or other emulated code comes from the App Store. And that could be via inclusion with the original download, or via in app purchases.
Almost. The rules used to be phrased as an absolute ban on interpreted code. But they were relaxed. What remains is a ban on executing any code downloaded or otherwise shared code, other than what comes form the App Store.
Motivations include anti-malware, that native apps tend to be higher quality, and the commercial and other advantages of a single app store.
They only figures they present are from religious organisations. Which I specifically excluded as a source which could be used to back up the ridiculous claims from religious organisations that the bible outsells every other book.
You can't say the government are telling the truth by quoting figures claimed by the government. The same goes for religious organisations.
I was brought up a Catholic. I've never bought a bible. But I was given a cheap Gideon's bible at school, which I later threw away. So I'm sure you're right. Gideons must have printed an awful lot of bibles that don't count as sales.
What are you talking about? DO you have any idea how many Bibles are sold?
Nobody does. Which is one of the things that makes it a bogus claim.
Remember it's been translated into a bazillion languages, while most NYT bestsellers, even if translated, are popular mainly in their native language.
Stuff like the Da Vinci Code and the Harry Potter books are also translated into many languages and are popular around the word. They sell more than the bible.
I don't know where you are from. But Americans are more likely to believe the bible outsells everything else, because America is a very Christian country, with more interest in the bible that even the other Christian countries. Most of the world isn't like that.
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No I think it was motivated by the writers and performers having to generate humorous material once a week for their job.
Had Palin been the Democratic running mate, and said the same things, there is no doubt that Tina Fey would have still parodied her, in much the same way. Palin was far too much of a gift for comedians to ignore. She'd have been a ridiculous candidate on either side of the fence.
Tomi is an ex-Nokia exec, and has always overestimated Nokia's abilities, power and chances.
Symbian OS was based on EPOC32. A PDA OS that in 1997 had a complete complement of touchscreen apps and a third party developer community. Had Telephony simply been added to what was already there at that time, they essentially had a decade lead on what Apple produced with the iPhone.
However Nokia killed the existing top layers of Symbian OS because it didn't match their existing phone OS UI. The resulting mess was Nokia's own fault.
Something in this news has been distorted to flamebait level.
Any time the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday or the Telegraph reports on the EU, it's usually flamebait. There's usually not a shred of truth in it.
OK, it's become clear that the whole thing is definatly a lie by a Conservative newspaper and politician.
But taking it at face value, such a system would not have to ensure that the car never brakes the speed limit, any more than the speed limiters on trucks and coaches already do. It's still the driver's ultimate responsibility. This kind of technology just reduces the number of people that are breaking the spped limit. Not guaranteeing that nobody does.
Indeed. This thing is a Conservative politician and a couple of Conservative newspapers doing the same old fairy tales about the EU. Even as applies to cars. But at least with cars it could actually work, techically. But it would be insane to do it with Motorbikes.
Well they've been at it a significantly shorter time than Garmin and Tom Tom. I don't consider mobile phone sat nav apps to be more than a toy.
When I was in Holland last year, we had a car with a GPS and speed limit display. Only problem was, if you were on a main highway and passed over a local road, the speed limit would often switch to something like 50km/h as it briefly became confused about which road you were on.
That's a pretty fucked up navigation system then. Tracks should be sticky, and only easily change to other roads when there is a junction, or where the GPS position is significantly away from the road it previously thought you were on.
They can often believe you've taken a slip road (off ramp) when you haven't, and vice versa, before correcting. But to believe you're on a road you are simply passing over is a big fuck up.
Needless to say, having every car hitting the brakes at that point would probably be a bad idea.
That would be a pretty stupid way to implement it anyway, even for legitimate speed limit changes, so it wouldn't be done like that. A limit on acceleration would deal with the majority of cases. If they really cared enough about acceleration sue to downhill slopes, they could add in very gentle braking too.
All in all, it's a really stupid idea. Which is what you'd expect from the EU.
Actually, the stronger possibility is it's the kind of story you'd expect the Mail on Sunday (or it's sister the Daily Mail) to tell about the EU, regardless of whether there is any truth in it. Or if there is a grain of truth, with lots of untrue embellishments.
Yes it was, and I was uneasy about this assumption that all kids need access to coding tools when I read the summary.
For those kids that have the interest to code, or those teachers and parents that want their kids to explore that, the Raspberry Pi is excellent and cheap, and won't go away unless and until there is something even better for that. There's no need for every computing device to be easily programmable.
Wrong again. The guidelines are available when you sign up for a free developer account. They are not part of the extras you get when you pay.
Somebody, or some team can. However, very few of the students that do some programming will ever progress to creating a significant app.
And there's no need. There's no shortage of apps. People don't tend to be limited by a lack of apps.
The big picture is that programming doesn't need to be a widespread activity. It's a specialism. We don't all need to dabble with architecture, plumbing or dentistry either.
I've no problem if they allow you to switch these improvements off via a user defaults line at the CLI. But I certainly wouldn't want the System Preferences app filled up with options to turn them off. One of the things that makes Apple products is not filling app UIs up with huge numbers of options.
Pointing out the hypocrisy doesn't mean that the person approves of chemical weapons. It more likely means their condemnation of WMDs goes wider than just chemical weapons, and includes WMDs that the USA considers their right to hold and use.
Put it another way, the people that can afford more technical weapons of mass destruction (such as the first world countries) don't like the democratisation of WMDs that chemical weapons represent.
Two problems.
1) That quoted rule doesn't outlaw emulators.
2) That quoted rule doesn't exist in the current set of rules. (Nor is there any other rule there that outlaws emulators or interpreters.)
Just because some emulators slipped through does not mean it isn't against the terms of service
And yet the published rules don't outlaw emulators either. There's no slipping through. It's simply that the ban you think exists, doesn't exist.
Sorry haters, but you haven't got a case. What you thought you knew was in fact wrong.
If programming is desired, then a tablet is the wrong tool anyway. A laptop is the right tool for that job. Typing on a tablet is bad enough, where lots of punctuations symbols and cursor movements are required its terrible.
But the vast majority of students and indeed people do not have any need to do any programming. Ever.
On Slashdot, we all reminisce about the early programming experiences we had, and how rewarding they were. But we're a self selecting niche. If this was a music site, the assumption would be that any computing device would have to be good for creating music. Likewise if this was an art or design site, the emphasis would be on devices that get students doing those things. In both those cases, tablets are rather better.
Tablets have uses for which they excel, but programming isn't one of them.
And where do the apps you run this code from, and ostensibly any packaged code, come from? Last I checked, apps were downloaded.
Yes. Downloaded from The App Store.
There ARE some interpreted language apps, but they don't include code with them - you write that yourself.
There is nothing in the rules to stop the interpreted code being included with a programming language. Just as ROMS can be included with emulators.
Emulators and interpreted-code-players are still not allowed. Thanks a bunch, iOverlords.
That's simply not true. There are plenty of emulators and interpreters on the App Store. Provided that the "ROMS" or other emulated code comes from the App Store. And that could be via inclusion with the original download, or via in app purchases.
The evidence is here:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/spectaculator-zx-spectrum/id421662150?mt=8
Almost. The rules used to be phrased as an absolute ban on interpreted code. But they were relaxed. What remains is a ban on executing any code downloaded or otherwise shared code, other than what comes form the App Store.
Motivations include anti-malware, that native apps tend to be higher quality, and the commercial and other advantages of a single app store.
Good estimations. But the conclusion that Harry Potter outsells the Bible is inescapable.
Religious organisations claiming otherwise are lying. And not just about that.
So Harry Potter outsells the Bible nearly 17 to 1.
Yes, that sounds more like it.
They only figures they present are from religious organisations. Which I specifically excluded as a source which could be used to back up the ridiculous claims from religious organisations that the bible outsells every other book.
You can't say the government are telling the truth by quoting figures claimed by the government. The same goes for religious organisations.
I was brought up a Catholic. I've never bought a bible. But I was given a cheap Gideon's bible at school, which I later threw away. So I'm sure you're right. Gideons must have printed an awful lot of bibles that don't count as sales.
What are you talking about? DO you have any idea how many Bibles are sold?
Nobody does. Which is one of the things that makes it a bogus claim.
Remember it's been translated into a bazillion languages, while most NYT bestsellers, even if translated, are popular mainly in their native language.
Stuff like the Da Vinci Code and the Harry Potter books are also translated into many languages and are popular around the word. They sell more than the bible.
I don't know where you are from. But Americans are more likely to believe the bible outsells everything else, because America is a very Christian country, with more interest in the bible that even the other Christian countries. Most of the world isn't like that.