The problem with that is Google needs to provide consistent results across all devices.
Google long ago abandoned giving consistent results across anything. The days when "I'm third in the search for..." had any meaning are long gone. Everyone gets different results.
The modern way to do mobile is responsive design. This also makes it better for desktop, because if you shrink your browser window down, the content resizes and relays out, and uses alternative layouts as appropriate, so you never have to scroll horizontally to read a web page.
I know nothing of these price gouging laws of which you speak. But then I live in a civilised country, where people aren't taught from birth to fuck each other over if possible.
Many stores will simply close altogether; it's not worth staying open in an emergency subject to price fixing laws if they can just sell at the same price after the emergency is over anyway.
Sure it is, because the stock will sell far faster - assuming it's the kind of store that sells practical items.
Given that they would be open when the emergency is over anyway. All that period of high sales would be wasted opportunity.
And that's just from the purely selfish capitalist angle. Mostly shops are run by decent human beings so will strive to be open in times of need anyway because they don't want to cause even more suffering.
**Colligan laughed off the idea that any company â" including the wildly popular Apple Computer â" could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector.
âoeWeâ(TM)ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,â he said. âoePC guys are not going to just figure this out. Theyâ(TM)re not going to just walk in."** Ed Colligan - Palm CEO - 2006.
You're missing the part where Henry Ford offered those wages to ALL his employees. And the part where he lowered his salary to the same as the workers. Because neither happened.
Even if it had have been the same, it's telling that you have to go back 100 years to find your second example.
8. pour water in cup. 9. pour in the tiniest drop of milk 10. extract tea bag.
You're not an Englishman, you're an animal.
Those steps should read: pour water in cup. wait for 4 minutes. extract tea bag. add milk.
Only an animal lets the milk and the teabag meet. And an Englishman lets the tea brew. What you have there is slightly milky water with a bit of brown dye in it.
Right. So why didn't we stop with Fortran and COBOL when it comes to computer languages? Because there are new uses for languages, and new ideas for how to do them better and for some people it's fun.
After more than 100 years, I think we could do a lot with a new human language that wasn't done in Esperanto. We know more than we did then, and computers can help us to analyse and optimise.
e.g. What are the common phonemes in existing languages. How frequent are words? Use short easy to say words for common uses, and longer more difficult words for less frequent uses. etc.
As a developer of GIS systems you can earn very good money indeed. Why would anyone want to do it for free?
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I don't ned to read up on what I've been working with and occasionally on for 30 years.
Utilities are part UI and part drivers for the various hardware or OD level tasks they do. The UI might be OK to be written in Java. The drivers (which are the systems software part) will rarely, if ever be Java.
They really did mean well practiced much as a clock of the time would be called 'well regulated' if it kept accurate time.
Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean â" neither more nor less.'
Well regulated does not mean "like a clock", as if "like a clock" would mean anything at all in terms of a militia. Well regulated means regulations and regulators. Just like any army, full or part time, amateur or professional.
Libertarians hate what the constitution actually says. They make up their own nonsense interpretations.
Everyone who is responded to me has done so as if I said that Garbage Collection is always bad. Of course it's not. Languages such as Python are great places for GC, as is Javascript, and Java, when it's used at the application level.
It's just a very bad idea for systems programming.
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You don't know what you are talking about. Enterprise systems are the very opposite of systems software. Systems languages are for writing kernels, drivers etc.
I think they will open source Swift. But I doubt it'll get much use outside of iOS and OSX programming. So many of the implementation decisions are about being compatible with Objective-C and the Apple frameworks. It *could* be used for other things, but I think the bias there will be enough to keep others away.
But as time went on, the total percentage that the computational overhead took up dropped to less than 1% because the hardware got faster.
Which is exactly the same thing as I said. Java's shortfalls were mitigated by hardware upgrades, not by actually fixing it. It can't be fixed. Whilst the GC stalls can be comped with for higher level software, it's a showstopper for lots of systems level programming.
The first is that your claim about Android underperforming iOS doesn't seem to have any merit. I have a Lollipop device here and it's as smooth as any iPhone I've ever used.
I nearly went into this with my post, but decided it was better to make a simple clear point without dealing with the obvious avenues for counter-argument in advance.
Android got smooth by throwing hardware at it. The reason for a while Androiders were bragging that their phones had more cores or higher clock speeds was that Android needed it.
Then there was the NDK, whose justification was explicitly things for which Java and Garbage Collection were unsuitable.
I don't know anyone who thinks C++ isn't a systems language. For the simple reason that C++ is C when you want it to be. Such people may exist, on the internet there are all views represented. But they don't know what they are talking about if so.
And I don't really care who's behind the language. And I certainly wouldn't any extra weight to an idea just because some people at Google think it.
You must be a Java programmer. Garbage collection is generally a very bad idea for a systems language, because of the periodic stalls whilst it does the cleanup. Especially if it's shunting blocks around memory to defragment. It's one of the big reasons why Android underperforms iOS, why it's never been so smooth in operation. And the only thing a developer can do about it is switch to a different language or develop for a more powerful machine.
Memory fragmentation can be a problem - but the success of C and C++ in most domains over the decades has shown it's just one more aspect a programmer has to deal with, it's not a showstopper. It's fixable, on the same machine, with the same language.
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Designers need to use better tools. Unfortunately most of them stick to photoshop as if their lives depended on it.
Most of us haven't forgiven MS nor trust them again, yet. Why use Bing when there's Duck Duck Go?
The problem with that is Google needs to provide consistent results across all devices.
Google long ago abandoned giving consistent results across anything. The days when "I'm third in the search for ..." had any meaning are long gone. Everyone gets different results.
The modern way to do mobile is responsive design. This also makes it better for desktop, because if you shrink your browser window down, the content resizes and relays out, and uses alternative layouts as appropriate, so you never have to scroll horizontally to read a web page.
I know nothing of these price gouging laws of which you speak. But then I live in a civilised country, where people aren't taught from birth to fuck each other over if possible.
Many stores will simply close altogether; it's not worth staying open in an emergency subject to price fixing laws if they can just sell at the same price after the emergency is over anyway.
Sure it is, because the stock will sell far faster - assuming it's the kind of store that sells practical items.
Given that they would be open when the emergency is over anyway. All that period of high sales would be wasted opportunity.
And that's just from the purely selfish capitalist angle. Mostly shops are run by decent human beings so will strive to be open in times of need anyway because they don't want to cause even more suffering.
Everyone pulled together on 9/11. Anyone who saw it as an opportunity to increase profit is a shitbag.
It's quite different from a general policy to match supply with demand by varying price.
**Colligan laughed off the idea that any company â" including the wildly popular Apple Computer â" could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector.
âoeWeâ(TM)ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,â he said. âoePC guys are not going to just figure this out. Theyâ(TM)re not going to just walk in."**
Ed Colligan - Palm CEO - 2006.
Gruber is only saying that 3rd party apps suck at this stage. Every thing else about the Watch he loves.
The iPhone didn't even have 3rd party apps when it launched. And it's first round of apps were web apps, which also sucked.
And yet the iPhone has been the most successful smartphone ever.
It's not a matter of more government it's a matter of better government.
You're missing the part where Henry Ford offered those wages to ALL his employees. And the part where he lowered his salary to the same as the workers.
Because neither happened.
Even if it had have been the same, it's telling that you have to go back 100 years to find your second example.
Capitalism allows business owners and leaders to CHOOSE to make decisions like this.
Count of business owners making such a decision under capitalism: 1
Socialism forces them to do it. Liberals don't really understand the importance of this distinction.
Oh, we understand perfectly.
They don't need to prove anything to you when they get 1 million sales on the first day in a single country.
8. pour water in cup.
9. pour in the tiniest drop of milk
10. extract tea bag.
You're not an Englishman, you're an animal.
Those steps should read:
pour water in cup.
wait for 4 minutes.
extract tea bag.
add milk.
Only an animal lets the milk and the teabag meet. And an Englishman lets the tea brew. What you have there is slightly milky water with a bit of brown dye in it.
especially since they don't make a left-handed one
Doh!
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Right. So why didn't we stop with Fortran and COBOL when it comes to computer languages? Because there are new uses for languages, and new ideas for how to do them better and for some people it's fun.
After more than 100 years, I think we could do a lot with a new human language that wasn't done in Esperanto. We know more than we did then, and computers can help us to analyse and optimise.
e.g. What are the common phonemes in existing languages. How frequent are words? Use short easy to say words for common uses, and longer more difficult words for less frequent uses. etc.
As a developer of GIS systems you can earn very good money indeed. Why would anyone want to do it for free?
I don't ned to read up on what I've been working with and occasionally on for 30 years.
Utilities are part UI and part drivers for the various hardware or OD level tasks they do. The UI might be OK to be written in Java. The drivers (which are the systems software part) will rarely, if ever be Java.
They really did mean well practiced much as a clock of the time would be called 'well regulated' if it kept accurate time.
Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean â" neither more nor less.'
Well regulated does not mean "like a clock", as if "like a clock" would mean anything at all in terms of a militia. Well regulated means regulations and regulators. Just like any army, full or part time, amateur or professional.
Libertarians hate what the constitution actually says. They make up their own nonsense interpretations.
Everyone who is responded to me has done so as if I said that Garbage Collection is always bad. Of course it's not. Languages such as Python are great places for GC, as is Javascript, and Java, when it's used at the application level.
It's just a very bad idea for systems programming.
You don't know what you are talking about. Enterprise systems are the very opposite of systems software. Systems languages are for writing kernels, drivers etc.
I think they will open source Swift. But I doubt it'll get much use outside of iOS and OSX programming. So many of the implementation decisions are about being compatible with Objective-C and the Apple frameworks. It *could* be used for other things, but I think the bias there will be enough to keep others away.
But as time went on, the total percentage that the computational overhead took up dropped to less than 1% because the hardware got faster.
Which is exactly the same thing as I said. Java's shortfalls were mitigated by hardware upgrades, not by actually fixing it. It can't be fixed. Whilst the GC stalls can be comped with for higher level software, it's a showstopper for lots of systems level programming.
The first is that your claim about Android underperforming iOS doesn't seem to have any merit. I have a Lollipop device here and it's as smooth as any iPhone I've ever used.
I nearly went into this with my post, but decided it was better to make a simple clear point without dealing with the obvious avenues for counter-argument in advance.
Android got smooth by throwing hardware at it. The reason for a while Androiders were bragging that their phones had more cores or higher clock speeds was that Android needed it.
Then there was the NDK, whose justification was explicitly things for which Java and Garbage Collection were unsuitable.
I don't know anyone who thinks C++ isn't a systems language. For the simple reason that C++ is C when you want it to be. Such people may exist, on the internet there are all views represented. But they don't know what they are talking about if so.
And I don't really care who's behind the language. And I certainly wouldn't any extra weight to an idea just because some people at Google think it.
You must be a Java programmer. Garbage collection is generally a very bad idea for a systems language, because of the periodic stalls whilst it does the cleanup. Especially if it's shunting blocks around memory to defragment. It's one of the big reasons why Android underperforms iOS, why it's never been so smooth in operation. And the only thing a developer can do about it is switch to a different language or develop for a more powerful machine.
Memory fragmentation can be a problem - but the success of C and C++ in most domains over the decades has shown it's just one more aspect a programmer has to deal with, it's not a showstopper. It's fixable, on the same machine, with the same language.