Apple is also becoming fragmented although not as much as Android.
iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPad all have different maximum OS versions and (as of iPhone OS 4.0) are mixed with regard to whether they support device features such as multitasking.
Only two screen sizes to contend with (so far), though.
Instead of a bank, it's slashdot, and instead of waiting in line behind you, I have to scan just enough of your lame-ass post to figure out I should scroll past it, but your whining is equally annoying and we're all equally disinterested. I'm trying to get to insightful comments about EA's screw-up and I have to contend with your Seinfeld-esque dribble because someone modded you insightful. I _hate_ the mod, too, by the way.
That's great (#2), so long as when it comes time to hire, you can find other like-minded folks who just want to write Foursquare code and don't need visions of a mega-exit to motivate them when the chips are down.
I'm not saying that kind of intrinsic motivation is super-rare, but to find it in a whole group of people? And to have it sustained? You better have a hell of a mission in mind. Is "make it easy to check into cafes and win badges!" that mission?
"The racial makeup of the city was 68.98% White, 26.51% Black or African American, 0.53% Native American, 1.29% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.35% from other races, and 1.28% from two or more races. 2.59% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race."
So, what race of this variegated city is being prejudged here?
I agree that it is easy to make anything out to to be an evil conspiracy. On the other hand, the facts here are at best curious and at worst damning. Toyota by some accounts had ten years of disproportionate numbers of unintended acceleration cases which should have raised earlier questions about an accelerator "ghost in the machine". How do you explain [from the Motor Trend timeline article I linked]:
According to the [Los Angeles Times article], unintended acceleration complaints on Lexus ES 300s jumped from an average of 26 per year in 2001 to 132 per year in 2002, and there had been 19 deaths since 2002 related to unintended acceleration in Toyotas, compared with 11 deaths connected to all other automakers combined. [emphasis mine]
Further, from the same Motor Trend [LA Times] article:
The story also notes Toyota has been investigated for unintended acceleration more times than any other automaker, and that 74 of 132 complaints lodged against the 2007 Lexus ES 350 were for cases of unintended acceleration.
Lest you think this is the standard of due care among auto makers, consider in comparison a more proactive recall effort by another manufacturer. Proactive in this sense meaning, before there were any accidents let alone deaths reported.
December 26, 2009: A Toyota Avalon crashes into a lake in Texas after accelerating out of control. All four occupants die. Floor mats are ruled out as a cause because they are found in the trunk of the car.
That is when the Toyota recalls appear to kick into overdrive, and within a month sales are halted. I think I was reasonable in saying that mat-less incident is what finally provoked a deeper action on Toyota's part: they could no longer deny a problem less trivial than pedals stuck under floormats.
The Kindle DX is the closet thing to an iPad in the Kindle line, and costs about the same as an entry-level iPad.
Comparing the two:
With the Kindle DX you get a reflective screen that's readable in intense daylight, free included 3G in perpetuity (so you can... buy more books wirelessly), and 4 days of battery life (with wireless on; 2 weeks with it off). It's a reader's device through and through.
Unless I'm mistaken, that's about where the advantages of the Kindle end. In every other dimension, I think the iPad owns it pretty hard.
Two years ago, a 128GB SSD that performed half as well as a modern MLC-based 128GB SSD cost about $3,500. So I'd say SSDs are headed in the right direction whereas there's not a chance in hell Apple hardware is coming down in price anywhere near as quickly/as much.
Both are concerning but I can forgive panicked drivers who were not expecting to deal with this, much more easily than I can forgive a company that sheltered profits rather than lives.
If in fact driver error was contributory to the accidents, then at least these incidents will serve to (re-)educate the public as to what to do in the event their engine starts racing uncontrollably.
And though I'm sure you know this, it's worth reminding others that turning off your car usually means you're killing your steering (and power brakes), too. So unless you're on a long stretch of straight road and have no other options, better to shift into neutral if you have the presence of mind, or if that's locked out for some strange reason, utilize the emergency brake if your regular brakes are inoperable or have faded because you've been riding them to try to stop.
Because regardless of whether this turns out to be more problems with cars or problems with drivers, Toyota's actions in the matter have been surreptitious at best.
Toyota insisted the problem was with floormats until incidents with mat-less cars forced them to dig deeper.
They are on the record as patting themselves on the back for saving money by not issuing a recall sooner.
The way they have handled this is far more concerning than where the fault ultimately lay.
Oh and if you need conventions in your programming, aren't you really saying someone needs to hold your hand? For me the only quality measurement that works for software in the end is "does it allow the owner to make money". It can be the most horrible spaghetti code you ever saw, but if it allows the company to flourish and grow, then it is good code. I have seen to many "proper" development on very large projects that followed all the conventions and produced steaming piles of crap that were unusable. Look to every single government IT project for examples.
You're creating a false dichotomy. There is an apex where team, code, and product quality meet and support a great business to boot. I've been blessed to sit atop it (ouch!) and hope one day you can, too.
Would it be feasible to replace a defective humidity detector with an aftermarket component that performs the function more accurately and with fewer false positives?
I am not a lawyer, but according to Magnuson-Moss, this seems like it should be within your rights.
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Haha, cleaning device, what a douche bag.
Apple is also becoming fragmented although not as much as Android.
iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPad all have different maximum OS versions and (as of iPhone OS 4.0) are mixed with regard to whether they support device features such as multitasking.
Only two screen sizes to contend with (so far), though.
No offense, but I _hate_ people like you.
Instead of a bank, it's slashdot, and instead of waiting in line behind you, I have to scan just enough of your lame-ass post to figure out I should scroll past it, but your whining is equally annoying and we're all equally disinterested. I'm trying to get to insightful comments about EA's screw-up and I have to contend with your Seinfeld-esque dribble because someone modded you insightful. I _hate_ the mod, too, by the way.
Whew, now we both have catharsis!
No offense.
That's great (#2), so long as when it comes time to hire, you can find other like-minded folks who just want to write Foursquare code and don't need visions of a mega-exit to motivate them when the chips are down.
I'm not saying that kind of intrinsic motivation is super-rare, but to find it in a whole group of people? And to have it sustained? You better have a hell of a mission in mind. Is "make it easy to check into cafes and win badges!" that mission?
Perhaps it is, perhaps it is.
Yeah, and why is the son so Arkannoyed?
From Wikipedia entry for Arkadelphia:
"The racial makeup of the city was 68.98% White, 26.51% Black or African American, 0.53% Native American, 1.29% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.35% from other races, and 1.28% from two or more races. 2.59% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race."
So, what race of this variegated city is being prejudged here?
I agree that it is easy to make anything out to to be an evil conspiracy. On the other hand, the facts here are at best curious and at worst damning. Toyota by some accounts had ten years of disproportionate numbers of unintended acceleration cases which should have raised earlier questions about an accelerator "ghost in the machine". How do you explain [from the Motor Trend timeline article I linked]:
Further, from the same Motor Trend [LA Times] article:
Lest you think this is the standard of due care among auto makers, consider in comparison a more proactive recall effort by another manufacturer. Proactive in this sense meaning, before there were any accidents let alone deaths reported.
Respectfully, from page 5 of the Motor Trend timeline that I linked:
That is when the Toyota recalls appear to kick into overdrive, and within a month sales are halted. I think I was reasonable in saying that mat-less incident is what finally provoked a deeper action on Toyota's part: they could no longer deny a problem less trivial than pedals stuck under floormats.
Good point.
The Kindle DX is the closet thing to an iPad in the Kindle line, and costs about the same as an entry-level iPad.
Comparing the two:
With the Kindle DX you get a reflective screen that's readable in intense daylight, free included 3G in perpetuity (so you can ... buy more books wirelessly), and 4 days of battery life (with wireless on; 2 weeks with it off). It's a reader's device through and through.
Unless I'm mistaken, that's about where the advantages of the Kindle end. In every other dimension, I think the iPad owns it pretty hard.
Two years ago, a 128GB SSD that performed half as well as a modern MLC-based 128GB SSD cost about $3,500. So I'd say SSDs are headed in the right direction whereas there's not a chance in hell Apple hardware is coming down in price anywhere near as quickly/as much.
Both are concerning but I can forgive panicked drivers who were not expecting to deal with this, much more easily than I can forgive a company that sheltered profits rather than lives.
If in fact driver error was contributory to the accidents, then at least these incidents will serve to (re-)educate the public as to what to do in the event their engine starts racing uncontrollably.
And though I'm sure you know this, it's worth reminding others that turning off your car usually means you're killing your steering (and power brakes), too. So unless you're on a long stretch of straight road and have no other options, better to shift into neutral if you have the presence of mind, or if that's locked out for some strange reason, utilize the emergency brake if your regular brakes are inoperable or have faded because you've been riding them to try to stop.
Because regardless of whether this turns out to be more problems with cars or problems with drivers, Toyota's actions in the matter have been surreptitious at best.
Toyota insisted the problem was with floormats until incidents with mat-less cars forced them to dig deeper.
They are on the record as patting themselves on the back for saving money by not issuing a recall sooner.
The way they have handled this is far more concerning than where the fault ultimately lay.
Where I come from, avoidable compiler warnings are bugs.
You didn't include stdio.h and you probably wanted a \n at the end of your output string.
First born denied.
man9
When you symlink /dev/null to Soviet Russia.
The answer to that question is 42.
Supertramp forecasted this eventuality in 1979's "Give a Little Bit" (from Breakfast in America). Their prescience continues to astound.
Any guess how many COM developers there were at COM/ActiveX's peak in the late 90s?
Any guess how many web/XML/AJAX developers there are?
So much for Microsoft 1992 scripting and interoperability.
You're creating a false dichotomy. There is an apex where team, code, and product quality meet and support a great business to boot. I've been blessed to sit atop it (ouch!) and hope one day you can, too.
droogs, don't filly with the ludwig van.
Dupe post.
Let's hope for Xerox's sake that the court of jurisdiction is Soviet.
Would it be feasible to replace a defective humidity detector with an aftermarket component that performs the function more accurately and with fewer false positives?
I am not a lawyer, but according to Magnuson-Moss, this seems like it should be within your rights.