MS has just legitimized WP warez. Head over to XDA-Developers and take your pick of desktop applications that download any XAP package, direct from MS servers mind you, strip the DRM, and make the XAP now runnable within any now-unlocked phone. Way to go MS! Truly an inspiration to the 'We ain't stealin' if MS lets us" mass. Apparently, if one is bailing water in a tiny dingy (WP marketshare), one must do desperate things. On the dev's backs. mind you.
That is not the app in the background, but a background agent. It is limited in what it can do (not the app, since it is sleeping, but the agent itself). Audio is a special-case background agent that continues to run. But it's not the app that's running. It is a background agent. This is not your father's multitasking. It's your grandfather's. It's like Win16's, the great taskswitcher.
It's not really multitasking, though, not if you mean the task switch method. IF you mean the background tasks, those are periodic, in the glacial-event realm: a couple of times and hour to run very limited jobs as a separate process from your real app, which is sleeping like a baby, with zero CPU available to it until it comes back to the foreground. The only real difference there, between what you have there now and what you had before, is the memory is still yours. Before, everything you owned was released, now, most things you get to keep (of course sockets are gone, so is the main audio (and video but you're invisible) engine). This is the "intelligent multitasking" you may have read about. I may do for most, but you can never do better; it always will only be a task switcher.
Android will still do more, and always will. That is good for those reading this. MS is betting on those that don't. Apparently, though, few don't. Very few.
And it's not that bad, really, it's not. It's not popular in the west; I could count the WiMos I've come across the past few years. Head East and it's still popular.
Unless your target area is close, like 10 to 15 feet, you want zoom. Only optical zoom matters. The field of view narrows a lot is the downside, but if you want to see a face and not a dozen or so pixels, that's what you'll have to do. Megapixel (1280x720, say) doesn't do much since those usually just give a wider field of view, so a face is still only a dozen or so pixels across.
I can read a license plate at 300 yards with a good zoom (and good optics overall), and you can get caneras with those under $1000. Stay away from analog cameras. Cheap up front but you won't get what you want from them.
Night and very low light present a HUGE problem. I leave that for you and google to sort.
since you lose content (mind you, only at the extreme frequencies) and therefore there's no value added
That's not correct. A typical MPEG-1 level III encoding loses 90% of the content, or more. The good thing is that you probably didn't know it was there in the first place (perceptual encoding, says Bullwinkle). This happens over all frequencies. The notion that it happens only at say, 16 kHz or above, was peculiar to one or two early enconders that saved CPU time at the expense of just throwing away everything above 16 kHz.
That was engaging...okay, just plain fun. Hate to say how many hours I played. C64 version. It was also my first game, on cassette. Copy protected cassette -- most were -- though you might wonder how they could prevent copying a cassette.
(because that's how the prez gets elected, go figure)
That's not how it works in the US. The vote doesn't elect a president, the Electoral College does that. A candidate can have the majority of the vote yet still lose. It has happened. Even a close election, as far as vote totals go, can be a landslide when it comes to electoral votes because the electoral vote of a state is all or nothing: the candidate gets them all or gets none.
FWIW, the electoral college doesn't have to vote the way their constituents vote: everyone in Texas could vote for, say, Nader, but the electoral college (maybe 30 people), having been bought by George W, vote instead for him. GW gets the 30, and Nader gets -0-.
Even if Nadar got 49% and GW 51%, GW would get ALL 30 electoral votes, because that's how it works; it's all or nothing. (The electoral votes per state is the same as representative and senators, as I recall, but pretty small in any case).
So, to say
(because that's how the prez gets elected, go figure)
is not correct.
As in humans, life span is the maximum, more or less, time the body can survive. 120 years is the high end (maybe some French?). Life expectancy, however, is based on, well, talk to those that work with actuarials, they'll tell you. But in short, if you're born today, your life expectancy might be 73 years (say), though if you're already 73 your life expectancy may well be 92. However, the life span itself doesn't change that way. But then, what to journalists really know about anything deeper than the night?
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This is public relations flak. Won't hurt to play. Given the track record so far... not holding out any hope this is more than PR.
Don't use Hack.
then yes. Until then (Star Trek), no. We have seen UWP. I have, anyway. That is proof enough that not only won't it happen, it better not happen.
Programmers have always been cool. No aside for kidding.
This reads like a dup from quite a few weeks ago, too. YAAS'ment stuck in some PR feedback that we have all come to know, expect, and HATE.
MS has just legitimized WP warez. Head over to XDA-Developers and take your pick of desktop applications that download any XAP package, direct from MS servers mind you, strip the DRM, and make the XAP now runnable within any now-unlocked phone. Way to go MS! Truly an inspiration to the 'We ain't stealin' if MS lets us" mass. Apparently, if one is bailing water in a tiny dingy (WP marketshare), one must do desperate things. On the dev's backs. mind you.
And God will get me for that.
That is not the app in the background, but a background agent. It is limited in what it can do (not the app, since it is sleeping, but the agent itself). Audio is a special-case background agent that continues to run. But it's not the app that's running. It is a background agent. This is not your father's multitasking. It's your grandfather's. It's like Win16's, the great taskswitcher.
It's not really multitasking, though, not if you mean the task switch method. IF you mean the background tasks, those are periodic, in the glacial-event realm: a couple of times and hour to run very limited jobs as a separate process from your real app, which is sleeping like a baby, with zero CPU available to it until it comes back to the foreground. The only real difference there, between what you have there now and what you had before, is the memory is still yours. Before, everything you owned was released, now, most things you get to keep (of course sockets are gone, so is the main audio (and video but you're invisible) engine). This is the "intelligent multitasking" you may have read about. I may do for most, but you can never do better; it always will only be a task switcher.
Android will still do more, and always will. That is good for those reading this. MS is betting on those that don't. Apparently, though, few don't. Very few.
Wait -- then MS's OS/3?
And it's not that bad, really, it's not. It's not popular in the west; I could count the WiMos I've come across the past few years. Head East and it's still popular.
Skype? Gone. FF? Gone. Is Opera next?
If you want security, unplug the 'net. You ain't gonna get it any other way.
Analog cameras are well known to degrade in quality the longer the run, or from interferance.
Network cable (it's ethernet which everyone here uses just fine) is 100% immune from that.
You may be an installer, but you install analog cameras. A dead tech. Analog v Digital.
Unless your target area is close, like 10 to 15 feet, you want zoom. Only optical zoom matters. The field of view narrows a lot is the downside, but if you want to see a face and not a dozen or so pixels, that's what you'll have to do. Megapixel (1280x720, say) doesn't do much since those usually just give a wider field of view, so a face is still only a dozen or so pixels across.
I can read a license plate at 300 yards with a good zoom (and good optics overall), and you can get caneras with those under $1000. Stay away from analog cameras. Cheap up front but you won't get what you want from them.
Night and very low light present a HUGE problem. I leave that for you and google to sort.
I like birds I can fly. Cars are too slow.
Works for me. I like gapless. Cookies needed? Yup.
How can you Fedex something somewhere and not have the address already?
Is this a true story, or an inventive one gone ballistic.
GPL is just as bad as any EULA. Come together and imagine, Mr. Kite, and tell me how many holes it takes to fill Onkel Albert Hall?
That's not correct. A typical MPEG-1 level III encoding loses 90% of the content, or more. The good thing is that you probably didn't know it was there in the first place (perceptual encoding, says Bullwinkle). This happens over all frequencies. The notion that it happens only at say, 16 kHz or above, was peculiar to one or two early enconders that saved CPU time at the expense of just throwing away everything above 16 kHz.
That was engaging...okay, just plain fun. Hate to say how many hours I played. C64 version. It was also my first game, on cassette. Copy protected cassette -- most were -- though you might wonder how they could prevent copying a cassette.
That's not how it works in the US. The vote doesn't elect a president, the Electoral College does that. A candidate can have the majority of the vote yet still lose. It has happened. Even a close election, as far as vote totals go, can be a landslide when it comes to electoral votes because the electoral vote of a state is all or nothing: the candidate gets them all or gets none.
FWIW, the electoral college doesn't have to vote the way their constituents vote: everyone in Texas could vote for, say, Nader, but the electoral college (maybe 30 people), having been bought by George W, vote instead for him. GW gets the 30, and Nader gets -0-.
Even if Nadar got 49% and GW 51%, GW would get ALL 30 electoral votes, because that's how it works; it's all or nothing. (The electoral votes per state is the same as representative and senators, as I recall, but pretty small in any case).
So, to say
(because that's how the prez gets elected, go figure) is not correct.
As in humans, life span is the maximum, more or less, time the body can survive. 120 years is the high end (maybe some French?). Life expectancy, however, is based on, well, talk to those that work with actuarials, they'll tell you. But in short, if you're born today, your life expectancy might be 73 years (say), though if you're already 73 your life expectancy may well be 92. However, the life span itself doesn't change that way. But then, what to journalists really know about anything deeper than the night?
That'd be "consideration".
Nope.