It makes little difference in either context... a minority of trials have found people CAN distinguish; the flaw is that it's "self-described" hypersensitive people. What they need to do is filter out the ones who can't, and keep retesting the ones who can. All you need is ONE person that can do it a majority of the time.
Statistics do not work that way! Good night!
What typically happens, whether you are testing electromagnetic sensitivity or ESP, is you ask them yes/no questions a bunch of times. In this case you wheel out a router-like device with big antennae and you ask them to guess whether or not the extension cord powering it from the other room is plugged in, based on their discomfort. You make sure the guy wheeling it in doesn't know if it's plugged in, either, so it's double blind. And you repeat it a lot of times. Then you look at their yes/no answers. Your yes/no question should be distributed around 50%, if they actually can't tell. And so your test isn't "are they electromagnetically sensitive?" but "what are the odds that we'd see a distribution like this by random chance?" And so if 19 tests say "We're 95% confident that this can be explained as random chance" and one test says "We're less than 95% confident that this can be explained by random chance alone" then you HAVE NOT FOUND A HYPERSENSITIVE PERSON. So no, just because a majority of tests have found no connection does NOT imply that a minority have.
Anywho, fine, retest people who show promise. Just be damn careful when you start pruning your pool of test subjects POST HOC. Why? Well, let's play a game. Let's get us 100,000 test subjects and flip a coin ten times. Wow, about 70 of them have 100% accuracy. Those people could by psychic! Let's test them again. WOWZERS, almost all of them have accuracy over 60% after round two. The odds of 60 out of 70 people all having accuracy over 60% are practically zero, that's got to be a statistically significant finding, right? Only, why do so many have accuracy over 60%. Oh, oops, it's because you can't keep their original 10/10 score when you do round two, otherwise of course all of the ones remaining will still be 50% or higher. Stupid mistake, but it's been made before;) Viewed from the other side, you don't have 60/70, you have 60/100,000 and you just didn't finish testing most of the 100,000 people.
My favorite electromagnetic sensitivity test involved wheeling out a big device covered with antennae, and they would wheel it around. The subjects were told to rate their discomfort at various power levels (researcher adjusts big knob) and at various distances from the transmitter. Only it was an empty box. Meanwhile, the entire time they were waiting they were being blasted with high powered transmitters in the false ceiling. Absolutely no discomfort until the fake device was "turned on". Hypersensitivity is an absolute joke.
They announced in 2008 that they were making a reboot of a classic game, but refused to say what game. Work on Deus Ex: Human Revolution started in 2007 and it just came out. 2007-2011, 2008-2012. Looks like this is taking exactly the same amount of time.
True, but Google is under no obligation to provide services to people who don't provide the requested information.
Yes, they are. As you said, if they don't like Canada, they can kindly shutter their buildings and leave the fucking country. There are two parts to PIPEDA. The first is that a corporation cannot do ANYTHING with any information collected about a person unless that person has SIGNED a form indicating approval for that EXACT use. The second is that business cannot refuse to do business with somebody who doesn't want to "voluntarily" share personal information. You might be fine with BestBuy and such requiring (oh, sorry, you doublethink'd "require" into "mandatory request") you to turn over your email, phone number, and address in order to buy a cable, but in Canada we put a stop to that retarded practice. Stores have tried to skirt it "We need that information for our service of contacting you for recalls!" "I don't want that service" "It's mandatory!" it didn't go well for them.
By mass, the amounts of lithium and beryllium created during BBNS should be around the same order of magnitude. That may be very small, but nevertheless, the quote in the OP indicates that ONLY lithium hydrogen and helium were created. If your argument is that the amount of beryllium was so small that you can just pretend it's zero and use absolute language, then "no" lithium was created, either.
What custom patches have you written for your iOS and Linux applications, and why have you not contributed those patches? Is it because they were too specific for your needs to warrant inclusion upstream?
Yes, that's exactly what he's saying. The summary cuts him off mid-point in order to get outraged ad impressions, but yeah, he's saying if you make a patch and don't try to contribute it upstream, you're making a poor business decision because you'll need to keep maintaining that patch on your own. He's not at all saying "Business X uses Linux on their workstations, they are idiots for not contributing to the kernel" Only if they're making custom patches that are general enough to warrant inclusion upstream.
It's actually pretty basic. When you burn something, you add heat and then you end up with ash and smoke. So to unburn something, you need to take ash and smoke, and then add a spark of cold (not absolute zero cold, which is just a lack of heat, but actual cold, the opposite of heat) to ignite the unflames. The problem is to get completely accurate unburning results you need the original smoke, which is hard to pull off after so long. But usually you can just burn a pig and use that smoke. Not as accurate an unburning but it's better than nothing. And the other poster is mistaken, the technique was featured on CSI:New York, not Miami.
You misunderstand the database. The database does not contain any facts like "What is the speaker?" : "A unicorn". It contains chat logs, and it generates responses sort of like a dissociated press. It examines the last up-to-n chat lines between itself and the person talking to it, and it searches the database for a similar chat history (and remember that asking how similar two sentences is is a very hard question to answer) and then responds with whatever came next in the matching chat history. So if a person says "You are a robot" and it responds "No, I am a unicorn," that is because a person once responded with that exact sentence, punctuation and everything.
The temperature of space has little to do with it. But yes, that's one way to deal with waste heat. You run coolant or a heatpipe or whatever to a heat-sink and the heat eventually gets radiated away as blackbody radiation. It doesn't actually need to be too large, because the rate of radiation is proportional to the fourth power of the temperature. So you just need a heatsink that won't melt before it reaches equilibrium between radiation and waste heat input. There are many factors to consider. First, you want a high melting point. Second, you want a high emissivity (all materials radiate the same wavelengths at the same temperature, but not the same amount). Third, you don't want it to warp due to thermal shock, so it needs to be thin, so it needs to be rigid and (somewhat) strong at operating temperatures. Fourth, you don't want it to sublimate away into space too fast or you'll need to replace it often. (All materials will sublimate into space, it's just usually extremely slow unless they're very hot) I don't know offhand which material is usually considered the best balance between those things. But usually spaceship and such don't get THAT hot to require a very hot heat-sink, so concerns over sublimation and melting can be ignored and you just make it out of copper or something.
If there's one thing I've learned from watching 10,000 cop procedurals, it's that if the DA dares charge even en ex-cop with anything, all the other cops will "lose" evidence resulting in a 0% conviction rate, and then he won't get reelected because he'll seem incompetent. Somehow the cops don't get reprimanded for losing evidence and botching investigations and contaminating evidence. Also somehow DA's threaten to not press charges as a way to punish cops for not towing the line, so I guess the absurd "We'll let criminals go and that'll make YOU look bad but not us!" threat can be used both ways? Or maybe TV doesn't reflect reality all that much? WHO KNOWS.
Remember also that any messages containing those words aren't just bounced, they're also forwarded to the Principal for review. There is also a list of words that aren't bounced, but are still forwarded for "review". Dangerous words like "gay" "lesbian" "fight" "drink" "grass" "green" and that sort of thing. Not only are lots of those words stupid and big waste of money to "review" but also these laptops will out students stupid enough to think that they can talk about their sexuality via email without the Principal spying on them. Great educational tool. It gets students used to the idea that their prison warden will be reading anything they write.
Sorry, but my winky face absolves me of all relevance issues. I'm sure you could do the same texture and mesh reduction to get Crysis 2 running, except that most engines don't have Doom 3's degree of feature fallback, so modern games would complain about the lack of shaders support, where Doom 3 rolls with it.
Perhaps I'm crazy, but I find that to be the most common kind of typo. I type the words I think, and while I rarely hit the wrong letters without immediately fixing it, my brain frequently hits the wrong entire word because it sounds similar. And so while I know the differences between there/their/they're and its/it's good luck getting the right one all the way from brain to fingers without having to slow down and think about the individual letters:(
Yes, if you trust Commander Vimes, policeman means "man of the city," though of course the actual derivation from "polis" is much less direct;) Polis as a root came to form the Greek word for "citizen" which came to give rise to the word for "civil" (much how in English civil and citizen come from "city") and so we occasionally have words for things involving civil government that come from "polis" instead of "city".
You can create a file that starts with a period, you can put periods all over the place. But no, you can't start with a leading space through Explorer's rename function (but you can through most programs that can save files, or rename them using the CLI) and you also can't insert wildcards, double quotes or slashes of either leaning, even through the CLI. So, there's that. But on the other hand, I've never wanted to create a file named "../?/*.txt" so the issue has never really come up.
Well, wages and such have gone up since the 80s, outpacing interest marginally. But class sizes have gone up too, so roughly speaking the per-student salary for teachers is no different. Obviously much larger than the 60s since now you have to pay women as much as men (you can see a dramatic jump shortly after your chosen year of 1961). Lots of money (1/6th of it) goes to paying interest on debt. No idea what the historical value is for that, but that's the current one. Administration and Support has gone ever upwards, and bureaucracy tends to expand to fill the entire budget unless acted upon by outside forces. And of course, highschools at least need an IT staff for the computer network, computer labs aren't cheap to keep half-modern, and you need software licenses for all those machines, too. But back to the debt, which by and large isn't caused by willy-nilly spending, but by the requirement to build new schools in which to teach. That money has to come from bonds issued by the school district, and they need to pay interest on those or people who bought them will throw a fit (and they have when it has happened). It can't come from anywhere else because the local tax payers sure don't want to pay for a new school, and the last thing the state or the feds want to spend money on is infrastructure.
No, TFA is talking exactly about this procedure, which is expensive and incredibly dangerous. It's a procedure with no evidence of any benefit and many documented dangers, but banning is being fought in court because "it's just cells from the patients own body, you cannot ban a man from having his own cells in his own body!" He's recovering from the surgery, but it's far too early to tell whether or not his body is going to be riddled with tumorous growths, which happens with this sort of quackery. Hence, in TFA, actual researchers saying they'd never allow anybody they know to do it. In a way this is far worse than the chiropractors who "cure" HIV and cancer (because all disease is caused by pinched nerves, you know), because at least chiropractors (almost) never kill patients.
So when a student attacks you for teaching science, the correct response is "LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU"? I'm sure silencing dissent is much better than teaching.
The belief the teacher ridiculed isn't the belief in creationism, but the belief that creationism is science. The teacher made no comment on the value of faith whatsoever, only that creationism is faith, not science. Complete with an explanation of what that means. Creationists look for proof that creationism is true, and scientists look for proof that evolution ISN'T. If a student expressed outrage at the teaching of rainfall because it contradicts the teaching of their church, would it be equally wrong to explain that "the rain is God's tears" isn't scientific? How should the teacher proceed if a student objects to teaching science? Clearly you oppose explaining how faith and fact are different, so what do you do? Ignore the student? Cancel class on account of faith? Or what? How do you handle it, if you aren't allowed to address it?
+ and double quotes both do the same thing in Google: They tell it to use that word as-is. A search for hats will match hat singular, as well as various synonyms for hat. +hats or "hats" will only match hats, exactly. It will not match hat, it will not match chapeau, toque, or anything else related. However, neither hats, "hats" nor +hats will REQUIRE that the word hats appears anywhere in the matches. Unless they've added it recently, you CANNOT request only pages that contain a particular keyword. And so +hats will find you pages that are linked to on somebody's blog as "check out these ass hats lol" even though the page has nothing to do with hats whatsoever, and doesn't use the word at all.
No, here's what happened, since you are unable to RTFA: Skyhook offered a vendor a discount if they would modify the phone to block non-Skyhook location services from functioning. This means that Google maps doesn't work, this means that any map or navigation software you buy on the market will crash. Google doesn't want handsets that can't run software from the market, because then they have an avalanche of complaints and returns. So their policy is that you are free to fuck with the API and break your phone as much as you want, but if it's broken they don't allow you to use the Android Market from it. See, Android and Google Apps are NOT bundled after all, and although you can always use Android if you follow the license, you are not guaranteed to be able to use Google Apps, especially the market. One rule they will not relax is "If your phone will not run some Market apps, you cannot use the Market at all". Because people already send them enough death threats about "fragmenting the market" without shitty vendors intentionally making their phone crash on certain apps to prevent competition. That's right, you are on the side of anti-competitive bullshit, not opposing it. Google is the one opposing Skyhook making a condition that says "your phone must block competing software from running". You can add new shit to the API (as long as you know that any apps you write using your new calls won't be allowed on the market since they only work on your phone) but you CANNOT remove functions from the API and still be allowed on the market. Anyways, he's a really fast test to demonstrate that the crybabies are lying: My Samsung Galaxy S has Skyhook on it. Google never blocked it. It works fine. But what Samsung didn't do is get the Skyhook discount by disabling Google Maps and Google Maps Navigation.
If you're familiar with Delphi, then C# should take about five minutes to pick up. It was designed by the same architect as Delphi, and you do almost everything in the same way. It just uses C syntax instead of pascal. But ha at being too old, my dad picked up Delphi in his 40s and it's his favorite for RAD. He still uses Delphi 7 (the last good one) for everything, and grumbles about there being no Mac version. "Use Lazarus, it's exactly the same" "No, too hard to use" "It's identical!" "No it's not". Then again, he's probably trolling, he was mocking my use of a smart phone "My phone makes calls and that's all a phone is for!" and then he bought a droid;)
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Statistics do not work that way! Good night!
What typically happens, whether you are testing electromagnetic sensitivity or ESP, is you ask them yes/no questions a bunch of times. In this case you wheel out a router-like device with big antennae and you ask them to guess whether or not the extension cord powering it from the other room is plugged in, based on their discomfort. You make sure the guy wheeling it in doesn't know if it's plugged in, either, so it's double blind. And you repeat it a lot of times. Then you look at their yes/no answers. Your yes/no question should be distributed around 50%, if they actually can't tell. And so your test isn't "are they electromagnetically sensitive?" but "what are the odds that we'd see a distribution like this by random chance?" And so if 19 tests say "We're 95% confident that this can be explained as random chance" and one test says "We're less than 95% confident that this can be explained by random chance alone" then you HAVE NOT FOUND A HYPERSENSITIVE PERSON. So no, just because a majority of tests have found no connection does NOT imply that a minority have.
Anywho, fine, retest people who show promise. Just be damn careful when you start pruning your pool of test subjects POST HOC. Why? Well, let's play a game. Let's get us 100,000 test subjects and flip a coin ten times. Wow, about 70 of them have 100% accuracy. Those people could by psychic! Let's test them again. WOWZERS, almost all of them have accuracy over 60% after round two. The odds of 60 out of 70 people all having accuracy over 60% are practically zero, that's got to be a statistically significant finding, right? Only, why do so many have accuracy over 60%. Oh, oops, it's because you can't keep their original 10/10 score when you do round two, otherwise of course all of the ones remaining will still be 50% or higher. Stupid mistake, but it's been made before ;) Viewed from the other side, you don't have 60/70, you have 60/100,000 and you just didn't finish testing most of the 100,000 people.
My favorite electromagnetic sensitivity test involved wheeling out a big device covered with antennae, and they would wheel it around. The subjects were told to rate their discomfort at various power levels (researcher adjusts big knob) and at various distances from the transmitter. Only it was an empty box. Meanwhile, the entire time they were waiting they were being blasted with high powered transmitters in the false ceiling. Absolutely no discomfort until the fake device was "turned on". Hypersensitivity is an absolute joke.
They announced in 2008 that they were making a reboot of a classic game, but refused to say what game. Work on Deus Ex: Human Revolution started in 2007 and it just came out. 2007-2011, 2008-2012. Looks like this is taking exactly the same amount of time.
This change will probably save you about a dime for every $100 you spend on fuel. Assuming you only drive at night, of course.
Yes, they are. As you said, if they don't like Canada, they can kindly shutter their buildings and leave the fucking country. There are two parts to PIPEDA. The first is that a corporation cannot do ANYTHING with any information collected about a person unless that person has SIGNED a form indicating approval for that EXACT use. The second is that business cannot refuse to do business with somebody who doesn't want to "voluntarily" share personal information. You might be fine with BestBuy and such requiring (oh, sorry, you doublethink'd "require" into "mandatory request") you to turn over your email, phone number, and address in order to buy a cable, but in Canada we put a stop to that retarded practice. Stores have tried to skirt it "We need that information for our service of contacting you for recalls!" "I don't want that service" "It's mandatory!" it didn't go well for them.
By mass, the amounts of lithium and beryllium created during BBNS should be around the same order of magnitude. That may be very small, but nevertheless, the quote in the OP indicates that ONLY lithium hydrogen and helium were created. If your argument is that the amount of beryllium was so small that you can just pretend it's zero and use absolute language, then "no" lithium was created, either.
What custom patches have you written for your iOS and Linux applications, and why have you not contributed those patches? Is it because they were too specific for your needs to warrant inclusion upstream?
Yes, that's exactly what he's saying. The summary cuts him off mid-point in order to get outraged ad impressions, but yeah, he's saying if you make a patch and don't try to contribute it upstream, you're making a poor business decision because you'll need to keep maintaining that patch on your own. He's not at all saying "Business X uses Linux on their workstations, they are idiots for not contributing to the kernel" Only if they're making custom patches that are general enough to warrant inclusion upstream.
It's actually pretty basic. When you burn something, you add heat and then you end up with ash and smoke. So to unburn something, you need to take ash and smoke, and then add a spark of cold (not absolute zero cold, which is just a lack of heat, but actual cold, the opposite of heat) to ignite the unflames. The problem is to get completely accurate unburning results you need the original smoke, which is hard to pull off after so long. But usually you can just burn a pig and use that smoke. Not as accurate an unburning but it's better than nothing. And the other poster is mistaken, the technique was featured on CSI:New York, not Miami.
You misunderstand the database. The database does not contain any facts like "What is the speaker?" : "A unicorn". It contains chat logs, and it generates responses sort of like a dissociated press. It examines the last up-to-n chat lines between itself and the person talking to it, and it searches the database for a similar chat history (and remember that asking how similar two sentences is is a very hard question to answer) and then responds with whatever came next in the matching chat history. So if a person says "You are a robot" and it responds "No, I am a unicorn," that is because a person once responded with that exact sentence, punctuation and everything.
The temperature of space has little to do with it. But yes, that's one way to deal with waste heat. You run coolant or a heatpipe or whatever to a heat-sink and the heat eventually gets radiated away as blackbody radiation. It doesn't actually need to be too large, because the rate of radiation is proportional to the fourth power of the temperature. So you just need a heatsink that won't melt before it reaches equilibrium between radiation and waste heat input. There are many factors to consider. First, you want a high melting point. Second, you want a high emissivity (all materials radiate the same wavelengths at the same temperature, but not the same amount). Third, you don't want it to warp due to thermal shock, so it needs to be thin, so it needs to be rigid and (somewhat) strong at operating temperatures. Fourth, you don't want it to sublimate away into space too fast or you'll need to replace it often. (All materials will sublimate into space, it's just usually extremely slow unless they're very hot) I don't know offhand which material is usually considered the best balance between those things. But usually spaceship and such don't get THAT hot to require a very hot heat-sink, so concerns over sublimation and melting can be ignored and you just make it out of copper or something.
If there's one thing I've learned from watching 10,000 cop procedurals, it's that if the DA dares charge even en ex-cop with anything, all the other cops will "lose" evidence resulting in a 0% conviction rate, and then he won't get reelected because he'll seem incompetent. Somehow the cops don't get reprimanded for losing evidence and botching investigations and contaminating evidence. Also somehow DA's threaten to not press charges as a way to punish cops for not towing the line, so I guess the absurd "We'll let criminals go and that'll make YOU look bad but not us!" threat can be used both ways? Or maybe TV doesn't reflect reality all that much? WHO KNOWS.
Remember also that any messages containing those words aren't just bounced, they're also forwarded to the Principal for review. There is also a list of words that aren't bounced, but are still forwarded for "review". Dangerous words like "gay" "lesbian" "fight" "drink" "grass" "green" and that sort of thing. Not only are lots of those words stupid and big waste of money to "review" but also these laptops will out students stupid enough to think that they can talk about their sexuality via email without the Principal spying on them. Great educational tool. It gets students used to the idea that their prison warden will be reading anything they write.
Sorry, but my winky face absolves me of all relevance issues. I'm sure you could do the same texture and mesh reduction to get Crysis 2 running, except that most engines don't have Doom 3's degree of feature fallback, so modern games would complain about the lack of shaders support, where Doom 3 rolls with it.
Not running the latest software? Doom 3 running on a Voodoo 2 ;)
Perhaps I'm crazy, but I find that to be the most common kind of typo. I type the words I think, and while I rarely hit the wrong letters without immediately fixing it, my brain frequently hits the wrong entire word because it sounds similar. And so while I know the differences between there/their/they're and its/it's good luck getting the right one all the way from brain to fingers without having to slow down and think about the individual letters :(
Yes, if you trust Commander Vimes, policeman means "man of the city," though of course the actual derivation from "polis" is much less direct ;) Polis as a root came to form the Greek word for "citizen" which came to give rise to the word for "civil" (much how in English civil and citizen come from "city") and so we occasionally have words for things involving civil government that come from "polis" instead of "city".
You can create a file that starts with a period, you can put periods all over the place. But no, you can't start with a leading space through Explorer's rename function (but you can through most programs that can save files, or rename them using the CLI) and you also can't insert wildcards, double quotes or slashes of either leaning, even through the CLI. So, there's that. But on the other hand, I've never wanted to create a file named " ../?/*.txt" so the issue has never really come up.
Well, wages and such have gone up since the 80s, outpacing interest marginally. But class sizes have gone up too, so roughly speaking the per-student salary for teachers is no different. Obviously much larger than the 60s since now you have to pay women as much as men (you can see a dramatic jump shortly after your chosen year of 1961). Lots of money (1/6th of it) goes to paying interest on debt. No idea what the historical value is for that, but that's the current one. Administration and Support has gone ever upwards, and bureaucracy tends to expand to fill the entire budget unless acted upon by outside forces. And of course, highschools at least need an IT staff for the computer network, computer labs aren't cheap to keep half-modern, and you need software licenses for all those machines, too. But back to the debt, which by and large isn't caused by willy-nilly spending, but by the requirement to build new schools in which to teach. That money has to come from bonds issued by the school district, and they need to pay interest on those or people who bought them will throw a fit (and they have when it has happened). It can't come from anywhere else because the local tax payers sure don't want to pay for a new school, and the last thing the state or the feds want to spend money on is infrastructure.
I had no idea that South Dakota only had one school district.
No, TFA is talking exactly about this procedure, which is expensive and incredibly dangerous. It's a procedure with no evidence of any benefit and many documented dangers, but banning is being fought in court because "it's just cells from the patients own body, you cannot ban a man from having his own cells in his own body!" He's recovering from the surgery, but it's far too early to tell whether or not his body is going to be riddled with tumorous growths, which happens with this sort of quackery. Hence, in TFA, actual researchers saying they'd never allow anybody they know to do it. In a way this is far worse than the chiropractors who "cure" HIV and cancer (because all disease is caused by pinched nerves, you know), because at least chiropractors (almost) never kill patients.
So when a student attacks you for teaching science, the correct response is "LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU"? I'm sure silencing dissent is much better than teaching.
The belief the teacher ridiculed isn't the belief in creationism, but the belief that creationism is science. The teacher made no comment on the value of faith whatsoever, only that creationism is faith, not science. Complete with an explanation of what that means. Creationists look for proof that creationism is true, and scientists look for proof that evolution ISN'T. If a student expressed outrage at the teaching of rainfall because it contradicts the teaching of their church, would it be equally wrong to explain that "the rain is God's tears" isn't scientific? How should the teacher proceed if a student objects to teaching science? Clearly you oppose explaining how faith and fact are different, so what do you do? Ignore the student? Cancel class on account of faith? Or what? How do you handle it, if you aren't allowed to address it?
+ and double quotes both do the same thing in Google: They tell it to use that word as-is. A search for hats will match hat singular, as well as various synonyms for hat. +hats or "hats" will only match hats, exactly. It will not match hat, it will not match chapeau, toque, or anything else related. However, neither hats, "hats" nor +hats will REQUIRE that the word hats appears anywhere in the matches. Unless they've added it recently, you CANNOT request only pages that contain a particular keyword. And so +hats will find you pages that are linked to on somebody's blog as "check out these ass hats lol" even though the page has nothing to do with hats whatsoever, and doesn't use the word at all.
No, here's what happened, since you are unable to RTFA: Skyhook offered a vendor a discount if they would modify the phone to block non-Skyhook location services from functioning. This means that Google maps doesn't work, this means that any map or navigation software you buy on the market will crash. Google doesn't want handsets that can't run software from the market, because then they have an avalanche of complaints and returns. So their policy is that you are free to fuck with the API and break your phone as much as you want, but if it's broken they don't allow you to use the Android Market from it. See, Android and Google Apps are NOT bundled after all, and although you can always use Android if you follow the license, you are not guaranteed to be able to use Google Apps, especially the market. One rule they will not relax is "If your phone will not run some Market apps, you cannot use the Market at all". Because people already send them enough death threats about "fragmenting the market" without shitty vendors intentionally making their phone crash on certain apps to prevent competition. That's right, you are on the side of anti-competitive bullshit, not opposing it. Google is the one opposing Skyhook making a condition that says "your phone must block competing software from running". You can add new shit to the API (as long as you know that any apps you write using your new calls won't be allowed on the market since they only work on your phone) but you CANNOT remove functions from the API and still be allowed on the market. Anyways, he's a really fast test to demonstrate that the crybabies are lying: My Samsung Galaxy S has Skyhook on it. Google never blocked it. It works fine. But what Samsung didn't do is get the Skyhook discount by disabling Google Maps and Google Maps Navigation.
If you're familiar with Delphi, then C# should take about five minutes to pick up. It was designed by the same architect as Delphi, and you do almost everything in the same way. It just uses C syntax instead of pascal. But ha at being too old, my dad picked up Delphi in his 40s and it's his favorite for RAD. He still uses Delphi 7 (the last good one) for everything, and grumbles about there being no Mac version. "Use Lazarus, it's exactly the same" "No, too hard to use" "It's identical!" "No it's not". Then again, he's probably trolling, he was mocking my use of a smart phone "My phone makes calls and that's all a phone is for!" and then he bought a droid ;)