Its actually not that difficult, and you end up with a much cleaner app when done. Faster, smaller, and easier for the next programmer to understand.
It use to be said that once you expose someone to visual basic there was no hope of making a programmer of them. The same can be said about Microsoft Foundation Classes.
Microsoft is only organization who can answer that question. No amount of beating on it or guessing is going to provide the answer. There's no point in asking that question to anyone except the engineers building the software, that was my point.
Oh, come on, none of this is secret.
Every DLL loaded and running in a Windows machine has a purpose, and you can google it to find out what it is. There is no magic here, and even though the code is not opensource, its fully known what just about every part of windows is doing.
On the other hand, look at all the running and "sleeping" processes in your Android phone. Some, that are part of Android itself you can actually figure out what they are by reading the code. Others are inserted by manufacturers and carriers, and nobody knows what they do or who they serve.
Windows does a lot of things in the background, all the time.
Find me one operating system that doesn't do things in the background all the time.
My Dell Laptop (and ancient 9400 that refuses to die), gets WORSE battery life on Linux than it did on Windows XP that it came with. Linux does stuff in the bacground too.
But its not just YOUR answer that was stupid, the question itself was stupid. The processors between Android and and IOS and the Surface Pro are all different. Apples / Oranges. The operating systems were not designed with energy efficiency in mind.
Android and Apple have focused on ARM processors for a reason. They are incredibly power efficient. That is the ARM's whole raison d'être.
You pull into the designated space, a robotic arm deploys from the pavement underneath and plugs you into the grid. You start your vehicle, the arm retracts. And of course you'd design the connection to easily detach if the vehicle suddenly peeled away. More efficient connection, less people freaking out about EM..
But the first hapless Volkswagen that pulls into the space gets the robotic arm spot welded to the frame.
You will be able to tell the proper location to position it, because there will be a boatload of smashed phones down there from where owners didn't hang around to retrieve them before the truck pulled away,
They collectively, get to write off 4 billion of taxes for foreign tax paid, depletion allowance, domestic manufacturing, all of which are tax breaks available to any industry. Depletion allowance can even be claimed by a Gravel Pit owner. The oil industry is Huge, and the total tax writeoff is only 4 billion.
That's less than the cost of one Navy DDG-51 destroyer.
Apple alone wrote off 1.1 billion all by itself.
You don't get to call a general tax write off a subsidy. At least until you accept the fact that a the Standard Deduction that every tax payer gets to claim is a subsidy.
ExxonMobil in 2011 made $27.3 billion in cash payments for income taxes. Chevron paid $17 billion and ConocoPhillips $10.6 billion. And not only were these the highest amounts in absolute terms, when compared with the rest of the 25 most profitable U.S. companies, the trio also had the highest effective tax rates. Exxon’s tax rate was 42.9%, Chevron’s was 48.3% and Conoco’s was 41.5%. That’s even higher than the 35% U.S. federal statutory rate, which is already the highest tax rate among developed nations.
Just the top three alone paid about 55 billion in taxes. Add in the drillers, smaller oil companies, the pipelines, and you are talking serious money.
Note: About here is where someone invariably posts the War for Oil bullshit. But the US doesn't import any oil from Iraq or Afghanistan. The US is a Net Exporter of oil and gas.
Your diesel car isn't being refueled simply by virtue of which parking spot you chose. If it were, you'd be paying.
I suspect it will have to be done via a metering system triggered by NFC transducers on the vehicle. Sort of like you ezpass, but located on the bottom of the vehicle.
Well, the article is fairly vague on the exact details of the technology but it did say:
HEVO's manhole covers work via electromagnetic resonance, which makes a magnetic connection between a charging coil to a car equipped with a wireless charging coil.
Without some NFC communications built in, I don't see how they monetize that, or even control the on/off condition of the system. If they simply leave them on all the time, simply driving over one of these could induce eddy currents in any passing vehicle, (like passing a wire through any magnetic field), which might prove uprising on a rainy day, not to mention induction in re-rod built into sidewalks, lamp poles, underground wiring, the fillings in your teeth, etc. There is also significant loss in any transformer running without a load on the secondary side.
So they would probably have to be switched, and therefore OFF unless a known subscriber vehicle was parked on it. That would be no consolation to those who insist they can "feel" wireless routers, (who invariably fail to accurately do so in double blind tests).
Short of putting them in jail, court orders are pointless gestures. Visit a friend, use their compter. Drive to the next town wearing a wig and walk into the library. These bans are seldom effective.
I just gave you a reference. My Surface Pro is Faster than MY 10 Inch Android Tablet. (Acer A700.) It might not be faster than yours.
Boots faster. Sub 6 seconds from power off to login ready. Loads Google Chrome Faster. Switches apps faster. Runs Vmware. Runs Linux and FreeBSD inside of VMware virtual machines. My day job still requires windows. It runs all my compilers, linker and debugger, etc.
Go try one out at a nearby Mall or something, instead of beating me up. I was a doubter too. Played with one at the Microsoft Keosk for 15 minutes. They even let me install software (Visual Studio). I ran some tests, and slapped down my credit card. I never even looked at the RT units. You can dis this machine just because its windows (if that't your game), But as a Windows machine, its a pretty sweet package. Its a full 64bit WinTel machine.
Yeah, the price is too high. Drop that by 1/3 and it would be price competitive, drop it by 40% and they would sell every one they could make. It is a really well thought out tablet. A bit Too heavy. Battery life needs improvement. But I still like it, Windows 8(.1) and all.
Its faster than my 10 inch Android tablet, but a lot easier to adapt to business use because of software compatibility. This is where RT fails.
It should also make the kernel part much smaller and easier to make secure.
You hope. I've learned to become suspicious of change for change sake. Long running well debugged code is almost always better understood than new code.
There is so much depth to iptables that not one in 10,000 people ever used, that getting your head around the basics was always a problem of separating wheat from chaff. You could literately route packets in circles, for what purpose I can't imagine.
I suspect the Netfilter folks haven't removed any of this, and merely hidden it.
As long as iptables/ipchains works, and/or you don't have a ton of open ports, there's really no problem running old kernels. 80% of the routers in the world are running some really old kernels and have/will never get updates. Baring any newly discovered backdoors, they are as secure today as they ever were.
They did add quick access to the camera without unlocking the tablet. That had me indignant as hell when I touched the screen to unlock and saw me staring back at me with a surprised look on both our faces.
Then I realized my fingers had accidentally swiped the wrong direction. Turned that off.
Yes, but much of Europe is served by river and canals, and has been for a long time before rail came into existance.
Most of the canals began construction in the 16th century in some parts, and really took off in the 19th. But rivers were the highways, an Europe has many long rivers that cross borders, and goods transport on them was bound to include rats. Further it was easy, so even mildly sick people could use this means.
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I'd gladly pay for secure email that I knew was beyond the reach of the upskirting creeps in the NSA.
Would you?
How much would you pay? It seems the going price is around $10/Month.
http://gizmodo.com/why-kolab-might-be-the-best-secure-email-service-still-1171618005
Its actually not that difficult, and you end up with a much cleaner app when done.
Faster, smaller, and easier for the next programmer to understand.
It use to be said that once you expose someone to visual basic there was no hope
of making a programmer of them. The same can be said about Microsoft Foundation Classes.
Only if you use Microsoft Foundation Classes.
Steer clear of those and aim directly at the API set and you won't be dragging around so much baggage.
Your giving the same answer, so you get the same reply.
The purpose of every single DLL in the windows system is known, and documented. You don't get the source code, but this is not some deep mystery.
Microsoft is only organization who can answer that question. No amount of beating on it or guessing is going to provide the answer. There's no point in asking that question to anyone except the engineers building the software, that was my point.
Oh, come on, none of this is secret.
Every DLL loaded and running in a Windows machine has a purpose, and you can google it to find out what it is.
There is no magic here, and even though the code is not opensource, its fully known what just about every part
of windows is doing.
On the other hand, look at all the running and "sleeping" processes in your Android phone. Some, that are part of
Android itself you can actually figure out what they are by reading the code. Others are inserted by manufacturers and carriers,
and nobody knows what they do or who they serve.
Windows does a lot of things in the background, all the time.
Find me one operating system that doesn't do things in the background all the time.
My Dell Laptop (and ancient 9400 that refuses to die), gets WORSE battery life on Linux than it did on Windows XP that it came with.
Linux does stuff in the bacground too.
But its not just YOUR answer that was stupid, the question itself was stupid.
The processors between Android and and IOS and the Surface Pro are all different. Apples / Oranges.
The operating systems were not designed with energy efficiency in mind.
Android and Apple have focused on ARM processors for a reason. They are incredibly power efficient. That is the ARM's whole raison d'être.
You pull into the designated space, a robotic arm deploys from the pavement underneath and plugs you into the grid. You start your vehicle, the arm retracts. And of course you'd design the connection to easily detach if the vehicle suddenly peeled away. More efficient connection, less people freaking out about EM. .
But the first hapless Volkswagen that pulls into the space gets the robotic arm spot welded to the frame.
Sure, just toss it under the truck.
You will be able to tell the proper location to position it, because there will be a boatload of smashed phones
down there from where owners didn't hang around to retrieve them before the truck pulled away,
No, they don't. (as your won link shows).
They collectively, get to write off 4 billion of taxes for foreign tax paid, depletion allowance, domestic manufacturing, all of which are tax breaks available to any industry. Depletion allowance can even be claimed by a Gravel Pit owner. The oil industry is Huge, and the total tax writeoff is only 4 billion.
That's less than the cost of one Navy DDG-51 destroyer.
Apple alone wrote off 1.1 billion all by itself.
You don't get to call a general tax write off a subsidy. At least until you accept the fact that a the Standard Deduction that every tax payer gets to claim is a subsidy.
What did the oil companies pay in taxes:
ExxonMobil in 2011 made $27.3 billion in cash payments for income taxes. Chevron paid $17 billion and ConocoPhillips $10.6 billion. And not only were these the highest amounts in absolute terms, when compared with the rest of the 25 most profitable U.S. companies, the trio also had the highest effective tax rates. Exxon’s tax rate was 42.9%, Chevron’s was 48.3% and Conoco’s was 41.5%. That’s even higher than the 35% U.S. federal statutory rate, which is already the highest tax rate among developed nations.
Just the top three alone paid about 55 billion in taxes. Add in the drillers, smaller oil companies, the pipelines, and you are talking serious money.
Note: About here is where someone invariably posts the War for Oil bullshit. But the US doesn't import any oil from Iraq or Afghanistan. The US is a Net Exporter of oil and gas.
Since when has that ever mattered on Slashdot?
Find me one thread that doesn't drift. Just one.
Your diesel car isn't being refueled simply by virtue of which parking spot you chose.
If it were, you'd be paying.
I suspect it will have to be done via a metering system triggered by NFC transducers on the vehicle.
Sort of like you ezpass, but located on the bottom of the vehicle.
Well, the article is fairly vague on the exact details of the technology but it did say:
HEVO's manhole covers work via electromagnetic resonance, which makes a magnetic connection between a charging coil to a car equipped with a wireless charging coil.
Without some NFC communications built in, I don't see how they monetize that, or even control the on/off condition of the system.
If they simply leave them on all the time, simply driving over one of these could induce eddy currents in any passing vehicle, (like passing a wire through any magnetic field), which might prove uprising on a rainy day, not to mention induction in re-rod built into sidewalks, lamp poles, underground wiring, the fillings in your teeth, etc. There is also significant loss in any transformer running without a load on the secondary side.
So they would probably have to be switched, and therefore OFF unless a known subscriber vehicle was parked on it.
That would be no consolation to those who insist they can "feel" wireless routers, (who invariably fail to accurately do so in double blind tests).
So what?
Who appointed you the Thread Police?
Boots from stone cold OFF in sub 6 seconds.
Short of putting them in jail, court orders are pointless gestures.
Visit a friend, use their compter. Drive to the next town wearing a wig and walk into the library.
These bans are seldom effective.
I just gave you a reference.
My Surface Pro is Faster than MY 10 Inch Android Tablet. (Acer A700.)
It might not be faster than yours.
Boots faster. Sub 6 seconds from power off to login ready.
Loads Google Chrome Faster. Switches apps faster.
Runs Vmware.
Runs Linux and FreeBSD inside of VMware virtual machines.
My day job still requires windows. It runs all my compilers, linker and debugger, etc.
Go try one out at a nearby Mall or something, instead of beating me up.
I was a doubter too. Played with one at the Microsoft Keosk for 15 minutes. They even let me install software (Visual Studio).
I ran some tests, and slapped down my credit card. I never even looked at the RT units.
You can dis this machine just because its windows (if that't your game), But as a Windows machine, its a pretty sweet package.
Its a full 64bit WinTel machine.
As I mentioned, the PRO is not the RT, and the RT is the only model having a problem.
I love that feature on Android, though.
Me too. I use it ALL the time. :-O
But I refuse to participate in that duchebaggery of being seen in public holding up a tablet to take pictures.
"Easy to port normal windows stuff".
No port necessary. Period.
Just install. Done.
Yeah, the price is too high. Drop that by 1/3 and it would be price competitive, drop it by 40% and they would sell every one they could make.
It is a really well thought out tablet. A bit Too heavy. Battery life needs improvement. But I still like it, Windows 8(.1) and all.
Its faster than my 10 inch Android tablet, but a lot easier to adapt to business use because of software compatibility.
This is where RT fails.
It should also make the kernel part much smaller and easier to make secure.
You hope.
I've learned to become suspicious of change for change sake.
Long running well debugged code is almost always better understood than new code.
There is so much depth to iptables that not one in 10,000 people ever used, that getting your head around the basics
was always a problem of separating wheat from chaff. You could literately route packets in circles, for what purpose I can't imagine.
I suspect the Netfilter folks haven't removed any of this, and merely hidden it.
Being unsupported is not a death sentence.
As long as iptables/ipchains works, and/or you don't have a ton of open ports, there's really no problem running old kernels.
80% of the routers in the world are running some really old kernels and have/will never get updates. Baring any newly discovered backdoors,
they are as secure today as they ever were.
They did add quick access to the camera without unlocking the tablet. That had me indignant as hell when I touched the screen to unlock and saw me staring back at me with a surprised look on both our faces.
Then I realized my fingers had accidentally swiped the wrong direction. Turned that off.
My Surface Pro (not RT) update went swimmingly.
Its faster than it was before. Oddly, I now have two voice recorder apps. ?
But everything I previously had on the machine works perfectly.
Yes, but much of Europe is served by river and canals, and has been for a long time before rail came into existance.
Most of the canals began construction in the 16th century in some parts, and really took off in the 19th.
But rivers were the highways, an Europe has many long rivers that cross borders, and goods transport on them was bound to include rats.
Further it was easy, so even mildly sick people could use this means.