You point out exactly how cars don't REALLY need anything special for servicing because the guy servicing your car doesn't actually do that, he diagnoses and replaces with new, shipping the old back to someone else. Then you say cars need specialists. Which one is it?
All 4 of my vehicles are computer controlled. I am not a mechanic in the traditional sense yet I seem to have no problem servicing my cars. I can plugin and diagnose just like they do, with ODB-II as a starting point and a little bit of experience to let me know when what the ODB-II is saying isn't really whats wrong.
On another note, most new-car dealerships make more from their repair departments then their sales departments.
I believe it, but I'd bet its the manufacture thats paying for the repairs, so I really don't care as car prices now days really are low. EVERYONE owns a car.
You just sound really bitter, like you couldn't keep up.
I have a friend who regularly argues with me about how bicycles are fine for driving down the road and that drivers need to be more careful. My response is always 'you should use the damn sidewalk' to which the response I get back is 'there are more accidents on sidewalks resulting in injury than on the street'.
And this is always where I give up on logic. The reason there are more on the sidewalk is because more intelligent people are on the sidewalk when they aren't on a car than there are standing on the street, you can usually get into multiple accidents involving a bicycle and a pedestrian and likely WALK away, but its possible to break a bone or something more serious. Not too many people walk away from a car impact.
I've made him an offer several times, yet he refuses to take me up on it. I'll stand on the side walk, my back to him, and let him hit me as absolutely hard as he can with his bicycle. As long as afterwords I get to do the same thing with my car.
IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER WHOS FAULT IT IS OR WHY THE CAR HIT YOU, YOU ARE STILL FUCKING DEAD AS A DOOR NAIL and nothing more than a dark red smear on the street. The laws of physics do not give a flying fuck about the laws of man.
I have a 2000 Saturn and a 97 Mitsubishi that haven't had any servicing other than the consumables in their life times and everything still works just fine. Well, unless you count the headliner sagging down in the Mitsubishi has a failure. Its actually rather common for cars to last far longer if maintained properly and not abused ridiculously. Hell, I put 70k miles on the mitsubishi in the first year I owned itl
I don't know about your android device, but my iPhone runs the TomTom software. Its going to be hard for a dedicated GPS device to be better than my phone which has higher quality hardware across the board than the dedicated devices AND to top it off, it runs the same software.
Well, that is unless you want to pay $600 or $700 for a nav system.
Yea, I answered yes to that question several years ago.
Well, okay, mine ran FreeBSD, but close enough. That was 2002, 2003?
Right this instant my car runs WindowsXP for the digital dash, and my boat has a dual core atom in it that'll likely be running Windows or maybe Linux depending on how obnoxious it is to get my java UI working on it before spring. Both get complete telemetry data from the engine control units via ODB-II (the boat outboard technically doesn't' use ODB-II specifically, but its one of the related interface protocols used by Mercury/Cummings Deisel, and the addition of some sensors I made using Arduinos for a few analog inputs that arent' available or available fast enough via ODB-II (RPM data from ODB-II comes too slow to make the digital tach smooth without a bunch of faking it in code)
My boat already is happy to take input from my phone, I believe that particular system is a combination of Windows CE for the head unit and Linux for the intelligence on the back end.
To put it bluntly, none of this is new, and many many people have had Linux in their cars for years. I wouldn't want it running my ECU, but its fine for UI related stuff.
People already have cell phones in their cars, its about as bad as its going to get already.
They already HAVE angry birds in their car.
Thats not to say we don't need to address the fact that people fuck around on their phones constantly in the car, but its not going to get any worse because it already comes with one.
Or at the time, every fucking news site on the Internet had a link to it because of douche bags walking into stores and jail breaking phones to be obnoxious.
If you couldn't find the right site in 15 seconds you are most certainly among the group of people who are too inept to have a jail broke phone.
It sure seems that way, I can't imagine they expect to get anywhere. Even if they own the patents and have the right to sue everyone else out of existence, theres absolutely 0 possibility of it happening. There is only slightly (not worth mentioning) higher chance that they'll get everyone to pay them money.
This sort of thing will eventually fall apart in court, they'll probably be some people hurt along the way, but the silliness here will eventually get stopped. It just makes me think they're being so insane about it in an attempt to force a change. I know thats not Apple's MO, but its the only logical reason for doing it.
They can not possibly expect to basically be able to shutdown every other manufacture in the US or extort them for fees, its just completely unrealistic.
How do you define special though? Earth is certainly 100% unique in our solar system, but of course so are the other planets in our solar system.
I can say for a fact that the Earth is special because without it, we would not be having this discussion. Someone/thing else might be having the conversation, but we wouldn't. Its all relative, remember?
Because they didn't. In our particular deterministic universe the physics made it so this planet started first.
other than as an extremely implausible statistical fluke.
You mean... like life itself, which is pretty much an extremely implausible statistical fluke.
But... if you want actual science... For life as we know it to exist simply took more dead stars before the proportion of elements got to a useful point. Early in the universe there was no Iron, it took time, stars had to live and die before any useful amount of Iron existed. Iron is a easy one though, its pretty much where the nuclear fusion process stops being useful for energy generation and it takes more energy than you get back out of the process to create anything heavier on the periodic table, which means these elements only get produced in the explosive death of stars, and not in extremely high quantities, so it takes a lot of them to produce enough for a planet to form that has the right proportions on it.
Of course, thats one explanation. You're real failure goes back to assuming something based on no evidence to support it, just some statistics with no actual basis in reality (you have nothing to compare it too) so you're just guessing. To pretend its anything other than a complete guess makes you an ignorant person. There are plenty of possibilities.
Someone had to be first, we literally have EXACTLY the same chance of being 'the first' as ANYTHING else in the universe, regardless of what they 'odds' are.
Yea, I'd have to say The Pirate Bay is the scummiest warez site I've ever dealt with in my life. Remember when warez was done with honor? When it was done with pride?
TPB is just another scam site that happens to marginally useful torrents. Its only slightly better than Googling for a crack.
Ironic, every modern browser supports something like ActiveX.
I love when ignorant people such as yourself talk about shit you don't understand at all.
ActiveX is nothing more than a plugin system. It just happens to be system wide in Windows, and IE takes advantage of that... IE6 and its ancestors had a lot of issues because OTHER developers marked ActiveX controls as SAFE FOR INTERNET USE and SAFE FOR SCRIPTING ON THE INTERNET when they were not and had no reason at all to be used.
The IE implementation errors didn't help as it made it far to easy for ActiveX controls to be installed without approval
In the end however, Firefox XPCOM objects not written in Javascript (so all the ones that do real work) are no different than ActiveX controls.
The difference is that other browser vendors got to watch someone else be the big most popular browser getting abused to all hell and back.
No, no one is confusing modeling with prostitution.
Fact: Women like to be told they are beautiful, true or not. Fact: Hotter prostitutes can command higher fees Fact: Women were prostitutes well before they were fashion models. Fact: Women are still prostitutes Fact: Fashion models like to be exposed and looked at by other people, they are most certainly more likely to want to be seen sexually as well. This isn't even a little bit debatable. Fact: Most women actually do like being sexualized, they like to pretend they don't because of society and idiots like yourself. Fact: Most women are just as sexually driven as men.
I'm disappointed that you can't follow the simple chain here. You're trying so hard to be anti-sexest that you just look like an ignorant moron who can put 2 and 2 together.
C'mon guys, maybe I missed someone commenting on the extremely obvious
You didn't miss it because no one with a clue was saying it. You're just ignorant of how much of the world runs on COBOL. Whats best, is its the important shit that runs on COBOL, you know, like the worlds financial systems.
Awe how cute, you think the only people capable of doing EE are people with EE degrees. Funny history shows some of the most important EEs in the past hundred years had no degree in EE.
Likewise, its cute that you think that CS is worthless for writing code for embedded devices. Your attitude alone is enough to fire you in my opinion.
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ODB-II has been included in every car since 1996, as a legal requirement, at least in the US.
Do you know how to Google? You can get freaking phone apps and bluetooth ODB-II adapters for fucks sake.
You point out exactly how cars don't REALLY need anything special for servicing because the guy servicing your car doesn't actually do that, he diagnoses and replaces with new, shipping the old back to someone else. Then you say cars need specialists. Which one is it?
All 4 of my vehicles are computer controlled. I am not a mechanic in the traditional sense yet I seem to have no problem servicing my cars. I can plugin and diagnose just like they do, with ODB-II as a starting point and a little bit of experience to let me know when what the ODB-II is saying isn't really whats wrong.
On another note, most new-car dealerships make more from their repair departments then their sales departments.
I believe it, but I'd bet its the manufacture thats paying for the repairs, so I really don't care as car prices now days really are low. EVERYONE owns a car.
You just sound really bitter, like you couldn't keep up.
Its unlikely he's ever seen a vagina to compare it too.
I have a friend who regularly argues with me about how bicycles are fine for driving down the road and that drivers need to be more careful. My response is always 'you should use the damn sidewalk' to which the response I get back is 'there are more accidents on sidewalks resulting in injury than on the street'.
And this is always where I give up on logic. The reason there are more on the sidewalk is because more intelligent people are on the sidewalk when they aren't on a car than there are standing on the street, you can usually get into multiple accidents involving a bicycle and a pedestrian and likely WALK away, but its possible to break a bone or something more serious. Not too many people walk away from a car impact.
I've made him an offer several times, yet he refuses to take me up on it. I'll stand on the side walk, my back to him, and let him hit me as absolutely hard as he can with his bicycle. As long as afterwords I get to do the same thing with my car.
IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER WHOS FAULT IT IS OR WHY THE CAR HIT YOU, YOU ARE STILL FUCKING DEAD AS A DOOR NAIL and nothing more than a dark red smear on the street. The laws of physics do not give a flying fuck about the laws of man.
I have a 2000 Saturn and a 97 Mitsubishi that haven't had any servicing other than the consumables in their life times and everything still works just fine. Well, unless you count the headliner sagging down in the Mitsubishi has a failure. Its actually rather common for cars to last far longer if maintained properly and not abused ridiculously. Hell, I put 70k miles on the mitsubishi in the first year I owned itl
I don't know about your android device, but my iPhone runs the TomTom software. Its going to be hard for a dedicated GPS device to be better than my phone which has higher quality hardware across the board than the dedicated devices AND to top it off, it runs the same software.
Well, that is unless you want to pay $600 or $700 for a nav system.
Yea, I answered yes to that question several years ago.
Well, okay, mine ran FreeBSD, but close enough. That was 2002, 2003?
Right this instant my car runs WindowsXP for the digital dash, and my boat has a dual core atom in it that'll likely be running Windows or maybe Linux depending on how obnoxious it is to get my java UI working on it before spring. Both get complete telemetry data from the engine control units via ODB-II (the boat outboard technically doesn't' use ODB-II specifically, but its one of the related interface protocols used by Mercury/Cummings Deisel, and the addition of some sensors I made using Arduinos for a few analog inputs that arent' available or available fast enough via ODB-II (RPM data from ODB-II comes too slow to make the digital tach smooth without a bunch of faking it in code)
My boat already is happy to take input from my phone, I believe that particular system is a combination of Windows CE for the head unit and Linux for the intelligence on the back end.
To put it bluntly, none of this is new, and many many people have had Linux in their cars for years. I wouldn't want it running my ECU, but its fine for UI related stuff.
I certainly wasn't the first.
People already have cell phones in their cars, its about as bad as its going to get already.
They already HAVE angry birds in their car.
Thats not to say we don't need to address the fact that people fuck around on their phones constantly in the car, but its not going to get any worse because it already comes with one.
Www.google.com
Or at the time, every fucking news site on the Internet had a link to it because of douche bags walking into stores and jail breaking phones to be obnoxious.
If you couldn't find the right site in 15 seconds you are most certainly among the group of people who are too inept to have a jail broke phone.
It sure seems that way, I can't imagine they expect to get anywhere. Even if they own the patents and have the right to sue everyone else out of existence, theres absolutely 0 possibility of it happening. There is only slightly (not worth mentioning) higher chance that they'll get everyone to pay them money.
This sort of thing will eventually fall apart in court, they'll probably be some people hurt along the way, but the silliness here will eventually get stopped. It just makes me think they're being so insane about it in an attempt to force a change. I know thats not Apple's MO, but its the only logical reason for doing it.
They can not possibly expect to basically be able to shutdown every other manufacture in the US or extort them for fees, its just completely unrealistic.
Is it unique? Meh, probably not.
How do you define special though? Earth is certainly 100% unique in our solar system, but of course so are the other planets in our solar system.
I can say for a fact that the Earth is special because without it, we would not be having this discussion. Someone/thing else might be having the conversation, but we wouldn't. Its all relative, remember?
Because they didn't. In our particular deterministic universe the physics made it so this planet started first.
other than as an extremely implausible statistical fluke.
You mean ... like life itself, which is pretty much an extremely implausible statistical fluke.
But ... if you want actual science ... For life as we know it to exist simply took more dead stars before the proportion of elements got to a useful point. Early in the universe there was no Iron, it took time, stars had to live and die before any useful amount of Iron existed. Iron is a easy one though, its pretty much where the nuclear fusion process stops being useful for energy generation and it takes more energy than you get back out of the process to create anything heavier on the periodic table, which means these elements only get produced in the explosive death of stars, and not in extremely high quantities, so it takes a lot of them to produce enough for a planet to form that has the right proportions on it.
Of course, thats one explanation. You're real failure goes back to assuming something based on no evidence to support it, just some statistics with no actual basis in reality (you have nothing to compare it too) so you're just guessing. To pretend its anything other than a complete guess makes you an ignorant person. There are plenty of possibilities.
Someone had to be first, we literally have EXACTLY the same chance of being 'the first' as ANYTHING else in the universe, regardless of what they 'odds' are.
All life really needs is a liquid solvent, energy, and enough time.
Its rather ignorant to assume those are the 'ingredients' for life.
The way it happened here on Earth is just one of many possibilities that we haven't even begun to imagine.
Copyright does not automatically transfer, regardless of what contracts you signed.
You can of course be sued for breech of contract for not assigning copyright based on your contract, but thats where it ends.
Yea, I'd have to say The Pirate Bay is the scummiest warez site I've ever dealt with in my life. Remember when warez was done with honor? When it was done with pride?
TPB is just another scam site that happens to marginally useful torrents. Its only slightly better than Googling for a crack.
Ironic, every modern browser supports something like ActiveX.
I love when ignorant people such as yourself talk about shit you don't understand at all.
ActiveX is nothing more than a plugin system. It just happens to be system wide in Windows, and IE takes advantage of that ... IE6 and its ancestors had a lot of issues because OTHER developers marked ActiveX controls as SAFE FOR INTERNET USE and SAFE FOR SCRIPTING ON THE INTERNET when they were not and had no reason at all to be used.
The IE implementation errors didn't help as it made it far to easy for ActiveX controls to be installed without approval
In the end however, Firefox XPCOM objects not written in Javascript (so all the ones that do real work) are no different than ActiveX controls.
The difference is that other browser vendors got to watch someone else be the big most popular browser getting abused to all hell and back.
You have a really fucked up definition of evil if 'doing your own thing' qualifies as evil.
No they aren't.
Skinny girls are skinny. Age has nothing to do with it.
Even in high school, the sexy girls weren't the skinny flat chested girls.
No, no one is confusing modeling with prostitution.
Fact: Women like to be told they are beautiful, true or not.
Fact: Hotter prostitutes can command higher fees
Fact: Women were prostitutes well before they were fashion models.
Fact: Women are still prostitutes
Fact: Fashion models like to be exposed and looked at by other people, they are most certainly more likely to want to be seen sexually as well. This isn't even a little bit debatable.
Fact: Most women actually do like being sexualized, they like to pretend they don't because of society and idiots like yourself.
Fact: Most women are just as sexually driven as men.
I'm disappointed that you can't follow the simple chain here. You're trying so hard to be anti-sexest that you just look like an ignorant moron who can put 2 and 2 together.
If you need language extensions to do OOp, you really don't get it. Language extensions make it easier, they are not required.
C'mon guys, maybe I missed someone commenting on the extremely obvious
You didn't miss it because no one with a clue was saying it. You're just ignorant of how much of the world runs on COBOL. Whats best, is its the important shit that runs on COBOL, you know, like the worlds financial systems.
Pretty much every single thing you listed indicates you suck at programming, regardless of language.
Whats even better is you're too ignorant to realize that half of your list has nothing to do with the language what so ever.
I'm guessing you just read some text book and really have absolutely no experience programming what so ever.
Awe how cute, you think the only people capable of doing EE are people with EE degrees. Funny history shows some of the most important EEs in the past hundred years had no degree in EE.
Likewise, its cute that you think that CS is worthless for writing code for embedded devices. Your attitude alone is enough to fire you in my opinion.
What happens is the ratio stays the same, perhaps you should RTFA before you call half the oranges apples.
Except that the majority of Java code is backend servers with no GUIs, but hey, you go on thinking silly things like.