Imagine having a full-size fridge delivered to the trunk of a Mini....or having something delivered to your off-road vehicle which is parked in in some crazily inaccessible location....or scheduling something to be urgently delivered to you the same day you're driving across the US. How far would the truck really follow you?
Pretty much the only time bystanders get to see which OS a public embedded system (such as the airport departure/arrival screens or the display of a vending machine) is running is when it crashes.
IMHO there's actually a lot more 'public' embedded systems running Linux than you might think, certainly more than those running Windows. The problem though is that you'd never know because the Linux ones just keep working properly all the time, whereas It seems those running windows are quite happy to regularly advertise that fact through very visible and not infrequent BSODs.
"Earlier this month, a Tesla Model S sitting in a Toronto garage ignited and caught on fire."
>> Just looking at the pictures you can tell it wasn't the car that was burning
I don't see that at all. Unfortunately the pictures dont clearly show the front of the car but look at the ceiling. The burn pattern is clearly right over the hood of the car.
>> the headline should have read "Telsa damaged in garage fire",
Not at all. It wasn't the garage that ignited first, it was the car. Read the original article: Earlier this month, a Tesla Model S sitting in a Toronto garage ignited and caught on fire.
>> and the fear of the thought that the media connected to my Glass would possibly end up online, somewhere, cached forever in a Google search,...and of course it doesn't even occur to the dumb bitch that Google themselves would already be doing pretty much exactly that too.
ywah it seems to be a known/standard thing for a while now that someone will DDOS an exchange just to drive the price down, then buy right as they let up for a while. Rinse and repeat.
They're calling it FCC. (Future Circular Colliders). What a stupid choice. I mean its bound to cause some confusion that could have very easily been avoided. I realise the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) isn't a global organization but you'd think CERN would have the brains and foresight to avoid reuse of already long established and very well-known acronyms.
Not at all. My girlfriend has always been a hardcore apple fan/iPhone user. I've tried using her iphone 5 just to do some relatively simple stuff several times now and always ended up giving up and giving it back to her to get done whatever I needed to do. I think the iPhone user interface is highly unintuitive and a fundamentally terrible design. The screen is also tiny and poky. Since she has seen and tried using my (now relatively old) Samsung S3 even she, the diehard apple fan, can't wait to buy an android phone next.
I've been a mostly C/C++ embedded software dev. for 30 years and recently wrote my first Android phone app. Most of my career has been doing embedded programming on many different platforms and I have to say that eclipse + ADT is probably the slickest/best embedded development environment I've ever seen/used. Java is pretty easy too.
The reason I wrote the phone app was for a startup I'm helping with. We also need to do an iPhone app. To get our iPhone app on iTunes' App Store will be an absolute frickin nightmare compared to the ease of getting our Android version on the Play Store and all the early signs are that the Objective-C/iOS API will be much more of a pain in the ass than the Android API.
>> Federal transportation officials did not announce when the new regulations would go into effect but said they hope to propose the new V2V rules before President Barack Obama leaves office in January 2017."
If it was an intrinsically good thing, they wouldn't be having to make new laws to force it on us all.
>> Obviously it's a big transition, but it has to be done eventually.
No it really doesn't. No-one wants this, especially as it increases the cost of cars, is yet another expensive black box that can go wrong, and is forced on us. of course its all in the name of safety, and it's purely coincidental that it gives the government yet another way to tax/spy/control us.
Think of it like this: If it was self-evidently a good thing, they wouldn't have to be making a compulsory law to force people to have it.
Sounds Absolutely Horrible. I think I'll keep my current low-tech braindead car for as long as I can. I'm guessing cars without all this crap will become worth a whole lot in a few years.
Wait so you would really rather pay everytime you want to listen to/watch something, even if you've paid for it before? Wow. I have this swamp land you might be interested in...
Show me where I said it has to be perfect. As you clearly already understand, no sufficiently complex piece of software can ever be provably perfect....and if your process is indeed as you said where you need to refactor your code after every release, or one where think releasing crap to customers is OK because you assume you will always have another chance at a go-around to get it right next time, then you are part of the problem not the cure.
Your apparent mindset is unfortunately already all too common especially in the US and is all about short-term $ by selling over-hyped low-quality crap before the customer can realise it, by which time you'll have already moved on to another mug. Consequently as a sales-at-any-cost-driven person you will fundamentally never get the point of what I'm actually saying, so please just move on.
Not at all. Why are you putting words in my mouth that I clearly didn't say? What I said and meant, was always make sure you get given the time you need to do a good job, then do one. If your "real world" needs you to do a shit job, then there's a problem with what you think is the real world. Often its just people that are too afraid to stand up to their boss, who's deadline is actually an artificial one just designed to make you work any of harder/longer/for free. If you push back you will see them crumble thats how you know its not real.
Customers in the real world always want something done fast but also right. They nearly always prefer right over fast when pushed. Fast doesn't beat right except in a very retarded short-term sense because if you do a shit job it WILL always come back to bite you in the ass 10 fold.
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Its OK to use an IDE to help you, but its not OK to need one in order to do your job.
Imagine having a full-size fridge delivered to the trunk of a Mini. ...or having something delivered to your off-road vehicle which is parked in in some crazily inaccessible location. ...or scheduling something to be urgently delivered to you the same day you're driving across the US. How far would the truck really follow you?
Pretty much the only time bystanders get to see which OS a public embedded system (such as the airport departure/arrival screens or the display of a vending machine) is running is when it crashes.
IMHO there's actually a lot more 'public' embedded systems running Linux than you might think, certainly more than those running Windows. The problem though is that you'd never know because the Linux ones just keep working properly all the time, whereas It seems those running windows are quite happy to regularly advertise that fact through very visible and not infrequent BSODs.
It burnt a Lexus too? at least some good came of it then.
Wow you can't even quote the first article correctly.
>> The first link states "another Tesla Model S has burst into flames -- this time, while parked".
No it actually says:
Another Tesla Model S Catches Fire -- This Time, While Parked & Unplugged
It also still seems you didn't read the article. It clearly cites the reference it used: http://www.businessinsider.com...
Which says completely unambiguously:
"Earlier this month, a Tesla Model S sitting in a Toronto garage ignited and caught on fire."
>> Just looking at the pictures you can tell it wasn't the car that was burning
I don't see that at all. Unfortunately the pictures dont clearly show the front of the car but look at the ceiling. The burn pattern is clearly right over the hood of the car.
>> No evidence the car was actually involved at all.
You obviously didn't bother to read the original article.
>> the headline should have read "Telsa damaged in garage fire",
Not at all. It wasn't the garage that ignited first, it was the car. Read the original article:
Earlier this month, a Tesla Model S sitting in a Toronto garage ignited and caught on fire.
Read the original article:
Earlier this month, a Tesla Model S sitting in a Toronto garage ignited and caught on fire.
>> and the fear of the thought that the media connected to my Glass would possibly end up online, somewhere, cached forever in a Google search, ...and of course it doesn't even occur to the dumb bitch that Google themselves would already be doing pretty much exactly that too.
ywah it seems to be a known/standard thing for a while now that someone will DDOS an exchange just to drive the price down, then buy right as they let up for a while. Rinse and repeat.
Is it really upto NASA/the US to say who can and can't mine the moon?
There's already a build of MAME for android called MAME4Droid on the play store.
0.139u1: (for dual core devices)
https://play.google.com/store/...
0.37b5: ( for lower-powered devices)
https://play.google.com/store/...
I don't care about the olympics but I wish there was a way for cord-cutters in the US to still watch Formula 1 at home.
Enough already. I'm fed up with every second comment being just a bunch whining about the beta. Please take it somewhere else.
They're calling it FCC. (Future Circular Colliders). What a stupid choice. I mean its bound to cause some confusion that could have very easily been avoided.
I realise the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) isn't a global organization but you'd think CERN would have the brains and foresight to avoid reuse of already long established and very well-known acronyms.
you guys are wierd.
I appreciate the mod points, but where did you get "funny" from?
>> Android works, but iOS is superior
Not at all. My girlfriend has always been a hardcore apple fan/iPhone user. I've tried using her iphone 5 just to do some relatively simple stuff several times now and always ended up giving up and giving it back to her to get done whatever I needed to do. I think the iPhone user interface is highly unintuitive and a fundamentally terrible design. The screen is also tiny and poky. Since she has seen and tried using my (now relatively old) Samsung S3 even she, the diehard apple fan, can't wait to buy an android phone next.
I've been a mostly C/C++ embedded software dev. for 30 years and recently wrote my first Android phone app. Most of my career has been doing embedded programming on many different platforms and I have to say that eclipse + ADT is probably the slickest/best embedded development environment I've ever seen/used. Java is pretty easy too.
The reason I wrote the phone app was for a startup I'm helping with. We also need to do an iPhone app. To get our iPhone app on iTunes' App Store will be an absolute frickin nightmare compared to the ease of getting our Android version on the Play Store and all the early signs are that the Objective-C/iOS API will be much more of a pain in the ass than the Android API.
>> when I want to send a copy to my Aunt in Boise (yes, I made that up too - I don't have an Aunt in Boise).
Then just why are you spamming some old lady in Boise?
>> Federal transportation officials did not announce when the new regulations would go into effect but said they hope to propose the new V2V rules before President Barack Obama leaves office in January 2017."
If it was an intrinsically good thing, they wouldn't be having to make new laws to force it on us all.
>> Obviously it's a big transition, but it has to be done eventually.
No it really doesn't. No-one wants this, especially as it increases the cost of cars, is yet another expensive black box that can go wrong, and is forced on us. of course its all in the name of safety, and it's purely coincidental that it gives the government yet another way to tax/spy/control us.
Think of it like this: If it was self-evidently a good thing, they wouldn't have to be making a compulsory law to force people to have it.
Sounds Absolutely Horrible. I think I'll keep my current low-tech braindead car for as long as I can.
I'm guessing cars without all this crap will become worth a whole lot in a few years.
Wait so you would really rather pay everytime you want to listen to/watch something, even if you've paid for it before? Wow. I have this swamp land you might be interested in...
Show me where I said it has to be perfect. As you clearly already understand, no sufficiently complex piece of software can ever be provably perfect. ...and if your process is indeed as you said where you need to refactor your code after every release, or one where think releasing crap to customers is OK because you assume you will always have another chance at a go-around to get it right next time, then you are part of the problem not the cure.
Your apparent mindset is unfortunately already all too common especially in the US and is all about short-term $ by selling over-hyped low-quality crap before the customer can realise it, by which time you'll have already moved on to another mug.
Consequently as a sales-at-any-cost-driven person you will fundamentally never get the point of what I'm actually saying, so please just move on.
Not at all. Why are you putting words in my mouth that I clearly didn't say?
What I said and meant, was always make sure you get given the time you need to do a good job, then do one.
If your "real world" needs you to do a shit job, then there's a problem with what you think is the real world. Often its just people that are too afraid to stand up to their boss, who's deadline is actually an artificial one just designed to make you work any of harder/longer/for free. If you push back you will see them crumble thats how you know its not real.
Customers in the real world always want something done fast but also right. They nearly always prefer right over fast when pushed. Fast doesn't beat right except in a very retarded short-term sense because if you do a shit job it WILL always come back to bite you in the ass 10 fold.
>> They genuinely want to know how to make the business better by finding out how people actually work..
Then they should start by learning to respect people and actually ask them instead.