It is impossible to dislike a metal band that has been playing for almost 4 decades, and currently has 3 guitars, and a singer that is also a fucking pilot, and flies the whole fucking band to concerts overseas himself. Actually, it should be illegal to dislike such a band;)
Ah, I see. You read cracked too. Same thing happened here. I'm still trying to clean my ears with an intense treatment of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.
Because Android is not GNU/Linux. It's just a broken Linux kernel filled with privative drivers and blobs, with an absolutely awful userspace, and the worst pile of steaming shit on top: Java.
Sadly, professors still live in the past, and they are not going to allow you to use a cellphone during an exam due to fear of cheating/etc.
Also, "Nobody has ever been fired for buying IBM" applies in this field too, and no scientist is going to do any important calculation with some app he downloaded from the market. Same goes for doctors, engineers, etc.
Single-purpose devices are going to exist for a while for the very same reason faxes are still around. People actually write documents on their computers while online through a several mbps connection, then print those docs, and fax them (which is essentially scanning with low b/w resolution, sending using a modem, then printing on a shitty device). The people on the other side will proceed to do whatever they are supposed to do with that document.... on a computer.
But fax is still around because people trust it more than they trust email, as if a PDF file was less tamper-proof than a faxed document (It's actually the other way around).
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Your username is fairly accurate. The slingshot channel is a youtube channel... not cable.
No, microsoft only won once: DOS. After that, they just used that marketshare alongside some really shady business practices to push windows as the #1 OS. After they became filthily rich, their strategy has been fairly simple... they push OEM manufacturers to bundle windoze with new computers, so that average joe considers windoze part of the computer, the default, and doesn't even consider anything else, they keep certain missfeatures, bugs, and some awful design issues in order to keep the huge fix-windows industry alive (overcrowded IT departments, anti virus/malware/spyware/whateverware, and the shitload of motherfuckers that make a living out of charging joe six pack 50 bucks to remove all the crapware he installed while trying to download porn), sliding money under the table for some high-level managers at fortune 500 companies, etc, etc.
That's it. Everything m$ has done after that (that wasn't directly related to windows on x86) has failed.
Microsoft has never had any kind of success in any new market. This will not be an exception.
People is afraid to migrate, afraid to change, therefore they are still relevant in the x86 OSs business. Anything else is brand new and fair game for everyone, and m$ just can't compete on that, competition hasn't ever been one of microsoft's strongest points.
It's so beautiful, interesting, and yet creepy in a way.
Humanity's advances in certain areas (like robotics) are amazing. The sad part is that we are way ahead in certain areas, but way behind in other three key areas:
a) Energy:
We still have to crack the energy issue. We lack both reliable ways to gather energy, and reliable ways to store it.
b) AI
We are still in diapers in weak AI, and not even started in strong AI.
c) Economy
We are still based on the stupid principle of scarcity. Until we realize that we can produce as much as we need of just about anything, and that we are limiting ourselves by creating artificial scarcity to keep alive a system that's been dead for a long time, we won't make that breakthrough into what we thought the year 2000 was going to be.
Ads with fake customers/doctors/specialists on it don't tell you at any time that those are REAL. They don't tell you that they are fake, either.
If anybody asks, then they'll tell you, sure, they are actors. Some people do realize that fact, most don't, but even if you do realize it's fake, it still sort of works at a subconscious level.
In the Galaxy 2 presentation, Samsung's engineers say "It's good to see this REAL LIFE experiences", etc, etc. (Emphasis is NOT mine, they actually put the emphasis on the word REAL)... several times. Now, in most cases they just let you assume that they are real customers, in this case, they are lying to you.
For example, Chinese manufacturers put "3G support" on most of their tablets. If you ask, they'll tell you that it "Supports external 3G". That is, you can connect a modem to it through USB and it'll work. Same thing for GPS support. Now, sure, it's not honest, but it's not as bad as if they were telling you "Internal 3G, just insert your sim card", and it didn't have internal 3G at all.
I don't agree with your statement that there is no revenue in providing updates.
If somebody offered a very high quality phone, with great hardware (better than the iphone), with upgradeable memory and processor, user-replaceable battery, and some sort of slot to add 3G, and in the future replace that card with 4G/5G etc. and offered 10 years of software upgrades, then that company would have a great selling point, and it would be able to outsell even Apple. Create a phone that you can upgrade, allow us to upgrade or replace screen, battery, processor, memory, eventually the whole motherboard. Bring the clone concept to mobiles, and guarantee future software upgrades.
Also, guaranteeing future software upgrades is INCREDIBLY simple and should cost ZERO DOLLARS to the company. Just release EVERY SINGLE DRIVER under the GPL and push google to commit them to the android kernel. That's it. Do you see computer manufacturers going crazy over supporting future software? No, they just release drivers and software devs take care of the rest.
The problem is that this companies refuse to release source for their drivers, therefore it's impossible to port newer software into their devices.
I have several tablets, and I have managed to run newer Android versions on them. I have a tablet that originally came with 1.5 running Froyo, but it's unusable because we don't have source code for their video acceleration hardware.
Nobody is willing to do the right thing, and because of that they are loosing profits, customers hate them, and apple keeps winning by doing things still marginally right.
Slashdot is going crazy. The editors see the need to clarify obvious things, such as who was Alan Turing, but suddenly they post a piece about some obscure, facebook-specific crap and we're supposed to know about it?
Facebook and all that shit is conquering our internet, and we are doing nothing about it. it's just sad. This is worst than AOL.
I work in CCTV, among other products, my company develops DVRs/NVRs.
Most of the time, indoors and at night, there is NO SIGNIFICANT source of IR light. Therefore, most IR cameras are not only IR-sensitive, but they also have IR emitters (LEDs). Flares are common in photography, but nobody calls them ghosts. Flares do not happen only with visible light, there is a myriad of reflections, flares and other phenomena that happen with IR light. Particularly, your power source is not 100% stable (hook up a voltmeter and an oscilloscope to your average 12V 1A cheap made-in-china PSU regularly used for cameras, and you'll see what I mean. That PSU is patched through to the LEDs, with only an SSR in the middle, controlled by the LDR in the front of the camera. LDRs are less than reliable, and I one of the biggest issues with IR cams is that they switch all the time from visible light to IR. That creates LOTS of weird flashes and other effects. CCDs aren't perfect either, and neither is the DSP behind it.
There is no god, there are no ghosts, no vampires, no supernatural bullshit. By it's very definition, the supernatural doesn't exist. The only weird thing out there that is real is Zombies, and you can see masses of them marching into churches or ghost-detection stores.
Then don't name it something obvious and generic. App Store is a short name for "Application Store" which is the very definition of the service they provide. They essentially named it The "App Store" Application Store. It's like naming something the "Oil Comp" Oil Company, or the "Soft. development" Software development company. They are using a generic term, so fuck them. Be more creative and stop trying to ban language.
Google did the same shit, they named theirs "Market". I mean, come on!. What is it? A Market. Who owns it? Google. What is it called? Google Market TM. FUCK THAT. Call it SuckingCocksthroughagardenhose TM or Bazinga TM and then we'll all support you when someone tries to infringe on your trademark. Actually, if you call it something original, no reasonable company will try to infringe on your trademark.
In an Episode, they reach a planet that is 100 times the size of the earth, and it's inhabited by a humanoid species whose individuals seem to be motionless, but they are actually just incredibly slow.
(Reference to Pluton B.R.B Nero, a series you probably don't know, since AFAIK it never got English subs. It's Alex de la Iglesia's shot at space comedy. A sort of Spanish Red Dwarf, except Lorna is so much hotter than Kochanski;) . It was absolutely brilliant, if you can find subs or understand some Spanish, you should definitely take a look at it. Specially if you enjoy Alex's movies, It's as clever as the Oxford Murders, as funny as El dia de la Bestia, and as bizarre as Mutant Action).
Blackberry? That's the phone that comes with a trackball, right? I heard their next model will run IBM DOS 5.0 with DOS Shell, and it'll remove the trackball in favor of a 3-button rs232 ball mouse. The DB-25 connector will increase the form factor a little bit, but damn, I'm so buying that phone.
English is not my native language... regardless, that wasn't my fault, it was the stupid spell-checker. I guess I need to start using the preview to actually spell check and re-read my posts.
I believe that my English is good enough, considering I'm not a native speaker, and I do not live in an English-speaking country.
How many languages do you speak, and is your second language absolutely flawless all the time?
If I'm not mistaken (I'm not from the US, we have a different grade system)... this kids are 13-14 years old. When I was that age, I was told I had to repeat the year because I had missed too many school days (I only attended like 20% of school days or so). I skipped classes that thought me only basic math and other things I already mastered, in order to have time to learn to code in C, read Dostoevsky, and work fixing computers and writing simple apps.
If at that age you are not motivated on your own, then school is simply not for you. Teach them how to drive a truck, bag groceries, or whatever, and stop spending everyone's money on teaching monkeys about Shakespeare.
By the time I was 23, I was a seasoned programmer, and was working as the youngest Senior Sysadmin I have know for a fairly big ISP. I didn't manage to do that thanks to school, obviously, and if I had stayed in school, it would have delayed me 10 years.
We need to redesign school so that it allows the truly talented to learn what he wants to learn, and the rest to just stop suffering and land a good job at a young age. Forcing kids to stay in school only manages to steal years of valuable work experience for all of us, both skilled professionals and unskilled workers.
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It is impossible to dislike a metal band that has been playing for almost 4 decades, and currently has 3 guitars, and a singer that is also a fucking pilot, and flies the whole fucking band to concerts overseas himself. Actually, it should be illegal to dislike such a band ;)
Up the fucking irons!
Ah, I see. You read cracked too. Same thing happened here. I'm still trying to clean my ears with an intense treatment of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.
Yeah, you are in such a bad state, that the problem with fucking is that you don't know if you are cumming or going! (With apologies to George Carlin)
Indeed. They used such a setup to write windows ME.
Because Android is not GNU/Linux. It's just a broken Linux kernel filled with privative drivers and blobs, with an absolutely awful userspace, and the worst pile of steaming shit on top: Java.
Sadly, professors still live in the past, and they are not going to allow you to use a cellphone during an exam due to fear of cheating/etc.
Also, "Nobody has ever been fired for buying IBM" applies in this field too, and no scientist is going to do any important calculation with some app he downloaded from the market. Same goes for doctors, engineers, etc.
Single-purpose devices are going to exist for a while for the very same reason faxes are still around. People actually write documents on their computers while online through a several mbps connection, then print those docs, and fax them (which is essentially scanning with low b/w resolution, sending using a modem, then printing on a shitty device). The people on the other side will proceed to do whatever they are supposed to do with that document .... on a computer.
But fax is still around because people trust it more than they trust email, as if a PDF file was less tamper-proof than a faxed document (It's actually the other way around).
Your username is fairly accurate. The slingshot channel is a youtube channel ... not cable.
I didn't even mention GNU/Linux, bad troll, 0/10.
Also, you appear to suffer from Judaism, what a horrible, horrible disease.
No, microsoft only won once: DOS. After that, they just used that marketshare alongside some really shady business practices to push windows as the #1 OS. After they became filthily rich, their strategy has been fairly simple ... they push OEM manufacturers to bundle windoze with new computers, so that average joe considers windoze part of the computer, the default, and doesn't even consider anything else, they keep certain missfeatures, bugs, and some awful design issues in order to keep the huge fix-windows industry alive (overcrowded IT departments, anti virus/malware/spyware/whateverware, and the shitload of motherfuckers that make a living out of charging joe six pack 50 bucks to remove all the crapware he installed while trying to download porn), sliding money under the table for some high-level managers at fortune 500 companies, etc, etc.
That's it. Everything m$ has done after that (that wasn't directly related to windows on x86) has failed.
Microsoft has never had any kind of success in any new market. This will not be an exception.
People is afraid to migrate, afraid to change, therefore they are still relevant in the x86 OSs business. Anything else is brand new and fair game for everyone, and m$ just can't compete on that, competition hasn't ever been one of microsoft's strongest points.
Well beyond humanoids.
It's so beautiful, interesting, and yet creepy in a way.
Humanity's advances in certain areas (like robotics) are amazing. The sad part is that we are way ahead in certain areas, but way behind in other three key areas:
a) Energy:
We still have to crack the energy issue. We lack both reliable ways to gather energy, and reliable ways to store it.
b) AI
We are still in diapers in weak AI, and not even started in strong AI.
c) Economy
We are still based on the stupid principle of scarcity. Until we realize that we can produce as much as we need of just about anything, and that we are limiting ourselves by creating artificial scarcity to keep alive a system that's been dead for a long time, we won't make that breakthrough into what we thought the year 2000 was going to be.
There is a HUGE difference.
Ads with fake customers/doctors/specialists on it don't tell you at any time that those are REAL. They don't tell you that they are fake, either.
If anybody asks, then they'll tell you, sure, they are actors. Some people do realize that fact, most don't, but even if you do realize it's fake, it still sort of works at a subconscious level.
In the Galaxy 2 presentation, Samsung's engineers say "It's good to see this REAL LIFE experiences", etc, etc. (Emphasis is NOT mine, they actually put the emphasis on the word REAL) ... several times. Now, in most cases they just let you assume that they are real customers, in this case, they are lying to you.
For example, Chinese manufacturers put "3G support" on most of their tablets. If you ask, they'll tell you that it "Supports external 3G". That is, you can connect a modem to it through USB and it'll work. Same thing for GPS support. Now, sure, it's not honest, but it's not as bad as if they were telling you "Internal 3G, just insert your sim card", and it didn't have internal 3G at all.
I don't agree with your statement that there is no revenue in providing updates.
If somebody offered a very high quality phone, with great hardware (better than the iphone), with upgradeable memory and processor, user-replaceable battery, and some sort of slot to add 3G, and in the future replace that card with 4G/5G etc. and offered 10 years of software upgrades, then that company would have a great selling point, and it would be able to outsell even Apple. Create a phone that you can upgrade, allow us to upgrade or replace screen, battery, processor, memory, eventually the whole motherboard. Bring the clone concept to mobiles, and guarantee future software upgrades.
Also, guaranteeing future software upgrades is INCREDIBLY simple and should cost ZERO DOLLARS to the company. Just release EVERY SINGLE DRIVER under the GPL and push google to commit them to the android kernel. That's it. Do you see computer manufacturers going crazy over supporting future software? No, they just release drivers and software devs take care of the rest.
The problem is that this companies refuse to release source for their drivers, therefore it's impossible to port newer software into their devices.
I have several tablets, and I have managed to run newer Android versions on them. I have a tablet that originally came with 1.5 running Froyo, but it's unusable because we don't have source code for their video acceleration hardware.
Nobody is willing to do the right thing, and because of that they are loosing profits, customers hate them, and apple keeps winning by doing things still marginally right.
It is also one of the best tablets. Currently, outside of the xoom, the only one in the wild that runs Honeycomb.
Most of the development takes place in slatedroid.com and xda-developers.com.
The sad state of Android tablets, is that community firmwares are light-years ahead of factory defaults.
And why should I care about it?
Slashdot is going crazy. The editors see the need to clarify obvious things, such as who was Alan Turing, but suddenly they post a piece about some obscure, facebook-specific crap and we're supposed to know about it?
Facebook and all that shit is conquering our internet, and we are doing nothing about it. it's just sad. This is worst than AOL.
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I'm sure there are a few at Edison's labs, haunted by Tesla's ghost.
Understand this:
I work in CCTV, among other products, my company develops DVRs/NVRs.
Most of the time, indoors and at night, there is NO SIGNIFICANT source of IR light. Therefore, most IR cameras are not only IR-sensitive, but they also have IR emitters (LEDs). Flares are common in photography, but nobody calls them ghosts. Flares do not happen only with visible light, there is a myriad of reflections, flares and other phenomena that happen with IR light. Particularly, your power source is not 100% stable (hook up a voltmeter and an oscilloscope to your average 12V 1A cheap made-in-china PSU regularly used for cameras, and you'll see what I mean. That PSU is patched through to the LEDs, with only an SSR in the middle, controlled by the LDR in the front of the camera. LDRs are less than reliable, and I one of the biggest issues with IR cams is that they switch all the time from visible light to IR. That creates LOTS of weird flashes and other effects. CCDs aren't perfect either, and neither is the DSP behind it.
There is no god, there are no ghosts, no vampires, no supernatural bullshit. By it's very definition, the supernatural doesn't exist. The only weird thing out there that is real is Zombies, and you can see masses of them marching into churches or ghost-detection stores.
Marriage is a religious and legal institution. There is no god, and we can't trust the government, so why marry? ;)
A meaningful relationship and lots of great sex are better at keeping people together than crazy medieval rituals such as marriage.
If the word "Ghost" in the article were replaced by "god", the article would still be correct, but it would have never been posted.
If I say "Ghosts aren't real", I get moderated informative. If I post "That particular Ghost you call god isn't real", I get moderated troll.
Irrational, isn't it?
Then don't name it something obvious and generic. App Store is a short name for "Application Store" which is the very definition of the service they provide. They essentially named it The "App Store" Application Store. It's like naming something the "Oil Comp" Oil Company, or the "Soft. development" Software development company. They are using a generic term, so fuck them. Be more creative and stop trying to ban language.
Google did the same shit, they named theirs "Market". I mean, come on!. What is it? A Market. Who owns it? Google. What is it called? Google Market TM. FUCK THAT. Call it SuckingCocksthroughagardenhose TM or Bazinga TM and then we'll all support you when someone tries to infringe on your trademark. Actually, if you call it something original, no reasonable company will try to infringe on your trademark.
Well, forgot to explain the actual reference.
In an Episode, they reach a planet that is 100 times the size of the earth, and it's inhabited by a humanoid species whose individuals seem to be motionless, but they are actually just incredibly slow.
You mean Los verdes?
(Reference to Pluton B.R.B Nero, a series you probably don't know, since AFAIK it never got English subs. It's Alex de la Iglesia's shot at space comedy. A sort of Spanish Red Dwarf, except Lorna is so much hotter than Kochanski ;) . It was absolutely brilliant, if you can find subs or understand some Spanish, you should definitely take a look at it. Specially if you enjoy Alex's movies, It's as clever as the Oxford Murders, as funny as El dia de la Bestia, and as bizarre as Mutant Action).
Blackberry? That's the phone that comes with a trackball, right? I heard their next model will run IBM DOS 5.0 with DOS Shell, and it'll remove the trackball in favor of a 3-button rs232 ball mouse. The DB-25 connector will increase the form factor a little bit, but damn, I'm so buying that phone.
English is not my native language ... regardless, that wasn't my fault, it was the stupid spell-checker. I guess I need to start using the preview to actually spell check and re-read my posts.
I believe that my English is good enough, considering I'm not a native speaker, and I do not live in an English-speaking country.
How many languages do you speak, and is your second language absolutely flawless all the time?
If I'm not mistaken (I'm not from the US, we have a different grade system) ... this kids are 13-14 years old.
When I was that age, I was told I had to repeat the year because I had missed too many school days (I only attended like 20% of school days or so). I skipped classes that thought me only basic math and other things I already mastered, in order to have time to learn to code in C, read Dostoevsky, and work fixing computers and writing simple apps.
If at that age you are not motivated on your own, then school is simply not for you. Teach them how to drive a truck, bag groceries, or whatever, and stop spending everyone's money on teaching monkeys about Shakespeare.
By the time I was 23, I was a seasoned programmer, and was working as the youngest Senior Sysadmin I have know for a fairly big ISP. I didn't manage to do that thanks to school, obviously, and if I had stayed in school, it would have delayed me 10 years.
We need to redesign school so that it allows the truly talented to learn what he wants to learn, and the rest to just stop suffering and land a good job at a young age. Forcing kids to stay in school only manages to steal years of valuable work experience for all of us, both skilled professionals and unskilled workers.
You are out of touch with Reality. It says in the site they are looking to collect 10k.
Let me remind you, El Mariachi was made with 7k.