Can someone please provide links or info on these competitors and what iPhone "killers" they're supposedly producing? What exactly is it they will be killing? Reality is that while it's a huge success for Apple in terms of making a big profit (huge profit margin on devices like this), it does not in any way threaten the existing world wide mobile players such as Nokia, Motorola, SEMC etc. Furthermore, mobile phones are not Apples core business, and entering the market with the aim to become a top handset manufacturer requires a LOT more than putting out one cool albeit heavily locked down PDA, bolting on cell technology and convincing one operator to sell it as a phone. Personally, I think the greatest long term value for Apple in this whole enterprise is the strengthening of the brand that will hopefully enable them to do better in their core business areas.
As a fellow (and happy) 360 owner I had this happen to me when I bought Prey on the day it was released in shops near me. Got the game, went home, 6 hours later I had completed it and felt screwed. Luckily, all I needed to do was to go back to the store, tell them I wasn't happy with the game and got it replaced for free with LOTR:BFME, which unfortunately also turned out to be crap...
Great stuff that it's running Linux and everything, but what can I do with it?
I was digging through TFA for some actual information on what's possible, but it only seems to mention systems that are likely to be tied to the preinstalled motion control stuff anyways (accelerometer, gyro etc). I'd like to know if it has anything else, such as ultrasound or camera sensors? Perhaps Bluetooth capability so I can network several robots in proximity to each other?
If none of these are available, perhaps it has some sort of gpio to allow me to modify and add such things?
The GP postulated a case where a developer takes the code for the project he's working on, you're saying he doesn't have that source?
Give me a flaming break, how then do you expect him to do his work? It's of course very true that all respectable software houses keep repositories, but as a clue, developers do something commonly called "check-out" to work on a local copy before verifying all changes and finally submitting it back in to the repository.
They simply take the magic "projected sales if internet didn't exist and we were still in the 80's" number, subtract actual sales, divide that by average CD price and then multiply it with their gut feeling.
Point well taken and a good rule to apply. I'm currently lucky enough to work in a shop with mandatory code reviews on all submissions to any production codeline, which makes it more of a "Who the hell approved this submission" question.
Such functionality is actually common in my part of the mobile world (Symbian/UIQ), for example my Motorola A1000 does exactly what you describe and I'd suspect others do as well.
My own idea for protecting content on a mobile phone is to encrypt all personal data, including calendar entries, contacts, SMS messages (in the air as well as on the device) and potentially also VoIP data.
Your brand-spankin'-new 3G phone is nearing obsolesence: NTT DoCoMo reveals the results from a new 4G test system.' says TheFeature. While in a car moving at 30kph, DoCoMo engineers managed a peak throughput of 300Mbps and a sustained transfer rate of 135Mbps with their new variable spreading factor orthogonal frequency code division multiplexing (WSF-OFCDM) downstream technology
Reminds me of an image of J.Lo and some guy pinching her nipples, with an article around it claiming that he was her hired nipple tweaker. Good laugh that...
Well put sir.
I believe this is something along the lines of something I heard about in school...what's it called again...oh right, learning from history and past mistakes.
Too bad only the ones in power learned that fearmongering is the most powerful way any government can do whatever they want.
Too bad there aren't too many like you around.
That's apples and pears. The point is that while it's usually the small time players that do the innovating, Nintendo has always managed to keep an enormous fanbase while constantly renewing themselves. They add gameplay value at the same time as they innovate, and the last time I checked Dragon's Lair wasn't cell shaded.
TFA says that by doing so you will corrupt the qubits unalterably in a way that is detectable by the sender and receiver, which is also why it is impossible to use signal amplifying repeaters to extend the range of the transmission.
I guess I'm one of the weird types who would be quite content to die after getting the opportunity to go into space and see our world from an elevated perspective...
Interesting interpretation, but I think you kinda missed the whole point of the GP.
The idea is not that you reduce stress by stockpiling money instead of spending it, which may be a general difference between europeans and americans as pointed by a previous poster. In no way does that correlate to the amount of stress these people submit themselves to when acquiring said amounts of money.
No, friends, what the Buddhists along with several other less-respected-in-the-eyes-of-capitalism movements have figured out lies on a deeper level, and without going into detail, it involves realising that excessive greed for whatever reason is a serious hindrance on the path to true happiness.
I have some experience in creating in-house test automation and management tools, and what I can tell you really should come as no surprise. Take a good look at your total test suite, identify those cases that you think you can automate to get a figure of coverage, then look at which of these tests are executed most frequently to get some priorities.
After that all you have to do is build it, and they will come =)
Obviously the goal is to automate as many of the monotonous and repetitious tasks as possible, thus freeing up time for testers to do more innovative testing and spending more time on each defect, ensuring higher defect detail, quality and better turnaround.
I totally agree that funtion and UI testing should be performed by a dedicated team, in my experience developers generally have too much to do already, and when resources are tight guess what hits bottom prio...
I work in a company that is productive for my nation and makes it a better place on daily basis instead of a cooler place where we strap rockets on people and send 'em real high.
Gah you've got me confused, are you working in the weapons industry or not?!
An interesting thought, do not however forget the lessons of Mr. Einstein...time is not absolute and subject to gravitational effects, i.e. the concept of time is subjective and differs depending on where you measure it, so what would you use as a reference?
It's morning here, and as I started reading "people upset because they won't get commercials" I figured I had gotten it all wrong and so I read it again. And again.
Now, I know I'm gonna get stomped down for being a communist or something, but if I were you, I'd be quite happy not to get flooded by any more mindless brainwash designed to turn us all into happy Consumers than we already are!
We do not need commercials to tell us what we need.
Seems to me that in order to succeed on the desktop market, a consistent and well designed UI is needed. While/. is filled to the rim with OSS hacking gurus, what about all those OSS UI designers that must be out there hiding somewhere?
I guess all I'm saying is that while optimizing the kernel is neat and all, your average user won't recognize any more than what's in front of him, and I sincerely believe that more than good response times are needed to impress someone enough to leave an OS that already has a consistent design and style guide in it's UI (read commercially developed UI's).
While having several options (KDE, Gnome) is nice, the lack of enforced style guides and behavior patterns will inevitably give the user a feeling of inconsistency.
"I think DoCoMo would be better off with Symbian."
Just to clarify things...DoCoMo will likely be very well off with *both* Symbian and Linux. I think this is great news considering that DoCoMo and Symbian has already signed an operator technology integrator agreement.
So in the end, all this really says is that MS appears to be on the loosing end of the stick concerning a very large market indeed.
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And here you are, posting an advert for Optical Express...oh the irony :)
Can someone please provide links or info on these competitors and what iPhone "killers" they're supposedly producing? What exactly is it they will be killing?
Reality is that while it's a huge success for Apple in terms of making a big profit (huge profit margin on devices like this), it does not in any way threaten the existing world wide mobile players such as Nokia, Motorola, SEMC etc.
Furthermore, mobile phones are not Apples core business, and entering the market with the aim to become a top handset manufacturer requires a LOT more than putting out one cool albeit heavily locked down PDA, bolting on cell technology and convincing one operator to sell it as a phone.
Personally, I think the greatest long term value for Apple in this whole enterprise is the strengthening of the brand that will hopefully enable them to do better in their core business areas.
As a fellow (and happy) 360 owner I had this happen to me when I bought Prey on the day it was released in shops near me. Got the game, went home, 6 hours later I had completed it and felt screwed. Luckily, all I needed to do was to go back to the store, tell them I wasn't happy with the game and got it replaced for free with LOTR:BFME, which unfortunately also turned out to be crap...
Great stuff that it's running Linux and everything, but what can I do with it?
I was digging through TFA for some actual information on what's possible, but it only seems to mention systems that are likely to be tied to the preinstalled motion control stuff anyways (accelerometer, gyro etc). I'd like to know if it has anything else, such as ultrasound or camera sensors? Perhaps Bluetooth capability so I can network several robots in proximity to each other?
If none of these are available, perhaps it has some sort of gpio to allow me to modify and add such things?
The GP postulated a case where a developer takes the code for the project he's working on, you're saying he doesn't have that source?
Give me a flaming break, how then do you expect him to do his work? It's of course very true that all respectable software houses keep repositories, but as a clue, developers do something commonly called "check-out" to work on a local copy before verifying all changes and finally submitting it back in to the repository.
I'm thinking somebody needs to put you down, dog.
They simply take the magic "projected sales if internet didn't exist and we were still in the 80's" number, subtract actual sales, divide that by average CD price and then multiply it with their gut feeling.
Point well taken and a good rule to apply.
I'm currently lucky enough to work in a shop with mandatory code reviews on all submissions to any production codeline, which makes it more of a "Who the hell approved this submission" question.
Such functionality is actually common in my part of the mobile world (Symbian/UIQ), for example my Motorola A1000 does exactly what you describe and I'd suspect others do as well.
My own idea for protecting content on a mobile phone is to encrypt all personal data, including calendar entries, contacts, SMS messages (in the air as well as on the device) and potentially also VoIP data.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06
Reminds me of an image of J.Lo and some guy pinching her nipples, with an article around it claiming that he was her hired nipple tweaker.
Good laugh that...
Well put sir.
I believe this is something along the lines of something I heard about in school...what's it called again...oh right, learning from history and past mistakes.
Too bad only the ones in power learned that fearmongering is the most powerful way any government can do whatever they want.
Too bad there aren't too many like you around.
Sviams - cynic since day one
That's apples and pears. The point is that while it's usually the small time players that do the innovating, Nintendo has always managed to keep an enormous fanbase while constantly renewing themselves. They add gameplay value at the same time as they innovate, and the last time I checked Dragon's Lair wasn't cell shaded.
TFA says that by doing so you will corrupt the qubits unalterably in a way that is detectable by the sender and receiver, which is also why it is impossible to use signal amplifying repeaters to extend the range of the transmission.
I guess I'm one of the weird types who would be quite content to die after getting the opportunity to go into space and see our world from an elevated perspective...
Interesting interpretation, but I think you kinda missed the whole point of the GP.
The idea is not that you reduce stress by stockpiling money instead of spending it, which may be a general difference between europeans and americans as pointed by a previous poster. In no way does that correlate to the amount of stress these people submit themselves to when acquiring said amounts of money.
No, friends, what the Buddhists along with several other less-respected-in-the-eyes-of-capitalism movements have figured out lies on a deeper level, and without going into detail, it involves realising that excessive greed for whatever reason is a serious hindrance on the path to true happiness.
I have some experience in creating in-house test automation and management tools, and what I can tell you really should come as no surprise. Take a good look at your total test suite, identify those cases that you think you can automate to get a figure of coverage, then look at which of these tests are executed most frequently to get some priorities.
After that all you have to do is build it, and they will come =)
Obviously the goal is to automate as many of the monotonous and repetitious tasks as possible, thus freeing up time for testers to do more innovative testing and spending more time on each defect, ensuring higher defect detail, quality and better turnaround.
I totally agree that funtion and UI testing should be performed by a dedicated team, in my experience developers generally have too much to do already, and when resources are tight guess what hits bottom prio...
*duck and cover*
Who the hell modded this son of a flaming troll up?!
I'm going back to bed, you guys are scaring me...
An interesting thought, do not however forget the lessons of Mr. Einstein...time is not absolute and subject to gravitational effects, i.e. the concept of time is subjective and differs depending on where you measure it, so what would you use as a reference?
It's morning here, and as I started reading "people upset because they won't get commercials" I figured I had gotten it all wrong and so I read it again.
And again.
Now, I know I'm gonna get stomped down for being a communist or something, but if I were you, I'd be quite happy not to get flooded by any more mindless brainwash designed to turn us all into happy Consumers than we already are!
We do not need commercials to tell us what we need.
Seems to me that in order to succeed on the desktop market, a consistent and well designed UI is needed. While /. is filled to the rim with OSS hacking gurus, what about all those OSS UI designers that must be out there hiding somewhere?
I guess all I'm saying is that while optimizing the kernel is neat and all, your average user won't recognize any more than what's in front of him, and I sincerely believe that more than good response times are needed to impress someone enough to leave an OS that already has a consistent design and style guide in it's UI (read commercially developed UI's).
While having several options (KDE, Gnome) is nice, the lack of enforced style guides and behavior patterns will inevitably give the user a feeling of inconsistency.
Enough trolling for one day, merry christmas.
So in the end, all this really says is that MS appears to be on the loosing end of the stick concerning a very large market indeed.
That's a lot of pr0n...I wonder though, if they could store all the episodes of Days of Our Lives...that would be impressive indeed!