I have both a Kindle Fire and a Nook, which I rooted and put CyanogenMod on. At the end of the day I end up using Fire much more often than using the rooted Nook.
I think someone earlier has said it. Kindle arrange the layout to be content driven while normal Android OS has a layout more apps and widget driven. While I didn't like the layout at first, Kindle's design is fairly efficient to utilize and to consume contents, especially when I am doing mostly is reading a book, or use one or two apps consistently at a time. In fact I find it cumbersome enough to use Nook I have not turn it on for a few months. Almost everything I need to do on a 7" tablet I can do on a Kindle Fire.
For the 10" tablet that might be a different story. I would definitely prefer to be able to type and create something, therefore probably looking forward to a more fully-featured OS platform, and a solid external keyboard attached. Hate to say it but Surface looks really good right now for what I need it to do.
If the Chinese government is using Windows for their government computers, they're fucking insane. In fact, we're insane for using it. Closed source is not secure. Period. Closed source and compiled in a foreign country? Absolutely bat shit crazy.
For what we know, Microsoft practically hand the kernal source code to the Chinese government for their business. There's no telling they re-engineer the whole thing and use it internally. The best you can say about it is the lack of security but I'd say there are very little chance to have an intentional bug left in the source code for the purpose of spying.
Plus, why would Microsoft do that anyway? It doesn't help them in any way, shape, form. You know the government is going to bust their tail any time they get close to monopolistic practices anyway...
Where did I advocate a complete return to the 1900's-1920's era? I said nothing of the kind, other than to point out that America was able to prosper and that the bureaucracy of that era was able to politically govern the whole country at the time.
The tone of your first post suggest that the lack of government involvement and the small size of the government agency is a good thing. mcgrew merely points out the necessities of the newer agency with the new technologies in our daily lives today. Those technologies have a bigger scope of impact that necessitate a national level coordination, thus that would be the role of federal government, as our Constitution has delegated.
Also, Mr. Teancum, I don't see ANYWHERE Mr. McGrew called you out to be a Luddite. He had politely made his case in response to your post. I think you should at least have to courtesy of hearing what he says, and agree to disagree. Most readers respect your opinion, whether we agree with it or not. Please don't start the name calling here in Slashdot. There are still plenty of old timer here who know how to read and how to discern who is trying to be the troublemaker here.
Sorry to bust your bubble, it's our STATE governments that screw up badly on this one. Had they not withdrew the state funding to non-existent level the tuition should be practically free in today's standard. Look at Germany and see how they setup their higher education system. Still one of the best, and oh, free if you are admitted. None of this top 10% automatic admission crap our MBA-type Board of regents cooked up and none of these irresponsible executive type who consitently mismanage the resources to higher education yet always try to blame someone else for their problem, in this case the federal government. And someone people just gobble it up like gospel because it preaches smaller government without fact-checking first what the last 35 years of the history in higher education.
A better solution is to use a motor to "turn" to open instead of a solonoid. A rotary action is a lot harder to temper with or to induce compare to a linear mechanical action.
Wait, I guess I can design my own gun safe and make a boat load of money now...
You are correct. However if you are someone who has to do their work off the grid and the work load is heavy. Chances are high that some reasonably valuable file will be on your local drive and not yet backed in the network. I am talking about day-to-day work and not the I-am-about-to-leave scenario.
What? My fellow coworkers/engineers? They ALL tell me tales about the "stupid thing" their husbands or wives did last weekend or last month. They claim to be happily married, but certainly don't sound it.
Your coworkers tells you the stuff because they happily oblige to do the "stupid thing" for the ones they love. I'm sure they don't be saying a thing if they truly think those things in any way degrading their enjoyment or the integrity of their lives in any way, shape, or form.
There are still a plenty of software packages (some with various versions still in production) that can run on XP only. That's a headache only getting worse with Windows 8 coming.
The trouble starts when Microsoft slow down the upgrade path. Software developer gets complacent. Shortcuts were taken. Now it is hard to upgrade 12 years since XP first hit marketplace.
Oh, by the way. Would someone please explain it to me why we Americans can have nuclear power and nuclear weapons but other countries can't?
Try this analogy: I have a gun on my hand, not pointing at you. You went around looking for a gun while screaming and whining that I have a gun and I am about to shoot you, so you must have a gun, and point your shiny new toy at me. I don't think 1) that makes me feel secure, simply because I inevitably has a gun first, and 2) people around you feels very sane for you to have a gun, because you are yelling and screaming that you want to hurt me.
that's sums up why american doesn't want someone else to have nuclear weapons. The less nations has it the less likely we are towards planetary destruction.
From what I've heard, there's no trade off between reliability and cost. The cheaper vehicles will probably be the more reliable ones as well, due to learning effects from increased launch frequency.
I agree with your first statement. The more launches SpaceX does execute the more they can learn from it to reduce cost.
What I think was going on with NASA was overengineering parts for a ride with over a 1% loss rate. One can spend a lot of money making a nearly perfect part or process more nearly perfect. But if the overall system is unreliable and remains unchanged despite the improvement, then that expenditure is effectively wasted.
Actually the first reason (I don't disagree with you) why the cost was never reduced is that NASA's engineer was never given an incentive nor an opportunity to redesign to incorporate all the lessons learned to BE MORE EFFICIENT. As a result we are left with outdated equipment with limited amount of spare parts. We are forced to make modifications on an outdated equipment to make it "safer" when we could have done the same thing by building/designing a new crew vehicle. In another words the lack of refresh/upgrade cycle is what bite NASA in the end, and mostly because of political reason.
Youtube is a private business and can ban any speech they want.
If you are a service provider you have the right to make the rules. However you are also expected to upheld the rules you created and enforce the rules evenly with all the customers who agreed to the same agreement. Thy can ban any speech they want but that better be on their user agreement. This is call contractual agreement and has nothing to do with free speech.
Same thing for the "at will" employment. It is true your employer can pretty much tell you to quit whenever they please but they cannot not just kick you out for a specific reason that is not applied evenly. Then their action become discrimination and it very much prohibited by law.
She's Chinese. I live in China and see Chinese women every day. She's certainly plain and obviously stocky. "This is what most people look like" - yeah, in the land of fat, they do. In normal, sane countries most people aren't fat.
Being a Chinese decent that lives here as an AMERICAN for a very long time I DO recent your statement. Clearly you are only aware of the "expected" female figures in China, but not seeing the Asians in the rest of the world, especially the DEVELOPED world.
Here in the land of Kindness and Civility we do not consider her bad looking. She is who she is and in the eyes of beholder she's just fine! Hopefully you as a Chinese decent born within China with the proper education on "Chinese Culture" would understand the beauty glowing from a person's heart that end up showing in their expressions like the old Confucius and Confucian so strongly advocated.
Or you can be more "western" and learn from the Christian culture and be more kind and generous with your words toward a particular individual, especially someone who has no skin in the tech world.
You cannot copyright logic or match. Range check is pretty much what it is. The function/method exist before Java was first created. If someone don't know how to write code similar to this (at least in a simpler function) they shouldn't be holding a programming job.
Well, there's a difference between incompetence and fraud. Billing extra hours to increase your own paycheck is a pretty clear case of fraud, but unless you can prove that somehow the person who ordered the routers got any personal kickback from it you can't really say the same about those. It is of course possible, but I've also seen cases where my biggest question is who thought it was a good idea to hire that person to sit on a budget. But everything can happen when the stupid hire the really stupid.
True... We can't fix stupid... But we can sure fire them (whoever in leadership position anyway). The process is called reprimand and they tend to work very well on the very large errors.
Washington should keep its mouth shut, since this is an in-state affair.
People seem to sadly forget the 10th amendment and that there are matters that the fed has no say in.
Not if you are using federal funding. The hand that feeds you always has a say on how to use the money (or not giving you any). I'm sure there is clause in accepting the funding to not abuse or mis-appropriate it.
Political. You can't just fire that for no reason. Basically you're saying "invade them." are you American?:P
This is why neither South Korea or US forces want to do anything with it! Why bother when you know you have the tools to solve the problem at the time you wanted to, versus giving your opponent the knowledge and incentive to adapt and change to more sophisticated method that is harder to deal with?
Perhaps compliance with new regulations? A service company could theoretically roll an update out accross a country or state without having to visit each elevator.
No you do that ON-SITE. This is not web services or video games. You have someone there locally to confirm it is working in real life when making parameter changes like this.
I have friends who bought Windows phones. To them the non-savvy users the function of a Windows phone is convenient and little hassle for them. That's words taken from their mouths.
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I have both a Kindle Fire and a Nook, which I rooted and put CyanogenMod on. At the end of the day I end up using Fire much more often than using the rooted Nook.
I think someone earlier has said it. Kindle arrange the layout to be content driven while normal Android OS has a layout more apps and widget driven. While I didn't like the layout at first, Kindle's design is fairly efficient to utilize and to consume contents, especially when I am doing mostly is reading a book, or use one or two apps consistently at a time. In fact I find it cumbersome enough to use Nook I have not turn it on for a few months. Almost everything I need to do on a 7" tablet I can do on a Kindle Fire.
For the 10" tablet that might be a different story. I would definitely prefer to be able to type and create something, therefore probably looking forward to a more fully-featured OS platform, and a solid external keyboard attached. Hate to say it but Surface looks really good right now for what I need it to do.
If the Chinese government is using Windows for their government computers, they're fucking insane. In fact, we're insane for using it. Closed source is not secure. Period. Closed source and compiled in a foreign country? Absolutely bat shit crazy.
For what we know, Microsoft practically hand the kernal source code to the Chinese government for their business. There's no telling they re-engineer the whole thing and use it internally. The best you can say about it is the lack of security but I'd say there are very little chance to have an intentional bug left in the source code for the purpose of spying.
Plus, why would Microsoft do that anyway? It doesn't help them in any way, shape, form. You know the government is going to bust their tail any time they get close to monopolistic practices anyway...
Where did I advocate a complete return to the 1900's-1920's era? I said nothing of the kind, other than to point out that America was able to prosper and that the bureaucracy of that era was able to politically govern the whole country at the time.
The tone of your first post suggest that the lack of government involvement and the small size of the government agency is a good thing. mcgrew merely points out the necessities of the newer agency with the new technologies in our daily lives today. Those technologies have a bigger scope of impact that necessitate a national level coordination, thus that would be the role of federal government, as our Constitution has delegated.
Also, Mr. Teancum, I don't see ANYWHERE Mr. McGrew called you out to be a Luddite. He had politely made his case in response to your post. I think you should at least have to courtesy of hearing what he says, and agree to disagree. Most readers respect your opinion, whether we agree with it or not. Please don't start the name calling here in Slashdot. There are still plenty of old timer here who know how to read and how to discern who is trying to be the troublemaker here.
Sorry to bust your bubble, it's our STATE governments that screw up badly on this one. Had they not withdrew the state funding to non-existent level the tuition should be practically free in today's standard. Look at Germany and see how they setup their higher education system. Still one of the best, and oh, free if you are admitted. None of this top 10% automatic admission crap our MBA-type Board of regents cooked up and none of these irresponsible executive type who consitently mismanage the resources to higher education yet always try to blame someone else for their problem, in this case the federal government. And someone people just gobble it up like gospel because it preaches smaller government without fact-checking first what the last 35 years of the history in higher education.
A better solution is to use a motor to "turn" to open instead of a solonoid. A rotary action is a lot harder to temper with or to induce compare to a linear mechanical action.
Wait, I guess I can design my own gun safe and make a boat load of money now...
You are correct. However if you are someone who has to do their work off the grid and the work load is heavy. Chances are high that some reasonably valuable file will be on your local drive and not yet backed in the network. I am talking about day-to-day work and not the I-am-about-to-leave scenario.
Someone please mod this post up.
What? My fellow coworkers/engineers? They ALL tell me tales about the "stupid thing" their husbands or wives did last weekend or last month. They claim to be happily married, but certainly don't sound it.
Your coworkers tells you the stuff because they happily oblige to do the "stupid thing" for the ones they love. I'm sure they don't be saying a thing if they truly think those things in any way degrading their enjoyment or the integrity of their lives in any way, shape, or form.
There are still a plenty of software packages (some with various versions still in production) that can run on XP only. That's a headache only getting worse with Windows 8 coming.
The trouble starts when Microsoft slow down the upgrade path. Software developer gets complacent. Shortcuts were taken. Now it is hard to upgrade 12 years since XP first hit marketplace.
Best advise I have read on slashdot for a long time . Thanks AUIm27. Very wise comments
You think US border agents were bad? Try Canadian! They took longer and ask for more annoying questions!
Oh, by the way. Would someone please explain it to me why we Americans can have nuclear power and nuclear weapons but other countries can't?
Try this analogy: I have a gun on my hand, not pointing at you. You went around looking for a gun while screaming and whining that I have a gun and I am about to shoot you, so you must have a gun, and point your shiny new toy at me. I don't think 1) that makes me feel secure, simply because I inevitably has a gun first, and 2) people around you feels very sane for you to have a gun, because you are yelling and screaming that you want to hurt me.
that's sums up why american doesn't want someone else to have nuclear weapons. The less nations has it the less likely we are towards planetary destruction.
From what I've heard, there's no trade off between reliability and cost. The cheaper vehicles will probably be the more reliable ones as well, due to learning effects from increased launch frequency.
I agree with your first statement. The more launches SpaceX does execute the more they can learn from it to reduce cost.
What I think was going on with NASA was overengineering parts for a ride with over a 1% loss rate. One can spend a lot of money making a nearly perfect part or process more nearly perfect. But if the overall system is unreliable and remains unchanged despite the improvement, then that expenditure is effectively wasted.
Actually the first reason (I don't disagree with you) why the cost was never reduced is that NASA's engineer was never given an incentive nor an opportunity to redesign to incorporate all the lessons learned to BE MORE EFFICIENT. As a result we are left with outdated equipment with limited amount of spare parts. We are forced to make modifications on an outdated equipment to make it "safer" when we could have done the same thing by building/designing a new crew vehicle. In another words the lack of refresh/upgrade cycle is what bite NASA in the end, and mostly because of political reason.
Youtube is a private business and can ban any speech they want.
If you are a service provider you have the right to make the rules. However you are also expected to upheld the rules you created and enforce the rules evenly with all the customers who agreed to the same agreement. Thy can ban any speech they want but that better be on their user agreement. This is call contractual agreement and has nothing to do with free speech.
Same thing for the "at will" employment. It is true your employer can pretty much tell you to quit whenever they please but they cannot not just kick you out for a specific reason that is not applied evenly. Then their action become discrimination and it very much prohibited by law.
shhhhh you just leaked one of the state secret...
She's Chinese. I live in China and see Chinese women every day. She's certainly plain and obviously stocky. "This is what most people look like" - yeah, in the land of fat, they do. In normal, sane countries most people aren't fat.
Being a Chinese decent that lives here as an AMERICAN for a very long time I DO recent your statement. Clearly you are only aware of the "expected" female figures in China, but not seeing the Asians in the rest of the world, especially the DEVELOPED world.
Here in the land of Kindness and Civility we do not consider her bad looking. She is who she is and in the eyes of beholder she's just fine! Hopefully you as a Chinese decent born within China with the proper education on "Chinese Culture" would understand the beauty glowing from a person's heart that end up showing in their expressions like the old Confucius and Confucian so strongly advocated.
Or you can be more "western" and learn from the Christian culture and be more kind and generous with your words toward a particular individual, especially someone who has no skin in the tech world.
You cannot copyright logic or match. Range check is pretty much what it is. The function/method exist before Java was first created. If someone don't know how to write code similar to this (at least in a simpler function) they shouldn't be holding a programming job.
Well, there's a difference between incompetence and fraud. Billing extra hours to increase your own paycheck is a pretty clear case of fraud, but unless you can prove that somehow the person who ordered the routers got any personal kickback from it you can't really say the same about those. It is of course possible, but I've also seen cases where my biggest question is who thought it was a good idea to hire that person to sit on a budget. But everything can happen when the stupid hire the really stupid.
True... We can't fix stupid... But we can sure fire them (whoever in leadership position anyway). The process is called reprimand and they tend to work very well on the very large errors.
Washington should keep its mouth shut, since this is an in-state affair.
People seem to sadly forget the 10th amendment and that there are matters that the fed has no say in.
Not if you are using federal funding. The hand that feeds you always has a say on how to use the money (or not giving you any). I'm sure there is clause in accepting the funding to not abuse or mis-appropriate it.
Political. You can't just fire that for no reason. Basically you're saying "invade them." are you American? :P
This is why neither South Korea or US forces want to do anything with it! Why bother when you know you have the tools to solve the problem at the time you wanted to, versus giving your opponent the knowledge and incentive to adapt and change to more sophisticated method that is harder to deal with?
Perhaps compliance with new regulations? A service company could theoretically roll an update out accross a country or state without having to visit each elevator.
No you do that ON-SITE. This is not web services or video games. You have someone there locally to confirm it is working in real life when making parameter changes like this.
Try their sites for enterprise or large companies. They will have stand-along drivers, at least slimmed down version of software packages.
I have friends who bought Windows phones. To them the non-savvy users the function of a Windows phone is convenient and little hassle for them. That's words taken from their mouths.
In case you haven't seen it yet, the Tau manifesto proposes we should use Tau (2xPi) instead.
But officer... Tau is not very funny!
And don't forget, here months 9-12 are named after numbers 7-10.
You have the Caesars to blame for this phenomenon.