Cursive is not easily legible, and clearly the wrong choice in a world where you are not going to write long texts with a quill. Like other antiquated handwriting scripts, it is obsolete and should be reserved to specific cases.
Just teach the kids to spell correctly, and write legibly with block letters. If they want to learn calligraphy, let them learn it during art lessons, instead of basic school training.
Also, please not, that if the UK had more a progressive, enterprise friendly tax system......
A comparatively small country will always be able to set lower taxes for enterprises than their larger neighbors. This is because it only needs to attract a small percentage of the larger countries taxable income to offset the loss due to the lower tax rate, whereas the big country only lowers its income when it does this. Fiscal competition in an open market is a fraud against the people of larger countries, preventing them to set the tax rates of the companies that do business there.
You may be interested by the latest demo board from Freescale, which is less powerful than the Samsung, but very comparable to the BeagleBoard:
i.MX53 Quick Start Board.
At $150, it is a good bargain, and it's a Linaro target as well.
Note that it's an ARM Cortex-M3 chip, which means that the assembly is Thumb 2, and that the exception and thread model is different from the ARM7 chips that were common for this use in the past.
And really, when your choice is between some old 16-bit C166 variant and ARM, I can assure you that engineers rejoice in getting rid of a lot of kludge. Such as 'multiplication' functions and far pointers.
Last time I checked, you can add multiple sources to the Linux implementations. For example, Google's repository for Linux contains Google Earth, Chrome, etc. And it's usually not the only way to install an application.
When was the last time you added a third-party provider to Apple's implementation ?
[It] gave me a message about the game not being available in my region. Never had that experience in Steam.
That's because Steam doesn't always display this kind of message. Any info corresponding to a game not available in your country can be hidden, as if it never existed. You can search for it, but you will find nothing. Yet, if you go to the 'Achievements by game' page, it is there all right in the list. But you can't buy it, you can't even see the store info for it.
Broadcom, TI, Marvell, Freescale are already OHA members. Or at least it's what the website says. The only big silicon vendor missing there is Intel, and I expect that they would be able to join if they bothered to.
It prevents competition from a manufacturer coming from an other state because of the trade barrier the different standard represents.
But anyway, I see this from an European point of view, where technical standards are an exclusive community competence, and where local differences in norms must be justified to the community, usually with historical explainations but with a timetable for phasing it out.
I completely disagree. Standards are a very important part of trade, and can easily serve as a trade barrier. Since this would directly affect interstate commerce, it is clearly a federal competence.
While most of the devices provided by Sagemcom are sold to operators rather than end customers, they do offer the source for the Linux products they sell to the public. At least for some of them, as you can see here.
You're missing something. In TFA, the $55 million profit is the 2005 value. As Valve is privately owned, it does not give any information regarding its profit to the public, which means that no-one really knows how much profit it did last year. But probably more than $55 million, if we do your math in reverse.
And again, at the danger of being redundant, I can't see why it ain't more popular with the French.
Probably because even though spelling is somewhat hard in french, there are much harder exercices than spelling to writing french. 'Dictée' is the standard exercice in this, it has been so for a long time, and there is was an annual 'dictée' challenge broadcasted on TV for 20 years. It is also an integral part of school training from grade 2 to grade 9.
It is probably harder than a spelling challenge because it is more varied. It can rely heavily on homophones that need understanding of the context use to deduce the right words, on non-voiced grammatical marks, in addition to the normal problems of spelling unusual words in a non-phonetic language.
Micro-USB is stronger one, rather than Mini-USB, or at least is supposed to. And it is designed so that it's the cable that breaks first, instead of the device.
If you're making custom software out of your OSS software, you're doing it wrong.
If you're doing it right, you're submitting your changes back upstream
What if you can't get it, because it conflicts with the interests, goals or methods of the developers of the package you want to customize ? A good example for this case is the android wake-lock, which was rejected by the kernel team, and one year after there was still debate about how to replicate the function. During all that time, there were companies shipping products with the Google patch, but it was not integrated into the original kernel tree.
There are few (real) manufacturers of SD-cards, and they would gladly provide the chips they include in the cards in a BGA form factor, for direct inclusion on the PCB, like the Samsung OneNAND chips. Probably for a cheaper price too...
Sagem usually releases the source code for their boxes. For the box used in France by Orange, the hosting site is provided by the operator. It does not look like Sagem directly provides the source code, probably because they only sell the boxes to operators, and the GPL only states that you need to provide the source to your clients.
You also save a lot on energy costs. The tunnel is located at a much lower altitude compared to the previous one, which means that heavy freight trains will need less power to travel this route.
According to ARM's web site, there are 'Long Physical Address Extensions (LPAE)', that allow addressing 1 TiB (40 bit). The marketing schematics for the processor mentions a "Virtual 40b PA" for each CPU.
Unfortunately, the detailed A15 documentation is not available yet, so we're left to speculate over what this means. But at the same time, the supported architecture remains ARMv7 and there is no hint of any major changes on the instruction side. An easy implementation would use a MMU with 40-bit physical addresses to map this amount of memory, but the process size would remain at 4 GiB to avoid any drastic change to the programming model.
Nothing Bliz has implemented in sc2 is lighting up my "do not play or buy" alarm.
Given that offline play doesn't work - or is buggy as hell - there is at least one point where SC2 needs improvement. At least if you expect to play the game in places where you have no network.
You can easily have an IP connexion with nothing else.
Plug your own ADSL router in the phone line, setup the access credentials and protocol settings, and it's done. I had this working both with the Free ISP (fried box) and Club-Internet ISP (no USB-only modem for me) some time in the past, but I don't see any reason why it would stop working today.
There is definitely a special 'erase' command for SD-cards. See page 33 for the simplified specification. The problem is that unless you have direct access to the SD controller - perhaps on a mobile phone like the N900, the USB mass storage abstraction hides completely this feature.
Formatting using this command is usually very fast compared to writing to all existing blocks.
The reason for that is that the card uses a translation layer to mask the physical deficiencies of the flash memory. Bad blocks in NAND flash are even a bigger problem than on a magnetic disk, but using an error-correction mechanism implemented with a Hamming code and 'spare bits' for each block, the translation layer hides all of this to the user, presenting a 'perfect' storage area. If you send an erase command, the translation layer only needs to take care of bad blocks and clear all others, instead of trying to write 'formatting' data it does not recognize.
In a way, this command is equivalent to the TRIM command for SSD drives: it is useful in the long term and improves performance, but not obviously missing in day-to-day use. But when SSD users pay a premium to use them in a very efficient way, the absence of consideration for performance of SD-Memory cards users led to the current situation, where the command exists but cannot be accessed easily.
From what I have heard, serious J2ME developers - like Gameloft, that has produced a lot of games on that platform - have a production pipeline that is able to produce myriads of variants of a single application. This makes it possible to get a customized game for each different target product, that takes the resolution, input model, processing power and available APIs into account.
Wii sports is sold separately from the console in Japan, which did not prevent it from selling 3.7 million copies. It makes this game the 22nd in the all-time best sales list, which is still a good result.
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Cursive is not easily legible, and clearly the wrong choice in a world where you are not going to write long texts with a quill. Like other antiquated handwriting scripts, it is obsolete and should be reserved to specific cases.
Just teach the kids to spell correctly, and write legibly with block letters. If they want to learn calligraphy, let them learn it during art lessons, instead of basic school training.
Also, please not, that if the UK had more a progressive, enterprise friendly tax system......
A comparatively small country will always be able to set lower taxes for enterprises than their larger neighbors. This is because it only needs to attract a small percentage of the larger countries taxable income to offset the loss due to the lower tax rate, whereas the big country only lowers its income when it does this. Fiscal competition in an open market is a fraud against the people of larger countries, preventing them to set the tax rates of the companies that do business there.
You may be interested by the latest demo board from Freescale, which is less powerful than the Samsung, but very comparable to the BeagleBoard: i.MX53 Quick Start Board.
At $150, it is a good bargain, and it's a Linaro target as well.
Note that it's an ARM Cortex-M3 chip, which means that the assembly is Thumb 2, and that the exception and thread model is different from the ARM7 chips that were common for this use in the past.
And really, when your choice is between some old 16-bit C166 variant and ARM, I can assure you that engineers rejoice in getting rid of a lot of kludge. Such as 'multiplication' functions and far pointers.
Last time I checked, you can add multiple sources to the Linux implementations. For example, Google's repository for Linux contains Google Earth, Chrome, etc. And it's usually not the only way to install an application.
When was the last time you added a third-party provider to Apple's implementation ?
[It] gave me a message about the game not being available in my region. Never had that experience in Steam.
That's because Steam doesn't always display this kind of message. Any info corresponding to a game not available in your country can be hidden, as if it never existed. You can search for it, but you will find nothing. Yet, if you go to the 'Achievements by game' page, it is there all right in the list. But you can't buy it, you can't even see the store info for it.
Broadcom, TI, Marvell, Freescale are already OHA members. Or at least it's what the website says. The only big silicon vendor missing there is Intel, and I expect that they would be able to join if they bothered to.
It prevents competition from a manufacturer coming from an other state because of the trade barrier the different standard represents.
But anyway, I see this from an European point of view, where technical standards are an exclusive community competence, and where local differences in norms must be justified to the community, usually with historical explainations but with a timetable for phasing it out.
It shouldn't be a Federal issue.
I completely disagree. Standards are a very important part of trade, and can easily serve as a trade barrier. Since this would directly affect interstate commerce, it is clearly a federal competence.
While most of the devices provided by Sagemcom are sold to operators rather than end customers, they do offer the source for the Linux products they sell to the public. At least for some of them, as you can see here.
You're missing something. In TFA, the $55 million profit is the 2005 value. As Valve is privately owned, it does not give any information regarding its profit to the public, which means that no-one really knows how much profit it did last year. But probably more than $55 million, if we do your math in reverse.
And again, at the danger of being redundant, I can't see why it ain't more popular with the French.
Probably because even though spelling is somewhat hard in french, there are much harder exercices than spelling to writing french. 'Dictée' is the standard exercice in this, it has been so for a long time, and there is was an annual 'dictée' challenge broadcasted on TV for 20 years. It is also an integral part of school training from grade 2 to grade 9.
It is probably harder than a spelling challenge because it is more varied. It can rely heavily on homophones that need understanding of the context use to deduce the right words, on non-voiced grammatical marks, in addition to the normal problems of spelling unusual words in a non-phonetic language.
Micro-USB is stronger one, rather than Mini-USB, or at least is supposed to. And it is designed so that it's the cable that breaks first, instead of the device.
If you're making custom software out of your OSS software, you're doing it wrong.
If you're doing it right, you're submitting your changes back upstream
What if you can't get it, because it conflicts with the interests, goals or methods of the developers of the package you want to customize ? A good example for this case is the android wake-lock, which was rejected by the kernel team, and one year after there was still debate about how to replicate the function. During all that time, there were companies shipping products with the Google patch, but it was not integrated into the original kernel tree.
But the question is, why do they do so ?
There are few (real) manufacturers of SD-cards, and they would gladly provide the chips they include in the cards in a BGA form factor, for direct inclusion on the PCB, like the Samsung OneNAND chips. Probably for a cheaper price too...
Sagem usually releases the source code for their boxes. For the box used in France by Orange, the hosting site is provided by the operator. It does not look like Sagem directly provides the source code, probably because they only sell the boxes to operators, and the GPL only states that you need to provide the source to your clients.
You also save a lot on energy costs. The tunnel is located at a much lower altitude compared to the previous one, which means that heavy freight trains will need less power to travel this route.
According to ARM's web site, there are 'Long Physical Address Extensions (LPAE)', that allow addressing 1 TiB (40 bit). The marketing schematics for the processor mentions a "Virtual 40b PA" for each CPU.
Unfortunately, the detailed A15 documentation is not available yet, so we're left to speculate over what this means. But at the same time, the supported architecture remains ARMv7 and there is no hint of any major changes on the instruction side. An easy implementation would use a MMU with 40-bit physical addresses to map this amount of memory, but the process size would remain at 4 GiB to avoid any drastic change to the programming model.
Champagne is much more recent, only being legally defined in 1927.
That is only the latest round of regulation. Otherwise, why would a 1891 treaty mention it at all ?
There are some photographs of the hacked hardware and the hacking tools on the page of the researchers.
Nothing Bliz has implemented in sc2 is lighting up my "do not play or buy" alarm.
Given that offline play doesn't work - or is buggy as hell - there is at least one point where SC2 needs improvement. At least if you expect to play the game in places where you have no network.
You can easily have an IP connexion with nothing else.
Plug your own ADSL router in the phone line, setup the access credentials and protocol settings, and it's done. I had this working both with the Free ISP (fried box) and Club-Internet ISP (no USB-only modem for me) some time in the past, but I don't see any reason why it would stop working today.
There is definitely a special 'erase' command for SD-cards. See page 33 for the simplified specification. The problem is that unless you have direct access to the SD controller - perhaps on a mobile phone like the N900, the USB mass storage abstraction hides completely this feature. Formatting using this command is usually very fast compared to writing to all existing blocks.
The reason for that is that the card uses a translation layer to mask the physical deficiencies of the flash memory. Bad blocks in NAND flash are even a bigger problem than on a magnetic disk, but using an error-correction mechanism implemented with a Hamming code and 'spare bits' for each block, the translation layer hides all of this to the user, presenting a 'perfect' storage area. If you send an erase command, the translation layer only needs to take care of bad blocks and clear all others, instead of trying to write 'formatting' data it does not recognize.
In a way, this command is equivalent to the TRIM command for SSD drives: it is useful in the long term and improves performance, but not obviously missing in day-to-day use. But when SSD users pay a premium to use them in a very efficient way, the absence of consideration for performance of SD-Memory cards users led to the current situation, where the command exists but cannot be accessed easily.
From what I have heard, serious J2ME developers - like Gameloft, that has produced a lot of games on that platform - have a production pipeline that is able to produce myriads of variants of a single application. This makes it possible to get a customized game for each different target product, that takes the resolution, input model, processing power and available APIs into account.
Wii sports is sold separately from the console in Japan, which did not prevent it from selling 3.7 million copies. It makes this game the 22nd in the all-time best sales list, which is still a good result.