Well it works best for US, and other large countries where data plans don't become the main issue when going somewhere interesting in the sense that you might need to use your gps device.
The reasons why it fails to be of any use to me and most people who live in similarly sized countries are given in the original post:)
Here's my problem with the android GPS, and for that matter with cell phone google maps - it all works perfectly when you live in a huge country, and where the possibility that you might need to use the navigation features offered by GPS without ever leaving the country is fairly large - hence you are not really worried about the data charges, since you are using the same operator.
BUT. If like me, you live in a small European country, where within the country there is practically no need for the GPS because you know most of the country by heart. Thus the only reason for using a car GPS navigation is when you leave the country. But that's exactly the moment the huge roaming data charges begin to apply. Therefore the only practically viable option unless you don't care how much you spend on your phone costs is by using an offline solution like a Tom-tom or Garmin device.
Well the hoaxiness of the incident is currently actively discussed. We'll know more when some actual scientists get to look at the thing.
Meanwhile it's nice to be in the headlines for another reason than the economic meltdown.
well in my website engine I have the Core object, that does the work of parsing the request, the Page object, that is used as a parent for most of the other objects. Database is another object (so that I can use same code for pages that are based on differend DBs with only small changes in SQL). Template is an object.
Then there are the objects that inherit from page - eg. a Poll object handles everything poll related, a news object handles posting/displaying of news (and comments). A gallery object, a Forum object. You name it. Web and OOP mix quite well if you do it correctly, that is:)
Seems I was right in my reasoning NOT to use antivirus software. My reason was that it's just a useless waste of system resources, now it seams not only that, but also a potential danger to the integrity of the system.
Isn't XMLHTTPRequest only supposed to work within a single domain (e.g. I can't send any requests from one of my servers to one of my blogs)?
If so then why has this become a problem? And why some developers have disabled some security measures built in by other developers into the object?
so you'd have to buy a new one. This once happened to me. My bios had this thing against my (at that time) newly bought GeForce 440MX so I had no other choice but to flash it. So I downloaded the bios flash put it on a floppy and gues what, the floppy just crashed on me in the middle of the flashing... After that you can guess what happened. Anyway my current PC doesn't even have a floppy so unless I find some painless way of flashing my bios I'm not doing it.
ah, yes a typical response.
The problem is that I do not wish to spend days looking for software that manages software... Why should I??? The OS (distro) should provide a system that doesn't need this!
Well maybe as a software engineer I should. But does anyone that isn't a software engineer care? Probably not. Case closed.
And guess what KHTML's team is? That's right. Full of software engineers. Which is why they care.
Secondly, developers should prioritise releasing their products on time, even if they "may have to cut corners".
Software developers in the open-source world make software because they love to. They want to make their project (note: not product) the best it can be. Releasing products on time is straight from the Marketing Department.
See now that's the problem with OSS. The developers focus on creating a beutifull project, that... is completely useless to the end user. At least that's my experience with most OSS. I mean I did try linux, and since I'm CompSci student I consider myself computer literate, yet I was amased at how difficult even the simplest of tasks were.
In Windows, when you wish to install some piece of software that is needed, you download it, and istall it. And then It works.
In linux (the prime example of OSS) you go to the site of the give project. Then (a) you realise that it doesn't have the precompiled packages for your distribution X or (b) download the given package. In case of (a) you can usually download the source. (This is already an overkill for the usual USER) Upon downloading of the source and beeng moderatly smart you execute the./configure./make./make install (I think), just to find out that the autoconf/automake on your freshly installed system is version x, which is too old and urges you to get version y. Now returning to path (b) we try installing it and we in most cases see that it downloads and installs ten more pieces of libraries and what not (not to mention the fact that it puts the software in an undisclosed location on your system).
I really don't want to sound like MS fanboy, but as a user I want to USE the software for some purpose not spend days trying to figure out how to install it.
sense of proportion is a bit wicked.
There was this one case in Latvia where a drunk sweede ran over two traffic policewomen. They died. Guess the penalty of the "fair" sweedish court system: he got away with a fine.
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Well you could always contact these guys for tips. They seem to know what they were doing.
Well it works best for US, and other large countries where data plans don't become the main issue when going somewhere interesting in the sense that you might need to use your gps device.
:)
The reasons why it fails to be of any use to me and most people who live in similarly sized countries are given in the original post
Here's my problem with the android GPS, and for that matter with cell phone google maps - it all works perfectly when you live in a huge country, and where the possibility that you might need to use the navigation features offered by GPS without ever leaving the country is fairly large - hence you are not really worried about the data charges, since you are using the same operator.
BUT. If like me, you live in a small European country, where within the country there is practically no need for the GPS because you know most of the country by heart. Thus the only reason for using a car GPS navigation is when you leave the country. But that's exactly the moment the huge roaming data charges begin to apply. Therefore the only practically viable option unless you don't care how much you spend on your phone costs is by using an offline solution like a Tom-tom or Garmin device.
In fact - it looks like it's some marketing ploy - Tele2 Latvia, has sent out invitations to media regarding the company's ties to the "meteorite".
Well the hoaxiness of the incident is currently actively discussed. We'll know more when some actual scientists get to look at the thing. Meanwhile it's nice to be in the headlines for another reason than the economic meltdown.
you could try to find it here
This model has been implemented in Java (using servlets) and PHP5
well in my website engine I have the Core object, that does the work of parsing the request, the Page object, that is used as a parent for most of the other objects. Database is another object (so that I can use same code for pages that are based on differend DBs with only small changes in SQL). Template is an object. Then there are the objects that inherit from page - eg. a Poll object handles everything poll related, a news object handles posting/displaying of news (and comments). A gallery object, a Forum object. You name it. Web and OOP mix quite well if you do it correctly, that is :)
Seems I was right in my reasoning NOT to use antivirus software. My reason was that it's just a useless waste of system resources, now it seams not only that, but also a potential danger to the integrity of the system.
you bastard! I was watching that. How am I supposed to watch it now that the slashdot crowd stampedes the site?
tried it some time ago, and the experience was, well ... nostalgic. Reminded me of yahoo mail when I first used it back in 1997.
the best part is that using IE7 gets you the same errorpage. Those guys just know everything about browsers, don't they...
that one's in
We Latvians are extatic about the name: Vista in latvian means hen :)))
Isn't XMLHTTPRequest only supposed to work within a single domain (e.g. I can't send any requests from one of my servers to one of my blogs)? If so then why has this become a problem? And why some developers have disabled some security measures built in by other developers into the object?
so you'd have to buy a new one. This once happened to me. My bios had this thing against my (at that time) newly bought GeForce 440MX so I had no other choice but to flash it. So I downloaded the bios flash put it on a floppy and gues what, the floppy just crashed on me in the middle of the flashing... After that you can guess what happened. Anyway my current PC doesn't even have a floppy so unless I find some painless way of flashing my bios I'm not doing it.
your grandmother??... holy crap.
ah, yes a typical response. The problem is that I do not wish to spend days looking for software that manages software... Why should I??? The OS (distro) should provide a system that doesn't need this!
I like budwiser, the original Czech one of course :)
now that's not very far from the truth..
well the first time I saw the trailer I thought hell It's Max Payne in a movie version :)
I bet all the max payne fans will flood this one :)
sense of proportion is a bit wicked. There was this one case in Latvia where a drunk sweede ran over two traffic policewomen. They died. Guess the penalty of the "fair" sweedish court system: he got away with a fine.
Never had any problem with my 8 year old IBM PC...
Is it just me, or I REALY can't find any of the spyware that is said to acompany eXeem...