I travel to the middle of nowhere with my laptop on a regular basis. It either bounces around the trunk of my rental car, get knocked around at the airport, get compressed in overhead baggage on a airline flight, subjected to who knows what while bumping around the nose compartment of a Cessna 402 , bake in the sun while I'm on the tarmac working an issue, or being invaded by sand particles or dust. Despite the unrecommended environment, I never had an issue with my MacBook Pro. I'm still with my MacBook Pro issued to me in 2010 while my colleagues are on their 2nd or 3rd HP or Dell laptop. My first work laptop was a Sony Vaio and it only lasted me 1 year, afterwards I purchased a MacBook Pro and used it for 2 years until the new MacBook Pro was issued to me by my employer. My wife still uses my late 2006 MacBook Pro and it works like new.
The only other person on my team that has a long lasting laptop uses an IBM branded Thinkpad/X40 which works well enough for testing components during intergration otherwise he uses a desktop workstation that we ship to the field. The problems we had with laptops are bad batteries, dead backlight/display, and the problem that plagued our Dell Latitude series - clam shell breaking at the hinges. We hadn't had any noticeable problems with the current high end HP laptops other then being heavier and bulkier than my MacBook Pro and lower battery life.
Regardless of the brand (Apple, HP, Dell, Lenovo) we paid similar price for the equivalent laptop. I don't know how you would consider a MacBook Pro laptop overpriced except maybe when you compare it to a consumer grade laptop sold at your local Walmart. I know several people who are happy with their low priced laptop but they rarely travel with them. They use them at school, sometimes at work, but most of the time safely at home. If you have a similar experience with your purchase then congratulations.
My current router allows me to grant guest access to my cable modem with no fear of the guests accessing my local network. Unfortunately thanks to Netflix and Amazon, I'm barely staying within my usage cap with Comcast as it is. Comcast is looking for any excuse to automatically "upgrade" my monthly service for an additional fee, and I'm not going to make that possible by giving away free internet access.
Do "first looks" with no recommendation on pre-released items and only do full reviews on items purchased from a random retail outlet.
This is old news in the industry that dates back to the "Computer Shopper" days. Basically be skeptical that the product sent to you prior to release for free will actually be the same product sold to consumers when it is released.
The first clue should be that the pre-release products reviewed are available several months prior to the final product actually ships.
I observed during an ARRL field day many years ago that if you want to stop small R/C aircraft from operating near you, simply tune an antenna and begin operating a high powered 6 meter transmitter. The planes will eventually crash into something or fly away from you.
Conversely, never host a R/C aircraft event and an amateur radio event at the same park at the same time.
I wish people would stop using the word "Drone" unless it is a truly autonomous vehicle. What this was is a Remote Controlled quadcopter operated by a fan that wanted to watch their practice session.
Drones are not a truly autonomous vehicle, but I agree that the word "Drone" is being misused. I believe that "R/C Aircraft" is to "Drone" like "boat" is to "ship".
You wouldn't call an aircraft carrier a boat, and you wouldn't call a dinghy a ship. Same could be said about small R/C planes not being called "Drones" and the Predator Drone not being called a "R/C Aircraft". Technically Ships are a boat and Drones are R/C aircraft but their size and capability justify the different terminology.
I think the actual question being "Is Android on Linux really Unix?" should cause very little heat since most people wouldn't care or think "No" is pretty obvious.
I'll add one more thing. Sometimes you got to have a Python thread and most of the time it's because you need to do some I/O that is separate from your main thread of execution. Keep it to a minimum and you won't take too much of a performance hit.
Seriously though, Python is good for getting stuff done when you don't really care how fast it is completed. Otherwise there are better languages out there, but most would argue that the performance gains you make are offset by the programmer productivity lost.
Let's be honest. Python may support multiple threads of execution, but most of the time (thanks to the GIL) it's just shooting yourself in the foot. Threads in Python always had the feel of being simply a feature that is on a checklist. "Does Python have multithreading? Yea sure..."
You better off keeping the multithreaded work in C or just run multiple Python processes.
In an open primary you can only vote for one party. You declare the party you plan to vote on at the desk and then your choices for office are limited by the party that you chose. If you're a democrat and voted in the republican primary you forfeit any possibility of voting for a democrat candidate running for any other office during the primary.
I personally prefer this method, since people are not forced to update their party affiliation prior to the primary and it allows independents to vote. In my neck of the woods, the republican candidate runs unopposed therefore the only chance for any independent or democratic voter to choose who will fill that office is with an open primary.
You've never been to the school board meetings in my area. We've had enough political motivation to create a completely new school system and secede from our very large countywide school system. The main benefit was not the closer management of funds collected from property taxes, but the ability to only hire competent teachers from the old system.
Let's replace your anecdotal evidence with some information gathered by the Pew Research Center:
Smartphone Owners in 2014:
By Sex: 61% of men and 57% of women have a smartphone.
By Education: 44% of high school grad or less, 67% of some college, and 71% of college grads (or better) have a smartphone.
By Income: 47% of less than $30K/yr, 53% of $30K - $49.9K, 61% of $50K - $74.9K, and 81% of $75K+ have a smartphone.
By Age: 83% of 18-29, 74% of 30-49, 49% of 50-64, and 19% of 65+ years old people have a smartphone.
By Location: 64% of urban, 60% of suburban, and 43% of rural residents have a smartphone.
The percentages for the population who are likely to use a city bus doesn't look "quite high" to me. This demonstrates the dangers of anecdotal evidence. You normally associate with people like yourself and assume that just because your social group owns or use something then everyone else does too.
Seems like a good idea until you realize that the majority of the people currently using the bus service aren't the ones carrying the smartphones or using social media apps.
This reminds me of the pothole app that allowed people to tell their city where the potholes were and then someone figured out that only the wealthy neighborhoods were getting adequate road maintenance because of the app (and webpage).
Maybe we should stop electing people who are hellbent in demonstrating how bad government can be and actually elect people who demonstrate good governance.
Comcast barely provides customer service to people who pay for their expensive offerings. What kind of service can the low cost internet plan customers expect to receive?
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Here are some questions about your so called solution:
How do people without access to the auctioning app get access to what is essentially public parking?
Why should someone pay a third party to have a chance to use public parking?
There are other solutions available to the city of San Francisco that doesn't require the use of an auctioning app.
Delivery trucks don't fly within my property.
I travel to the middle of nowhere with my laptop on a regular basis. It either bounces around the trunk of my rental car, get knocked around at the airport, get compressed in overhead baggage on a airline flight, subjected to who knows what while bumping around the nose compartment of a Cessna 402 , bake in the sun while I'm on the tarmac working an issue, or being invaded by sand particles or dust. Despite the unrecommended environment, I never had an issue with my MacBook Pro. I'm still with my MacBook Pro issued to me in 2010 while my colleagues are on their 2nd or 3rd HP or Dell laptop. My first work laptop was a Sony Vaio and it only lasted me 1 year, afterwards I purchased a MacBook Pro and used it for 2 years until the new MacBook Pro was issued to me by my employer. My wife still uses my late 2006 MacBook Pro and it works like new.
The only other person on my team that has a long lasting laptop uses an IBM branded Thinkpad/X40 which works well enough for testing components during intergration otherwise he uses a desktop workstation that we ship to the field. The problems we had with laptops are bad batteries, dead backlight/display, and the problem that plagued our Dell Latitude series - clam shell breaking at the hinges. We hadn't had any noticeable problems with the current high end HP laptops other then being heavier and bulkier than my MacBook Pro and lower battery life.
Regardless of the brand (Apple, HP, Dell, Lenovo) we paid similar price for the equivalent laptop. I don't know how you would consider a MacBook Pro laptop overpriced except maybe when you compare it to a consumer grade laptop sold at your local Walmart. I know several people who are happy with their low priced laptop but they rarely travel with them. They use them at school, sometimes at work, but most of the time safely at home. If you have a similar experience with your purchase then congratulations.
My current router allows me to grant guest access to my cable modem with no fear of the guests accessing my local network. Unfortunately thanks to Netflix and Amazon, I'm barely staying within my usage cap with Comcast as it is. Comcast is looking for any excuse to automatically "upgrade" my monthly service for an additional fee, and I'm not going to make that possible by giving away free internet access.
Or you could just run out and buy yourself a Virtex FPGA.
Do "first looks" with no recommendation on pre-released items and only do full reviews on items purchased from a random retail outlet.
This is old news in the industry that dates back to the "Computer Shopper" days. Basically be skeptical that the product sent to you prior to release for free will actually be the same product sold to consumers when it is released.
The first clue should be that the pre-release products reviewed are available several months prior to the final product actually ships.
I observed during an ARRL field day many years ago that if you want to stop small R/C aircraft from operating near you, simply tune an antenna and begin operating a high powered 6 meter transmitter. The planes will eventually crash into something or fly away from you.
Conversely, never host a R/C aircraft event and an amateur radio event at the same park at the same time.
Drones are not a truly autonomous vehicle, but I agree that the word "Drone" is being misused. I believe that "R/C Aircraft" is to "Drone" like "boat" is to "ship".
You wouldn't call an aircraft carrier a boat, and you wouldn't call a dinghy a ship. Same could be said about small R/C planes not being called "Drones" and the Predator Drone not being called a "R/C Aircraft". Technically Ships are a boat and Drones are R/C aircraft but their size and capability justify the different terminology.
Just my two cents.
Well some folks are fanatics.
As a user of both (more so for Perl), I would say that for all practical purposes they are equivalent.
I think the actual question being "Is Android on Linux really Unix?" should cause very little heat since most people wouldn't care or think "No" is pretty obvious.
I'll add one more thing. Sometimes you got to have a Python thread and most of the time it's because you need to do some I/O that is separate from your main thread of execution. Keep it to a minimum and you won't take too much of a performance hit.
Seriously though, Python is good for getting stuff done when you don't really care how fast it is completed. Otherwise there are better languages out there, but most would argue that the performance gains you make are offset by the programmer productivity lost.
Let's be honest. Python may support multiple threads of execution, but most of the time (thanks to the GIL) it's just shooting yourself in the foot. Threads in Python always had the feel of being simply a feature that is on a checklist. "Does Python have multithreading? Yea sure..."
You better off keeping the multithreaded work in C or just run multiple Python processes.
In an open primary you can only vote for one party. You declare the party you plan to vote on at the desk and then your choices for office are limited by the party that you chose. If you're a democrat and voted in the republican primary you forfeit any possibility of voting for a democrat candidate running for any other office during the primary.
I personally prefer this method, since people are not forced to update their party affiliation prior to the primary and it allows independents to vote. In my neck of the woods, the republican candidate runs unopposed therefore the only chance for any independent or democratic voter to choose who will fill that office is with an open primary.
Nice "Bumper Sticker" phrase. It doesn't answer the question.
You've never been to the school board meetings in my area. We've had enough political motivation to create a completely new school system and secede from our very large countywide school system. The main benefit was not the closer management of funds collected from property taxes, but the ability to only hire competent teachers from the old system.
What makes a teacher more important than any other occupation?
Let's replace your anecdotal evidence with some information gathered by the Pew Research Center:
Smartphone Owners in 2014:
By Sex: 61% of men and 57% of women have a smartphone.
By Education: 44% of high school grad or less, 67% of some college, and 71% of college grads (or better) have a smartphone.
By Income: 47% of less than $30K/yr, 53% of $30K - $49.9K, 61% of $50K - $74.9K, and 81% of $75K+ have a smartphone.
By Age: 83% of 18-29, 74% of 30-49, 49% of 50-64, and 19% of 65+ years old people have a smartphone.
By Location: 64% of urban, 60% of suburban, and 43% of rural residents have a smartphone.
The percentages for the population who are likely to use a city bus doesn't look "quite high" to me. This demonstrates the dangers of anecdotal evidence. You normally associate with people like yourself and assume that just because your social group owns or use something then everyone else does too.
Seems like a good idea until you realize that the majority of the people currently using the bus service aren't the ones carrying the smartphones or using social media apps.
This reminds me of the pothole app that allowed people to tell their city where the potholes were and then someone figured out that only the wealthy neighborhoods were getting adequate road maintenance because of the app (and webpage).
Maybe we should stop electing people who are hellbent in demonstrating how bad government can be and actually elect people who demonstrate good governance.
You shouldn't be surprised by the inexperienced having all their attention taken by the shiny and new.
I lived long to witness television screens transform from convex tubes to flat screens and now to concave OLED.
Comcast barely provides customer service to people who pay for their expensive offerings. What kind of service can the low cost internet plan customers expect to receive?
Too bad some dickhead impersonated my username and spammed the fuck out of this article, because I had a great Better off Ted reference.
It's hard to be romantic when the translator makes everyone sound like Phil.
You'd think Slashdot wouldn't allow duplicate User names either.