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I could take my data off of my MacBook Pro and use it just as well on a Linux or Win box. In fact, I store a large portion of my data on both Windows partitions and Solaris partitions, and that data is used by other users on both platforms.
Your data sure, but you can't run your Apple OS and programs on someone else's computer. And once you get into the mobile devices it gets even worse. Thankfully music DRM is now more-or-less dead, but you can't move apple-drm music from your ipod to another music player, or buy music from another store for your ipod (when real tried, apple immediately released a "security update" just to break it). You can't move your iphone/ipad apps that you bought onto another manufacturer's phone/tablet. You can't buy apps from anyone else's app store. I imagine (I don't know, I don't use apple stuff) it's the same DRMed story for getting video from itunes - can you play videos you buy on non-apple tablets/phones/computers (sure, there's itunes for windows, but not for linux/freebsd/et al)? Can you buy videos from other places and play them on your ipad? (answer: yes - but only for some, apple has to approve their apps, and they have some odious restrictions like not selling you stuff without giving them a 30% cut). Same story for ebooks.
WGA was derided and never really restricted what you could do, TPM was pretty much dead, DRM was derided and hated as were EULAs, Windows was (and is) actually pretty good these days, litigation and jail time were derided too. All this stuff existed before iDevices, but it took apple to make it fashionable.
Taking over my whole desktop because I pushed the start button isn't the answer to this problem.
Isn't it? When I click the start button it's because I want to do something, at which point I don't need whatever else was on my desktop until I've finished with the starting.
/hasn't tried windows8, but this part sounds like a good idea
Applications written in Java with another toolkit, such as SWT or Qt, are fine
Do you have an example? The two desktop applications written in java that I'm aware of are Azureus and Eclipse; neither uses swing, but both are slow and bloated. Heck, I don't think I've ever seen a java application that didn't need a splash screen.
All other things are not equal though, are they? Procedural programming is easier for humans to understand: most of us do no not think in a way that maps easily to functional programming.
Quite the opposite actually, and that's the real advantage of functional programming; I don't think "do this to the first item in the list, then do it to the second, then...", I think "do this to every item in the list". Procedural was popular because it corresponded to what the computer was doing, and in the early days knowing exactly what the computer was doing was very important, but functional maps much more closely to human reasoning.
Right.... so a loss in efficiency causes the range to increase.
No, if it was stop and start 55MPH that would be even worse than steady 55, but stop-and-go 32MPH is better than steady 55MPH. Perhaps you should've read the post you were replying to?
It wouldn't be any more accurate, but it would more honestly convey the level of certainty - saying "$200" as an estimate implicitly means "$150-$250", wheras "$209.63" implies they have it down to +/- $.005, which seems implausible.
That's the same price as the eee transformer (the tablet part only); less than an ipad2 or galaxy tab 10.1. My "normal" (windows-xp-running)7" non-touchscreen netbook was 200 pounds.
it's trying out bleeding-edge design concepts instead of rehashing old interfaces and patterns
And so it's unsurprising that most of its efforts fail. I'm glad that there is an innovative experimental DE out there, but such a thing should never be the default anywhere - it should be for the bleeding-edge users who want to try something new and are willing to put up with the rough edges.
9 was good. 6-aka-3 was very good. 4-aka-2 was very good. The original was so good it spawned an entire genre; you can't even explain why it was so good to modern ears, because you describe all its points and they say "so... it's an RPG?". Final fantasy has certainly lost its way in recent years, but 7 was by no means a fluke (at least in terms of the gameplay etc. The critical reaction ("best game of all time") was possibly a fluke). To a gamer who's played 6, 7 certainly wasn't a one-off.
If profits are dropping because they're expanding that's a good thing, assuming you think there's space for them to expand in to. I'd want to kick the tires and make sure that money was actually spent on stuff (new offices, larger workforce, whatever), but if their revenue's growing and the profits are down because they're making more stuff, that's not a problem.
Maybe so, but you can do pretty much any actual work on an ultrathin laptop (macbook air or equivalent), and they're just as hard to upgrade as a tablet.
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25% increase? Pfft. Scala job postings went up ~300% over the same period. The absolute numbers tell more of the story.
One thing I've never understood; is it clear that Fermat meant the general case and not the n=3 case (which is far, far simpler to prove)?
Your mom hasn't been funny in 20 years
I could take my data off of my MacBook Pro and use it just as well on a Linux or Win box. In fact, I store a large portion of my data on both Windows partitions and Solaris partitions, and that data is used by other users on both platforms.
Your data sure, but you can't run your Apple OS and programs on someone else's computer. And once you get into the mobile devices it gets even worse. Thankfully music DRM is now more-or-less dead, but you can't move apple-drm music from your ipod to another music player, or buy music from another store for your ipod (when real tried, apple immediately released a "security update" just to break it). You can't move your iphone/ipad apps that you bought onto another manufacturer's phone/tablet. You can't buy apps from anyone else's app store. I imagine (I don't know, I don't use apple stuff) it's the same DRMed story for getting video from itunes - can you play videos you buy on non-apple tablets/phones/computers (sure, there's itunes for windows, but not for linux/freebsd/et al)? Can you buy videos from other places and play them on your ipad? (answer: yes - but only for some, apple has to approve their apps, and they have some odious restrictions like not selling you stuff without giving them a 30% cut). Same story for ebooks.
WGA was derided and never really restricted what you could do, TPM was pretty much dead, DRM was derided and hated as were EULAs, Windows was (and is) actually pretty good these days, litigation and jail time were derided too. All this stuff existed before iDevices, but it took apple to make it fashionable.
Especially since there are very few features slated for 8 that are of broad immediate appeal.
Lambda? Type annotations? When I looked at the list of features in 7 it sounded like all the good stuff had been moved to 8.
actually cooling the arrays with a pumped-fluid cooling loop to reject heat to radiators that are shaded from the sun.
Isn't that, well, kind of obvious? How else would one cool anything in space? I'm rather surprised this hasn't been needed for solar cells already.
Taking over my whole desktop because I pushed the start button isn't the answer to this problem.
Isn't it? When I click the start button it's because I want to do something, at which point I don't need whatever else was on my desktop until I've finished with the starting.
/hasn't tried windows8, but this part sounds like a good idea
Applications written in Java with another toolkit, such as SWT or Qt, are fine
Do you have an example? The two desktop applications written in java that I'm aware of are Azureus and Eclipse; neither uses swing, but both are slow and bloated. Heck, I don't think I've ever seen a java application that didn't need a splash screen.
All other things are not equal though, are they? Procedural programming is easier for humans to understand: most of us do no not think in a way that maps easily to functional programming.
Quite the opposite actually, and that's the real advantage of functional programming; I don't think "do this to the first item in the list, then do it to the second, then...", I think "do this to every item in the list". Procedural was popular because it corresponded to what the computer was doing, and in the early days knowing exactly what the computer was doing was very important, but functional maps much more closely to human reasoning.
Right.... so a loss in efficiency causes the range to increase.
No, if it was stop and start 55MPH that would be even worse than steady 55, but stop-and-go 32MPH is better than steady 55MPH. Perhaps you should've read the post you were replying to?
Have we finally discovered how The Pain got started?
Yeah, it's great that they disable your extensions (which are the only reason to use firefox in this day and age) every week.
It wouldn't be any more accurate, but it would more honestly convey the level of certainty - saying "$200" as an estimate implicitly means "$150-$250", wheras "$209.63" implies they have it down to +/- $.005, which seems implausible.
That's the same price as the eee transformer (the tablet part only); less than an ipad2 or galaxy tab 10.1. My "normal" (windows-xp-running)7" non-touchscreen netbook was 200 pounds.
Those 2% start to get a bit pissed off after the first two or three times. I suspect we might prefer to stick to random in the interests of fairness.
Finally, ALL the exploits on desktop start off as exploits vs. one of the apps running, like Firefox or Office or Acrobat or whatever is popular.
Nope. Some of them start off as exploits vs. the OS TCP stack, or OS-provided libraries or programs.
If even one site you visit uses it, you'd have it installed. It's not like people can't spare the 20mb these days.
it's trying out bleeding-edge design concepts instead of rehashing old interfaces and patterns
And so it's unsurprising that most of its efforts fail. I'm glad that there is an innovative experimental DE out there, but such a thing should never be the default anywhere - it should be for the bleeding-edge users who want to try something new and are willing to put up with the rough edges.
9 was good. 6-aka-3 was very good. 4-aka-2 was very good. The original was so good it spawned an entire genre; you can't even explain why it was so good to modern ears, because you describe all its points and they say "so... it's an RPG?". Final fantasy has certainly lost its way in recent years, but 7 was by no means a fluke (at least in terms of the gameplay etc. The critical reaction ("best game of all time") was possibly a fluke). To a gamer who's played 6, 7 certainly wasn't a one-off.
If you're buying it not because it's worth that much but because you think someone else will pay more for it, that's a bubble right there.
If profits are dropping because they're expanding that's a good thing, assuming you think there's space for them to expand in to. I'd want to kick the tires and make sure that money was actually spent on stuff (new offices, larger workforce, whatever), but if their revenue's growing and the profits are down because they're making more stuff, that's not a problem.
Sure, but do you really think it's $50 billion valuable?
They make facebook "games".
Maybe so, but you can do pretty much any actual work on an ultrathin laptop (macbook air or equivalent), and they're just as hard to upgrade as a tablet.