1) Cloud office suites store documents.... in the cloud
you know, there are benefits to this as well. i'm connected 99% of the time. not having access that 1% of the time is less of an inconvenience that having to otherwise sync the files between all my devices. i realize it's different for everyone, but in general, the world is becoming more and more connected.
Where's the guarantee that it will always be free?
so, never ever accept or use something that's free because someday it might not be free? what do you do if you car insurance goes up? you look around at the competition and see if there's a better deal. there you go.
Will I actually be able to move?
so you are suggesting one day, google or someone will lock all your files and hold them ransom until you pay? you think that might hurt their business at all? the business that relies on users trusting them? you don't have to think google cares about you or "does no evil", you just have to understand that they want to make money.
sometimes it helps to limit a conversation to what's likely to happen, not what possibly could happen.
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she'd rather see companies pay more in taxes and fund schools that way, rather than relying on their charity or free software
of course. if they rely on charity, they don't have a choice in how or where the benefit is "spent". companies can influence things in ways that directly or indirectly benefit them. need money for your art program? how about a bunch of chromebooks instead?
on the other hand, i suspect charity is more directly translated into student benefit than tax dollars. tax dollars, if they even make it to the school, are divvied up between unions, administration, etc. before anything gets to the kids.
Both ANT and Maven represent your build script as huge horrific XML files
you are really going to pick your build system on how pretty the script is?
yes, because the most important thing to me in a build system that my build scripts be as few characters as possible, right? the only thing that matters is stability and lots of good examples of how to do things you want to do.
That and ANT is goddamn slow.
ant was lightning fast compared to gradle. and yeah, i know because our company has fully cut over from eclipse + ant to android studio + gradle.
it takes nearly 30s to build just one of our android apps. upgrading from gradle 1.6 > 1.8 > 1.11, each upgrade has considerably worse performance, despite the docs claiming to have improved performance. gradle 1.11 is so much slower than 1.8 it's ridiculous. i can't even believe it was released. it does however give a progress indicator during the build now. great.
the decision to base everything on gradle baffles me a bit.
gradle itself, while apparently existing for a long time, has had some pretty bad bugs in it and it's plugins in the time i've been using it (last 6 months or so).
that, and i can't figure out why it's better. it is different however. there are fewer examples of how to do things then with maven or ant, and there's often multiple ways to accomplish the same thing, and they are both given as examples in the same doc with no explanation
nobody is saying that you can't dual boot your own hardware, they are just saying they aren't going to sell it like that out of the box, which is their prerogative.
$120/year for 1 TB is more than 9 times what I'd pay for 5 years of a 1 TB internal SATA
please indulge me. you said you could run the same setup for 9x less than $120, over 5 years, right? so $120 / 9 = $13, over 5 years is $13 / 5 = $3 per year, right?
Try $47.45/year
i'm no mathologist, but i'm pretty sure the $47 / year in power is already a lot greater than the $3 / year you quoted, right?
you all you did was factor in the cost of the drive itself, that's $50 for a 1TB drive... that's still $10 / year over 5 years.
that's a ridiculous comparison. just some of the many, many things you forgot about,
1. a backup mechanism, that probably involves multiple other drives and a computer 2. networking hardware and a broadband connection (if you are talking about parity w/ drive) 3. electricity to power all this stuff 24x7. just the electricity to power the rig is going to be around $20 / month. 4. your time maintaining the whole setup
If you take a photo of your own nude baby child and upload it to your Google Drive, I'm sure the law is badly written enough to the point that you were "uploading child porn on the Internet".
BS.
give me some references where someone have been prosecuted for child porn for uploading pictures of their own children to a non-shared, non-public account. no? well, i still hope you achieved your goal of scaring some luddites today.
the article you linked says that $1b rules only the most "mature" proposals, but there are other options. so what was your point? if they can't execute the most expensive option, they shouldn't bother trying anything?
people can wear skirts all they like, and choose how much or little they want to expose of themselves in public. if you re concerned about some out of focus dark weird angle shot of your panties, i'd suggest not wearing a skirt.
yeah those idiots at NASA that landed a buggy-sized nuclear powered rover on mars.
they have a pretty good track record. maybe they expect technology to improve to the point where costs will go down as the mission progresses? i tend to put more credence in what NASA has to say than you. nice analogy though.
sigh. if a large part of the world doesn't know something exists, and a member that larger society finds that thing and tells the larger part of the world about it, they discovered it. it's a discovery to the society that didn't know about it.
yes, we all know people were living in america before it was visited by europeans. you didn't just drop some massive reality shaker on us. don't look for racism where it doesn't exist. that makes you the racist.
I really have no idea what any of my colleagues earn (within salary bands), but I have no reason to think there is a difference. Certainly both make and female seem to be as happy with their packages.
just like your employer likes it. keeping wages a secret keeps everyone's wages down. in stead of paying people fairly according to their contributions, they can pay people what they can get away with. would you be happy w/ your compensation if you knew bob who doesn't show up until lunch time and takes off at 2pm every friday makes $30k more than you per year?
negative, at least on android, the flash process is nice and quiet and the browser is in the background / screen is off. maybe you are into leaving your phone screen locked on and showing a flash page. in that case, you are right.
the first notable thing is that Apple sells more than Samsung, Asus, Amazon, and Lenovo combined
OMFG you found the truth! seriously, TFA is about OS market share not manufacturer. so?
And can you say that these are truly Android tablets if they have some sort of modified android 2.3?
yes. what else would they be? and BTW, there are almost zero tablets that ever ran android 2.3, and android 3.x has almost no percent of the market according to the stats, so that means they are running 4.x.
unless you personally roasted the beans, it's not proper coffee. unless you imported the beans direct from the grower in columbia, it's not proper coffee. unless you personally grew the beans, it's not proper coffee. unless the beans were grow by small family farms, it's not proper coffee. unless the beans are "conflict free", it's not proper coffee. unless you milked the cow that provided the cream for your coffee, it's not proper coffee. unless you inseminated the cow that gave birth to the cow that provided the cream for your coffee, it's not proper coffee.
and so on.
it's all relative. don't judge people for being one step higher on the ladder than you.
Is it really so hard to just grind the beans and brew it yourself? I do this every morning.
is it really so hard to just keep chickens in your backyard and gather their eggs for breakfast? seriously, some people think your a lazy ass slacker for not doing so.
wait, are you saying that if you were out cheating on your wife, you'd beat up anyone around with GG? if your behavior requires you to assault innocent people, maybe you should alter your behavior?
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not bad for a college kid
are you implying he did something smart? dumb luck is not intelligence.
1) Cloud office suites store documents.... in the cloud
you know, there are benefits to this as well. i'm connected 99% of the time. not having access that 1% of the time is less of an inconvenience that having to otherwise sync the files between all my devices. i realize it's different for everyone, but in general, the world is becoming more and more connected.
Where's the guarantee that it will always be free?
so, never ever accept or use something that's free because someday it might not be free? what do you do if you car insurance goes up? you look around at the competition and see if there's a better deal. there you go.
Will I actually be able to move?
so you are suggesting one day, google or someone will lock all your files and hold them ransom until you pay? you think that might hurt their business at all? the business that relies on users trusting them? you don't have to think google cares about you or "does no evil", you just have to understand that they want to make money.
sometimes it helps to limit a conversation to what's likely to happen, not what possibly could happen.
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she'd rather see companies pay more in taxes and fund schools that way, rather than relying on their charity or free software
of course. if they rely on charity, they don't have a choice in how or where the benefit is "spent". companies can influence things in ways that directly or indirectly benefit them. need money for your art program? how about a bunch of chromebooks instead?
on the other hand, i suspect charity is more directly translated into student benefit than tax dollars. tax dollars, if they even make it to the school, are divvied up between unions, administration, etc. before anything gets to the kids.
Both ANT and Maven represent your build script as huge horrific XML files
you are really going to pick your build system on how pretty the script is?
yes, because the most important thing to me in a build system that my build scripts be as few characters as possible, right? the only thing that matters is stability and lots of good examples of how to do things you want to do.
That and ANT is goddamn slow.
ant was lightning fast compared to gradle. and yeah, i know because our company has fully cut over from eclipse + ant to android studio + gradle.
it takes nearly 30s to build just one of our android apps. upgrading from gradle 1.6 > 1.8 > 1.11, each upgrade has considerably worse performance, despite the docs claiming to have improved performance. gradle 1.11 is so much slower than 1.8 it's ridiculous. i can't even believe it was released. it does however give a progress indicator during the build now. great.
the decision to base everything on gradle baffles me a bit.
gradle itself, while apparently existing for a long time, has had some pretty bad bugs in it and it's plugins in the time i've been using it (last 6 months or so).
that, and i can't figure out why it's better. it is different however. there are fewer examples of how to do things then with maven or ant, and there's often multiple ways to accomplish the same thing, and they are both given as examples in the same doc with no explanation
bitch is a pejorative used exclusively for women.
not anymore. calling a man a b* is quite common, and most certainly pejorative.
nobody is saying that you can't dual boot your own hardware, they are just saying they aren't going to sell it like that out of the box, which is their prerogative.
$120/year for 1 TB is more than 9 times what I'd pay for 5 years of a 1 TB internal SATA
please indulge me. you said you could run the same setup for 9x less than $120, over 5 years, right? so $120 / 9 = $13, over 5 years is $13 / 5 = $3 per year, right?
Try $47.45/year
i'm no mathologist, but i'm pretty sure the $47 / year in power is already a lot greater than the $3 / year you quoted, right?
you all you did was factor in the cost of the drive itself, that's $50 for a 1TB drive ... that's still $10 / year over 5 years.
that's a ridiculous comparison. just some of the many, many things you forgot about,
1. a backup mechanism, that probably involves multiple other drives and a computer
2. networking hardware and a broadband connection (if you are talking about parity w/ drive)
3. electricity to power all this stuff 24x7. just the electricity to power the rig is going to be around $20 / month.
4. your time maintaining the whole setup
If you take a photo of your own nude baby child and upload it to your Google Drive, I'm sure the law is badly written enough to the point that you were "uploading child porn on the Internet".
BS.
give me some references where someone have been prosecuted for child porn for uploading pictures of their own children to a non-shared, non-public account. no? well, i still hope you achieved your goal of scaring some luddites today.
the article you linked says that $1b rules only the most "mature" proposals, but there are other options. so what was your point? if they can't execute the most expensive option, they shouldn't bother trying anything?
people can wear skirts all they like, and choose how much or little they want to expose of themselves in public. if you re concerned about some out of focus dark weird angle shot of your panties, i'd suggest not wearing a skirt.
or, people could get over it. if it bothers you, cover it up. we don't need anymore laws.
yeah those idiots at NASA that landed a buggy-sized nuclear powered rover on mars.
they have a pretty good track record. maybe they expect technology to improve to the point where costs will go down as the mission progresses? i tend to put more credence in what NASA has to say than you. nice analogy though.
Discover (verb): To be found by a white person
sigh. if a large part of the world doesn't know something exists, and a member that larger society finds that thing and tells the larger part of the world about it, they discovered it. it's a discovery to the society that didn't know about it.
yes, we all know people were living in america before it was visited by europeans. you didn't just drop some massive reality shaker on us. don't look for racism where it doesn't exist. that makes you the racist.
Since Europa seems one of the most likely worlds in the Solar System other than Earth where we have some hope of finding extant life
i think we already found life on earth.
I really have no idea what any of my colleagues earn (within salary bands), but I have no reason to think there is a difference. Certainly both make and female seem to be as happy with their packages.
just like your employer likes it. keeping wages a secret keeps everyone's wages down. in stead of paying people fairly according to their contributions, they can pay people what they can get away with. would you be happy w/ your compensation if you knew bob who doesn't show up until lunch time and takes off at 2pm every friday makes $30k more than you per year?
Flash's core problem is that it's used for advertisements in a busy-wait loop
right, the problem's with the code, not flash. you can put any system in a busy wait loop and watch it burn up the CPU.
Now multiply this by the 10 or so
if you put 10x animations on a website using any technology it's going to burn your CPU.
Now you can't even play a 10 year old flash file without losing frames.
flash video woks fine any modern mobile devices and all computers. it's still used by many large scale sites.
How do you measure market share? By units sold?
no, by the number of users.
Or by percentage of sales volume in dollars?
no.
It's a massive battery
negative, at least on android, the flash process is nice and quiet and the browser is in the background / screen is off. maybe you are into leaving your phone screen locked on and showing a flash page. in that case, you are right.
the first notable thing is that Apple sells more than Samsung, Asus, Amazon, and Lenovo combined
OMFG you found the truth! seriously, TFA is about OS market share not manufacturer. so?
And can you say that these are truly Android tablets if they have some sort of modified android 2.3?
yes. what else would they be? and BTW, there are almost zero tablets that ever ran android 2.3, and android 3.x has almost no percent of the market according to the stats, so that means they are running 4.x.
~/src (develop) $ adb shell /system/bin/sh: uname: not found
root@android:/ # uname -a
127|root@android:/ #
unless you personally roasted the beans, it's not proper coffee.
unless you imported the beans direct from the grower in columbia, it's not proper coffee.
unless you personally grew the beans, it's not proper coffee.
unless the beans were grow by small family farms, it's not proper coffee.
unless the beans are "conflict free", it's not proper coffee.
unless you milked the cow that provided the cream for your coffee, it's not proper coffee.
unless you inseminated the cow that gave birth to the cow that provided the cream for your coffee, it's not proper coffee.
and so on.
it's all relative. don't judge people for being one step higher on the ladder than you.
Is it really so hard to just grind the beans and brew it yourself? I do this every morning.
is it really so hard to just keep chickens in your backyard and gather their eggs for breakfast? seriously, some people think your a lazy ass slacker for not doing so.
if I was at a bar with someone besides my wife
wait, are you saying that if you were out cheating on your wife, you'd beat up anyone around with GG? if your behavior requires you to assault innocent people, maybe you should alter your behavior?