I don't miss it either, I carry a practically ancient Lumia 830 as my only device. My rationale is similar to yours, any time I have to touch an Android phone I get frustrated with settings being spread out across five different screens for the same application.
I love the alphabatized app list that I just have to swip once to get.
It has enough basic apps for me to get by. and serves my basic needs to email, web browser, Reddit app, weather app, and a few other miscellaneous third-party apps that do what I need.
At over three years old I still have a battery that lasts all day. A camera that works well enough. And I don't have to think about paying hundreds of dollars for a new phone that likely won't change my day to day life in the slightest.
Cycling does cost a bit more to get started, however I have made it work out to my advantage by cycling to work every day, saving the cost of a second car for the family. When you compare a bike to a car, you can spend a lot of money on the bike and gear each year and still come out in the black.
Part of the issue is that normal business/business casual attire has men in long sleeves and pants, where as women often opt to wear a skirt and something short sleeved, both of which are much cooler than the dress pants, long shirt and tie.
If women chose to wear warmer clothes as their main layer, they wouldn't have quite as much of a problem.
Reminds me of a Spanish teacher I had in high school who would make you go wash your face with cold water if she caught you dozing, that an making the guys do push ups to get the blood flowing.
In a project I am currently working on we have started using the C# goto case "state" construct.
In this case it offers us a huge performance improvement as the state machine only executes one step when it receives a heartbeat from a piece of networked equipment. The heartbeat only comes in once a second and there are instances where we can perform more than one step of the state machine without needing a response from the remote equipment.
An example of this is uploading files to the remote equipment. We use a Web Socket to establish the transfer task, but once we start sending files (HTTP POST) we don't need a response from the remote equipment between each file. Prior to the use of the goto we could only send one file every second, now we can loop through all the files by looping with the goto.
This is a specific example, but does show that there are limited instances where the use of a goto can be well justified. I also always comment every use of non-standard behavior (use of goto)
Good luck with that. This experiment has been running since Aug 20, 2013 and running almost continuously at that. Even the heaviest consumer/prosumer work load would have trouble reaching the amount of data written in this experiment.
I am sure someone has done it with platter drives, however it would take substantially longer to reach the same transfer quantities as the SDD's have much higher transfer rates than the spinny drives.
I have had Alpha Centauri on every computer I have owned since it came out. Such a fun game, you can play at a high difficulty and fight for a early finish, or play a lower difficulty and just tech to the hover tanks for a late world domination.
Currently I am playing Sid Meir's Railroads, thanks to the Humble Bundle. I can't believe I never played any of the Railroad simulators before.
The issue wasn't that there wasn't a sufficient hospital in Ecuador, just not on the Galapagos Islands which are almost 1000 km off the coast of Ecuador.
"In smaller communities and in the Galápagos Islands, services are limited, and the quality is generally well below U.S. standards." Travel.State.Gov
I don't know where you have been for the last few years because stamps in Canada no longer have a face value for domestic letter mail. They have a 'p' on the stamp and is sufficient postage for mailing one standard letter envelope even if the rate goes up since you purchased the stamp.
I'm just over the water in Victoria and as a cyclist believe there needs to be more enforcement of the laws around cycling. Enforce the helmet laws, put laws in place regarding bike lights, I would even go so far as implementing a license system for any cyclist over 15.
I just about got run over at a stop light cross walk while walking with my 3yr old by a guy on an electric assist bicycle who didn't think he had to stop at a red light. People like that make my blood pressure go up instantly as they are the reason drivers dislike cyclists.
I will agree that very few, if any, people will bike to work in the snow.
Biking in the rain or in hot weather is not that big of a deal. I cycle to work all year long, the only days I won't ride are if there is snow, or there has been a very heavy frost and the risk of black ice is high.
The rain is just water and between my rain jacket and good lights on my bike, a quick shower at work cleans me up completely.
Cycling may not be the answer for everybody, but most people decide they are not going to make cycling work for them before they even get on a bike and try.
In my mind a lot of the problems we are seeing with patents are that when they were granted they may have been innovative, however when tech geeks today look at them they seem obvious.
People need to realize that the idea that was patented was likely validly granted at the time of filing, yet would not be granted today. However that does not make the protection of the patent any less valid.
One solution may be to shorted the lifetime of SW patents.
This whole fiasco reminds me of a few years ago when it was determined that you could open one of the Kryptonite bike locks with the end of a Bic pen. These were the locks with the circular keys. In the end, I think it was due to a class action suite, you could get a replacement lock for free that used a different key type.
If every hotel chain that that uses these locks sues, then they will get a replacement deal of some kind.
I was also fortunate enough to take a formal logic class, I believe it was called "Introduction to Logical Thought".
I enjoyed the class so much that I would advocate requiring some minimal level of formal logic be taught at the highschool level. It would be a lot more beneficial to make every student learn this than to make them all take pre-calc or calculus.
Note: I am not advocating limiting the math courses available to highschool students, I just think there are more applicable things that can be taught as required material.
I believe he was getting more at the point that since the processor is designed and manufactured in China, it could have the spyware built right into the silicon.
So you don't want your phone using the battery while it is sitting in a dock? That doesn't make any sense. The dock charges the battery so there no reason that a bit of extra processing will make a bit of a difference.
Do you have any ideas for interesting application that the CPU cycles can be used for while it is sitting in said dock?
Only if they are eligible for a new contract at the time. Most people will be somewhere in the middle of a contract and will likely have to pay something between the $199 and the $500 for an early hardware upgrade.
Actually if they are really careful they will not have any emails about issues like this. My wife worked in the office of an public official a few years ago and there were certain things they were not supposed to ever mention in emails, because then they would be archived and available for public request.
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I don't miss it either, I carry a practically ancient Lumia 830 as my only device. My rationale is similar to yours, any time I have to touch an Android phone I get frustrated with settings being spread out across five different screens for the same application.
I love the alphabatized app list that I just have to swip once to get.
It has enough basic apps for me to get by. and serves my basic needs to email, web browser, Reddit app, weather app, and a few other miscellaneous third-party apps that do what I need.
At over three years old I still have a battery that lasts all day. A camera that works well enough. And I don't have to think about paying hundreds of dollars for a new phone that likely won't change my day to day life in the slightest.
Then it is probably in the password list databases floating around and is used as one of the first 10,000 straight up guesses against the hash.
Once it is popular the technical strength becomes irrelevant.
Cycling does cost a bit more to get started, however I have made it work out to my advantage by cycling to work every day, saving the cost of a second car for the family. When you compare a bike to a car, you can spend a lot of money on the bike and gear each year and still come out in the black.
Part of the issue is that normal business/business casual attire has men in long sleeves and pants, where as women often opt to wear a skirt and something short sleeved, both of which are much cooler than the dress pants, long shirt and tie. If women chose to wear warmer clothes as their main layer, they wouldn't have quite as much of a problem.
Reminds me of a Spanish teacher I had in high school who would make you go wash your face with cold water if she caught you dozing, that an making the guys do push ups to get the blood flowing.
A voice of reason.
Similar setup here, my wife just switched to Fido after unlocking her HTC One. The plan is $15 cheaper if you bring your own device.
In a project I am currently working on we have started using the C# goto case "state" construct.
In this case it offers us a huge performance improvement as the state machine only executes one step when it receives a heartbeat from a piece of networked equipment. The heartbeat only comes in once a second and there are instances where we can perform more than one step of the state machine without needing a response from the remote equipment.
An example of this is uploading files to the remote equipment. We use a Web Socket to establish the transfer task, but once we start sending files (HTTP POST) we don't need a response from the remote equipment between each file. Prior to the use of the goto we could only send one file every second, now we can loop through all the files by looping with the goto.
This is a specific example, but does show that there are limited instances where the use of a goto can be well justified. I also always comment every use of non-standard behavior (use of goto)
Good luck with that. This experiment has been running since Aug 20, 2013 and running almost continuously at that. Even the heaviest consumer/prosumer work load would have trouble reaching the amount of data written in this experiment.
I am sure someone has done it with platter drives, however it would take substantially longer to reach the same transfer quantities as the SDD's have much higher transfer rates than the spinny drives.
I have had Alpha Centauri on every computer I have owned since it came out. Such a fun game, you can play at a high difficulty and fight for a early finish, or play a lower difficulty and just tech to the hover tanks for a late world domination.
Currently I am playing Sid Meir's Railroads, thanks to the Humble Bundle. I can't believe I never played any of the Railroad simulators before.
The issue wasn't that there wasn't a sufficient hospital in Ecuador, just not on the Galapagos Islands which are almost 1000 km off the coast of Ecuador. "In smaller communities and in the Galápagos Islands, services are limited, and the quality is generally well below U.S. standards." Travel.State.Gov
I don't know where you have been for the last few years because stamps in Canada no longer have a face value for domestic letter mail. They have a 'p' on the stamp and is sufficient postage for mailing one standard letter envelope even if the rate goes up since you purchased the stamp.
I'm just over the water in Victoria and as a cyclist believe there needs to be more enforcement of the laws around cycling. Enforce the helmet laws, put laws in place regarding bike lights, I would even go so far as implementing a license system for any cyclist over 15.
I just about got run over at a stop light cross walk while walking with my 3yr old by a guy on an electric assist bicycle who didn't think he had to stop at a red light. People like that make my blood pressure go up instantly as they are the reason drivers dislike cyclists.
I will agree that very few, if any, people will bike to work in the snow.
Biking in the rain or in hot weather is not that big of a deal. I cycle to work all year long, the only days I won't ride are if there is snow, or there has been a very heavy frost and the risk of black ice is high.
The rain is just water and between my rain jacket and good lights on my bike, a quick shower at work cleans me up completely.
Cycling may not be the answer for everybody, but most people decide they are not going to make cycling work for them before they even get on a bike and try.
I agree with you completely.
In my mind a lot of the problems we are seeing with patents are that when they were granted they may have been innovative, however when tech geeks today look at them they seem obvious.
People need to realize that the idea that was patented was likely validly granted at the time of filing, yet would not be granted today. However that does not make the protection of the patent any less valid.
One solution may be to shorted the lifetime of SW patents.
And, for better or worse, the validity of patents is not determined until a court challenge is made.
How old was the Radeon chip when you bought your motherboard?
Did you buy a cheap motherboard with an ancient GPU on it to start with?
I am not saying that AMD didn't screw you over, it just seems that without the full back story your statement doesn't hold a lot of credence.
This whole fiasco reminds me of a few years ago when it was determined that you could open one of the Kryptonite bike locks with the end of a Bic pen. These were the locks with the circular keys. In the end, I think it was due to a class action suite, you could get a replacement lock for free that used a different key type.
If every hotel chain that that uses these locks sues, then they will get a replacement deal of some kind.
I was also fortunate enough to take a formal logic class, I believe it was called "Introduction to Logical Thought".
I enjoyed the class so much that I would advocate requiring some minimal level of formal logic be taught at the highschool level. It would be a lot more beneficial to make every student learn this than to make them all take pre-calc or calculus.
Note: I am not advocating limiting the math courses available to highschool students, I just think there are more applicable things that can be taught as required material.
I believe he was getting more at the point that since the processor is designed and manufactured in China, it could have the spyware built right into the silicon.
Ah thanks for the clarification, I had forgotten about that type of add-on accessory.
So you don't want your phone using the battery while it is sitting in a dock? That doesn't make any sense. The dock charges the battery so there no reason that a bit of extra processing will make a bit of a difference.
Do you have any ideas for interesting application that the CPU cycles can be used for while it is sitting in said dock?
Only if they are eligible for a new contract at the time. Most people will be somewhere in the middle of a contract and will likely have to pay something between the $199 and the $500 for an early hardware upgrade.
Maybe they should get Microsoft to write them the mobile Apps. I haven't had any major problems with the WP7 Facebook App.
Actually if they are really careful they will not have any emails about issues like this. My wife worked in the office of an public official a few years ago and there were certain things they were not supposed to ever mention in emails, because then they would be archived and available for public request.