The same applies for the 64-bit computing - useless nowadays, but there are promises programs will make use of it some day. Until then we will continue using our Core 2 Duo processors' one core in 32-bit mode. It is a pity we have paid for something we will never use.
... Trained or not, ears get fatigued listening to music that is over-compressed (dynamic compression, not file compression).
I think it is the contrary. A sound with a limited dynamic range fatigues the ears less. I can listen to FM/AM radio all day and I do not feel fatigued by the sound. But, when I play some music on my hi-fi setup (it is a really good system) I get tired after an album or so (same volume as the radio). It is really good experience to listen to high-quality sound, but it is tiresome.
And how can a gun PROTECT you? Will it stop the bullet that is flying towards you? If I want to make you do something I will point my gun to you and thats it. How will your gun protect you in this situation? The gun is meant to kill, not to protect.
Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.
And with guns involved, the confrontations are won by the faster to pull a gun.
... After each time I spank them, I hug them and reassure them of my love.
This lack of consistency can actually harm the child's behavior. When you punish them and reward them shortly after this, the internal mental connection of the bad think they have done and the punishment will not be created. And they will do it again. The "punishment and reward" system works only if you are consistent. You can reassure the child of your love (or reward it otherwise) anytime it does not do something bad.
This reminds of my neighbor, who would now and then go out on his balcony and start telling his thoughts on different political or social questions. He has quite a load voice, so all the neighborhood can hear him (especially as he does this at night). Sometimes people will even engage in argument with him (most of the time yelling at him to shut the fuck up though, but he does not seem to care). Most of the time he is angry about the government and propagandizes revolution. Seems like he does not need the internet to release the pressure.
Oh don't remind me please:)
I had the chance to develop the time zone and DST functionality of a personal data and email synchronization software. This turned out to be nightmare.
There are tons of different rules for the different countries, with exceptions here and there. There are countries that move their time half an hour, countries that change their rules way too often, and on the top of all the mess there are the Jewish rules, which use the Jewish calendar, and when you convert the date to the gregorian calendar they look totally random. So, the task to create a software that can convert times between different countries proved to be almost impossible. Maybe the clean way is to use the Olson database (and to update it often), but in my case this was impossible.
After all the white hair I got from it I hate the daylight saving time:). There are countries that recently abandoned this legacy without bad consequences. I don't see the point of it in nowadays.
No swap partition, which would predictably have many more writes than the rest of the disk;
The firmware of the SSD will do the job to avoid wearing a particular cells of the flash memory, no matter of the partitioning. The partitioning of the SSD is purely logical.
I agree with most of the community here and I will not get BluRay player. If there is a movie with great effects I will go to the theater. If I want to see a movie because of the "content" - the deep idea of the movie - then the DVD quality is enough for me and I will prefer the cosy environment at home.
Where does the BluRay fit?
So, if they give me a test, they are assessing my ability to work under pressure? Here's a suggestion:
Go fix your management so that your employees do not have to work under pressure, instead of missing some really talented people than can't work in a frenzy environment.
It does not make sense to make a surround headphones.
You do not have five ears (I guess). The distinction between the front and rear sounds is done entirely in the brain, considering that the outer ear modifies the sounds that come from the front and from the rear differently (and also there is echo, diffraction and so on). All these effects can be simulated well enough with software when using the standard HiFi stereo headphones.
This is also possible to do with loudspeakers, but much harder to achieve, because their sound is way more distorted and affected by external factors.
I don't really understand your point but I think I agree:)
I may be classified as an audiophile too, but it is strange to me that someone can spend, lets say $5k for an HD video system (BluRay player, HD television) just in order to improve the quality with a neglectable amount. He can spend this money for his audiosystem (amplifiers, speakers, etc) and improve it a lot. This will improve the overall movie experience more than the little quality gain you get with HD.
Reducing the world's dependency on a resource that, in many cases, lies in areas with political turmoil (e.g., Middle East)
It is the resource that causes the political turmoil. It it was not the petrol in the Middle East it would have been the most peaceful place in the world.
In this line of thoughts, I have friends that are big fans of racing games, and they are really good drivers. They drive fast, but safe. I have also had some accidents where, I think, some game playing have saved me from worse consequences. So it is not true that games make people bad drivers, even the opposite - they make them better drivers. As for the ones that drive risky and are more involved in accidents (in real life) - I don't think the games had something to do with it. Maybe most of the risky drivers play car games, but, I think, most of the good drivers (driving fast but safe) are car game players too.
As for the music - It has a big influence on the driving style, but not much on the "safeness" of driving.
Example: when I listen to rock tunes I drive faster and harsher, but my reactions also become faster and I pay more attention to the situation around me.
I hoped the article beginning with such a line would not be lousy...
There are 4 distinct variants of Symbian - S60v3 and S60 prior to v3, UIQ and the Japanese DoCoMo releases.
Symbian is an operating system. It has versions, the current one is 9.
9.1 introduces a new ABI (so the apps are binary incompatible with the previous versions), complex (and expensive) certification system, many features.
Based on Symbian, there are different platforms. Based on version 7 and 8, the most spread platforms are UIQ, S60 and S80. On version 9 there is S60v3, UIQ3. So there are five current, totally different and incompatible platforms.
And have you heard of feature packs? S60 has FP1, FP2 and FP3 as I know. And what about the fact, that there are differences in each release of a given platform? I have seen phones with the S60 platform (the same feature pack) that behave differently - given code works on one of them and does not work on the other.
It turns out that each company has its own variant of symbian... no, that each company has its MANY variants of symbian it uses in the different devices it makes.
As for the certification. Someone mentioned that the user shall not be allowed to install third-party apps, because they may crash the phone and the user will accuse the phone maker for this. That is correct, but I guess it will change soon, as the users begin to preceive their phones as a computing device (like the PC). Most people is accusing Intel or Microsoft for example if their third-party app crashes on the PC. And even if they do, Microsoft and Intel still do allow running third party apps on their products without certifications.
Symbian wears the heavy burden of the architecture, designed when the devices were very constrained. It is trying to be modern but you cant compete a ferrari with a bike, no matter how you upgrade the bike.
Yes, Symbian dominates the market and will do so for 2-3 years ahead, but that does not mean it is a good platform. Not always the best product makes it into the market. There are big players that support it and thay decide who will dominate and who will fall in oblivion.
Actually my monitor has USB ports at its side (and an USB hub inside), so it is not wrong to say that the monitor reads data from the devices people carry around. I agree with the previous comments, stating that the more knowledge you have in a given area the more constraints are put around your way of thinking. The creativity sometimes comes from people that are very far from the given area and just don't have the constraints.
This is the one thing about computer geeks that just drives me crazy, some of them think that since they can code well, they can do ANYTHING well. It's arrogance of the highest degree.
Of course, a good coder will not be necessarily good at any job. But, I understand the point this way: if someone is a good coder this means he likes his job and he likes doing it well. This means that he likes doing everything well. If he becomes a construction worker, he will do this well too. It is in the nature of man to do things well or to be lazy and work only for the paycheck.
Just my opinion.
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The same applies for the 64-bit computing - useless nowadays, but there are promises programs will make use of it some day. Until then we will continue using our Core 2 Duo processors' one core in 32-bit mode. It is a pity we have paid for something we will never use.
Video encoding? I can hear MPAA's army of lawyers knocking on your door...
... Trained or not, ears get fatigued listening to music that is over-compressed (dynamic compression, not file compression).
I think it is the contrary. A sound with a limited dynamic range fatigues the ears less. I can listen to FM/AM radio all day and I do not feel fatigued by the sound. But, when I play some music on my hi-fi setup (it is a really good system) I get tired after an album or so (same volume as the radio). It is really good experience to listen to high-quality sound, but it is tiresome.
Yes, but I think the better analogy would be: if you exercise 16 hours a day you will not become an athlete, but a wreck.
And with guns involved, the confrontations are won by the faster to pull a gun.
Why useless? Maybe with the proper technology you could control your mouse cursor with the movement of your eye.
oops, I should be running to the patent bureau now...
... After each time I spank them, I hug them and reassure them of my love.
This lack of consistency can actually harm the child's behavior. When you punish them and reward them shortly after this, the internal mental connection of the bad think they have done and the punishment will not be created. And they will do it again. The "punishment and reward" system works only if you are consistent. You can reassure the child of your love (or reward it otherwise) anytime it does not do something bad.
On a side note, the "punishment and reward" model is not appropriate when the child grows up over a certain age, because it may create for him a wrong perception for the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenting#Conventional_models_of_parenting
This reminds of my neighbor, who would now and then go out on his balcony and start telling his thoughts on different political or social questions. He has quite a load voice, so all the neighborhood can hear him (especially as he does this at night). Sometimes people will even engage in argument with him (most of the time yelling at him to shut the fuck up though, but he does not seem to care). Most of the time he is angry about the government and propagandizes revolution.
Seems like he does not need the internet to release the pressure.
Oh don't remind me please :)
:). There are countries that recently abandoned this legacy without bad consequences. I don't see the point of it in nowadays.
I had the chance to develop the time zone and DST functionality of a personal data and email synchronization software. This turned out to be nightmare.
There are tons of different rules for the different countries, with exceptions here and there. There are countries that move their time half an hour, countries that change their rules way too often, and on the top of all the mess there are the Jewish rules, which use the Jewish calendar, and when you convert the date to the gregorian calendar they look totally random. So, the task to create a software that can convert times between different countries proved to be almost impossible. Maybe the clean way is to use the Olson database (and to update it often), but in my case this was impossible.
After all the white hair I got from it I hate the daylight saving time
No swap partition, which would predictably have many more writes than the rest of the disk;
The firmware of the SSD will do the job to avoid wearing a particular cells of the flash memory, no matter of the partitioning. The partitioning of the SSD is purely logical.
Seems like killing your wife is a feature of the software you write: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_file_systems&oldid=220529437#Features
I agree with most of the community here and I will not get BluRay player. If there is a movie with great effects I will go to the theater. If I want to see a movie because of the "content" - the deep idea of the movie - then the DVD quality is enough for me and I will prefer the cosy environment at home.
Where does the BluRay fit?
Show me a company that's free of pressure, I'll show you a company that's not trying hard enough.
NASA
So, if they give me a test, they are assessing my ability to work under pressure? Here's a suggestion:
Go fix your management so that your employees do not have to work under pressure, instead of missing some really talented people than can't work in a frenzy environment.
The point in the challenge is that the data recovery companies are a farce.
The guys from 16systems claim that three companies said they can't recover the data and that's it. No money mentioned, nor the kind of data.
It does not make sense to make a surround headphones.
You do not have five ears (I guess). The distinction between the front and rear sounds is done entirely in the brain, considering that the outer ear modifies the sounds that come from the front and from the rear differently (and also there is echo, diffraction and so on). All these effects can be simulated well enough with software when using the standard HiFi stereo headphones.
This is also possible to do with loudspeakers, but much harder to achieve, because their sound is way more distorted and affected by external factors.
I don't really understand your point but I think I agree :)
I may be classified as an audiophile too, but it is strange to me that someone can spend, lets say $5k for an HD video system (BluRay player, HD television) just in order to improve the quality with a neglectable amount. He can spend this money for his audiosystem (amplifiers, speakers, etc) and improve it a lot. This will improve the overall movie experience more than the little quality gain you get with HD.
I know, one of his hobbies is collecting stamps.
Oops, I unleashed the secret of the next hot game.
Reducing the world's dependency on a resource that, in many cases, lies in areas with political turmoil (e.g., Middle East)
It is the resource that causes the political turmoil. It it was not the petrol in the Middle East it would have been the most peaceful place in the world.
In this line of thoughts, I have friends that are big fans of racing games, and they are really good drivers. They drive fast, but safe. I have also had some accidents where, I think, some game playing have saved me from worse consequences. So it is not true that games make people bad drivers, even the opposite - they make them better drivers. As for the ones that drive risky and are more involved in accidents (in real life) - I don't think the games had something to do with it. Maybe most of the risky drivers play car games, but, I think, most of the good drivers (driving fast but safe) are car game players too.
As for the music - It has a big influence on the driving style, but not much on the "safeness" of driving. Example: when I listen to rock tunes I drive faster and harsher, but my reactions also become faster and I pay more attention to the situation around me.
Based on Symbian, there are different platforms. Based on version 7 and 8, the most spread platforms are UIQ, S60 and S80. On version 9 there is S60v3, UIQ3. So there are five current, totally different and incompatible platforms.
And have you heard of feature packs? S60 has FP1, FP2 and FP3 as I know. And what about the fact, that there are differences in each release of a given platform? I have seen phones with the S60 platform (the same feature pack) that behave differently - given code works on one of them and does not work on the other.
It turns out that each company has its own variant of symbian... no, that each company has its MANY variants of symbian it uses in the different devices it makes.
As for the certification. Someone mentioned that the user shall not be allowed to install third-party apps, because they may crash the phone and the user will accuse the phone maker for this. That is correct, but I guess it will change soon, as the users begin to preceive their phones as a computing device (like the PC). Most people is accusing Intel or Microsoft for example if their third-party app crashes on the PC. And even if they do, Microsoft and Intel still do allow running third party apps on their products without certifications.
Symbian wears the heavy burden of the architecture, designed when the devices were very constrained. It is trying to be modern but you cant compete a ferrari with a bike, no matter how you upgrade the bike.
Yes, Symbian dominates the market and will do so for 2-3 years ahead, but that does not mean it is a good platform. Not always the best product makes it into the market. There are big players that support it and thay decide who will dominate and who will fall in oblivion.
Actually my monitor has USB ports at its side (and an USB hub inside), so it is not wrong to say that the monitor reads data from the devices people carry around.
I agree with the previous comments, stating that the more knowledge you have in a given area the more constraints are put around your way of thinking. The creativity sometimes comes from people that are very far from the given area and just don't have the constraints.
Of course, a good coder will not be necessarily good at any job. But, I understand the point this way: if someone is a good coder this means he likes his job and he likes doing it well. This means that he likes doing everything well. If he becomes a construction worker, he will do this well too. It is in the nature of man to do things well or to be lazy and work only for the paycheck.
Just my opinion.