I agree that it's a useful tool, but there are a lot of things that don't make sense to put in the cloud.
I always feel better when anything that is mission critical is in-house. Cloud based (and regular internet based) services can become inaccessible for your business if you simply lose your internet connection - it doesn't require all of Amazon to bite the dust.
Amazon has an option to have another Amazon location serve as the failover for your services. Yes, it costs more, but it does exactly what it's supposed to when this type of thing happens. If your backup/disaster recover plan requires as close to 100% uptime as possible you'll want to pay the extra for this type of protection.
These days litigation & licensing are priced into the final cost to produce any pice of technology (especially consumer electronics like cellphones, computers & tablets). It's just a cost of doing business and is passed on to the customer like everything else.
Does the Samsung UI look like the Apple UI? Yes it does, but not enough that a user is going to mistakenly buy a Samsung instead of an Apple product. Is the Apple claim the the Samsung tablet looks too much like the iPad valid? Well, both are flat, rectangular, have rounded corners and have edges around the screen. Isn't that basically a description of the tablet form factor?
If you really step back and dispassionately look at any measurement—sales, player engagement, hours of online play, performance of DLC—you can absolutely conclude that the potential for this franchise has never been greater.
Wow, they sure think highly of themselves. Do they actually use this type of self promotion & recognition internally?
In order to achieve this potential, we need to focus: on making games that constantly raise the quality bar; on staying ahead of the innovation curve; on surrounding the brand with a suite of services and an online community that makes our fans never want to leave.
Marketing speak too? This sounds *too* much like a pat on the back to me. I wonder of they leaked this on purpose?
What if they hit the brakes when they saw the camera box? We don't know how far they traveled from being captured on radar to when the pictures were taken. TFA says the pictures are "taken nearly 50 feet down the road from sensors", so you could possibly slam on the brakes when you see the radar and even if they catch you doing 50mph, slow down enough to get to 35 before the camera snaps pictures. (ie: if the radar catches you 50 feet from the sensor pole, you actually have 100 feet to slow down.)
FTFA:
He said it was unlikely that his vehicles slowed significantly after passing the sensors, as photos typically show them with their brake lights off.
I doubt someone could slow their vehicle enough and remove their foot from the breaks in the allotted period of time.
You thought replacing flaky early-run coil-packs was expensive. What does a replacement laser-ignitor cost?
From Rain Man:
Doctor: Ray, do you know how much a candy bar costs?
Raymond: 'Bout a hundred dollars.
Doctor: Do you know how much one of those new compact cars costs?
Raymond: 'Bout a hundred dollars.
Doctor: Do you know how much a replacement laser-ignitor costs?
Raymond: 'Bout a hundred dollars.
Only if you're an Apple fanboy. Don't go around calling people you don't agree with or even know idiots. It's so Applish.
This again? You guys need to learn how to spot an Apple fanboy. If he had spelled it "iDiot" then he's a fanboy. Spelling it as regular old "idiot" means he's just another unhappy customer of the intertubes.
My laptop, my phone, and my tablet should all just be viewports and ways of interacting with one homogenous device. They should all be integrated parts of a whole.
BlackBerry's PlayBook displays your mail & contacts from your BlackBerry phone. In fact it's the only way to get email or contacts on your PlayBook so far. Their approach is interesting but very limited at the moment.
Amen to that. A colleague at my previous company was promoted to team lead and then spent about half his day in meetings.
Keep in mind that you can affect the direction of a project or product in meetings. If you're not involved in the discussion then you usually end up coding what you're told.
It's very easy to damage the microwave when doing so.
Buy a cheap microwave just for this purpose. I'm guessing a 150,000 volt transformer is going to cost you more than $70 (and probably weigh a bit more than a small microwave too).
* Cheaters get caught gaming the system.
* Apple reacts with a heavy hand.
* Others take the cheaters' place in the app rankings.
* Wash, rince, repeat.
Aug 4th, Aug 29th, April 19th... none of it really matters. SkyNet was sued by Apple, Microrsoft, Oracle, Motorola and a variety of other companies for violating numerous patents. This resulted in an injunction against importing the killer robots into our space-time continuum. We've got plenty of time before this whole thing actually settles.
And the concept of 'over-lapping windows' is so generic it really can't be claimed as a patent, imho.
The concept of "overlapping windows" is generic (and very obvious now) but doing it was tough 'back in the day'. Drawing into only the visible part of the window was an accomplishment. Implementing circles, ovals or rectangles with rounded corners wasn't easy either (no floating point math in the early chips).
To claim that a tablet can't be rectangular with rounded corners and a border? Dear lord, that's just ridiculous.
Yes, it's absurd. Many street signs have rounded corners - can the sign company sue Apple for "displaying information on a rectangular medium with rounded corners"?
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I agree that it's a useful tool, but there are a lot of things that don't make sense to put in the cloud.
I always feel better when anything that is mission critical is in-house. Cloud based (and regular internet based) services can become inaccessible for your business if you simply lose your internet connection - it doesn't require all of Amazon to bite the dust.
Amazon has an option to have another Amazon location serve as the failover for your services. Yes, it costs more, but it does exactly what it's supposed to when this type of thing happens. If your backup/disaster recover plan requires as close to 100% uptime as possible you'll want to pay the extra for this type of protection.
DoI thought Apple and Samsung were friends
They are. But friends are friends, and business is business. These days being in business often includes suing other companies (or even customers).
This is kind of ugly.
It sure is - I wonder how these types of companies do business with each other after all this fades away (or is settled)?
These days litigation & licensing are priced into the final cost to produce any pice of technology (especially consumer electronics like cellphones, computers & tablets). It's just a cost of doing business and is passed on to the customer like everything else.
Does the Samsung UI look like the Apple UI? Yes it does, but not enough that a user is going to mistakenly buy a Samsung instead of an Apple product. Is the Apple claim the the Samsung tablet looks too much like the iPad valid? Well, both are flat, rectangular, have rounded corners and have edges around the screen. Isn't that basically a description of the tablet form factor?
If you really step back and dispassionately look at any measurement—sales, player engagement, hours of online play, performance of DLC—you can absolutely conclude that the potential for this franchise has never been greater.
Wow, they sure think highly of themselves. Do they actually use this type of self promotion & recognition internally?
In order to achieve this potential, we need to focus: on making games that constantly raise the quality bar; on staying ahead of the innovation curve; on surrounding the brand with a suite of services and an online community that makes our fans never want to leave.
Marketing speak too? This sounds *too* much like a pat on the back to me. I wonder of they leaked this on purpose?
What if they hit the brakes when they saw the camera box? We don't know how far they traveled from being captured on radar to when the pictures were taken. TFA says the pictures are "taken nearly 50 feet down the road from sensors", so you could possibly slam on the brakes when you see the radar and even if they catch you doing 50mph, slow down enough to get to 35 before the camera snaps pictures. (ie: if the radar catches you 50 feet from the sensor pole, you actually have 100 feet to slow down.)
FTFA:
He said it was unlikely that his vehicles slowed significantly after passing the sensors, as photos typically show them with their brake lights off.
I doubt someone could slow their vehicle enough and remove their foot from the breaks in the allotted period of time.
The Twilight Zone did it back in 1960.
You thought replacing flaky early-run coil-packs was expensive. What does a replacement laser-ignitor cost?
From Rain Man:
Doctor: Ray, do you know how much a candy bar costs?
Raymond: 'Bout a hundred dollars.
Doctor: Do you know how much one of those new compact cars costs?
Raymond: 'Bout a hundred dollars.
Doctor: Do you know how much a replacement laser-ignitor costs?
Raymond: 'Bout a hundred dollars.
Only if you're an Apple fanboy. Don't go around calling people you don't agree with or even know idiots. It's so Applish.
This again? You guys need to learn how to spot an Apple fanboy. If he had spelled it "iDiot" then he's a fanboy. Spelling it as regular old "idiot" means he's just another unhappy customer of the intertubes.
My laptop, my phone, and my tablet should all just be viewports and ways of interacting with one homogenous device. They should all be integrated parts of a whole.
BlackBerry's PlayBook displays your mail & contacts from your BlackBerry phone. In fact it's the only way to get email or contacts on your PlayBook so far. Their approach is interesting but very limited at the moment.
Amen to that. A colleague at my previous company was promoted to team lead and then spent about half his day in meetings.
Keep in mind that you can affect the direction of a project or product in meetings. If you're not involved in the discussion then you usually end up coding what you're told.
According to modern physics, two stories can suddenly appear out of nowhere. One is made of antimatter, the other is made of matter.
In some cases both are made of the common element "doesn't matter".
I thought it was illegal to charge more than actual processing costs when someone files an FOIA?
It is, but the Chief has to buy a summer house to "process and fulfill" the FOIA request in.
#2. That's your butt. And my post number.
In the Navy we call it our "6", you insensitive clod!
It's very easy to damage the microwave when doing so.
Buy a cheap microwave just for this purpose. I'm guessing a 150,000 volt transformer is going to cost you more than $70 (and probably weigh a bit more than a small microwave too).
* Cheaters get caught gaming the system.
* Apple reacts with a heavy hand.
* Others take the cheaters' place in the app rankings.
* Wash, rince, repeat.
Seriously, "freemium"? That has to be the worst mangling of the English language since "doorgasm."
Freemium is a perfectly cromulent word.
Aug 4th, Aug 29th, April 19th ... none of it really matters. SkyNet was sued by Apple, Microrsoft, Oracle, Motorola and a variety of other companies for violating numerous patents. This resulted in an injunction against importing the killer robots into our space-time continuum. We've got plenty of time before this whole thing actually settles.
If information does "leak" out of Facebook their precious company won't be worth the billions and billions they seem to think it is.
That should be "If information doesn't "leak" out of Facebook ..."
adopt three principles: privacy by default (opt-in sharing), vetted app developers, and use of https whenever possible
Their answer is very predictable: No, no and no.
If information does "leak" out of Facebook their precious company won't be worth the billions and billions they seem to think it is.
And the concept of 'over-lapping windows' is so generic it really can't be claimed as a patent, imho.
The concept of "overlapping windows" is generic (and very obvious now) but doing it was tough 'back in the day'. Drawing into only the visible part of the window was an accomplishment. Implementing circles, ovals or rectangles with rounded corners wasn't easy either (no floating point math in the early chips).
To claim that a tablet can't be rectangular with rounded corners and a border? Dear lord, that's just ridiculous.
Yes, it's absurd. Many street signs have rounded corners - can the sign company sue Apple for "displaying information on a rectangular medium with rounded corners"?
... or go in with a clever plan to have them shake themselves apart.
So something like Stuxnet for wind turbines?
Do your tires have contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs?
Kirstie Alley needs work too, even if it is just her thighs modeling for contact patches.
Every time is different, right? Isn't that what they always tell us??
I thought more than 250 was a lot, but over more than 250? Now that's really a lot!
Hmm, I guess they meant screw over more than 250.