In every way, your statement is equally correct with Christianity and Christian substituted for Islam and Muslim.
Heck, the statement is pretty much correct with "multiculturalism" and "Canadian" substituted for Islam and Muslim, or "democracy" and "American". It's basically just a tautology; cultures want to spread.
The trick is being successful. I've seen nothing to indicate that Islam spreads "successfully". A little education and money seems to mellow out Muslims pretty quickly.
I have to admit, the only report from Gartner that I would trust would be something about fools being parted with their money; they have both depth and breadth of experience on that subject.
How many of these silly articles are going to be based on Adobe press releases?
And when/how did Adobe manage to convince anyhow that they're some sort of authority on web-based shopping metrics, anyhow? Are they running Amazon's backend or something?
After all, what sort of person goes on Amazon to write a review for an item they haven't even purchased there? In the past 15 years, I can say that the few times I've done so, it was to rant about something.
Every once in a while I run across something I bought years ago from elsewhere and bang out a quick review. Usually I'm looking for something related like a part or extension and the original pops up.
My motivation for doing so is that I actually like the thing, found that it's lasted for a while, and feel the urge to spread the love.
I've noticed other people doing this too, and quite frankly I consider these sorts of reviews from experienced owners to be a shitload more convincing than someone who's pulled the thing out of the box and played around with it for a few minutes.
The overall result is that instead of 20 fake reviews from a single account, there are now 20 fake reviews spread over four different accounts.
At some point, the review system notices that these accounts review 5 items/month, but never actually buy anything... Then the next generation of fake account owners has to ensure that each fake account occasionally buys something, but then they have to get it shipped to the fake address since having fake accounts tied to their home/business address might raise flags.
More likely they'll going to have to hack the verified buyer mechanism somehow...
$50 for a first run chip, which they're billing as a collectable.
Looking at the other tiers that have the dev board, the per-chip price ranges from $3 and $10. Which still seems a bit high (I think the STM32's are around $1 each), but it's nothing like $50.
... sort of like how I hope that two people I dislike will meet, fall in love, then have a long dysfunctional life together that they can't break out of.
Trump says "Everyone knows that Harley riders rev their jackhammer-sounding engines not because they are assholes, but because of the safety factor it gives them on the dangerous streets."
Oh. Wow. Here I was thinking it was because they stall if they idle for more than a dozen seconds...
In some languages (e.g. Java) multithreading is no worse than any kind of parallel processing.
I know of one large Java system which took the appproach of "threading is hard, so we'll write the app for a single thread first and then add threading later".
Yeah, you know that's not going to end well...
And that, in a nutshell, is arguably the most vexing meta-problem in programming... "we'll add it later". You think a hard problem will get easier once you've built the entire system without a solid understanding of the stuff you'll be bolting on when you eventually get a handle on it?
Oh, yes, sidereal time... military operations with NVG equipment are surprisingly interested in stuff like available moon light. Then there's the fun we have up there in the Canadian arctic with those pesky sunrise and sunset calculations...
That's just what you're used to. After a few months on being on GMT, it'll be second nature to say set your alarm for 12PM to get up on the East coast - what was 7AM.
Not entirely. I've been working in the military weather business for 25 years, and while I mostly think in terms of UTC I still have problems with mapping UTC to local "events" like noon and midnight (although these days it's *mostly* a consequence of DST messing up the offsets). If I still have trouble with it, people who've used local time (with a 12hr clock) their entire lives are going to have a hellish time adapting.
And midnight is particularly problematic... having the hour increment throughout the day and only rollover when most people are asleep is actually conceptually simple and convenient.
three Facebook users have filed a lawsuit against the company
A bunch of lawyers found three Facebook users who'd agree to have their names thrown onto a lawsuit so they could cash in on some of that big class-action legal fee action.
There has been a few models from each vendor, the problem is that they generally sucked...
Well, they didn't suck, really, but aside from the Lumia they were mostly just second-tier Android phones with Windows and a new label. OEM's weren't stupid enough to put a lot of design and development effort into flagship Winphones, and as Microsoft got more desperate and cozied up to Nokia they cared even less.
The only standout Winphone's were the Lumia series, and in the end Microsoft was stuck with the choice of going all-in or quitting the market. Say what you will about Ballmer, but quitting isn't his style.
a private cloud to store your photos, video, and code
Who is going to waste a coin-sized computer by tethering it to a storage device and power brick?
There's definitely applications for tiny devices like this and I think the design is nifty, but using it in situations where its size (and price) is going to be dwarfed by its peripherals is a bit of a waste.
I live in Minnesota, where 1/3rd of the year is dark, and roofs are covered with feet of snow.
I suspect that snow cover on one of these roofs is a non-issue is they're as smooth as they look... snow tends to just slide off a smooth roof, to the point that you need snow stoppers above doors and such to hold it back.
Okay, maybe the terra cotta style might not shed snow that nicely, but that seems like a stupid look to put in somewhere like Minnesota.
Just because the law says you can, it does not mean the companies will let you...
Given the security track record of automakers, medical device manufacturers and (to a somewhat lesser degree) smartphone OEM's, I think it'll be a while before we need to worry about that.
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So, somewhere around $37 trillion dollars less than the music industry thinks they're owed?
Heck, the statement is pretty much correct with "multiculturalism" and "Canadian" substituted for Islam and Muslim, or "democracy" and "American". It's basically just a tautology; cultures want to spread.
The trick is being successful. I've seen nothing to indicate that Islam spreads "successfully". A little education and money seems to mellow out Muslims pretty quickly.
I have to admit, the only report from Gartner that I would trust would be something about fools being parted with their money; they have both depth and breadth of experience on that subject.
How many of these silly articles are going to be based on Adobe press releases?
And when/how did Adobe manage to convince anyhow that they're some sort of authority on web-based shopping metrics, anyhow? Are they running Amazon's backend or something?
Every once in a while I run across something I bought years ago from elsewhere and bang out a quick review. Usually I'm looking for something related like a part or extension and the original pops up.
My motivation for doing so is that I actually like the thing, found that it's lasted for a while, and feel the urge to spread the love.
I've noticed other people doing this too, and quite frankly I consider these sorts of reviews from experienced owners to be a shitload more convincing than someone who's pulled the thing out of the box and played around with it for a few minutes.
At some point, the review system notices that these accounts review 5 items/month, but never actually buy anything... Then the next generation of fake account owners has to ensure that each fake account occasionally buys something, but then they have to get it shipped to the fake address since having fake accounts tied to their home/business address might raise flags.
More likely they'll going to have to hack the verified buyer mechanism somehow...
Eh?
$50 for a first run chip, which they're billing as a collectable.
Looking at the other tiers that have the dev board, the per-chip price ranges from $3 and $10. Which still seems a bit high (I think the STM32's are around $1 each), but it's nothing like $50.
If it's truly fake news, lawyers with libel/slander lawsuits might be more effective. Particularly if the ad networks are dragged into the mud, too.
... sort of like how I hope that two people I dislike will meet, fall in love, then have a long dysfunctional life together that they can't break out of.
If the Republican House and Senate allow him to. Last I checked into American politics, they mostly control the purse strings.
Oh. Wow. Here I was thinking it was because they stall if they idle for more than a dozen seconds...
Talk to (or just buy) BlackBerry. I'm sure they'd be a wealth of information on how to woo Android developers.
I know of one large Java system which took the appproach of "threading is hard, so we'll write the app for a single thread first and then add threading later".
Yeah, you know that's not going to end well...
And that, in a nutshell, is arguably the most vexing meta-problem in programming... "we'll add it later". You think a hard problem will get easier once you've built the entire system without a solid understanding of the stuff you'll be bolting on when you eventually get a handle on it?
Thiel is rich; don't fool yourself into thinking the same rules apply to him.
Oh, yes, sidereal time... military operations with NVG equipment are surprisingly interested in stuff like available moon light. Then there's the fun we have up there in the Canadian arctic with those pesky sunrise and sunset calculations...
Not entirely. I've been working in the military weather business for 25 years, and while I mostly think in terms of UTC I still have problems with mapping UTC to local "events" like noon and midnight (although these days it's *mostly* a consequence of DST messing up the offsets). If I still have trouble with it, people who've used local time (with a 12hr clock) their entire lives are going to have a hellish time adapting.
And midnight is particularly problematic... having the hour increment throughout the day and only rollover when most people are asleep is actually conceptually simple and convenient.
A bunch of lawyers found three Facebook users who'd agree to have their names thrown onto a lawsuit so they could cash in on some of that big class-action legal fee action.
As usual, the winners will be the lawyers.
I have a somewhat more nuanced view on this...
Fuck wearing them, but diamonds do make excellent tools.
Well, they didn't suck, really, but aside from the Lumia they were mostly just second-tier Android phones with Windows and a new label. OEM's weren't stupid enough to put a lot of design and development effort into flagship Winphones, and as Microsoft got more desperate and cozied up to Nokia they cared even less.
The only standout Winphone's were the Lumia series, and in the end Microsoft was stuck with the choice of going all-in or quitting the market. Say what you will about Ballmer, but quitting isn't his style.
Who is going to waste a coin-sized computer by tethering it to a storage device and power brick?
There's definitely applications for tiny devices like this and I think the design is nifty, but using it in situations where its size (and price) is going to be dwarfed by its peripherals is a bit of a waste.
I hear they're a handy way for ordinary people to make fun of particularly thin-skinned aspiring despots...
That's why Apple will never produce a foldable phone... those filthy, uncouth users might choose to fold it in half, instantly doubling its thickness.
I suspect that snow cover on one of these roofs is a non-issue is they're as smooth as they look... snow tends to just slide off a smooth roof, to the point that you need snow stoppers above doors and such to hold it back.
Okay, maybe the terra cotta style might not shed snow that nicely, but that seems like a stupid look to put in somewhere like Minnesota.
Given the security track record of automakers, medical device manufacturers and (to a somewhat lesser degree) smartphone OEM's, I think it'll be a while before we need to worry about that.
I expect more people are more worried about the plane than about Mike Pence.