How about The Wall, where the last track is actually the first half of the first track... that's right, the album loops around. I guess it made sense in the days of 8 Track tapes.
From this page:
"The SPDM, or Canada Hand, is a smaller two-armed robot capable of handling the delicate assembly tasks currently handled by astronauts during spacewalks."
All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say
All that you eat
Everyone you meet
All that you slight
Everyone you fight
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon
You are correct, plugging the phone into the "cigarette lighter" jack (or USB jack on newer cars) alleviates the problem... until you get out of the car and put the phone in your pocket without turning navigation off (despite the fact that it being noticably warm is sort of a hint that navigation is on) or try to navigate somewhere by bicycle or on foot.
Try running Skype videoconferencing on you netbook. On an MSI Wind, Skype complains the CPU is too wimpy. Low resolution YouTube is hardly a good benchmark, it runs fine even on a Android G1. Compressed video decoding is much less CPU-intensive than compressed video encoding.
But best of all is unlimited data/text/messaging and 300 minutes for $25/month, and no contract. I can't see paying AT&T prices, even though the iphone is a bit nicer.
Your wife must be different from my wife, who manages to exceed her 1500 minutes/month allocation. Is your wife a deaf/mute, by any chance?
More like "battery dies withing 45 to 90 minutes" if you use the phone for turn-by-turn navigation. Nothing like turning on display, CPU, GPS, 3G radio, and audio on full time to run the battery down quick.
The iPhone had flaws, such as the lack of true multitasking, which were/are being fixed. Android also has flaws, which were/are being fixed. Yes, the Android ecosystem has a disadvantage in that it is subject to fragmentation, and the iOS ecosystem has a disadvantage in that Apple tries to exert too much control over developers. I expected Android to catch up with iOS much more quickly than it did; that was my mistake. By most reports, Froyo is the first Android release that is really ready for prime time -- unfortunately my G1 won't run it without some serious kludging.
On my Android G1 (which can only run Android 1.6), occasional long pauses before responding to touch input IS a problem. But I assumed that was fixed on newer phones with faster CPUs running Froyo or Gingerbread. I haven't seen any problems on the Color Nook, which is really just a cheap Android tablet device. Anybody have experience with the newest Android releases that can say whether or not these problems are already fixed?
Java is pretty much only GC language I'm aware of where temp objects are passed to GC. Perl (and I'm sure myriad of other GC languages) at compile time takes note what objects are not used outside of the context and destroys them immediately. IIRC Java is the only language where they blankly send all stuff to GC, regardless. Obviously that that in long term hurts latencies: GC has to recycle them eventually and if there is no spare CPU/core, then it has to take the time from other threads.
You're forgetting InterLisp (which probably is best forgotten). When Xerox released the InterLisp D machines, even files were garbage collected, meaning that if you deleted a large file, the machine went into a 10 minute garbage collection cycle, effectively blocking it from doing anything else. I'm sure there are other languages that use poorly-designed GC as well. I've never really liked garbage collection, but the alternative is to use IBM MVS like static preallocation of a "dataset" fpr everything. This guarantees predictable behavior, at the expense of using a lot more memory -- but memory is dirt cheap these days. (IBM used to do it for a different reason: they made huge profits on the disk drives.)
If you are putting our self-sacrificing service men and women in harm's way, you damn well better be doing EVERYTHING you can to try to protect them. This is a trivial amount of money compared to what we are pissing away every day in Iraq and Afghanistan, even if the desired goal is something of a long shot.
Stock price or market capitalization isn't necessary a rational valuation. I used to work for a company that had a market cap of 13 million, and also had 13 million cash in the bank. It didn't make sense to me then, and it still doesn't.
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How about The Wall, where the last track is actually the first half of the first track... that's right, the album loops around. I guess it made sense in the days of 8 Track tapes.
If it doesn't include Roger Waters or Syd Barrett, it's not really Pink Floyd, is it? Yeah, Gilmore and Mason must have run out of money.
From this page:
"The SPDM, or Canada Hand, is a smaller two-armed robot capable of handling the delicate assembly tasks currently handled by astronauts during spacewalks."
No, I'm not making this shit up!
"And by the way, which one of you is Pink?"
All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say
All that you eat
Everyone you meet
All that you slight
Everyone you fight
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon
When you've got a job to do that involves a hand, you naturally think of Canada -- the leading experts in hand jobs!
Let's all give Canada a hand for giving the ISS a hand!
Wait... what's that round thing in the lower left that appears to be chasing the space station? It couldn't just be a sunspot...
You are correct, plugging the phone into the "cigarette lighter" jack (or USB jack on newer cars) alleviates the problem... until you get out of the car and put the phone in your pocket without turning navigation off (despite the fact that it being noticably warm is sort of a hint that navigation is on) or try to navigate somewhere by bicycle or on foot.
Try running Skype videoconferencing on you netbook. On an MSI Wind, Skype complains the CPU is too wimpy. Low resolution YouTube is hardly a good benchmark, it runs fine even on a Android G1. Compressed video decoding is much less CPU-intensive than compressed video encoding.
But best of all is unlimited data/text/messaging and 300 minutes for $25/month, and no contract. I can't see paying AT&T prices, even though the iphone is a bit nicer.
Your wife must be different from my wife, who manages to exceed her 1500 minutes/month allocation. Is your wife a deaf/mute, by any chance?
More like "battery dies withing 45 to 90 minutes" if you use the phone for turn-by-turn navigation. Nothing like turning on display, CPU, GPS, 3G radio, and audio on full time to run the battery down quick.
The iPhone had flaws, such as the lack of true multitasking, which were/are being fixed. Android also has flaws, which were/are being fixed. Yes, the Android ecosystem has a disadvantage in that it is subject to fragmentation, and the iOS ecosystem has a disadvantage in that Apple tries to exert too much control over developers. I expected Android to catch up with iOS much more quickly than it did; that was my mistake. By most reports, Froyo is the first Android release that is really ready for prime time -- unfortunately my G1 won't run it without some serious kludging.
On my Android G1 (which can only run Android 1.6), occasional long pauses before responding to touch input IS a problem. But I assumed that was fixed on newer phones with faster CPUs running Froyo or Gingerbread. I haven't seen any problems on the Color Nook, which is really just a cheap Android tablet device. Anybody have experience with the newest Android releases that can say whether or not these problems are already fixed?
Java is pretty much only GC language I'm aware of where temp objects are passed to GC. Perl (and I'm sure myriad of other GC languages) at compile time takes note what objects are not used outside of the context and destroys them immediately. IIRC Java is the only language where they blankly send all stuff to GC, regardless. Obviously that that in long term hurts latencies: GC has to recycle them eventually and if there is no spare CPU/core, then it has to take the time from other threads.
You're forgetting InterLisp (which probably is best forgotten). When Xerox released the InterLisp D machines, even files were garbage collected, meaning that if you deleted a large file, the machine went into a 10 minute garbage collection cycle, effectively blocking it from doing anything else. I'm sure there are other languages that use poorly-designed GC as well. I've never really liked garbage collection, but the alternative is to use IBM MVS like static preallocation of a "dataset" fpr everything. This guarantees predictable behavior, at the expense of using a lot more memory -- but memory is dirt cheap these days. (IBM used to do it for a different reason: they made huge profits on the disk drives.)
So how does this affect online media hosted _outside_ of Saudi Arabia? Isn't this move just going to drive all bloggers to offshore hosting?
You have committed double-plus ungood crimethink. Please immediately report to the Ministry of Love for reeducation.
Or at least make it look like Ada Lovelace (no relation to Linda Lovelace).
If only someone had told me about these BEFORE I got married!
Study everything the Duke Nukem Forever team did, and then do exactly the opposite!
Heck, couldn't he just jam something in the door switch for his microwave and leave the door open?
If you are putting our self-sacrificing service men and women in harm's way, you damn well better be doing EVERYTHING you can to try to protect them. This is a trivial amount of money compared to what we are pissing away every day in Iraq and Afghanistan, even if the desired goal is something of a long shot.
Stock price or market capitalization isn't necessary a rational valuation. I used to work for a company that had a market cap of 13 million, and also had 13 million cash in the bank. It didn't make sense to me then, and it still doesn't.
That would be the Mobile, Alabama based devision of Exxon Mobil, I presume?
...only cheaper.