Does anyone else use use Google to search for something thats on a MS website? I mean, their search on their own site is so horrible in finding what I'm looking for that I use google. I can't be the only person that does this.
You don't need evidence to make people believers. Its the "Hands over ears LA LA LA LA LA LA" people that just can't take facts for what they are, facts. They hear someone at the top say something (like this article), believe it, don't need to see evidence, and when evidence comes that shows you are an idiot, you dig in and say the facts are false and lies. LA LA LA LA LA, not listening to you, LA LA LA LA LA.
Apple didn't just pull an iPhone out of no where in 2007. Jobs himself said that the iPad came first way back around 2000 or so. Once that tablet basically worked, they started the iPhone. Don't really have exact dates other than around 2000 when Jobs wanted to get rid of the keyboard and mouse and do touch only display.
Or would you rather that they have the knowledge of how to use contraceptives to reduce the risk of pregnancy and STDs?
Short answer, no. Long answer: HELL NO!
I just went to a Pre Cana class and we all got to hear a conservative activist speak about contraception. I mean Sarah Palin should be president, the pope is infallible sort of crazy conservative. Basically, stopping conception of the baby in any way, using the pill or condom, is against gods will and you are damned to hell. Even asked if an abortion to save the mothers life in a situation that would kill both so that at least the mother could live and he said "no, the mother must die too, its god's will." That made the whole room turn against him and it was really down hill from there. So Christians are taught to not use anything and they want everyone to do it that way.
Like many onboard automobile sensors, they are also completely isolated from the vehicle ground. To reduce the potential for interference or mistakes, they operate at different voltages. The first sensor, known as ACCEL POS #1, has a nominal voltage range from 0.5 volts to 1.1 volts at idle and 2.5 volts to 4.5 volts at wide-open-throttle (WOT). The second sensor, ACCEL POS #2, delivers from 1.2 volts to 2.0 volts at idle and 3.4 volts to 5.0 volts at WOT. Why such a wide range of permissible voltages? The engine computer (ECM) recalibrates the sensor regularly, every time you start the car and the ECM goes through its power-on self-test.
Both accelerator-pedal-position Hall-effect sensors have to agree fairly closely, or the ECM will go into its limp-home mode, which turns on the Check Engine light and sets a trouble code.
There's more. If Toyota's engine-management scheme is anything like that of most other car companies, firmware inside the ECM also monitors the airflow into the engine, the throttle blade position and engine rpm, and calculates backwards to what the throttle pedal position should be. Any discrepancy, and a trouble code is set, the Check Engine light on the dash goes on, and you're dialing the service manager to make an appointment.
Bottom line: The system is not only redundant, it's double-redundant. The signal lines from the pedal to the ECM are isolated. The voltages used in the system are DC voltages—any RF voltages introduced into the system, by, say, that microwave oven you have in the passenger seat, would be AC voltages, which the ECM's conditioned inputs would simply ignore. Neither your cellphone nor Johnny's PlayStation have the power to induce much confusion into the system.
These throttle-by-wire systems are very difficult to confuse—they're designed to be robust, and any conceivable failure is engineered to command not an open throttle but an error message.
Any person that got the Slingbox app, will want the Netflix app. And as far as I know, that a lot of people that want mobile media that they can control. Just because you can't find a use, doesn't mean others don't. I'm one of those people that want a Netflix app so that I can watch movies while not a home, or near a BIG screen TV.
...over the past 9 months or so, Android has advanced from 1.5 to 1.6, 2.0.x, and 2.1. Each of those advances added lots of desirable new capabilities. The problem is, roughly half the Android owners in North America were sold brand new phones last fall that came with Android 1.5... months after 1.6 was mainstream, barely a month before 2.0.x arrived with the Droid, and less than 3 months before 2.1 arrived in January. Of course, we've (almost) all been promised 2.1... sometime in the first half of 2010.
There is your problem you wanted to have pointed out. Your program might work going forward, but you are forgetting that >50% of your current market will be on handsets that are less than a year old but possibly can't use your program because it uses some feature that is only 2.0 and up (multitouch as you pointed out). Its like having PCs and Windows going from 2000 to 7 in less than a year. People that bought laptops that ran 2000 don't have the horse power to run 7, or the program made for Windows XP and up can't run on 2000. This is making all the Devs program for 1.5 or 1.6 and wait for those handsets to either die out or get upgraded to 2.0 and 2.1 if that is at all possible.
Don't forget CC emails probably count as multiples. So say one person sends an email and CCs 9 others, that 10 emails in total. Then you possibly need to include the Sent folder, so add another email on top of that. Making 11 emails in total for just one sent email in this situation.
If you finished RTFA, they didn't have these problems until it was outsourced.
"But without backup circuits -- which VDOT had before the Northrop Grumman outsourcing -- to take up the load, the transportation agency's Hampton Roads' IT network went out of service 23 times during the event."
So during the planning stage, someone in the gov't and NG f'ed up in not seeing that backup lines were in place, and they should stay in place. But that aside, why are the lines going out is the question? Was NG contracting to a poor provider that could barely keep their DNS systems up or were they working with AT&T/Verizon, or was it actual lines outside that would be cut that would cause the outages?
The crapware pays for the hardware, not the OS, which is given to Dell at a very low price ($50) so that Dell doesn't drop them as an OS on their hardware and only give Ubuntu. And with Dell's high volumes of hardware, those $50 add up and more than pay for licensing it at such a low cost.
Although Apple is the only one that produces Macs, it competes in the PC market. After all, Macs are PCs (AKA Personal Computers). PCs have a large market where no one has a monopoly or controls what gets purchased, or has a supply chain they fully control (hardware wise), so you can't claim monopoly on hardware. Also, Apple doesn't have to license their software to work with everything since you have a choice to choose something else, and everyone right now sells something else, so there is no monopoly on personal computer OS. IBM on the other hand can control main frame market since it is extremely small compared to the PC market, and every purchase is millions of dollars and only so many get sold each year. Since its so small, there are not that many OSs in the market giving IBM the ability to strong arm anyone in the market by not licensing their OS for other hardware other than the one they sell. This creates a monopoly since IBM is the only seller of main frame hardware and software, and if I'm not mistaken, they also produce their own hardware in house and then support everything in the end too through their consulting business end. Where as Apple can't strong arm any other personal computer manufacturer with their OS because there are some many different choices out there to choose from, and they don't produce their own hardware since they get it from Intel and Nvidia, and have Foxconn put it together much like all the other PC companies out there.
I might be wrong in a few spots but this is the basic idea of why one is almost a monopoly and the other isn't.
The EULA that Apple has is a way for them to say they will not support hardware outside of their own hardware. Which a company is allowed to do. Apple doesn't have a Monopoly, Apple sells computers, which there are many different types you can buy. Just like cell phones, but you don't hear people calling the RIM/Blackberry OS a Monopoly when you can only get the Blackberry software on a RIM device. If Apple's EULA is invalidated, then that means I should be able to take the Blackberry software over to a Treo close of the Blackberry and I'm sure that wont go down well either.
A creator of a device or software can say where it can be run.
/> is XHTML standard and <br> is the regular HTML 4 standard. Both are correct and most browsers know how to deal with XHTML or HTML 4, as well as the two mixed together.
Doesn't he need access to the back bone to make this even work? Hell, I could grab all the IP addresses of the Internet and put it in a router but it would only work in my own little world here in my house. So, does he control a back bone node that he can redirect traffic to make this work? And if the AT&T's of the world black list his set of router mac addresses then it should exclude him from getting any traffic or his ability to send any traffic, right?
What I mean is it not business related or is it business related. I work for a small company of about 25, and I setup an internal Jabber server to allow people to talk to each other, and create group sessions, without sending on stupid email stuff that doesn't really need to be sent. Keeps them off AOL or Yahoo messenger and talking to others outside the company. But email etiquette really isn't dead, just the one liners are sometimes all that is needed. I ask for something to get approved for purchase and most times I get a "Get it done" reply back. Its just that people don't have anything else to say, or need to say anything else to have their reply mean anything. And the long list of the email being resent is just because people just hit the reply-all button and it includes the whole email thread, which could mean just bad programming and not bad etiquette.
And it looks like you lumped the Mac in with the bad PC dual boot experience you had. I will say this, you could just run Windows on a Mac and not dual boot.
You know you can take that money you save and buy Windows XP and install it on the Mac. You know you can do that now, right? So why not have the best of both worlds, or even, run Windows programs in the Mac OS using VMware or Parallel software. You can also find software for the Mac to do what you want to do by going to sites like www.versiontracker.com and finding and alternative, or even the same Company makes a Mac version. The quote "for what I use a computer for" doesn't apply anymore.
The two most popular distros in use today are Fedora and Ubuntu(Debian) and both use GNOME by default. Yes, there are a lot of other distros that ship with KDE default, but their popularity doesn't match what Fedora and Ubuntu have been able to carve out in the Linux Desktop market. Most people go with the default when installing those distros too, so GNOME has a high probability of being the most used Linux Desktop.
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Does anyone else use use Google to search for something thats on a MS website? I mean, their search on their own site is so horrible in finding what I'm looking for that I use google. I can't be the only person that does this.
You don't need evidence to make people believers. Its the "Hands over ears LA LA LA LA LA LA" people that just can't take facts for what they are, facts. They hear someone at the top say something (like this article), believe it, don't need to see evidence, and when evidence comes that shows you are an idiot, you dig in and say the facts are false and lies. LA LA LA LA LA, not listening to you, LA LA LA LA LA.
Apple didn't just pull an iPhone out of no where in 2007. Jobs himself said that the iPad came first way back around 2000 or so. Once that tablet basically worked, they started the iPhone. Don't really have exact dates other than around 2000 when Jobs wanted to get rid of the keyboard and mouse and do touch only display.
Nope, do you think the NSA distributes or gives out all the code it uses.
Sure it wasn't just a broken tip off an IV that was stuck in his hand during his surgery?
Or would you rather that they have the knowledge of how to use contraceptives to reduce the risk of pregnancy and STDs?
Short answer, no. Long answer: HELL NO!
I just went to a Pre Cana class and we all got to hear a conservative activist speak about contraception. I mean Sarah Palin should be president, the pope is infallible sort of crazy conservative. Basically, stopping conception of the baby in any way, using the pill or condom, is against gods will and you are damned to hell. Even asked if an abortion to save the mothers life in a situation that would kill both so that at least the mother could live and he said "no, the mother must die too, its god's will." That made the whole room turn against him and it was really down hill from there. So Christians are taught to not use anything and they want everyone to do it that way.
Like many onboard automobile sensors, they are also completely isolated from the vehicle ground. To reduce the potential for interference or mistakes, they operate at different voltages. The first sensor, known as ACCEL POS #1, has a nominal voltage range from 0.5 volts to 1.1 volts at idle and 2.5 volts to 4.5 volts at wide-open-throttle (WOT). The second sensor, ACCEL POS #2, delivers from 1.2 volts to 2.0 volts at idle and 3.4 volts to 5.0 volts at WOT. Why such a wide range of permissible voltages? The engine computer (ECM) recalibrates the sensor regularly, every time you start the car and the ECM goes through its power-on self-test.
Both accelerator-pedal-position Hall-effect sensors have to agree fairly closely, or the ECM will go into its limp-home mode, which turns on the Check Engine light and sets a trouble code.
There's more. If Toyota's engine-management scheme is anything like that of most other car companies, firmware inside the ECM also monitors the airflow into the engine, the throttle blade position and engine rpm, and calculates backwards to what the throttle pedal position should be. Any discrepancy, and a trouble code is set, the Check Engine light on the dash goes on, and you're dialing the service manager to make an appointment.
Bottom line: The system is not only redundant, it's double-redundant. The signal lines from the pedal to the ECM are isolated. The voltages used in the system are DC voltages—any RF voltages introduced into the system, by, say, that microwave oven you have in the passenger seat, would be AC voltages, which the ECM's conditioned inputs would simply ignore. Neither your cellphone nor Johnny's PlayStation have the power to induce much confusion into the system.
These throttle-by-wire systems are very difficult to confuse—they're designed to be robust, and any conceivable failure is engineered to command not an open throttle but an error message.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/how_to/4347704.html
Any person that got the Slingbox app, will want the Netflix app. And as far as I know, that a lot of people that want mobile media that they can control. Just because you can't find a use, doesn't mean others don't. I'm one of those people that want a Netflix app so that I can watch movies while not a home, or near a BIG screen TV.
...over the past 9 months or so, Android has advanced from 1.5 to 1.6, 2.0.x, and 2.1. Each of those advances added lots of desirable new capabilities. The problem is, roughly half the Android owners in North America were sold brand new phones last fall that came with Android 1.5... months after 1.6 was mainstream, barely a month before 2.0.x arrived with the Droid, and less than 3 months before 2.1 arrived in January. Of course, we've (almost) all been promised 2.1... sometime in the first half of 2010.
There is your problem you wanted to have pointed out. Your program might work going forward, but you are forgetting that >50% of your current market will be on handsets that are less than a year old but possibly can't use your program because it uses some feature that is only 2.0 and up (multitouch as you pointed out). Its like having PCs and Windows going from 2000 to 7 in less than a year. People that bought laptops that ran 2000 don't have the horse power to run 7, or the program made for Windows XP and up can't run on 2000. This is making all the Devs program for 1.5 or 1.6 and wait for those handsets to either die out or get upgraded to 2.0 and 2.1 if that is at all possible.
Don't forget CC emails probably count as multiples. So say one person sends an email and CCs 9 others, that 10 emails in total. Then you possibly need to include the Sent folder, so add another email on top of that. Making 11 emails in total for just one sent email in this situation.
If you finished RTFA, they didn't have these problems until it was outsourced.
"But without backup circuits -- which VDOT had before the Northrop Grumman outsourcing -- to take up the load, the transportation agency's Hampton Roads' IT network went out of service 23 times during the event."
So during the planning stage, someone in the gov't and NG f'ed up in not seeing that backup lines were in place, and they should stay in place. But that aside, why are the lines going out is the question? Was NG contracting to a poor provider that could barely keep their DNS systems up or were they working with AT&T/Verizon, or was it actual lines outside that would be cut that would cause the outages?
The crapware pays for the hardware, not the OS, which is given to Dell at a very low price ($50) so that Dell doesn't drop them as an OS on their hardware and only give Ubuntu. And with Dell's high volumes of hardware, those $50 add up and more than pay for licensing it at such a low cost.
Although Apple is the only one that produces Macs, it competes in the PC market. After all, Macs are PCs (AKA Personal Computers). PCs have a large market where no one has a monopoly or controls what gets purchased, or has a supply chain they fully control (hardware wise), so you can't claim monopoly on hardware. Also, Apple doesn't have to license their software to work with everything since you have a choice to choose something else, and everyone right now sells something else, so there is no monopoly on personal computer OS. IBM on the other hand can control main frame market since it is extremely small compared to the PC market, and every purchase is millions of dollars and only so many get sold each year. Since its so small, there are not that many OSs in the market giving IBM the ability to strong arm anyone in the market by not licensing their OS for other hardware other than the one they sell. This creates a monopoly since IBM is the only seller of main frame hardware and software, and if I'm not mistaken, they also produce their own hardware in house and then support everything in the end too through their consulting business end. Where as Apple can't strong arm any other personal computer manufacturer with their OS because there are some many different choices out there to choose from, and they don't produce their own hardware since they get it from Intel and Nvidia, and have Foxconn put it together much like all the other PC companies out there.
I might be wrong in a few spots but this is the basic idea of why one is almost a monopoly and the other isn't.
The EULA that Apple has is a way for them to say they will not support hardware outside of their own hardware. Which a company is allowed to do. Apple doesn't have a Monopoly, Apple sells computers, which there are many different types you can buy. Just like cell phones, but you don't hear people calling the RIM/Blackberry OS a Monopoly when you can only get the Blackberry software on a RIM device. If Apple's EULA is invalidated, then that means I should be able to take the Blackberry software over to a Treo close of the Blackberry and I'm sure that wont go down well either.
A creator of a device or software can say where it can be run.
Doesn't he need access to the back bone to make this even work? Hell, I could grab all the IP addresses of the Internet and put it in a router but it would only work in my own little world here in my house. So, does he control a back bone node that he can redirect traffic to make this work? And if the AT&T's of the world black list his set of router mac addresses then it should exclude him from getting any traffic or his ability to send any traffic, right?
ummmm? Never mind.
But I thought everything that happened on 24 was real and that we had this technology already. Now I don't know what to believe. Damn you Jack Bauer!
What I mean is it not business related or is it business related. I work for a small company of about 25, and I setup an internal Jabber server to allow people to talk to each other, and create group sessions, without sending on stupid email stuff that doesn't really need to be sent. Keeps them off AOL or Yahoo messenger and talking to others outside the company. But email etiquette really isn't dead, just the one liners are sometimes all that is needed. I ask for something to get approved for purchase and most times I get a "Get it done" reply back. Its just that people don't have anything else to say, or need to say anything else to have their reply mean anything. And the long list of the email being resent is just because people just hit the reply-all button and it includes the whole email thread, which could mean just bad programming and not bad etiquette.
Does anyone know if Apple would have to take out a license to play WMA or DRM protected WMA files with the iPod?
And it looks like you lumped the Mac in with the bad PC dual boot experience you had. I will say this, you could just run Windows on a Mac and not dual boot.
You know you can take that money you save and buy Windows XP and install it on the Mac. You know you can do that now, right? So why not have the best of both worlds, or even, run Windows programs in the Mac OS using VMware or Parallel software. You can also find software for the Mac to do what you want to do by going to sites like www.versiontracker.com and finding and alternative, or even the same Company makes a Mac version. The quote "for what I use a computer for" doesn't apply anymore.
You know the tubes thing is a joke, right? You can't send live bees down it to figure out how to make it faster.
How am I going to download an Internet browser if my crappy Microsoft Windows has no way of browsing the Internet? There, fixed that for you.
The two most popular distros in use today are Fedora and Ubuntu(Debian) and both use GNOME by default. Yes, there are a lot of other distros that ship with KDE default, but their popularity doesn't match what Fedora and Ubuntu have been able to carve out in the Linux Desktop market. Most people go with the default when installing those distros too, so GNOME has a high probability of being the most used Linux Desktop.