The necessity of the skill of touch-typing is overrated.
I am a software engineer, been working with computers 10-12 hours a day for the past 20 years, and I have never learned to touch type. I type using my own self-learned method, where use my index finger, pointing, finger, and thumb on each hand. I can type about 50 wpm when I measure myself. It's never held me back in any way whatsoever in my career, in fact I would say I can type just as fast as near anyone else I know.
On average we spend an hour in the bathroom every day...
Is this stat accurate? Because it would explain many things to me.
Personally, I spend maybe 15 mins in the bathroom / day, and that includes shaving and showering. When I have to use the bathroom, I go in, do my business, and leave. Unless I am having some kind of "digestive issue", I am in and out of there in 1 minute, tops. I have always wondered why so many people want all this reading stuff by their crapper. If people actually spend this kind of time in there (doing god knows what??? Am I abnormally efficient at using the crapper???), then it explains plenty.
Getting tired of these clueless articles about lowring tablet prices.
The Touchpad bill of materials was $318. Most other Android tablets would be in the same ballpark. No company is going to spend $300+ on something, and sell it for $200, for "the good of the people".
What these article authors have to wake up and understand about the Android ecosystem is that none of these manufacturers make any money whatsoever on app sales. Zip, nada, zero. Google takes a tiny slice, the rest goes to the developer. If you are Asus/Sony/Sharp/ViewSonic/Acer/Motorola, your profit margin ends the second the tablet reaches the consumer's hands. If you lost money at that point, you lost money, period.
I do not understand why the Neilsen ratings still exist in an age where nearly everyone has digital cable, and Time Warner / Cox / Comcast / Whoever could collectively sell anonymized aggregate statistics of EXACTLY how many people watched any show, that would cover half the country.
It would inherit a small bias in that it would not include people who did not have cable, but the strata of incomes that DO have cable pretty much nullifys that argument IMO.
This is not really true. Cyanogen is basically vanilla Android, with a few UI tweaks. That is it.
There are a lot of things lacking in vanilla Android
- The stock launcher is pretty bare-bones. I use ADW
- The stock camera app is pretty bare-bones. Can't even do panoramas. I prefer (and use) the one Samsung wrote
- Stock lockscreens are crap. I purchased WidgetLocker, best $2.00 I ever spent.
I find when most people go on about such-and-such in Syanogen - they often fail to realize that such-and-such feature is actually a *vanilla Android* feature, and available in many ROMS - it just might have been stripped by their phone manufacturer.
Nearly every handset manufacturer has to modify the kernel just to get Android ported to their phone.
That said, I have never in my life seen a single phone model that doesn't have it's kernel released. I don't know what Florian is going on about, but he has obviously never browsed xda-developers.com. Quite often the source for the kernel is released, re-built, and ported to custom roms *before the manufacturer has even released a ROM to the carriers.
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"XML/XHTML was written for the parsers. HTML5 was written for web developers"
You seem to be completely glossing over / forgetting the fact that in order for the "web developer"'s site to be farmed out, it needs to be served up by an engine, written by a software developer - one who has a metric crapton of libraries and tools all geared toward working with XML.
This is of course also completely glossing over the fact that there is basically no one in the industry anymore who is simply a "web developer". Try getting a job in a real workplace with nothing in your skillset but HTML and script, and you will be laughed out of the building. All companies want real software developers nowadays - and those developers appreciate well-formed syntax sets.
The only time I EVER print ANYTHING is one of the following
- It is something I need to give or mail to someone else (assignment, form, etc) - It is something I want to keep forever in hard copy (a manual, a picture, a diagram to pin up)
I don't see how having expensive, erasable paper will help either of these situations. The situation the manufacturer quotes doesn't even make sense - what is the use care for these paper signs you want to print off, and yet change all the time????
I have an inductive charging toothbrush and I honestly can't wait until every single device uses this technology
- The contacts will never wear out or corrode, since there are none - You don't have to futz with jamming in a tiny micro USB cable the right way - You can throw your phone on the charging mat in the absolute darkness - You can charge your and your wifes phone simultaneously with one charge pad
Er.... all browsers I know of allow you to write extensions. And Chrome's extension system is arguably vastly superior to Firefox's in almost every single way, from overall speed to not having to restart your browser to seamless synchronization to superior forward compatibility to everything else.
You have to think of anti-matter more of a battery than an energy source. Once you have workable fusion (ie "unlimited", "cheap" power), the barriers to making anti-matter essentially go away. At that point you can make it and use it for space travel for what it is - a very compact energy source, which is exactly what you need for long journeys.
AUtomated cars can be made 100% safe and 100% reliable, if at the same time they are introduced, human drivers are banned.
No mix of human drivers and automated drivers is ever going to be safe, because the humans are totally unpredictable. If all drivers were automated, they could communicate via a wireless mesh, and always be multiple steps ahead of any traffic situation. Even if say an animal ran out into the road, cars 1/2 a mile back would know about that instantly, and all cars along the path can slow down to avoid a collission. This is the kind of thing that, with human drivers, results in a massive pile-up.
The reason this is such a big deal is because there are many, many, many large edge funds and mutual funds that have contractual obligations that PROHIBIT them from taking on non-AAA rated debit. The main source of debt for these companies used to be the USA. Now it is going to have to go to other countries (like Canada,Finlaned,Sweeden, etc) and/or AAA rated corporations, like Microsoft or Johnson & Johnson.
For many people (especially with a ride on), mowing the lawn is not so much of a chore but an escape, a way to be out away from work, the wife, kids, noise... to have a couple of beers, listing to some tunes, basking in the sun - just in general relax for a few hours. It's stress relief. And the type of people with 6 figure incomes usually need it the most.
Now, i am not one of those people.. I get my stress relief playing some 360. But everyone has to have their own outlet, and I know lots of guys who say it is the weekly lawn mow.
Intents is one of the best and most powerful parts of the Android platform, and one that is often overlooked when comparing to iOS.
In pretty much any Android application under the sun, you can hit "Share" from a menu or button somewhere. When you do that, whatever data you have in that app posts a message to android saying "Hey, I want to share this (image/jpg or text/xml or application/octet-stream)... and any other application on the system that is registered to handle that intent's mime type will show up as something to share to.
This is what lets you share videos from anywhere on the phone not only to YouTube, but also to Picassa, DropBox, SMB, Email, or any other app that says they can handle videos or binary files.
It's a really powerful and flexable application cross-commnication system, that makes all kinds of otherwise disconnected third-party applications work together seemlessly for the user. For example, I can "Share" my PhotoStich images with my Dropbox, directly inside the application.... and none of the PhotoStitch or Dropbox developers had to talk to each other to make that happen.
I have done a lot of reading on this subject recently. My conclusion is this - while yes, in Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia it is fairly common to drink in hotels and bars attached to them (so as to not run-off foreign tourists) - that doesn't mean it is really legal. It's basically just ignored.
That is, unless you piss someone off, in which case you can get locked up and potentially executed if someone says you are gay. Yes, it has happened according to my research.
So basically - as long as these countries are run as they are, I am staying far away - I would not travel there, not even for business.
Your line of thinking should be more along the lines of "if these hackers with next to no money can do this, odds are the government is already doing it, has been doing it for a long time, time, and simply no one knows about it yet".
The hole in your argument is that this is Emacs. Anyone who contributes code to a GNU project automatically signs his copyright to the code over to the FSF, for precisely this reason, so that their legal team can enforce the GPL if needed.
Since it is the FSF who decides that it is a violation, and RMS is the president of the FSF, his word here has very substantial weight. He thinks there is a violation so they're correcting it.
Why is some secure DOD system that houses military blueprints even connected to the internet AT ALL? It should not be reachable from any computer that can also reach the internet, or can even reach another computer that can.
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The reason that FAX is still around is because of one simple thing - LEGAL ISSUES.
Signed and faxed documents have held up through court cases as being valid for many things. There is no equivalent to a signed and emailed document.
Until there is a court-accepted form of global digital signatures, faxes will stay around.
The necessity of the skill of touch-typing is overrated.
I am a software engineer, been working with computers 10-12 hours a day for the past 20 years, and I have never learned to touch type. I type using my own self-learned method, where use my index finger, pointing, finger, and thumb on each hand. I can type about 50 wpm when I measure myself. It's never held me back in any way whatsoever in my career, in fact I would say I can type just as fast as near anyone else I know.
On average we spend an hour in the bathroom every day...
Is this stat accurate? Because it would explain many things to me.
Personally, I spend maybe 15 mins in the bathroom / day, and that includes shaving and showering. When I have to use the bathroom, I go in, do my business, and leave. Unless I am having some kind of "digestive issue", I am in and out of there in 1 minute, tops. I have always wondered why so many people want all this reading stuff by their crapper. If people actually spend this kind of time in there (doing god knows what??? Am I abnormally efficient at using the crapper???), then it explains plenty.
Getting tired of these clueless articles about lowring tablet prices.
The Touchpad bill of materials was $318. Most other Android tablets would be in the same ballpark. No company is going to spend $300+ on something, and sell it for $200, for "the good of the people".
What these article authors have to wake up and understand about the Android ecosystem is that none of these manufacturers make any money whatsoever on app sales. Zip, nada, zero. Google takes a tiny slice, the rest goes to the developer. If you are Asus/Sony/Sharp/ViewSonic/Acer/Motorola, your profit margin ends the second the tablet reaches the consumer's hands. If you lost money at that point, you lost money, period.
I do not understand why the Neilsen ratings still exist in an age where nearly everyone has digital cable, and Time Warner / Cox / Comcast / Whoever could collectively sell anonymized aggregate statistics of EXACTLY how many people watched any show, that would cover half the country.
It would inherit a small bias in that it would not include people who did not have cable, but the strata of incomes that DO have cable pretty much nullifys that argument IMO.
This is not really true. Cyanogen is basically vanilla Android, with a few UI tweaks. That is it.
There are a lot of things lacking in vanilla Android
- The stock launcher is pretty bare-bones. I use ADW
- The stock camera app is pretty bare-bones. Can't even do panoramas. I prefer (and use) the one Samsung wrote
- Stock lockscreens are crap. I purchased WidgetLocker, best $2.00 I ever spent.
I find when most people go on about such-and-such in Syanogen - they often fail to realize that such-and-such feature is actually a *vanilla Android* feature, and available in many ROMS - it just might have been stripped by their phone manufacturer.
Nearly every handset manufacturer has to modify the kernel just to get Android ported to their phone.
That said, I have never in my life seen a single phone model that doesn't have it's kernel released. I don't know what Florian is going on about, but he has obviously never browsed xda-developers.com. Quite often the source for the kernel is released, re-built, and ported to custom roms *before the manufacturer has even released a ROM to the carriers.
"XML/XHTML was written for the parsers. HTML5 was written for web developers"
You seem to be completely glossing over / forgetting the fact that in order for the "web developer"'s site to be farmed out, it needs to be served up by an engine, written by a software developer - one who has a metric crapton of libraries and tools all geared toward working with XML.
This is of course also completely glossing over the fact that there is basically no one in the industry anymore who is simply a "web developer". Try getting a job in a real workplace with nothing in your skillset but HTML and script, and you will be laughed out of the building. All companies want real software developers nowadays - and those developers appreciate well-formed syntax sets.
It's a UNIX system!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng
The only time I EVER print ANYTHING is one of the following
- It is something I need to give or mail to someone else (assignment, form, etc)
- It is something I want to keep forever in hard copy (a manual, a picture, a diagram to pin up)
I don't see how having expensive, erasable paper will help either of these situations. The situation the manufacturer quotes doesn't even make sense - what is the use care for these paper signs you want to print off, and yet change all the time????
I have an inductive charging toothbrush and I honestly can't wait until every single device uses this technology
- The contacts will never wear out or corrode, since there are none
- You don't have to futz with jamming in a tiny micro USB cable the right way
- You can throw your phone on the charging mat in the absolute darkness
- You can charge your and your wifes phone simultaneously with one charge pad
Er.... all browsers I know of allow you to write extensions. And Chrome's extension system is arguably vastly superior to Firefox's in almost every single way, from overall speed to not having to restart your browser to seamless synchronization to superior forward compatibility to everything else.
Time to buy as many as you can get your hands on to sell on eBay at a nice 25% markup.
You have to think of anti-matter more of a battery than an energy source. Once you have workable fusion (ie "unlimited", "cheap" power), the barriers to making anti-matter essentially go away. At that point you can make it and use it for space travel for what it is - a very compact energy source, which is exactly what you need for long journeys.
AUtomated cars can be made 100% safe and 100% reliable, if at the same time they are introduced, human drivers are banned.
No mix of human drivers and automated drivers is ever going to be safe, because the humans are totally unpredictable. If all drivers were automated, they could communicate via a wireless mesh, and always be multiple steps ahead of any traffic situation. Even if say an animal ran out into the road, cars 1/2 a mile back would know about that instantly, and all cars along the path can slow down to avoid a collission. This is the kind of thing that, with human drivers, results in a massive pile-up.
Set up the public network on 2.4 Ghz and your own network on 5Ghz. Done and done????
The reason this is such a big deal is because there are many, many, many large edge funds and mutual funds that have contractual obligations that PROHIBIT them from taking on non-AAA rated debit. The main source of debt for these companies used to be the USA. Now it is going to have to go to other countries (like Canada,Finlaned,Sweeden, etc) and/or AAA rated corporations, like Microsoft or Johnson & Johnson.
For many people (especially with a ride on), mowing the lawn is not so much of a chore but an escape, a way to be out away from work, the wife, kids, noise... to have a couple of beers, listing to some tunes, basking in the sun - just in general relax for a few hours. It's stress relief. And the type of people with 6 figure incomes usually need it the most.
Now, i am not one of those people.. I get my stress relief playing some 360. But everyone has to have their own outlet, and I know lots of guys who say it is the weekly lawn mow.
Intents is one of the best and most powerful parts of the Android platform, and one that is often overlooked when comparing to iOS.
In pretty much any Android application under the sun, you can hit "Share" from a menu or button somewhere. When you do that, whatever data you have in that app posts a message to android saying "Hey, I want to share this (image/jpg or text/xml or application/octet-stream)... and any other application on the system that is registered to handle that intent's mime type will show up as something to share to.
This is what lets you share videos from anywhere on the phone not only to YouTube, but also to Picassa, DropBox, SMB, Email, or any other app that says they can handle videos or binary files.
It's a really powerful and flexable application cross-commnication system, that makes all kinds of otherwise disconnected third-party applications work together seemlessly for the user. For example, I can "Share" my PhotoStich images with my Dropbox, directly inside the application.... and none of the PhotoStitch or Dropbox developers had to talk to each other to make that happen.
I have done a lot of reading on this subject recently. My conclusion is this - while yes, in Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia it is fairly common to drink in hotels and bars attached to them (so as to not run-off foreign tourists) - that doesn't mean it is really legal. It's basically just ignored.
That is, unless you piss someone off, in which case you can get locked up and potentially executed if someone says you are gay. Yes, it has happened according to my research.
So basically - as long as these countries are run as they are, I am staying far away - I would not travel there, not even for business.
You should switch to a TF-101, it is the same price as the Xoom but has an IPS display like the iPad.
Your line of thinking should be more along the lines of "if these hackers with next to no money can do this, odds are the government is already doing it, has been doing it for a long time, time, and simply no one knows about it yet".
The hole in your argument is that this is Emacs. Anyone who contributes code to a GNU project automatically signs his copyright to the code over to the FSF, for precisely this reason, so that their legal team can enforce the GPL if needed.
Since it is the FSF who decides that it is a violation, and RMS is the president of the FSF, his word here has very substantial weight. He thinks there is a violation so they're correcting it.
Why is some secure DOD system that houses military blueprints even connected to the internet AT ALL? It should not be reachable from any computer that can also reach the internet, or can even reach another computer that can.