How can you possibly know how to extend it when someone changes the requirements, or new hardware becomes available, or you need to port it to another OS?
I've been coding for over a decade. I can prototype something and get it working fairly well in a relatively short amount of time. Making it bulletproof takes 10x as long. If I just make it work for my initial conditions, I'd be 10x as productive....but pity the poor slob that needs to come in later to fix it when conditions change.
If you can't prove which way your vote was counted, how do you know it was counted the way you intended? If you can prove how it was counted, what prevents someone from buying votes or forcing people to vote a certain way?
As an example, Johnson & Johnson's mission statement basically says that their first responsibility is to their customers, then their employees, then their communities, and then their shareholders. They also say their expectation is to generate a "fair" return to shareholders, not a "maximum" one.
As long as I can get at least 1200 pixels vertically, I'm good. I don't care if it's 1600 pixels wide or 1920. In fact, the added width is just fine. for putting taskbars, IM buddy lists, etc.
I would dearly love to have even more pixels though. A 24" or larger with the DPI of the ipad3 sounds pretty sweet.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but the linux kernel uses self-modifying code to provide the ability to build a kernel that will boot on many machines but can still be tweaked at boot to run faster depending on what the cpu supports.
While I could certainly follow your path for obtaining books (and have been known to do so on occasion), I prefer to go the legitimate route. I already pay to support my public library, so I figure it makes sense to use their services where available.
The one publisher that is particularly tricky is Baen. They don't do DRM, which means that libraries can't enforce the return period, which means I can't get their ebooks through the library. This is a problem because I *like* a lot of Baen's stuff.
I have a young kid and regularly read while he falls asleep in my lap in the evening. Using a tablet means I don't need a light shining on my kid and impeding sleep.
It also means that I can use the device that I already have. As for headaches and eye strain, I've never had a problem. That said, I do look forward to the spread of high-resolution screens with the advent of the ipad3.
Personally, my biggest problem with ebooks on the tablet is that there isn't a great selection available from the public library. Our library has a really great selection of paper books, but for ebooks they're quite limited--mostly due to the publishers.
ICS has small cards for running apps, but you can't move them around, stack them, etc.
I have yet to find a decent keyboard layout for ICS. I want the numbers and common punctuation available without having to drop into a second layer.
Changing brightness on stock CM9 is two taps, a swipe up, and a swipe to adjust the brightness. On WebOS it's a tap and a swipe. There's lot's of room on the screen, CM9 could easily display all the options but they chose not to.
On stock CM9 there's no quick way to mute it. On WebOS it's two taps.
WebOS has the ability to stack and organize cards. CM9 has the "recently used" apps list that you can swipe away, but as far as I know that's all you can do with them. On WebOS you can get to the task cards by swiping up from the bottom bezel anywhere along the bottom. With CM9 you have to hit a specific button.
If I could have android apps on WebOS, I'd be a happy man.
Suppose the US needs (like, *really* needs) some additional money, so they decide to float some new bonds.
China could dump all their investments, driving down the price, and making it difficult for the gov't to get any new money since everyone will just buy the stuff that China is selling.
I live in the Canadian prairies. The nearest city with over half a million people is 435mi away. Electric isn't going to cut it for that with current tech. My Matrix will do it without refueling if there is no headwind.
Normal distribution assumes a typical distribution, which isn't always the case.
I took Engineering Physics in university. Very tough course, 19 people in my year. We all came in as pretty much straight-A students out of first year, had straight A's in the non-engineering courses (english, psych, etc.), but there was one prof in Physics who insisted on grading on a curve and that the class average should be 70%.
If the kids can catch up without undue extra effort, I'm all about doing something interesting and educational outside the traditional school environment. Besides, most elementary schools the first few and last few days of any semester aren't particularly hardcore.
I've heard this before, but I don't understand it. Why can't the parents look at the kid's notes and textbook, understand the procedure, and then go over it with the kids?
Maybe I'm weird because I didn't have a hard time with math, but it seems like it's all just different ways of accomplishing the same task so anyone who understands what's going on should be able to pick up additional techniques of doing the same thing.
My mom is a midwife and can go 24hrs or more without coming home. Her work recently gave her an iphone 4S and she had to get extra chargers for car and office. Her old blackberry went for several days between charges.
I have a White Rogers touchscreen thermostat. I'm quite happy with it, though it's not remote controllable. I can set it to do auto heat/cool, or else leave them separate. I leave them separate.
The reason is that in spring and fall the temperature might vary a lot during the day. Rather than run the AC and the furnace on the same day (wasting energy both ways) I'll live with slightly more variation in temperature as long as the average temperature is okay.
Clearly letting someone die when there's a drug that can save them is inhumane. But even with a public system there comes a point where a certain treatment is just too expensive.
If we're talking about "humane", perhaps we should look at overall outcomes. What makes more sense...$300K/yr to keep one person alive, or put the money into education and prevention and possibly save multiple lives?
There are movies that were actually rescanned and remastered for the bluray release, and someone has to pay for that work. So in cases like that I don't begrudge them charging separately for the bluray version.
Now if someone buys the bluray version I would have no problem with downloading a lower-res version for format shifting, because it could be generated algorithmically from the higher-res version.
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How can you possibly know how to extend it when someone changes the requirements, or new hardware becomes available, or you need to port it to another OS?
I've been coding for over a decade. I can prototype something and get it working fairly well in a relatively short amount of time. Making it bulletproof takes 10x as long. If I just make it work for my initial conditions, I'd be 10x as productive....but pity the poor slob that needs to come in later to fix it when conditions change.
In December, the sun rises at 9am and sets at 5pm. Unless you make daylight be 8-4 you're always going to have kids going one direction in the dark.
If you can't prove which way your vote was counted, how do you know it was counted the way you intended? If you can prove how it was counted, what prevents someone from buying votes or forcing people to vote a certain way?
As an example, Johnson & Johnson's mission statement basically says that their first responsibility is to their customers, then their employees, then their communities, and then their shareholders. They also say their expectation is to generate a "fair" return to shareholders, not a "maximum" one.
As long as I can get at least 1200 pixels vertically, I'm good. I don't care if it's 1600 pixels wide or 1920. In fact, the added width is just fine. for putting taskbars, IM buddy lists, etc.
I would dearly love to have even more pixels though. A 24" or larger with the DPI of the ipad3 sounds pretty sweet.
It's expensive though. Eurocom has one model with an option for a 1920x1200 screen, and of course there's the 17" macbook pro.
Personally, I want a 24" monitor with the dpi of the ipad3.
Statistically the chances of being killed/injured while flying are extremely low--much safer than driving a car.
Really, it should make you pissed off at all the wasted money and lost freedom.
"there is never any need for self modifying code"
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but the linux kernel uses self-modifying code to provide the ability to build a kernel that will boot on many machines but can still be tweaked at boot to run faster depending on what the cpu supports.
While I could certainly follow your path for obtaining books (and have been known to do so on occasion), I prefer to go the legitimate route. I already pay to support my public library, so I figure it makes sense to use their services where available.
The one publisher that is particularly tricky is Baen. They don't do DRM, which means that libraries can't enforce the return period, which means I can't get their ebooks through the library. This is a problem because I *like* a lot of Baen's stuff.
I have a young kid and regularly read while he falls asleep in my lap in the evening. Using a tablet means I don't need a light shining on my kid and impeding sleep.
It also means that I can use the device that I already have. As for headaches and eye strain, I've never had a problem. That said, I do look forward to the spread of high-resolution screens with the advent of the ipad3.
Personally, my biggest problem with ebooks on the tablet is that there isn't a great selection available from the public library. Our library has a really great selection of paper books, but for ebooks they're quite limited--mostly due to the publishers.
ICS has small cards for running apps, but you can't move them around, stack them, etc.
I have yet to find a decent keyboard layout for ICS. I want the numbers and common punctuation available without having to drop into a second layer.
Changing brightness on stock CM9 is two taps, a swipe up, and a swipe to adjust the brightness. On WebOS it's a tap and a swipe. There's lot's of room on the screen, CM9 could easily display all the options but they chose not to.
On stock CM9 there's no quick way to mute it. On WebOS it's two taps.
WebOS has the ability to stack and organize cards. CM9 has the "recently used" apps list that you can swipe away, but as far as I know that's all you can do with them. On WebOS you can get to the task cards by swiping up from the bottom bezel anywhere along the bottom. With CM9 you have to hit a specific button.
If I could have android apps on WebOS, I'd be a happy man.
Suppose the US needs (like, *really* needs) some additional money, so they decide to float some new bonds.
China could dump all their investments, driving down the price, and making it difficult for the gov't to get any new money since everyone will just buy the stuff that China is selling.
I live in the Canadian prairies. The nearest city with over half a million people is 435mi away. Electric isn't going to cut it for that with current tech. My Matrix will do it without refueling if there is no headwind.
Normal distribution assumes a typical distribution, which isn't always the case.
I took Engineering Physics in university. Very tough course, 19 people in my year. We all came in as pretty much straight-A students out of first year, had straight A's in the non-engineering courses (english, psych, etc.), but there was one prof in Physics who insisted on grading on a curve and that the class average should be 70%.
I have friends who are teachers and there have been cases where the highest-paid were the ones that got laid off when times were tight.
If the kids can catch up without undue extra effort, I'm all about doing something interesting and educational outside the traditional school environment. Besides, most elementary schools the first few and last few days of any semester aren't particularly hardcore.
I've heard this before, but I don't understand it. Why can't the parents look at the kid's notes and textbook, understand the procedure, and then go over it with the kids?
Maybe I'm weird because I didn't have a hard time with math, but it seems like it's all just different ways of accomplishing the same task so anyone who understands what's going on should be able to pick up additional techniques of doing the same thing.
My mom is a midwife and can go 24hrs or more without coming home. Her work recently gave her an iphone 4S and she had to get extra chargers for car and office. Her old blackberry went for several days between charges.
I have a White Rogers touchscreen thermostat. I'm quite happy with it, though it's not remote controllable. I can set it to do auto heat/cool, or else leave them separate. I leave them separate.
The reason is that in spring and fall the temperature might vary a lot during the day. Rather than run the AC and the furnace on the same day (wasting energy both ways) I'll live with slightly more variation in temperature as long as the average temperature is okay.
That's what they did when I upgraded...
The problem is if we test it and it turns out to be true, we just screwed ourselves...
They got on top, then illegally exploited that position to try and keep anyone else from competing on a fair playing field.
Clearly letting someone die when there's a drug that can save them is inhumane. But even with a public system there comes a point where a certain treatment is just too expensive.
If we're talking about "humane", perhaps we should look at overall outcomes. What makes more sense...$300K/yr to keep one person alive, or put the money into education and prevention and possibly save multiple lives?
There are movies that were actually rescanned and remastered for the bluray release, and someone has to pay for that work. So in cases like that I don't begrudge them charging separately for the bluray version.
Now if someone buys the bluray version I would have no problem with downloading a lower-res version for format shifting, because it could be generated algorithmically from the higher-res version.