You are correct... Android uses a custom runtime that provides some of the libraries that Java does. The VM is a custom system called "Dalvik" and the standard libraries do not conform to any of the existing Java standards.
The language is Java, though, and it fits in nicely with Java development environments.
By your definition, ANY drug-based treatment is "chemotherapy", while the general usage (including usage by the medical profession) refers to this specific class of drug treatments.
And that definition would be correct. The term "chemotherapy" was to differentiate it from other forms of treatment (radiation, surgery), not to specify the specific drug used.
wanting a complete implementation of MS office xml. But what is the deal with this? Trying to split the open document format? ODF is far from perfect, but a couple of morons trying to split it is the last thing it needs.
Despite their reputation for being desktop oriented and polished, they have always had a tendancy to do this. I'll never forget the early versions with stars as checkboxes. And colors selected such that it was never obvious whether the star meant that it was selected or was not.
Ubuntu took their market share easily thanks to tremendously foolish management mistakes with the Mandrake/Mandriva distro. I think the gap is just widening even more now.
I don't think a bad HD is a crazy initial thought.
I don't think it is a crazy initial thought either. If someone said to me "my pc suddenly stopped booting", I'd probably jump to similar conclusions and ask similar questions.
But he had the box in front of him that wouldn't even POST. That lowers the hd odds pretty dramatically.:)
Pulling the HD out and starting to copy data from it lowers it even more dramatically.
I agree, $2000 is not beyond the realms of imagination for a decent hard disk recovery service.
Exactly. And this also showed that his manager at the end was an idiot. If the data really is important and has to be recovered, and the hd really is bad, then that is the right course. And 2k is certainly conceivable for a data recovery service on a bad hd.
Of course the diagnostic was pathetically wrong.
And the manager at the end reminded me of a typical non-tech sales guy trying to make good for the camera. I've worked with folks like that before, which gave me a pretty heavy disdain for this particular weasel. Ugh.
You can't have seen the show - they inserted RAM that had been "blown" (I think they'd dropped a blob of solder on some crucial area) so the machine wouldn't even POST. It's not hard to diagnose why a machine won't even get to post - RAM or motherboard or CPU or an external card. (Indeed all four of those reasons were given by various different techs).
Yes, and this is why I hated that show. Most RAM failures will still boot enough to run a memtest. The fact that it wouldn't tends to imply system board failure. Most gave that as their first guess. Why they didn't try some ram or something is strange to me.
The guy who immediately thought it was a bad HD was awfully crazy, though.
Beyond that, they kept acting like it was just a $25 part, and therefore $80 or more total was crazy. Having RAM installed at your site is never going to be a $25 job, and these guys ought to know that.
Again, though, the dummy who said that a 256MB chip was "hard to find" was a bad tech.
Anyway, if you don't know if you car has plugs, I'd suggest not working on it, that's for sure. And I'm not sure why you ever would have.;)
I have a 2000 626... these things aren't exactly rocket science. I don't know where the idea that things are so dramatically more complicated now comes from. Very few things really are.
3. The ODF spec is overly long and needlessly complex, to be implemented faithfully.
I was with you up until this point. People who think this spec is long don't realize just how complex this stuff is. If you want interoperability to actual work, the spec needs to be much more comprehensive than the ODF spec actually is.
Have you noticed that the.ods spec doesn't even provide a comprehensive list of supported functions?
I agree... I don't understand why people find so many silly faults with this.
1. Its not twice as annoying. Compared to how faded and scrambled many "one-word" captchas are, this is significantly less annoying. 2. People seem to be acting like someone will fill out one word correctly and then intentionally scramble the other to screw up the project. Not many people are crazy enough to even want to do that. But even if they were, how do they know which word is the known, and which is the unknown? 3. Endless Supply - Each word that is correctly translated is another word that is "known" and therefore can be safely used as a known in a new captcha. 4. Verification - Thanks to #3, they could also potentially maintain the verification % rate for various words to later determine the accuracy or inaccuracy of past translations (assuming that they ever find that to be a problem).
Yeah, we all know that captchas are not perfect, but this project is a better idea than most. And because it is centralized, they can update the image generation scheme centrally if it is broken.
In practice, these seem to get broken less often than people think.
You thought wrong. The laptop is now known as the XO-1 laptop (they have not been able to maintain the price within the original estimation, it is today priced at $188).
The sad thing is that their homepage still proudly lists the price as $100 in the title.
This would be true if they were only paying out at some small # (like the $10 that amazon uses for their affiliate program). But they are taking the money up front and then only paying out at $100.
I have to imagine that there are a good many accounts out there that either never reach $100, or only reach it over large periods. I'd think they could make decent money on that "float".
There's nothing unethical about it at all, of course. If you want lower payout amounts, just use a different service.
They are (sorta) - all the userspace tools, utilities and applications on the OLPC are written in Python and quite honestly in my experience I've had better luck with cross-platform Python than Java...
If that was desktop code that you are talking about, it would have to be some awful Java code to be less portable than Python.
Of course, I have seen some awful java code... sigh.
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Those are the specs of a Nokia N800
You are correct... Android uses a custom runtime that provides some of the libraries that Java does. The VM is a custom system called "Dalvik" and the standard libraries do not conform to any of the existing Java standards.
The language is Java, though, and it fits in nicely with Java development environments.
Block IE 7
And that definition would be correct. The term "chemotherapy" was to differentiate it from other forms of treatment (radiation, surgery), not to specify the specific drug used.
This would be a new drug for chemotherapy.
Wow, where are you that is
Around here,
I don't think that's exactly what he meant. Yes, virtualization is old.
But the idea of very smart terminals hooked up to powerful servers is very different from the days of greenscreen thin clients.
Ie, the sandbox is the client, not the virtualized instance.
wanting a complete implementation of MS office xml. But what is the deal with this? Trying to split the open document format? ODF is far from perfect, but a couple of morons trying to split it is the last thing it needs.
These people need to go away.
There are several pc laptops that have upgradable video. This is becoming more common on high end laptops.
See also:
http://www.bay-wolf.com/videoupgrade.htm
... but two wrights make an airplane!
Despite their reputation for being desktop oriented and polished, they have always had a tendancy to do this. I'll never forget the early versions with stars as checkboxes. And colors selected such that it was never obvious whether the star meant that it was selected or was not.
Ubuntu took their market share easily thanks to tremendously foolish management mistakes with the Mandrake/Mandriva distro. I think the gap is just widening even more now.
Actually, they are non-existant. Noone stayed on the moon that long.
I don't think it is a crazy initial thought either. If someone said to me "my pc suddenly stopped booting", I'd probably jump to similar conclusions and ask similar questions.
But he had the box in front of him that wouldn't even POST. That lowers the hd odds pretty dramatically.
Pulling the HD out and starting to copy data from it lowers it even more dramatically.
Yes, I know... you didn't watch the video.
Watch the video. The machine wouldn't boot far enough to run memtest86.
Exactly. And this also showed that his manager at the end was an idiot. If the data really is important and has to be recovered, and the hd really is bad, then that is the right course. And 2k is certainly conceivable for a data recovery service on a bad hd.
Of course the diagnostic was pathetically wrong.
And the manager at the end reminded me of a typical non-tech sales guy trying to make good for the camera. I've worked with folks like that before, which gave me a pretty heavy disdain for this particular weasel. Ugh.
Yes, and this is why I hated that show. Most RAM failures will still boot enough to run a memtest. The fact that it wouldn't tends to imply system board failure. Most gave that as their first guess. Why they didn't try some ram or something is strange to me.
The guy who immediately thought it was a bad HD was awfully crazy, though.
Beyond that, they kept acting like it was just a $25 part, and therefore $80 or more total was crazy. Having RAM installed at your site is never going to be a $25 job, and these guys ought to know that.
Again, though, the dummy who said that a 256MB chip was "hard to find" was a bad tech.
Your car doesn't have sparkplugs? Is it diesel?
;)
Anyway, if you don't know if you car has plugs, I'd suggest not working on it, that's for sure. And I'm not sure why you ever would have.
I have a 2000 626... these things aren't exactly rocket science. I don't know where the idea that things are so dramatically more complicated now comes from. Very few things really are.
I was with you up until this point. People who think this spec is long don't realize just how complex this stuff is. If you want interoperability to actual work, the spec needs to be much more comprehensive than the ODF spec actually is.
Have you noticed that the
It's not needlessly long, its too short.
I agree... I don't understand why people find so many silly faults with this.
1. Its not twice as annoying. Compared to how faded and scrambled many "one-word" captchas are, this is significantly less annoying.
2. People seem to be acting like someone will fill out one word correctly and then intentionally scramble the other to screw up the project. Not many people are crazy enough to even want to do that. But even if they were, how do they know which word is the known, and which is the unknown?
3. Endless Supply - Each word that is correctly translated is another word that is "known" and therefore can be safely used as a known in a new captcha.
4. Verification - Thanks to #3, they could also potentially maintain the verification % rate for various words to later determine the accuracy or inaccuracy of past translations (assuming that they ever find that to be a problem).
Yeah, we all know that captchas are not perfect, but this project is a better idea than most. And because it is centralized, they can update the image generation scheme centrally if it is broken.
In practice, these seem to get broken less often than people think.
The sad thing is that their homepage still proudly lists the price as $100 in the title.
This would be true if they were only paying out at some small # (like the $10 that amazon uses for their affiliate program). But they are taking the money up front and then only paying out at $100.
I have to imagine that there are a good many accounts out there that either never reach $100, or only reach it over large periods. I'd think they could make decent money on that "float".
There's nothing unethical about it at all, of course. If you want lower payout amounts, just use a different service.
"We have found already a mountain of cash!" - Darl McBride, 2007/09/18
If that was desktop code that you are talking about, it would have to be some awful Java code to be less portable than Python.
Of course, I have seen some awful java code... sigh.
If you put a statement to that effect on your website, then you were violating the google terms of service.
Dell actually requests that you not send the hard drive. I believe they consider it a liability due to the potential for data loss in shipment, etc.
Do not send the hard drive. That's really the only decent solution. A linux install won't help them anyway.
I used firefox to look at it before posting. It did crash safari for windows, though.