1. US roads are, on average, built quite a bit larger to better accommodate larger vehicles.
No argument there.
2. The US has a lot less public transportation than most European countries, and almost none at all outside major metropolitan areas. Even many large cities have no (or very poor) public transportation.
Welcome to the UK.
3. The US has stricter safety and emissions laws, which the majority of the small super-efficient cars that are so popular in European countries don't pass.
Different, I fear
4. US drivers drive on average over 13K miles a year.
UK average figures are basically the same. I would guess it is the same in most rich countries.
How does any of that address the concerns of the GP or the GGP?
Oh, I'm sorry I forgot to mention creatives piece of shit that would scrap the hard drive on a drop of 3 feet, because it was, you know, a hard drive. Besides the fact that it was over double the size of the iPod. There is a reason the Nomad didn't sell very well.
The original iPod had a hard drive (and so do some current models).
Also: Just look at the bloody Nomad. It probably caused a womans ovaries to shrivel up on sight. Nearly anything would have been better but they went with "Biege is fantastic and we like that its been the generic color of all computer hardware for the last 30 years+".
My Nomad was blue, the other model was silver as far as I remember (but I don't remember well either...)
Having seen a Nomad IRL the form factor was crap too but even if they had just made the thing black it would have been more acceptable.
The form factor was about the same as a portable CD player - the market that they were clearly targeting with that product.
The Nomad II was creative trying to give people what they want and failing. Less storage than an iPod(due to solid state storage to get the size) and much worse UI.
No doubt because nothing Creative ever produced had a good UI, like pretty much every other alternative to the iPod.
Not that the iPod had a terribly fantastic UI, but it did work, and keep working.
Really? The original iPod UI was well thought out. The clickwheel models (followed by the multitouch versions) took this to a whole new level. People don't need to remember how to use it by rote, it just works pretty much how you'd expect it to intuitively work (once you realise the touch clickwheel is actually a rotary device).
That was the last thing to come into my head. Clearly you've never played rugby. A "scrum" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(rugby)) is the first thing that comes into my head when I hear scrum (unless its within the software engineering context) and certainly not parts of the male anatomy...
The company I'm currently subcontracting for use non-techie types for UI development all the time. The actual implementation is done by techies, but the development of the UI, that's done by UX types in combination with users, followed by sessions with the techies to discuss platform/integration issues that the UX expert is unaware of. The result tends to work quite well.
I don't get this. What is unusable? Why? You have OpenJDK and it is the reference implementation for Java7. Everything should be targeting that platform. If "Aleks" (whatever that is - got a link?) is broken on that then they should fix it.
I think there is a bit of a difference between being able to do something, and having to do something.
I can code quite well in a basic text editor. Would you catch me doing it in a professional environment? Hell no. I have better tools available. Would I employ someone that can't code without the crutches modern development tools provide? Probably not - I want people that can understand what they are doing so that when something goes slightly wrong (which it does all the time in pretty much all jobs) they can figure out how to fix it.
Almost all of my textbooks are primary school had times tables printed in the covers, and many of the notebooks I had for maths did too. My pencil cases also had times tables printed on them, one also had common formulas printed on them.
We also had thin notebooks, but they weren't discarded. We had to number them, and keep them for revision purposes (which were used alongside past papers, from many years before as they were much harder, to aid with revision).
My partner is now doing a GCSE in mathematics as a mature student as she feels she didn't learn enough at school, but she's flying through it and is appalled at the attitude of the younger students she's on the course with. None of them see the relevance of basic mathematics (through no fault of the tutor), many of them talk through the lessons, and two that consistently get basic questions wrong were this week listening to music on their phones until the tutor asked them to get out if they didn't want to be there. In the UK, IMO, the problem exists in society in general, and not necessarily in the education - many people don't see the value in an education, and their parents don't either.
Shame you started that with Sarah Palin. Nobody with a brain ever trusted that monster - at least on this side of the pond (we were actually quite scared of her in fact).
If you mean (and I know you dont, but it can, and does, easily fall into that category in an enterprise) "being able to enter a path into Explorer and it allow you to go there" as opposed to navigating to it from "My Computer" or "Network" directly, then sure. If you mean being able to right click on an application in the taskbar so I can close it, then sure. I complain like hell at these restrictions; it makes my life a right PITA.
Sacrificing basic usability because of some BOFH is under the impression that it will improve security (it wont; there are plenty of ways round these things) is a big nono and just pisses off the technically competent and confuses the incompetent even further.
CVS? Seriously? That would make me leave almost faster than being forced to use ClearCase. There is no place for a VCS that doesn't work with changesets these days.
This kind of product is ideal for SMBs though, and even individuals who want a high performance NAS box. I've got AMD's equivalent processor (as I see it anyway) in a HP Microserver, and it runs a couple of Linux VMs and a Windows XP VM without a problem (for the odd bits of Windows stuff I have to do), as well as providing me with a fast 4x 3.5" removable HDD storage solution.
HP Microservers sold like hotcakes, and were based around AMD's Athlon II Neo N36L processor - which is 64bit, dual core, 25W TDP, VT-x etc. No doubt Intel want part of this pie
Indeed, I have a 50GB quota, and its a hard limit. I am required to purchase more bandwidth if I exceed it (which works out to more per GB than I pay for the package in the first place).
I pay £10 a month for Spotify and can fill my mp3 players (iPhone and iPad2) easily with whatever music I want. Too bad I'm stuck on 3mbit broadband and a 50GB cap. I'd jump to cable or an FTTC service in a heartbeat if I could.
Where I am working at the moment runs Centos on many of their servers. Why? Because they are a consultancy and many clients are using RedHat. Centos allows them to develop against it with relatively high confidence it will work the same on RedHat (as well as you could expect developing against RedHat on a development network and then shipping a product to be deployed in a different environment at least). I don't see the client base changing to Centos for deployment - they need / want the support blanket.
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Ported? Where are the decent Android only apps that don't need porting? Where are the bad Android apps ported to iOS?
Groan...! :)
Yeah! I've never got why they put wheels on farm machinery like tractors before either.
Here's a few more objective observations for you.
1. US roads are, on average, built quite a bit larger to better accommodate larger vehicles.
No argument there.
2. The US has a lot less public transportation than most European countries, and almost none at all outside major metropolitan areas. Even many large cities have no (or very poor) public transportation.
Welcome to the UK.
3. The US has stricter safety and emissions laws, which the majority of the small super-efficient cars that are so popular in European countries don't pass.
Different, I fear
4. US drivers drive on average over 13K miles a year.
UK average figures are basically the same. I would guess it is the same in most rich countries.
How does any of that address the concerns of the GP or the GGP?
Oh, I'm sorry I forgot to mention creatives piece of shit that would scrap the hard drive on a drop of 3 feet, because it was, you know, a hard drive. Besides the fact that it was over double the size of the iPod. There is a reason the Nomad didn't sell very well.
The original iPod had a hard drive (and so do some current models).
Also: Just look at the bloody Nomad. It probably caused a womans ovaries to shrivel up on sight. Nearly anything would have been better but they went with "Biege is fantastic and we like that its been the generic color of all computer hardware for the last 30 years+".
My Nomad was blue, the other model was silver as far as I remember (but I don't remember well either...)
Having seen a Nomad IRL the form factor was crap too but even if they had just made the thing black it would have been more acceptable.
The form factor was about the same as a portable CD player - the market that they were clearly targeting with that product.
The Nomad II was creative trying to give people what they want and failing. Less storage than an iPod(due to solid state storage to get the size) and much worse UI.
No doubt because nothing Creative ever produced had a good UI, like pretty much every other alternative to the iPod.
Not that the iPod had a terribly fantastic UI, but it did work, and keep working.
Really? The original iPod UI was well thought out. The clickwheel models (followed by the multitouch versions) took this to a whole new level. People don't need to remember how to use it by rote, it just works pretty much how you'd expect it to intuitively work (once you realise the touch clickwheel is actually a rotary device).
Looked at the prices of RAM on VPS recently?
That was the last thing to come into my head. Clearly you've never played rugby. A "scrum" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(rugby)) is the first thing that comes into my head when I hear scrum (unless its within the software engineering context) and certainly not parts of the male anatomy...
The company I'm currently subcontracting for use non-techie types for UI development all the time. The actual implementation is done by techies, but the development of the UI, that's done by UX types in combination with users, followed by sessions with the techies to discuss platform/integration issues that the UX expert is unaware of. The result tends to work quite well.
I don't get this. What is unusable? Why? You have OpenJDK and it is the reference implementation for Java7. Everything should be targeting that platform. If "Aleks" (whatever that is - got a link?) is broken on that then they should fix it.
I think there is a bit of a difference between being able to do something, and having to do something.
I can code quite well in a basic text editor. Would you catch me doing it in a professional environment? Hell no. I have better tools available. Would I employ someone that can't code without the crutches modern development tools provide? Probably not - I want people that can understand what they are doing so that when something goes slightly wrong (which it does all the time in pretty much all jobs) they can figure out how to fix it.
Almost all of my textbooks are primary school had times tables printed in the covers, and many of the notebooks I had for maths did too. My pencil cases also had times tables printed on them, one also had common formulas printed on them.
We also had thin notebooks, but they weren't discarded. We had to number them, and keep them for revision purposes (which were used alongside past papers, from many years before as they were much harder, to aid with revision).
My partner is now doing a GCSE in mathematics as a mature student as she feels she didn't learn enough at school, but she's flying through it and is appalled at the attitude of the younger students she's on the course with. None of them see the relevance of basic mathematics (through no fault of the tutor), many of them talk through the lessons, and two that consistently get basic questions wrong were this week listening to music on their phones until the tutor asked them to get out if they didn't want to be there. In the UK, IMO, the problem exists in society in general, and not necessarily in the education - many people don't see the value in an education, and their parents don't either.
The technique you describe is how my mother taught mental arithmetic to primary school children here in the UK.
Shame you started that with Sarah Palin. Nobody with a brain ever trusted that monster - at least on this side of the pond (we were actually quite scared of her in fact).
If you mean (and I know you dont, but it can, and does, easily fall into that category in an enterprise) "being able to enter a path into Explorer and it allow you to go there" as opposed to navigating to it from "My Computer" or "Network" directly, then sure. If you mean being able to right click on an application in the taskbar so I can close it, then sure. I complain like hell at these restrictions; it makes my life a right PITA.
Sacrificing basic usability because of some BOFH is under the impression that it will improve security (it wont; there are plenty of ways round these things) is a big nono and just pisses off the technically competent and confuses the incompetent even further.
CVS? Seriously? That would make me leave almost faster than being forced to use ClearCase. There is no place for a VCS that doesn't work with changesets these days.
No it isn't.
This kind of product is ideal for SMBs though, and even individuals who want a high performance NAS box. I've got AMD's equivalent processor (as I see it anyway) in a HP Microserver, and it runs a couple of Linux VMs and a Windows XP VM without a problem (for the odd bits of Windows stuff I have to do), as well as providing me with a fast 4x 3.5" removable HDD storage solution.
HP Microservers sold like hotcakes, and were based around AMD's Athlon II Neo N36L processor - which is 64bit, dual core, 25W TDP, VT-x etc. No doubt Intel want part of this pie
250GB? I'm on a 50GB (hard) cap.
Indeed, I have a 50GB quota, and its a hard limit. I am required to purchase more bandwidth if I exceed it (which works out to more per GB than I pay for the package in the first place).
I pay £10 a month for Spotify and can fill my mp3 players (iPhone and iPad2) easily with whatever music I want. Too bad I'm stuck on 3mbit broadband and a 50GB cap. I'd jump to cable or an FTTC service in a heartbeat if I could.
Err? Why?
Or replacing the redundant optical drive with a new 1TB drive.
Why drag his parents into this? I'm a developer, I bought my own.
Oh, my bad, I forgot there are very few grown ups here. Maybe you should ask Santa?
Where I am working at the moment runs Centos on many of their servers. Why? Because they are a consultancy and many clients are using RedHat. Centos allows them to develop against it with relatively high confidence it will work the same on RedHat (as well as you could expect developing against RedHat on a development network and then shipping a product to be deployed in a different environment at least). I don't see the client base changing to Centos for deployment - they need / want the support blanket.