Some have suggested that Nokia should have adopted Android. There's already an overwhelming glut of Android devices on the market. Samsung is the dominant player by a huge margin with LG, HTC, Sony fighting over scraps. So what would be Nokia's strategy? Enter the fray as an also ran and hope that in the next 5+ years they somehow evolve into a relevant player? Don't forget that they were already heavily bleeding cash by this point.
If there is a meme that needs to die about Nokia is this absurd notion that Windows Phones are somehow not competing with the Android phones.
Just as a guideline X% up from X% down is a net decrease, as is in the other order (commutativity and all). Something many market analysts still fail to grasp.
Do you have any evidence whatsoever that the score is undeserved?
In this case being electric helped with not having to turn off the ignition to prevent fire, have more flexibility in the positioning of elements so that more protection is added for the passenger and having so low a center of mass that they had to design a special test in order to make the car rollover since it would not do it in the normal one. Also, using spaceworthy components helped, I guess...
Bradley Manning, for one. He was locked without trial and in almost complete isolation for years. I'm sure others will come to mind later, I just can't think of any right now.
[...] he would have been better served if he had just replied;
"I'm rude, you're not, let's leave it at that."
But he didn't.
How do you read this part then?
For example, you work mostly through Greg. I don't think either of you
*planned* it that way, but it's likely because you guys work well
together.
See what I'm saying? People are different. I'm not polite, and I get
upset easily but generally don't hold a grudge - I have these
explosive emails. And that works well for some people. And it probably
doesn't work well with you.
And you know what? That's fine. Not everybody had to get along or work
well with each other. But the fact that it doesn't work with you
doesn't make it "wrong".
With all the posts RPi s used in so many outstanding projects, it's certainly refreshing and newsworthy that someone is using it the way it was designed to be used, and running the software that it was designed to run!
because it would most probably lead to a war, which is known to raise the prices of everything. I'm not saying it's rational to panic over a tweet, but if the news were true, markets going down and prices up is a logic consequence.
So, with that in mind, I finished up editing Slashdot for the day and sat down to watch some of these new pilots.
Nice try, but we know you were wanking. Next time say you're sky-diving, designing the next Mars rover, or banging a supermodel. At least we know that there is someone doing those things.
We adopted a convention of two hemispheres, Eastern and Western divided by the Prime Meridian. But that is not why the OP was calling NZ western. He/she did it because it has a similar culture to the US, as if that makes it a better country in terms of human rights. And that is quite definitely annoying.
No, I'm rejecting the notion that "western" can be used as a synonym of "democratic", "civilized" or just "not a police state" because those things have nothing to do with geographical or cultural proximity with the USA (or Europe).
I know what you are saying, but you may want to reconsider calling New Zealand "western", at least out of respect for the old sailors and explorers that helped map the globe through long travels and considerable danger.
When you are done with the knee-jerk reaction, you may consider that the bill is just putting the power to veto the bonuses in the hands of the people that actually pay for those bonuses.
The DC-X was completed in 21 months by a team of 100 people, at a cost of around 60 million in 1991 dollars.
And it only flew for some test flights never actually reaching orbit. The design may be great, but it is not complete. So we have 100M as an estimated cost for a prototype, how much do you think the full project would be?
The Nobel Prizes for the sciences have always been very well chosen. The biggest criticism have always been about who was left out, but I have never heard of one given to a less than brilliant scientist. If you are thinking of the Nobel Prize for Peace, it is hard to disagree... In the committee's defense, the concept itself is extremely political by nature, so every choice is going to look partisan. But you should not confuse the two.
Windows Mobile had a larger marketshare than Windows Phone has now, so if WM was a problem WP is a disaster. Plus, where do you get he is talking specifically about Mobile? I don't see it in the linked article.
If you compare the bytecode interpreter to other bytecode interpreters, Lua is one of the fastest. If you compare the JIT compiler to other JIT compilers, Lua is one of the fastest, i.e. at the level of the best Javascript compilers (the most used and optimized scripting language around). What is your point?
It won't be hard: tables are implemented with a hash and an array part, so if you only use it as an array they will be efficiently stored. You may find weird to think of 1-based arrays, but it has never been a problem in my experience, since there is no pointer arithmetics to be done in Lua. Plus it's really convenient to develop something in Lua first to get it right, then move the code to C starting from the low level functions once it is stable.
Because it's their job? I mean, I don't condone overreaching, but it goes both ways: why should the school pay them if their work does not belong to the school? Especially if their work is based on the means and equipment afforded by the school.
OTOH I strongly believe that what you do in your own time with your own means should be your property. Nor the work of a student should be property of the school. Of course, I can see the mental process of some manager thinking "we own the teacher's work, why not the students', since they are even below a teacher?". It would be no use explaining that students are not employees but, in a sense, customers. I fear there is no reasoning with this type of people.
Because if you are the size of Sammy, you know to keep every door open. In this case it means being able to churn out a Windows tablet in case the OS is an unexpected success. They don't need to actually market it, just ensure that their hardware runs it with minimal modifications and have a small userbase to iron out the biggest bugs.
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Some have suggested that Nokia should have adopted Android. There's already an overwhelming glut of Android devices on the market. Samsung is the dominant player by a huge margin with LG, HTC, Sony fighting over scraps. So what would be Nokia's strategy? Enter the fray as an also ran and hope that in the next 5+ years they somehow evolve into a relevant player? Don't forget that they were already heavily bleeding cash by this point.
If there is a meme that needs to die about Nokia is this absurd notion that Windows Phones are somehow not competing with the Android phones.
In the unlikely case this happens, may I respectfully suggest that you get a left party for a change?
seems like an honest mistake
the other side of the argument is: if it were clear that there was not a big discount with the season pass, the customer could decide not to buy it.
Just as a guideline X% up from X% down is a net decrease, as is in the other order (commutativity and all). Something many market analysts still fail to grasp.
Do you have any evidence whatsoever that the score is undeserved?
In this case being electric helped with not having to turn off the ignition to prevent fire, have more flexibility in the positioning of elements so that more protection is added for the passenger and having so low a center of mass that they had to design a special test in order to make the car rollover since it would not do it in the normal one. Also, using spaceworthy components helped, I guess...
Bradley Manning, for one. He was locked without trial and in almost complete isolation for years. I'm sure others will come to mind later, I just can't think of any right now.
[...] he would have been better served if he had just replied;
"I'm rude, you're not, let's leave it at that."
But he didn't.
How do you read this part then?
For example, you work mostly through Greg. I don't think either of you *planned* it that way, but it's likely because you guys work well together.
See what I'm saying? People are different. I'm not polite, and I get upset easily but generally don't hold a grudge - I have these explosive emails. And that works well for some people. And it probably doesn't work well with you.
And you know what? That's fine. Not everybody had to get along or work well with each other. But the fact that it doesn't work with you doesn't make it "wrong".
With all the posts RPi s used in so many outstanding projects, it's certainly refreshing and newsworthy that someone is using it the way it was designed to be used, and running the software that it was designed to run!
Sorry, guy who used it to monitor sharks, you are just not as cool.
because it would most probably lead to a war, which is known to raise the prices of everything. I'm not saying it's rational to panic over a tweet, but if the news were true, markets going down and prices up is a logic consequence.
So, with that in mind, I finished up editing Slashdot for the day and sat down to watch some of these new pilots.
Nice try, but we know you were wanking. Next time say you're sky-diving, designing the next Mars rover, or banging a supermodel. At least we know that there is someone doing those things.
We adopted a convention of two hemispheres, Eastern and Western divided by the Prime Meridian. But that is not why the OP was calling NZ western. He/she did it because it has a similar culture to the US, as if that makes it a better country in terms of human rights. And that is quite definitely annoying.
No, I'm rejecting the notion that "western" can be used as a synonym of "democratic", "civilized" or just "not a police state" because those things have nothing to do with geographical or cultural proximity with the USA (or Europe).
I know what you are saying, but you may want to reconsider calling New Zealand "western", at least out of respect for the old sailors and explorers that helped map the globe through long travels and considerable danger.
When you are done with the knee-jerk reaction, you may consider that the bill is just putting the power to veto the bonuses in the hands of the people that actually pay for those bonuses.
After all, your solution is coercion.
No, our solution is give the right of determining the salary to the people that actually pay said salary.
The DC-X was completed in 21 months by a team of 100 people, at a cost of around 60 million in 1991 dollars.
And it only flew for some test flights never actually reaching orbit. The design may be great, but it is not complete. So we have 100M as an estimated cost for a prototype, how much do you think the full project would be?
The iPhone was released in 2007. Windows Mobile had above 12% market share in 2008, which is four times the current Windows Phone (a little below 3%).
The Nobel Prizes for the sciences have always been very well chosen. The biggest criticism have always been about who was left out, but I have never heard of one given to a less than brilliant scientist. If you are thinking of the Nobel Prize for Peace, it is hard to disagree... In the committee's defense, the concept itself is extremely political by nature, so every choice is going to look partisan. But you should not confuse the two.
Windows Mobile had a larger marketshare than Windows Phone has now, so if WM was a problem WP is a disaster. Plus, where do you get he is talking specifically about Mobile? I don't see it in the linked article.
If you compare the bytecode interpreter to other bytecode interpreters, Lua is one of the fastest. If you compare the JIT compiler to other JIT compilers, Lua is one of the fastest, i.e. at the level of the best Javascript compilers (the most used and optimized scripting language around). What is your point?
It won't be hard: tables are implemented with a hash and an array part, so if you only use it as an array they will be efficiently stored. You may find weird to think of 1-based arrays, but it has never been a problem in my experience, since there is no pointer arithmetics to be done in Lua. Plus it's really convenient to develop something in Lua first to get it right, then move the code to C starting from the low level functions once it is stable.
Because it's their job? I mean, I don't condone overreaching, but it goes both ways: why should the school pay them if their work does not belong to the school? Especially if their work is based on the means and equipment afforded by the school.
OTOH I strongly believe that what you do in your own time with your own means should be your property. Nor the work of a student should be property of the school. Of course, I can see the mental process of some manager thinking "we own the teacher's work, why not the students', since they are even below a teacher?". It would be no use explaining that students are not employees but, in a sense, customers. I fear there is no reasoning with this type of people.
Because if you are the size of Sammy, you know to keep every door open. In this case it means being able to churn out a Windows tablet in case the OS is an unexpected success. They don't need to actually market it, just ensure that their hardware runs it with minimal modifications and have a small userbase to iron out the biggest bugs.
you often need to drill down to the 'tech specs' page when looking at tablets in order to tell whether it has a useful OS or not.
Can't you just check if it says "Windows" on the cover?