Well, wenn we are talking cellphones, especially PDA phones, my old T-Mobile MDA from 2003 (a rectangle with rounded corners and a 3.5" touchscreen by the way) running Windows Mobile 2003 has got (*gasp*) a green phone button for placing a call and a red one for hanging up.
And this is the reason why I kept using Windows Mobile until a year ago, later switching to Android without switching the phone. I like to have the options and to use them, too.
No, they were not. They were not really communist, either. For example, USSR was socialist, and it was also acknowledged by its leaders as such. There was also a huge difference between the soviet style socialism and fascism. For example, USSR was very much was a multi-ethnic multi-language country with quite internationalist policies. Fascist countries were nationalist and forcibly single-ethnic. Also in socialism workers own means of production, fascist coutries, on the other hand, privatized many public enterprises.
So basically you don't know what you are talking about.
And maybe academics do know better. Because due to a language by developers for developers we now have a hard hack in the CPU (the NX bit). And I tell that as someone who develops embedded Linux applications in C for a living.
I know this because I've had to port code back and forth from C# to ANSI C++, and apart from some specific, easy-to-isolate areas (like interfacing with the GUI), the structure of the programs remains the same.
This doesn't prove anything. I've ported a XModem/YModem protocol library from C# to C (not even C++) a year ago and both were almost identical in structure afterwards.
Also, you should aim to be a Programmer, rather than a (C++ || Java || C# || Python) Programmer
That is true. Although the languages one knows do influence the way one writes software. I definitely became a shoddier developer when I switched from Delphi to C.
It doesn't work that way in Germany. As with the WLAN hotspot, the owner of the hotspot is responsible for all illegal activity on it, even if anybody could have used it.
I've checked the availability of that HTC HD7, it can be bought unlocked in the USA, working with the American GSM network frequencies. There are also others. If a puny European can search American shops for phones, so can they.
Neither GSM phones nor GSM SIM cards work with Verizon Wireless or Sprint. Let me know when Virgin Mobile USA, one of Sprint's prepaid brands, has Windows phones.
Now you are being picky. Use a GSM provider, there you'll have a free choice of handsets and contracts.
Why buy a $500 Windows phone when one can get an iPod touch or Archos 43 for half that?
Well, I've paid EUR520 (was around $700 back then) for my HTC HD2 (with Windows Mobile 6.5 actually) because it was, at that time, the most versatile handheld. Nowadays and in the USA the devices are way cheaper. You can buy a new unlocked HD7 for $350, not $500, which favourably compares to other recent PDA phones and to the devices you've mentioned (and is still cheaper than EUR400 I would have to pay for it)
Well, fear of the expensive phone being dropped or stolen is valid, but all real phones out there have got a replaceable battery so if you really cannot be bothered to check the battery status sometimes, then you still could carry a spare battery with you. They aren't heavy. And since replacement batteries are cheap, you can always get a fresh one if your old doesn't hold its charge. As for me, I use my HD2 every day for music and ebooks, the battery is still strong after almost two years.
All unlocked GSM phones (maybe except for iPhone, I don't know for sure) work with all GSM SIM cards. You can also buy a phone and don't use it as a phone, no one forces you to get an expensive plan with it.
As someone who lives in Germany for the last 18 years, I can say that the American definition of "socialism" and "taxed to death" never stop to amuse me.
I never had those crippled WinMo phones without touchscreens, but before the HD2 that I currently use, I used to own HTC Wallaby, Himalaya, Blue Angel, Universal, Athena and Blackstone, so I went through pretty much all Windows Mobile versions from 2002 to 6.5, mostly using custom ROMs from xda-developers. I have also disassembled a few Himalayas and Universals and I am pretty sure that there were some DSPs on the motherboard.
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Where exactly have you seen Google mentioned in GP's post?
You know what? Fuck that either/or mentality.
You can actually get addicted to L-Thyroxin?
Well, wenn we are talking cellphones, especially PDA phones, my old T-Mobile MDA from 2003 (a rectangle with rounded corners and a 3.5" touchscreen by the way) running Windows Mobile 2003 has got (*gasp*) a green phone button for placing a call and a red one for hanging up.
Forbidding death penalty for all EU members can be interpreted as criminal policy
And this is the reason why I kept using Windows Mobile until a year ago, later switching to Android without switching the phone. I like to have the options and to use them, too.
Sounds good to me.
No, they were not. They were not really communist, either.
For example, USSR was socialist, and it was also acknowledged by its leaders as such. There was also a huge difference between the soviet style socialism and fascism. For example, USSR was very much was a multi-ethnic multi-language country with quite internationalist policies. Fascist countries were nationalist and forcibly single-ethnic. Also in socialism workers own means of production, fascist coutries, on the other hand, privatized many public enterprises.
So basically you don't know what you are talking about.
From top of my head:
WinForms/VCL.
Properties are quite similar. If I remember correctly, there is no such thing in Java.
The pass by reference/pass by value system is quite similar, also the fact that the objects are manipulated by value, not by reference.
By not allowing buffer overflows for one, because that is the way how "data" is getting executed.
As someone with a Delphi background and some experience with Java, let me tell you that C# really feels like an strange mix of both.
And maybe academics do know better. Because due to a language by developers for developers we now have a hard hack in the CPU (the NX bit). And I tell that as someone who develops embedded Linux applications in C for a living.
This doesn't prove anything. I've ported a XModem/YModem protocol library from C# to C (not even C++) a year ago and both were almost identical in structure afterwards.
That is true. Although the languages one knows do influence the way one writes software. I definitely became a shoddier developer when I switched from Delphi to C.
URL please.
It doesn't work that way in Germany. As with the WLAN hotspot, the owner of the hotspot is responsible for all illegal activity on it, even if anybody could have used it.
It might be news for you, but there are people out there who use large fonts because they don't see that well anymore.
I've checked the availability of that HTC HD7, it can be bought unlocked in the USA, working with the American GSM network frequencies. There are also others. If a puny European can search American shops for phones, so can they.
Yeah, I admit, it was a cheap shot.
Now you are being picky. Use a GSM provider, there you'll have a free choice of handsets and contracts.
Well, I've paid EUR520 (was around $700 back then) for my HTC HD2 (with Windows Mobile 6.5 actually) because it was, at that time, the most versatile handheld. Nowadays and in the USA the devices are way cheaper. You can buy a new unlocked HD7 for $350, not $500, which favourably compares to other recent PDA phones and to the devices you've mentioned (and is still cheaper than EUR400 I would have to pay for it)
Well, fear of the expensive phone being dropped or stolen is valid, but all real phones out there have got a replaceable battery so if you really cannot be bothered to check the battery status sometimes, then you still could carry a spare battery with you. They aren't heavy. And since replacement batteries are cheap, you can always get a fresh one if your old doesn't hold its charge. As for me, I use my HD2 every day for music and ebooks, the battery is still strong after almost two years.
What are you talking about? You can buy (for example) a HTC HD7 for around $350 without any contract.
All unlocked GSM phones (maybe except for iPhone, I don't know for sure) work with all GSM SIM cards. You can also buy a phone and don't use it as a phone, no one forces you to get an expensive plan with it.
As someone who lives in Germany for the last 18 years, I can say that the American definition of "socialism" and "taxed to death" never stop to amuse me.
Well, a large part of greek problems ist rampant tax evasion. Especially by the rich.
I never had those crippled WinMo phones without touchscreens, but before the HD2 that I currently use, I used to own HTC Wallaby, Himalaya, Blue Angel, Universal, Athena and Blackstone, so I went through pretty much all Windows Mobile versions from 2002 to 6.5, mostly using custom ROMs from xda-developers. I have also disassembled a few Himalayas and Universals and I am pretty sure that there were some DSPs on the motherboard.
That's not how it works. Even an adopted person had, at some point of its life, parents in the biological sense of the word.