I used multitasking on my HTC Wallaby in 2004. The device has got 64 megabytes of RAM and a 206 MHz StrongARM CPU. Background applications worked well, the phone was always responsive.
No, it is not. Some people are even too stupid to use a VCR or to drive a car properly, but that does not mean that either VCR or the car are broken. As the old saying goes, "if you create a system that any idiot can use, then only idiots will find it useful".
I've used Windows Mobile, oh, only since 2004. I am a heavy multitasking user. The battery generally lasts for two-three days as long as I am not using my heavy Sennheiser headphones while listening FLAC encoded files. The phone is responsive and useful at the same time. If you are too stupid to use Windows Mobile, what the hell are you doing on Slashdot?
No Programmers love the simple elegance of C. C is a masterwork, it is subtle, it is sublime.
It is subprime, to be honest. In C most conditions look like an ugly mess of braces and special characters, the functions of the standard library (and yes, the standard library is part of the language standard) have got cryptic names (because C programmers are too lazy to type, same problem with UNIX shell commands), lack of sets, undefined behaviour (a computer language allowing female logic is just what the world needs), zero-terminated strings (downright evil) and so on.
Simple elegance is something like Lua, but definitely not C.
As I already said, different people - different needs. My cousin gave me an iPod Touch for my birthday. I've tried it out for a week, sold it after that. I couldn't do anything really useful with it - no multitasking, no A2DP, low resolution screen and so on. Years later Apple has implemented some functionality, but they are still not there for me.
And before dozens of Apple fanatics try to tell me that I am stupid and no one needs multitasking (as they always do when I mention the reasons why I am not even remotely interested in iPhone) and how it only kills both the battery life and little kittens, well, for me it has worked just fine. I use PDAs for a decade now. Even one of my first, a Franklin Ebookman, managed multitasking with a puny 24 MHz CPU very well and was in nearly every respect better than his contemporary Palm III, which I also had (not to speak of the - for those times - amazing display). The only real turnoff was the widespread failure of the RAM backup capacitors so on many devices the battery replacement could result in data loss. Well, the more I think about it, the more I realize that even a device so old is in some ways even better than the glorified iPhone - replaceable batteries, a memory card slot, multitasking, bigger screen...
If carrying two PDAs around makes you happy and meets all your needs then I am glad for you. HTC HD2 currently meets my personal needs better than any other available device, and because I don't have any reason to hate Windows Mobile (before WM7 that is), I'll continue to use that particular device until it fails, until something better comes up, or until my needs change.
Well, in the USSR the children were raised in an environment that fosters the development of self control. Only it failed nearly all the time (abortion was the most common pregnancy protection).
Wrong. Antibiotics are there to kill off all the non-resistant strains until the amount of bacteria low enough so the immune system can take care of the rest, this way preventing that the resistant strains survive. If an antibiotic treatment suddenly stops before all non-resistant strains were killed, the resistant strains survive and multiply and soon become dominant strains.
Yes. And multitasking is the reason why I've stayed with Windows Mobile for 6 years. It neither slows down the phone nor it is killing the battery significantly faster. I cannot enjoy my smartphone if I am not able to multitask. Hell, even my 10 year old Franklin Ebookman with its AFAIR 16 mhz CPU handled multitasking just fine and was because of it (and because of its screen) much better than a Palm III.
As is nearly every other European country. USA is so conservative that even your communist party - if there is any - would probably be more right wing than European social democrats.
It is a sad thing, really. I used Windows Mobile since 2003 and genuinely liked it because of the freedoms it gave to me. Windows Mobile 7 is the reason why my next device will run Android.
Well, I got a pneumonia in Germany. The doctor x-rayed my chest and after a quick look he called a taxi to get me to the hospital right away. I've spent 10 days at the hospital. I even hadn't have to sit in line, I've asked if the doctor could see me immediately because I could barely stand straight. Emergencies always go first.
In Germany, one part of the ruling coalition is the German equivalent of the libertarian party: FDP. When they were in the opposition, they were the loudest against big government, welfare, taxes, corruption and so on.
Only 100 days after they went to power, FDP has risen the number of civil servants and repealed the law which mandated lowering the number of them every year. FDP ministers have put their army buddies, elder FDP officials and other buddies into high positions, they have lowered the tax for a corporation that donated to FDP, and the head of the FDP has actively promoted the business of his gay boyfriend.
Initially designed to run on AT&T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple, Inc.'s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS Classic.[2] Apple CEO Gil Amelio started negotiations to buy Be Inc., but negotiations stalled when Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée wanted $200 million; Apple was unwilling to offer any more than $125 million. Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.[3] To further complicate matters for Be, Apple refused to disclose certain architectural information about its G3 line of computers--information Be deemed critical to making BeOS work on the latest Apple hardware.
Generic classes and operator overloading are supported by Delphi. I am not sure about parametric polymorphism and in my opinion, multiple inheritances are downright evil (and it is not because I know only Delphi, I normally develop in C++ and C#). But nice usage of buzz words.
When you tell that Delphi is not suited for enterprise programming, you are a liar. There are some huge custom enterprise applications written in Delphi (I actually have written a few myself). The code is also much more clean, readable and safe than C++ code because it takes long time and complicated measures to write safe code in C++ and it isn't small. If you want small code, you have to resort to C hacks and it makes the code a mess.
The rest of your rant just shows that you don't know what you are talking about. Combined with your preference for buzz words and your silly arguments (millions of flies cannot be wrong and such) I think you should quit being a software developer and move to the marketing department.
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I used multitasking on my HTC Wallaby in 2004. The device has got 64 megabytes of RAM and a 206 MHz StrongARM CPU. Background applications worked well, the phone was always responsive.
No, it is not. Some people are even too stupid to use a VCR or to drive a car properly, but that does not mean that either VCR or the car are broken. As the old saying goes, "if you create a system that any idiot can use, then only idiots will find it useful".
I've used Windows Mobile, oh, only since 2004. I am a heavy multitasking user. The battery generally lasts for two-three days as long as I am not using my heavy Sennheiser headphones while listening FLAC encoded files. The phone is responsive and useful at the same time. If you are too stupid to use Windows Mobile, what the hell are you doing on Slashdot?
It is subprime, to be honest. In C most conditions look like an ugly mess of braces and special characters, the functions of the standard library (and yes, the standard library is part of the language standard) have got cryptic names (because C programmers are too lazy to type, same problem with UNIX shell commands), lack of sets, undefined behaviour (a computer language allowing female logic is just what the world needs), zero-terminated strings (downright evil) and so on.
Simple elegance is something like Lua, but definitely not C.
No, Windows CE has got a completely different codebase with some Win32 API on top of it.
Oh, there are different sergeants as well. I've heard of a particular one who always used to say: he who can smoke, can also do some work.
As I already said, different people - different needs.
My cousin gave me an iPod Touch for my birthday. I've tried it out for a week, sold it after that. I couldn't do anything really useful with it - no multitasking, no A2DP, low resolution screen and so on. Years later Apple has implemented some functionality, but they are still not there for me.
And before dozens of Apple fanatics try to tell me that I am stupid and no one needs multitasking (as they always do when I mention the reasons why I am not even remotely interested in iPhone) and how it only kills both the battery life and little kittens, well, for me it has worked just fine. I use PDAs for a decade now. Even one of my first, a Franklin Ebookman, managed multitasking with a puny 24 MHz CPU very well and was in nearly every respect better than his contemporary Palm III, which I also had (not to speak of the - for those times - amazing display). The only real turnoff was the widespread failure of the RAM backup capacitors so on many devices the battery replacement could result in data loss. Well, the more I think about it, the more I realize that even a device so old is in some ways even better than the glorified iPhone - replaceable batteries, a memory card slot, multitasking, bigger screen...
If carrying two PDAs around makes you happy and meets all your needs then I am glad for you. HTC HD2 currently meets my personal needs better than any other available device, and because I don't have any reason to hate Windows Mobile (before WM7 that is), I'll continue to use that particular device until it fails, until something better comes up, or until my needs change.
Different people, different needs - even the latest iPhone is (for me personally) a worse choice than an old HTC Universal I had years ago.
Uh, wrong. What got Stalin the power struggle between Trotsky and Zinoviev while Lenin was near his death.
Well, in the USSR the children were raised in an environment that fosters the development of self control. Only it failed nearly all the time (abortion was the most common pregnancy protection).
Wrong. Antibiotics are there to kill off all the non-resistant strains until the amount of bacteria low enough so the immune system can take care of the rest, this way preventing that the resistant strains survive.
If an antibiotic treatment suddenly stops before all non-resistant strains were killed, the resistant strains survive and multiply and soon become dominant strains.
True, but then again UK is not exactly European standard.
Yes. And multitasking is the reason why I've stayed with Windows Mobile for 6 years. It neither slows down the phone nor it is killing the battery significantly faster. I cannot enjoy my smartphone if I am not able to multitask.
Hell, even my 10 year old Franklin Ebookman with its AFAIR 16 mhz CPU handled multitasking just fine and was because of it (and because of its screen) much better than a Palm III.
I also was raised in eastern Europe and I can say that bullying was as bad - or even worse - there as is in western Europe.
As is nearly every other European country. USA is so conservative that even your communist party - if there is any - would probably be more right wing than European social democrats.
It is a sad thing, really. I used Windows Mobile since 2003 and genuinely liked it because of the freedoms it gave to me. Windows Mobile 7 is the reason why my next device will run Android.
He does not. Other do.
Well, I got a pneumonia in Germany. The doctor x-rayed my chest and after a quick look he called a taxi to get me to the hospital right away. I've spent 10 days at the hospital.
I even hadn't have to sit in line, I've asked if the doctor could see me immediately because I could barely stand straight.
Emergencies always go first.
Libertarians are the biggest hypocrites, anyway.
In Germany, one part of the ruling coalition is the German equivalent of the libertarian party: FDP. When they were in the opposition, they were the loudest against big government, welfare, taxes, corruption and so on.
Only 100 days after they went to power, FDP has risen the number of civil servants and repealed the law which mandated lowering the number of them every year.
FDP ministers have put their army buddies, elder FDP officials and other buddies into high positions, they have lowered the tax for a corporation that donated to FDP, and the head of the FDP has actively promoted the business of his gay boyfriend.
It actually is, in many ways. Every infection is a potential health hazard for others.
It was Apple that killed BeOS, not Microsoft.
There are CFLs with a CRI of 96 (CRI of 100 is real daylight). So much for that.
Can't tell about hoverboard, but here's your flying car.
Generic classes and operator overloading are supported by Delphi. I am not sure about parametric polymorphism and in my opinion, multiple inheritances are downright evil (and it is not because I know only Delphi, I normally develop in C++ and C#). But nice usage of buzz words.
When you tell that Delphi is not suited for enterprise programming, you are a liar. There are some huge custom enterprise applications written in Delphi (I actually have written a few myself). The code is also much more clean, readable and safe than C++ code because it takes long time and complicated measures to write safe code in C++ and it isn't small. If you want small code, you have to resort to C hacks and it makes the code a mess.
The rest of your rant just shows that you don't know what you are talking about. Combined with your preference for buzz words and your silly arguments (millions of flies cannot be wrong and such) I think you should quit being a software developer and move to the marketing department.
As shutdown -p now has pointed out, Stalin was an orthodox georgian christ, and attended a theological school and later a seminary.