If the server side code pulled the ads and the page was dynamically generated, you'd have the "best" of both worlds. Unblocked ads that weren't stored locally.
I love my WP7 phone (currently on Mango -- haven't received the Tango update). I'll go to WP7.8 when it's available and WP8 when ready to renew my phone.
People complain about older devices not getting updates, but every company does it. At some point software surpasses the capabilities of the hardware. It sucks for the Nokia owners, but the other models were old enough that it's not that surprising.
You need a couple of rockstar developers so that you can have an unresolved argument.:)
Actually, that ratio is fairly close. You need a rockstar to solve the tough problems and a team of junior developers to do the less glamorous work. The mid-level guys are "rockstars in training".
The current (soon to be dead [sadly]?) Zune software does a good job. Plenty of reviews (even by sites that favor Apple product) have said as much. And it has parallel features to almost every feature in iTunes (I don't use iTunes, so there may be some obscure ones that it can't match -- but the major features are covered).
The point about Jobs was that he was ambidextrous (as am I). I just wore my watch as right handed people do and I assume that Jobs did as well. That doesn't make him a righty (as claimed by the article).
Yeah, I found the whole article pretty bogus. He talks about the left-handed bias in the QWERTY keyboard and switched from a right-handed mouse to a left-handed mouse, killing the benefit. I'm a lefty-favoring-ambidextrous person that mouses with my right because it is a decided advantage. I can mouse and type quite well.
Also, his caption about Jobs being ambidextrous and wearing his watch as a righty was proof that he wasn't? That's stupid. I've adjusted to using "handed" equipment with the intended hand and he already explained why a watch was right handed. If Jobs has the same ambidextrous bend that I have, you use the equipment for the hand it was designed.
Just way too many complaints about technology unnecessarily.
I think the retail version of Office allows you to install it on more than one personal computers as well. Whereas the OEM version is only licensed for a single computer.
If you read the terms for Office 2010 Home/Student edition for example, it says:
INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. a. One Copy per Device. You may install one copy of the software on one device. That device is the âoelicensed device.â b. Licensed Device. You may only use one copy of the software on the licensed device at a time. c. Portable Device. You may install another copy of the software on a portable device for use by the single primary user of the licensed device. d. Separation of Components. The components of the software are licensed as a single unit. You may not separate the components and install them on different devices. e. Alternative Versions. The software may include more than one version, such as 32-bit and 64-bit. You may install and use only one version at a time.
Which with A and C, you can install it on your primary computer as well as a portable device (that's two). I've seen others that allow for additional installs (I want to say three is typically the max, but I don't have a firm example).
It's possible to get the embedded version of Windows or Windows PE (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766093(v=ws.10).aspx). Neither are intended for use as your primary OS, but both technically provide what you are asking for. The downside is that they aren't as easy to get and are likely more expensive than the full retail version.
I used Active @ Disk (http://www.disk-image.com/) to recover some computers. It works by booting into Windows PE. This allows you to access resources such as Windows networking and shares (to copy recovered files to another computer across the network). But the point being that Windows PE is a nice, stripped down version of Windows with very little of the "bloat" you refer to.
To be fair, the revolutionaries may have been smaller in number, but that amounted to a greater percentage of the people. If even just 20 to 30 percent of the populous agrees with you, it's a lot easier to get stuff accomplished. Also, distance made the American revolution a lot easier for the people who lived here compared to those who lived on the other side of the ocean.
I know about the alternatives.....but what I want to know is if any of them have the same security holes (or conversely, which PDF viewer is the most secure).
I'd like to see them include some of the alternative readers (Foxit, etc.) included in their testing since they are somewhat popular among people who have thought that Adobe Reader was bloated and slow for quite a while.
Market Cap is just shares outstanding times stock price. It's just one attempt at measuring how "large" a company is.......and really, once stock is "in the wild", it doesn't really affect the business of the company *.
* By that, I mean that if the stock price goes up or down, it doesn't affect how much money a company has or whether a company sells its products or if a company even turns a profit. Obviously, management is responsible for making sure that the stockholders continue to want to be stockholders.....but the stock itself really represents what the stockholders think the company is going to be worth in the future.
[quote]A large number (though not all) of Phd grads I've worked with are great at solving problems, but not very good at putting that into practice on a large codebase (where maintainablity, sanity, and efficiency, inevitably take priority over being cutting edge).[/quote]
Which is why having about a decade worth of experience in the business world would give him an edge over the theoretical-only PhDs. He's worked on real life projects, probably even in a team environment with source control. And if he gets the theoretical from the PhD program, so much the better.
Many employers will reimburse you for going to school. Low investment (temporary cash flow -- percentage based on grades). Even if it just gets you a raise at your current job, the return is good.
But it could be both. If he's in charge of stopping fake accounts.....and he really good at it.....and he knows how to circumvent it......he could have near exclusivity on the supply. (You can put it in the 1. 2. 3. Profit model if you want.)
Or.....one could say they help foster smaller teams of developing patents (I wouldn't, but some might). The little guy who can't afford to defend his patent could sell it to a patent troll and make some money from their patent. The patent troll then turns around and uses their legal knowledge to reap the reward of that investment.
I don't really believe this, but I can see it as an argument. I think that these companies are the reason that there are so many nit-picky little patents all over the place. I think that technology patents need shorter life-spans (5 years in software is 20 years in manufacturing). But being able to see both sides of an argument helps bolster your own thoughts.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't understand the underlying logic......but there's a huge difference between calculating a Fourier transform and knowing what one is and why you would want it. Or whatever other math subject you want. I took Calculus and Differential Equations, but I don't use any of it in my daily programming tasks. I understand them and could get a refresher if I needed to code it, but it isn't important to my ability to do my job. Which is ultimately what the OP asked.
If you want to write the libraries, you need to KNOW the math. If you want to use the libraries, you need to know the math. In your oversimplification, you make it sound like you go out and hand build your computers from the silicon up because you can't trust the chip makers or the OS or the programming language or the.......well, you get the point. In order to be productive, you use tools. Better programmers understand the underlying principles and can identify when a tool they rely on isn't working properly (and files a bug report so that it's fixed) but they don't reinvent the tools that exist just because they have some high and mighty attitude towards APIs.
If you are just using libraries and assets, you won't do as much math until you need to tune a section of code. If you are writing the lower level graphics libraries, math will be important. Same for other programming areas -- the high-level programmer doesn't need to know the complex problem domain but the low-level programmer does.
Oh, and learn Linear Algebra (as a simplification, Matrix Math) if you're doing much in a graphics field. It's not in the straight line of "important" math (Algebra --> Trig --> Calculus) but in a branch from there. It's quite useful in graphics, however.
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If the server side code pulled the ads and the page was dynamically generated, you'd have the "best" of both worlds. Unblocked ads that weren't stored locally.
I love my WP7 phone (currently on Mango -- haven't received the Tango update). I'll go to WP7.8 when it's available and WP8 when ready to renew my phone.
People complain about older devices not getting updates, but every company does it. At some point software surpasses the capabilities of the hardware. It sucks for the Nokia owners, but the other models were old enough that it's not that surprising.
You need a couple of rockstar developers so that you can have an unresolved argument. :)
Actually, that ratio is fairly close. You need a rockstar to solve the tough problems and a team of junior developers to do the less glamorous work. The mid-level guys are "rockstars in training".
Check the start date of SkyDrive. It wasn't very good back then, but it was available back in 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skydrive
The current (soon to be dead [sadly]?) Zune software does a good job. Plenty of reviews (even by sites that favor Apple product) have said as much. And it has parallel features to almost every feature in iTunes (I don't use iTunes, so there may be some obscure ones that it can't match -- but the major features are covered).
They also own Woot. ([citation provided] http://consumerist.com/2010/06/amazon-buys-woot.html)
In fact, I'm surprised there haven't be MORE Kindles sold on Woot.
Brief info on tides: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/latest-questions/question/1225/
And, of course, there's the Inverse Square Law: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/isq.html
The point about Jobs was that he was ambidextrous (as am I). I just wore my watch as right handed people do and I assume that Jobs did as well. That doesn't make him a righty (as claimed by the article).
Yeah, I found the whole article pretty bogus. He talks about the left-handed bias in the QWERTY keyboard and switched from a right-handed mouse to a left-handed mouse, killing the benefit. I'm a lefty-favoring-ambidextrous person that mouses with my right because it is a decided advantage. I can mouse and type quite well.
Also, his caption about Jobs being ambidextrous and wearing his watch as a righty was proof that he wasn't? That's stupid. I've adjusted to using "handed" equipment with the intended hand and he already explained why a watch was right handed. If Jobs has the same ambidextrous bend that I have, you use the equipment for the hand it was designed.
Just way too many complaints about technology unnecessarily.
No manual / glossy inserts?
I think the retail version of Office allows you to install it on more than one personal computers as well. Whereas the OEM version is only licensed for a single computer.
http://www.microsoft.com/About/Legal/EN/US/IntellectualProperty/UseTerms/Default.aspx
If you read the terms for Office 2010 Home/Student edition for example, it says:
INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.
a. One Copy per Device. You may install one copy of the software on one device. That device is the âoelicensed device.â
b. Licensed Device. You may only use one copy of the software on the licensed device at a time.
c. Portable Device. You may install another copy of the software on a portable device for use by the single primary user of the licensed device.
d. Separation of Components. The components of the software are licensed as a single unit. You may not separate the components and install them on different devices.
e. Alternative Versions. The software may include more than one version, such as 32-bit and 64-bit. You may install and use only one version at a time.
Which with A and C, you can install it on your primary computer as well as a portable device (that's two). I've seen others that allow for additional installs (I want to say three is typically the max, but I don't have a firm example).
It's possible to get the embedded version of Windows or Windows PE (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766093(v=ws.10).aspx). Neither are intended for use as your primary OS, but both technically provide what you are asking for. The downside is that they aren't as easy to get and are likely more expensive than the full retail version.
I used Active @ Disk (http://www.disk-image.com/) to recover some computers. It works by booting into Windows PE. This allows you to access resources such as Windows networking and shares (to copy recovered files to another computer across the network). But the point being that Windows PE is a nice, stripped down version of Windows with very little of the "bloat" you refer to.
To be fair, the revolutionaries may have been smaller in number, but that amounted to a greater percentage of the people. If even just 20 to 30 percent of the populous agrees with you, it's a lot easier to get stuff accomplished. Also, distance made the American revolution a lot easier for the people who lived here compared to those who lived on the other side of the ocean.
I know about the alternatives.....but what I want to know is if any of them have the same security holes (or conversely, which PDF viewer is the most secure).
I'd like to see them include some of the alternative readers (Foxit, etc.) included in their testing since they are somewhat popular among people who have thought that Adobe Reader was bloated and slow for quite a while.
Market Cap is just shares outstanding times stock price. It's just one attempt at measuring how "large" a company is.......and really, once stock is "in the wild", it doesn't really affect the business of the company *.
* By that, I mean that if the stock price goes up or down, it doesn't affect how much money a company has or whether a company sells its products or if a company even turns a profit. Obviously, management is responsible for making sure that the stockholders continue to want to be stockholders.....but the stock itself really represents what the stockholders think the company is going to be worth in the future.
Yeah.....this post seemed like a lot of "duh" to anyone who's heard of any of these products.
[quote]A large number (though not all) of Phd grads I've worked with are great at solving problems, but not very good at putting that into practice on a large codebase (where maintainablity, sanity, and efficiency, inevitably take priority over being cutting edge).[/quote]
Which is why having about a decade worth of experience in the business world would give him an edge over the theoretical-only PhDs. He's worked on real life projects, probably even in a team environment with source control. And if he gets the theoretical from the PhD program, so much the better.
Many employers will reimburse you for going to school. Low investment (temporary cash flow -- percentage based on grades). Even if it just gets you a raise at your current job, the return is good.
I suspect the first......
But it could be both. If he's in charge of stopping fake accounts.....and he really good at it.....and he knows how to circumvent it......he could have near exclusivity on the supply. (You can put it in the 1. 2. 3. Profit model if you want.)
You also have to make that sound: BRrrrrrrrrrdddddddTick.
Or.....one could say they help foster smaller teams of developing patents (I wouldn't, but some might). The little guy who can't afford to defend his patent could sell it to a patent troll and make some money from their patent. The patent troll then turns around and uses their legal knowledge to reap the reward of that investment.
I don't really believe this, but I can see it as an argument. I think that these companies are the reason that there are so many nit-picky little patents all over the place. I think that technology patents need shorter life-spans (5 years in software is 20 years in manufacturing). But being able to see both sides of an argument helps bolster your own thoughts.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't understand the underlying logic......but there's a huge difference between calculating a Fourier transform and knowing what one is and why you would want it. Or whatever other math subject you want. I took Calculus and Differential Equations, but I don't use any of it in my daily programming tasks. I understand them and could get a refresher if I needed to code it, but it isn't important to my ability to do my job. Which is ultimately what the OP asked.
If you want to write the libraries, you need to KNOW the math. If you want to use the libraries, you need to know the math. In your oversimplification, you make it sound like you go out and hand build your computers from the silicon up because you can't trust the chip makers or the OS or the programming language or the.......well, you get the point. In order to be productive, you use tools. Better programmers understand the underlying principles and can identify when a tool they rely on isn't working properly (and files a bug report so that it's fixed) but they don't reinvent the tools that exist just because they have some high and mighty attitude towards APIs.
This.
If you are just using libraries and assets, you won't do as much math until you need to tune a section of code. If you are writing the lower level graphics libraries, math will be important. Same for other programming areas -- the high-level programmer doesn't need to know the complex problem domain but the low-level programmer does.
Oh, and learn Linear Algebra (as a simplification, Matrix Math) if you're doing much in a graphics field. It's not in the straight line of "important" math (Algebra --> Trig --> Calculus) but in a branch from there. It's quite useful in graphics, however.
Every once in a billion years, you can read Hamlet or some such from /dev/random.