I agree, RP is just as good (judging from screenshots) and cheaper. Had it for a year or two. And it has helped me out a couple of times. You get some info about where your train is, rather than where it's supposed to be too, although this isn't always very accurate.
what about the heat? You can't touch a gpu when it's going full blast, so how are you going to hold a phone which uses the case as the gpu's heat sink?
programming in schools is doomed by tick-box culture
Even if they did decide to teach real programming, you can be sure that before you're allowed to write the program, you'll have to
a) Write a full specification for it like the pros do
b) Decide which programming methodology to follow - waterfall, agile etc.
c) Finally write something that doesn't work
d) be graded on a & b, with scant regard for the fact that it didn't work.
Now, apart from the fact that this is good training for working on a large government IT contract, it just isn't how people get _interested_ in programming.
And in case you think this won't happen, my son did a woodwork project where actually making the object was less than 25% of the overall work.
"Even if counterfeit smart cards hadn't existed, it wouldn't have made any difference"
Maybe so, but that misses the point that if Sky colluded with a code-breaking and piracy operation against one of its competitors, even one as incompetent as ONdigital, then what they did was completely illegal.
So is this why there's no-one out there? Earthlike worlds at 1 AU are a rarity, because all the good orbital zones are taken up by some fatty bastard, farting methane and sweating.
A fuel cell, in a phone? I am sure it's passed the obviousness test, because most people would consider it obviously stupid, but really, when did just sticking two things together become a patentable invention?
The pilots were partly responsible but it was the computer that really killed them all.
This is the killer: lack of feedback. "Even while the airline was plunging to earth at 10,000 feet per minute, the pilots were not certain whether it was climbing or falling"
For some reason the pilots were unable to figure out the direction of the most important vector a plane has. Most of the blame here has to go to the avionics and the UI. Pilots can be trained to overcome these issues, but once stress kicks in the extra intellectual effort needed to decipher a poor display simply disappears.
>>After not playing for the second week, the effects were diminished, but not eliminated entirely.
"These findings indicate that violent video game play has a long-term effect on brain functioning," Wang concluded.<<
Since when has one week been defined as long term. Did Dr Wang stop the study at two weeks just in case that the effect would vanish completely at three weeks? The answer, folks, is yes.
I don't see how getting rid of one source of error is enough for a press release. Surely they should wait until they've eliminated all sources of error? After all, science isn't a desperate attempt to grab headlines with iffy results.
No, wait, it is.
[Paris, because she's a desperate attempt to grab headlines]
Well, a variant of the Fermi paradox makes it even more likely that we're alone. If we make a robot probe which a) flies to the nearest star and then b) builds two copies of itself which then fly to the next stars, you can see that once one is built, it won't take long for copies of it to have visited every star in the galaxy (basically just the width of the galaxy (100,000 light years) divided by the flight speed (with magnetic ramjets, a decent fraction of c). If 1/10 c is the best on offer, it would only take 1 million years for these probes to visit every star, including ours.
The problem is also that the market for patents is being flooded with essentially worthless ones (swipe to unlock anyone) that nonetheless can cause a great deal of trouble. Quite a bit like all those CDOs, doncha think?
The only winners here are the lawyers. Again, a bit like the financial bubble too.
OK, big problem with this - the four colour problem was a mathematical proof that required a computer to verify. That means that you can now patent mathematical proofs, except that you're not supposed to be able to do this.
Clearly the judges are not as smart as they think they are.
I once had the misfortune to run McAfee - the "Enterprise" version. After a while, I decided that a virus couldn't possibly be worse, and uninstalled it. It comes as no shock that a McAfee plugin would make a web browser near impossible to use.
... of catching up on their competitors going on there. Didn't apple make this mistake before? Innovative premium products followed by a period of complacency followed by ... a near-death experience.
I said in the pub a year ago that if nokia brought out an android phone, I'd pay a lot to have it. Windows, not so much. I like windows on desktops, but it always seems a bit clunky. Windows phone is better, but not enough.
OK I said it in a pub, so it's not like it has any value or anything. But now I'm sober I stand by it.
1) It focuses on one cause of death. Even if cancer was increased by drinking, maybe strokes or heart disease are decreased? You'd never know. Some big studies show that all-risks death rates are lower for what the NHS would call heavy drinkers (and what the rest of us would consider normal).
2) It lumps all alcohol together, even though some studies also show that wine is better for you, beer is pretty much neutral, and spirits worse.
3) Even if the relative risk was different from 1 (say 2 or so) this still wouldn't amount to very much change in the actual death rate, because it's quite low. You'd have a better impact on your lifespan by being careful when you drive a car, than giving up alcohol.
"There is nothing about the actions of a madman to change the fact that firearms have been used throughout our history to defend American values and traditions."
must surely have been cut short. It should have read:
"There is nothing about the actions of a madman to change the fact that firearms have been used throughout our history to defend American values and traditions. Yeee-hawr!!!"
I agree that the education system in America is bad. How else could you get to be CEO of a major corporation (Cisco) and still not know what an inflection point is. It could either be a momentary halt in a growth curve or a momentary halt in a decline curve. But it can't mean what he thinks it's supposed to mean - i.e. a turning point, at which you decide to go one way or another. I guess he just thinks "inflection" is a cooler way of saying "turning", in which case he failed English too.
Ralph B has the right diagnosis but the wrong cure. Currently, the USPTO (and others) are paid according to results - which, broadly, means the number of patents they allow. Thus we get a stream of quite silly patents because it isn't in the USPTOs interest to review them properly, particularly as regards obviousness.
If we fined them for silly patents, their incentive would then be to refuse patents. This is hardly better than the current situation. The best situation (though not perfect) was when they didn't have an incentive either way, and weren't seen as a profit centre for the government; their only task was to uphold the law on patents as best they could. The patent office isn't a business and shouldn't be run as one.
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I agree, RP is just as good (judging from screenshots) and cheaper. Had it for a year or two. And it has helped me out a couple of times. You get some info about where your train is, rather than where it's supposed to be too, although this isn't always very accurate.
Never mind about the battery,
what about the heat? You can't touch a gpu when it's going full blast, so how are you going to hold a phone which uses the case as the gpu's heat sink?
programming in schools is doomed by tick-box culture
Even if they did decide to teach real programming, you can be sure that before you're allowed to write the program, you'll have to
a) Write a full specification for it like the pros do
b) Decide which programming methodology to follow - waterfall, agile etc.
c) Finally write something that doesn't work
d) be graded on a & b, with scant regard for the fact that it didn't work.
Now, apart from the fact that this is good training for working on a large government IT contract, it just isn't how people get _interested_ in programming.
And in case you think this won't happen, my son did a woodwork project where actually making the object was less than 25% of the overall work.
probably useful ...
... for reading all those emails so we can catch all them pedos and terrorists.
And the choice is between ...
One teeny tiny sim from Nokia, and one teeny tiny sim from Apple. Shit, just toss a coin.
(Prediction: if Apple's isn't accepted, they'll implement it in their own phones anyway)
missing the point
"Even if counterfeit smart cards hadn't existed, it wouldn't have made any difference"
Maybe so, but that misses the point that if Sky colluded with a code-breaking and piracy operation against one of its competitors, even one as incompetent as ONdigital, then what they did was completely illegal.
+1 for robotics, -1 for evidence-based medicine
Apart from the fact that most prostate operations are completely unnecessary, that's great news!
The Fermi paradox.
So is this why there's no-one out there? Earthlike worlds at 1 AU are a rarity, because all the good orbital zones are taken up by some fatty bastard, farting methane and sweating.
It's Java. Pretty much anything written in Java acts like a virus.
ok, so where are they?
maybe they're all too busy playing "Angry Gnarfgles"
Fuel cell ??
A fuel cell, in a phone? I am sure it's passed the obviousness test, because most people would consider it obviously stupid, but really, when did just sticking two things together become a patentable invention?
Oh, wait ...,
The pilots were partly responsible but it was the computer that really killed them all.
This is the killer: lack of feedback. "Even while the airline was plunging to earth at 10,000 feet per minute, the pilots were not certain whether it was climbing or falling"
For some reason the pilots were unable to figure out the direction of the most important vector a plane has. Most of the blame here has to go to the avionics and the UI. Pilots can be trained to overcome these issues, but once stress kicks in the extra intellectual effort needed to decipher a poor display simply disappears.
>>After not playing for the second week, the effects were diminished, but not eliminated entirely.
"These findings indicate that violent video game play has a long-term effect on brain functioning," Wang concluded.<<
Since when has one week been defined as long term. Did Dr Wang stop the study at two weeks just in case that the effect would vanish completely at three weeks? The answer, folks, is yes.
Am I the only one who ...
when reading "Connected Car" immediately thought of an automotive centipede?
Mine's the one with the scalpel in the pocket.
Life of Steve.
Steve's not a "very naughty boy". He's the messiah.
If, as the fifth commenter says, "Law = programming", then the language is Malbolge. Or possibly an extremely prolix variant of COBOL.
than Light. Faster
I don't see how getting rid of one source of error is enough for a press release. Surely they should wait until they've eliminated all sources of error? After all, science isn't a desperate attempt to grab headlines with iffy results.
No, wait, it is.
[Paris, because she's a desperate attempt to grab headlines]
Well, a variant of the Fermi paradox makes it even more likely that we're alone. If we make a robot probe which a) flies to the nearest star and then b) builds two copies of itself which then fly to the next stars, you can see that once one is built, it won't take long for copies of it to have visited every star in the galaxy (basically just the width of the galaxy (100,000 light years) divided by the flight speed (with magnetic ramjets, a decent fraction of c). If 1/10 c is the best on offer, it would only take 1 million years for these probes to visit every star, including ours.
Hence, alone.
grammar troll
No-one actually says "An nostalgic ..." anymore. Why don't you just do english as she is spoke and say "A nostalgic .."
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The problem is also that the market for patents is being flooded with essentially worthless ones (swipe to unlock anyone) that nonetheless can cause a great deal of trouble. Quite a bit like all those CDOs, doncha think?
The only winners here are the lawyers. Again, a bit like the financial bubble too.
Given that he got the idea from Fight Club, shouldn't have been just one frame?
For these people, buying a new phone is a life-affirming experience. Sadly.
OK, big problem with this - the four colour problem was a mathematical proof that required a computer to verify. That means that you can now patent mathematical proofs, except that you're not supposed to be able to do this.
Clearly the judges are not as smart as they think they are.
I got some computers. Cheap like. But cash only, OK? Don't want any trouble with the taxman, see?
If anyone thinks Sirir is really remarkable, try this test: Say "Call me a bag of shit tied up with chicken wire". It should either
(a) call your boss
(b) say "you're a bag of shit tied up with chicken wire"
If it does neither, it's no use to me.
I once had the misfortune to run McAfee - the "Enterprise" version. After a while, I decided that a virus couldn't possibly be worse, and uninstalled it. It comes as no shock that a McAfee plugin would make a web browser near impossible to use.
Its not 13 years in the making, ...
it's one year in the making, repeated 13 times.
An awful lot ...
... of catching up on their competitors going on there. Didn't apple make this mistake before? Innovative premium products followed by a period of complacency followed by ... a near-death experience.
the real problem with java is...
did anyone notice, it needed the greatest number of lines of code? Verbose doesn't begin to cover it.
why windows?
I said in the pub a year ago that if nokia brought out an android phone, I'd pay a lot to have it. Windows, not so much. I like windows on desktops, but it always seems a bit clunky. Windows phone is better, but not enough.
OK I said it in a pub, so it's not like it has any value or anything. But now I'm sober I stand by it.
The only advanced persistent threat at Oak Ridge ...
... is Internet Explorer.
The reason this study is shit is because ...
1) It focuses on one cause of death. Even if cancer was increased by drinking, maybe strokes or heart disease are decreased? You'd never know. Some big studies show that all-risks death rates are lower for what the NHS would call heavy drinkers (and what the rest of us would consider normal).
2) It lumps all alcohol together, even though some studies also show that wine is better for you, beer is pretty much neutral, and spirits worse.
3) Even if the relative risk was different from 1 (say 2 or so) this still wouldn't amount to very much change in the actual death rate, because it's quite low. You'd have a better impact on your lifespan by being careful when you drive a car, than giving up alcohol.
chill, dude
Try this:
public class Human {
public void setHumourLevel(int level) { ... }
}
public class JavaProgrammer extends Human {
...
}
JavaProgrammer KKaria = new JavaProgrammer();
// obviously not new as in novice.
KKaria.setHumourLevel(10)
Might help a little, though you could throw an out of range exception.
Harder to make mistakes in Java?
That's because it's harder to do anything in Java.
Guns don't kill people, stupidity does.
That quote:
"There is nothing about the actions of a madman to change the fact that firearms have been used throughout our history to defend American values and traditions."
must surely have been cut short. It should have read:
"There is nothing about the actions of a madman to change the fact that firearms have been used throughout our history to defend American values and traditions. Yeee-hawr!!!"
Since when ...
... did Duke Nukem look like Mickey Rourke?
Calculus 101
I agree that the education system in America is bad. How else could you get to be CEO of a major corporation (Cisco) and still not know what an inflection point is. It could either be a momentary halt in a growth curve or a momentary halt in a decline curve. But it can't mean what he thinks it's supposed to mean - i.e. a turning point, at which you decide to go one way or another. I guess he just thinks "inflection" is a cooler way of saying "turning", in which case he failed English too.
why oh why
I can understand breaking the law and putting your career at risk in order to have _sex_ with Sienna Miller, but to listen to her? No f**king way.
Incentives
Ralph B has the right diagnosis but the wrong cure. Currently, the USPTO (and others) are paid according to results - which, broadly, means the number of patents they allow. Thus we get a stream of quite silly patents because it isn't in the USPTOs interest to review them properly, particularly as regards obviousness.
If we fined them for silly patents, their incentive would then be to refuse patents. This is hardly better than the current situation. The best situation (though not perfect) was when they didn't have an incentive either way, and weren't seen as a profit centre for the government; their only task was to uphold the law on patents as best they could. The patent office isn't a business and shouldn't be run as one.
No-one's forcing you.
Don't like Chrome OS? Then just don't buy the fucking thing.
What about the newspaper apps?
What if it read:
"will no longer approve any more newspaper or magazine apps unless there are hundreds of newspapers or magazines on the same app."
Bye bye Grauniad, Times, FT, Economist, Wired.
So why are radio stations any different?
while on android
you can get the same "I am rich" shit, for just $200 . See, android is better!
(i am rich may be just on appbrain, but even so...)
Java - a verbose mess.
When you have to say things like
import System.Utils.Strings.Getters.GettersOfSingleThings;
import System.Utils.NonStringObjects.OutputInitializers;
StringGetterHelperProfileSubsetThing x = new StringGetterHelperProfileSubsetThing("42");
SingleThingOutputStreamInitializer y = new SingleThingOutputStreamInitializer();
SingleThingOutputStream z = new SingleThingOutputStream(y);
z.PrintSingleThingToOutputStream( x.GetFirstNumericCharacter() );
you know the language is in trouble.
If it's a Christian school ...
why didn't the kids get jesusphones?
Steve says:
Just don't use the forums.
Not that big of a deal.
Apple: reinventing ...
... the way you hold your iPhone.