However, jet engines of the era were extremely inefficient, especially German ones where poor alloys limited exhaust temperatures in the turbine.
Especially the German ones? Sorry, which other country was producing jet engines at that time?
You must have some pretty serious insider knowledge if you're aware of any.
I have to review code coming from India it is full of bugs, short cuts, and shit that doesn't make a damn bit of sense Amen. I won't say that all the programmers in India suck, because that would be an inaccurate stereotype. However, I will say that The worst code I have ever seen from American programmers I have worked with was better than the best code that came back from Indian outsourced groups. I suspect that all the GOOD INDIAN PROGRAMMERS CAME TO AMERICA TO MAKE BETTER MONEY. Why would you hire the leftovers? Really, you think that you can just get better quality by spending less? Really?
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The (very few, that is) Good Developers came to USA, and the ones that you get outsourcing are the very bottom of the barrel.
The quality of their work is AT LEAST substandard, simply because they have no passion for the job.
Plus, when they say they assign your project N developers, they aren't really N.
So, at the very end, between bad quality of the work, and cheating about staffing, you end paying more than employing US developers (or bringing the good ones in US).
Oh, and, there's also the fact that the managers in US that are assigned to oversee outsourced projects, get really burned very quickly.
And rebranding can make a big difference-- look at the recent success of Bing, for instance.
easy there big boy! recent success? give them a few months until the "new" wears off before declaring it a success. Its just like the soda companies releasing a new flavor, Surge, Clear Pepsi, OK, Mt. Dew Livewire, [insert freaky ass flavor here], etc... were all a big hit for about 3 months while everyone had to try it. now where are they at?
Yes, yes, Bing has been a BIG success man! Come on, and join the MS funboys party, they serve the coolaid at the entrance!
And this Morro thing, is going to be even bigger than Bing. Based on a technology that has already been rejected by the market, the success will be certain.
I can just picture the meeting:
A: What do we do with this noOneCare? Nobody is buying it, and it costs us money. We fire everyone?
B: Why is it?
A: The technology suck, and people stopped buying into the Mafia Approach (sell fear and protection) long time ago.
B: Let's try to give it for free for one year, then we fire everyone.
If you would have asked me, in 1996 or so, that MS would have become so uncool that no new software they try to push would fail, and that they'll be actually forced to give stuff for free, I certainly wouldn't have believed you.
Oh well, here we are
I don't know when Microsoft was ever "cool" for search. I've seen completely computer illiterate people, who don't even know how to type a URL in an address bar. And they've managed to change their default search to Google.
There was a time, somewhere in the mid 90', where MS was kinda cool (granted, not search-wise). Now, everything they try to push, dissolves in flames.
He's talking about Android being open, not the resulting device.
Note that for the end user, it makes no sense having an "open" source, when you (or others) cannot freely install (modulo huge hacks) your mods or apps. That, and the fact that Android is a pseudo-Java-let's-do-something-different-even-though-we-have-no-technical-reason-for-it Java environment. Once you let the smoke pumped by Google and its marketing settle, and you look at it from a technical side, Android is a piss-poor implementation. I expected A WHOLE LOT more from Google, and they failed.
Like I said, you're not doing it right. My app has 15 activities and one service that runs at boot-time as well as on demand.
Parcelable is rarely necessary to transfer data within an app. In fact, it'd be a performance hog to do that.
Passing data among activities requires you to use Bundles, and the data that you drop inside Bundles must be Parcelable.
I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943
