OK, Jeff and Anand, listen up: it's because Windows is doing things in the background.
Of course it is doing things in the background... every modern pre emptive multi-tasking operating system "is doing things in the background."
The question is: why is Windows so bad at it?
Dear gbjbaanb,
We will gladly do so... as soon as you also ask the following competitors to do the same:
- Juniper Networks
- Cisco
- 3Com
- Teledata Networks
- Netgear
- Alcatel-Lucent
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After all, the back doors we have in our switches are the same back doors we inherited from their code when we stole it a few years ago.
The idea of a physical cable is that it is simple, robust and as long as the connectors fit, it should (given sane engineering) do what is expected. It is fascinating how they violate that simple and powerful idea in a complex way, just to make a few bucks more. It is also utterly repulsive to any principled engineer.
This was my initial reaction as well... And then I remembered the recent cases of people getting killed, or ending up in a coma due to what is likely to be the use of clone power supplies and cables
Apple has gone to great lengths to mitigate its legal exposure... going as far as offering a discount on an Apple replacement for your third party power supply. For Apple to suddenly ignore the risks of being sued (and to your health and safety) after it can be shown that they could have done something to prevent the use of unauthorised chargers and cables would be stupid of them.
Do you mean a website?
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No... He does not mean a web site...
He actually means what he says... a web app[lication] - an application written using the latest web technologies (JavaScript, CSS, DOM and XML/HTML), downloaded from a web site to execute within a browser environment that supports the HTML5 API and standards against which the application has been coded.
A web app is as real an app as any of those that you say you "... don't need to download and install
Do not confuse a web site with a web application or a web page.
Web pages, however interactive, are not necessarily the equivalent of web applications... however both are downloaded from web sites (technically a web server).
That is of course a rhetorical question.
The implication of this verdict is that if George Zimmerman is not the cause of Martin's death (whether willfully, accidentally or in self defense)... therefore Martin is the cause of his own death.
The "captured" ScanEagle drone was clearly not shot down... and its pristine structure indicates that it didn't crash either.
Doesn't it concern everybody that Iran appears to be able to capture these drones out of the sky and land them fairly intact... with minimal to no exterior damage.
Does this give credence to Iran's claim that they are able to take over the controls of a drone and land it relatively safely without too much structural damage?
Is it possible that they could override the controls of a cruise missile as it enters their airspace... and send it back from whence it came... gasp!
I understand the logic of having a more powerful ground transmitter that overwhelms the week satellite transmitted signals used to control drones and missiles... but that is still a far cry from actually overriding the controls of a sophisticated drone and tricking the drone into believing that it is still receiving legitimate instructions.
Don't all drones have an automatic "return to base" command as soon as they lose contact with their controllers... at the very least they should have a self destruct.
Gamers need great controls, and frankly the controls on touch screen games stink. Racing game on touch screen vs racing game on console with Xbox S controls or steering wheel? I'm choosing the console.
I remember a time when people said the same thing about smart phone keyboards:
"... to be useful to professionals, a smart phone must have a physical keyboard" went the conventional wisdom
And so the standard bearer for making the best smartphone keyboards was RIM, and everyone benchmarked their mobile devices against the Blackberry keyboard
... until the iPhone and several Android devices arrived and showed that one could approximate the physical keyboard productivity using an on screen touch screen keyboard.
Of course a touch screen keyboard will never be able to emulate the feel, responsiveness and feedback of a physical keyboard... the same can be said for virtual game controls on a touch screen device.
However, people that emphasise this aspect of physical game controls are under the same misapprehension that RIM, Palm, Microsoft, Nokia and their ilk were under when they convinced themselves that the original iPhone could never be a serious contender without a "real" keyboard - based on research showing how important smartphone users rated the quality of the keyboard to be in their decision making process.
From the CD to MP3, Email to Twitter and physical keyboards to virtual keyboards... we have seen a gradual dumbing down of what mankind finds to be of acceptable standard or quality. The virtual game controls (and they don't have to be touch screen... we have seen interesting game controls using gyros and motion sensors), like the touch screen keyboard, simply need to approximate the feel, responsiveness and feedback of the physical controls... and there comes a point in the cost-benefit equation when virtual controls cross the proverbial "good enough" line such that most gamers convince themselves that they are getting more out of the new paradigm than they are loosing out on by letting go of the old paradigm.
Trust me, many Blackberry power users have gone through the agony of having to tamper their idea of what the best data input mechanism for a smart phone is in order to take advantage of what an all glass screen can do (such as having a different virtual keyboards for different data entry requirements).
My advice to all those who find physical game controls to be sacrosanct is to look as how quickly the sanctity of the physical smart phone keyboard evaporated when the utility of their virtual approximations out striped the usefulness of their physical manifestations.
...Having everything rely on GPS, and thus on the budget the US chooses to spend keeping it working, is not a good idea.
Everything does not rely on GPS... the iPhone, for example has had support for GPS as well GLONASS since the iPhone 4S (http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html). The iPhone seamlessly switches between the two satellite constellations (as well as Wi-Fi and GSM triangulation) so the consumer never really knows which system is being used to provide location services). So clearly the world is not solely dependent on the budget the US chooses to spend to keep GPS working; it is dependent upon the combined budgets of the US, Russia and soon the EU and hopefully China one day.
While the separate national or regional systems result in duplication of effort and resources, the upside is that it also results in a high level of redundancy for consumers - kind of like how the Internet is a network of networks. I particularly appreciate how the newer satellite constellations, like Galileo, are offering improved accuracy at consumer level
Given that nearly every member of his family also received the message, it is very unlikely that he had intended to solicit sex from all the recipients, “skin on skin”. Remember, if the prosecution accuses him of “causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity,” they have to prove their case, not the other way around. That is what "innocent until proven guilty" means.
Clearly he did send the message, which is why he could not be exonerated from the crime that he was accused of... However proving intent was always going to be an uphill battle given how indiscriminately wide his message went.
I think that Judge Elias' conclusion that “it is difficult to conclude that he was targeting anyone” is the only reasonable conclusion (unless you have evidence that the prosecutors did not have).
there have been previous estimates that Google does indeed make more money per handset from iPhones than Android.
Not estimates, it's in Eric Schmidt's testimony before Congress. Fully two thirds of Google's revenue from mobile comes from Apple devices.
Yup... t'was the Senate Judiciary hearing in August Last year iOS Devices Earn Google 4 Times More Revenue Than Android Devices
The whole idea of Android is provide Google with access to a market from which it would otherwise be excluded. So what Google makes on Android is still a whole lot more than what it makes on iPhones.
With Android now looking to expand across the whole computer spectrum including, shock horror, the desktop. That gives Google access to the whole market, regardless of the efforts of Apple and of course M$.
I am not sure which hole you have been burrowed under over the last few weeks, but the statement that "...what Google makes on Android is still a whole lot more than what it makes on iPhones." is completely false... On the contrary. Google makes 4 time more revenue on iOS than it does on Android (Google's Android has generated just $550m since 2008) and that is before one even takes into account the cost of developing, maintaining and supporting Android.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
