Comment Re:The Windows Phone failed. (Score 1) 172
You know what they say: "The plural of Anecdote is not Data".
Wouldn't that be "the plural of anecdote are not data"?
(I see you capitalised it, are you be referring to this Data)
You know what they say: "The plural of Anecdote is not Data".
Wouldn't that be "the plural of anecdote are not data"?
(I see you capitalised it, are you be referring to this Data)
No, it and of itself won't be meaningful. That's the crowdsource bit.
None of us are as dumb as all of us.
Trying to crowd source weather prediction will only result in wildly inaccurate predictions. Many smartphone users work in a climate controlled office... travel there in a climate controlled car from their climate controlled home. So the 5-10 minutes they spend outside wont provide enough data especially if it doesn't have accurate location and elevation data.
So actual meteorologists will continue to be more reliable than this crowdsoruced application.
Hmmm, a spaceship full of horny Chinese women. (jumping up and down in the back row) Oh! Pick me pick me...
The problem is that right behind you will be a second, larger spaceship full of Chinese mothers judging you and Chinese fathers disproving of you.
Yeah, my first thought was "one queue for tokens and another location for pickup using the single-queue-to-multiple-registers". This blog post was more along the lines of, "durr, me like ice, get now" than an actual "algorithm."
There should be two lines. One line for people who can queue like the British and one line for everyone else.
Snipers will pick out anyone who queues in to the British line and cant queue like the British.
One supermarket chain around Albany, NY tried implementing the single line system about a year ago. It only lasted a few months before they reverted.
At least at the grocery store, people disliked feeling corralled like cattle more than they dislike waiting slightly longer in a less efficient line. Might have been the way it was implemented, honestly. It had a rather frenetic feel to it, with the line “leader” guiding people to one of the actual registers with quite a bit of urgency and insistence. I’d guess there was probably some misguided, management-imposed, career-limiting metric system associated with the process such that the employee ultimately paid the price if customers dawdled and brought the throughput numbers down. That translated to a rather jarring mood to the whole thing.
Some stores have implemented this in several stores in Australia, one line served by a dozen checkouts and it actually is faster. The biggest issue is that they have more room to line the area with impulse items (not an issue for me as I can ignore impulse items, but I understand the point).
Airport check-in does it as well for the same reason. When you're processing 2-500 people which can take 5 to 15 minutes a piece (Oh dear god, she's fumbling through her 16 suitcases for her passport) having a longer line serviced by multiple people is faster and more efficient. However the lines tend to need a little bit of management, but it stops people from jumping from line to line and eliminates confusion. My only issue is with slow pokes... but I just overtake them when they take too long picking up their bags and moving forward.
However this isn't the right approach for a drinks line (who lines up for ice?), it's the opposite of a checkout or airport check in where the transaction is expected to take several minutes. With a drinks line you want people to get in and out as fast as possible, the best way to do this is to have multiple satellite stations rather than one main station to distribute the load but this is difficult and expensive.
Though I'm not a bit fan of MS... They continually have shown that they have no problem leaving old architecture in the dust -- when it suits them. When 2K3 came out, they made a "code optimization" change that left all P1, P2, P-Pro multi-processors behind. Few of their drivers are compatible from one version of an OS to another (and they can be digitally signed to one version). MS has not problem leaving "old" tech in the dust.
Because Mac chose a bad font
To be 100% fair to MS, whilst their drivers may be platform specific, 99% of applications still work from version to version. Few operating systems can claim this kind of backwards compatibility. I can still run most of my DOS and Win 9x programs on a Windows 7 boxen without an emulator. So MS aren't exactly leaving their architecture in the dust.
The problem Apple fanboys have is not that Apple chose a bad font, it's that Apple can do no wrong so they need to defend Apples choice no matter how bad it is.
At least you had grass. Do you know how hard it is to get anything done when all you have to work with is a primordial subatomic particle soup?
Primoridal soup?
Luxury.
I still have coalesce these hydrogen and helium atoms into a star...
About time desktops caught up with better screen resolutions after the whole 1080p marketing hype ruined everything.
Erm, you've been able to buy PC monitors with resolutions higher than 1080p for nearly a decade now. Cheap 2560 x 1440 monitors have been available for years. Even Dell sells a 5K monitor today.
Its just Apple that's playing catch-up
I spent $1,200 on my Black MacBook and got eight years of use ($150 per year). Prior to that, I spent $1,200 on a Dell laptop that gave me three years of use ($400 per year). Do the math.
If you dont need a computer, a Dell lasts as long as any Mac.
However if you've got real requirements for a computer (I.E. work or gaming) then a Macbook goes out of date faster than a Dell because the dell is both higher speced and upgradeable.
I thought the 7, despite all the stellar reviews was garbage. Crummy battery life makes it unusable. I might get a day or two on this. The random reboots don't help either.
Which "7" are you talking about?
I've got a 2013 Nexus 7 (LTE version) that gets 5 to 7 days on battery (depending on usage) and has never randomly rebooted.
The only time I ever have had less than 2 days battery life was when I watched 8 hours of video in one go when flying on a budget airline.
This is how to speak 'Strine ya Drongo...
That's pronounced 'Strayan, ya flamin mongel.
I drive past the location they're going to build the data centers every day. It's mainly decrepit farms and grasslands. It's a common place for grass fires How many people do these things usually employ?
In other words, where land is cheap. DC's dont normally employ that many people.
can be found at http://www.muphin.net/aussie_tourism.html
Q: Will I be able to speek English most places I go? (USA)
Too right cobber, you wouldn't know your arse from your elbow if you couldn't half manage a convo here. No wukka's, Bruce.
The Apple store has the same problems as the Android store. Apple has no real advantage in this regard. People that think they do are just stupid fanboys kidding themselves.
This x 1000.
The only app store I have seen that doesn't suffer from a large volume of similar crap applications is Steam... but Steam is a special case as video games take a lot of resources to develop so making crap clone games is too expensive to be viable.
It's hard to find a good application on Android or Iphone and trial and error sucks, both figuratively and literally (my battery life).
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