Posts by sabroni

Strong typing at the poit of use is vital

Why?

re: We are praying after the election ever one will forget about him.

Stop praying and organise to stop him, because from where I'm sitting it looks like he's getting a free pass to spread bullshit while Clinton is still expected to act like a presidential candidate. Trump will be president if you aren't very careful.

Re: Win 10, a never ending source of fun.

Because other OSs are secure if a hacker gets physical access?

Re: Pretty meaningless metric

Their tax contribution isn't "orders of magnitude greater" at all. It's a tiny fraction of the money they make. The tax system works on percentages, those that earn more are supposed to contribute more.

A bunch of selfish greedy people leaving the country isn't a bad thing. The idea that industry and business will stop if they leave is laughable.

Re: why is it that every single piece of the critters is made out of food?

What are you made of jake? That is the single most stupid argument for meat eating that exists, unless you're a cannibal.

re: any properly coded app that uses location requests location through Google Play Services

What do you mean by "properly coded" Andrew? The article mentiones either using an Android API or the Google Play one. Is it wrong? Is the Android one deprecated in favour of the proprieatary one? Because to me it sounds like the proper way would be to use the Android one, avoiding a dependency on Google. Surely that gives you wider coverage (of devices) and more resilience (not dependant on a third party).

Re: Using "Search" for "Windows updates" or just "Updates" got no results

That's strange. That's how I get to windows updates on my Win 8.1 laptop, just type "UPDA" and it's top of the list.

How did Google say to do it?

Re: Not very scientific ...

And doesn't mention which IDE they use. I asked about this recently on another thread and got very poor responses, none of which suggested a better IDE. So gerdesj, any idea what IDE they use and how it's better than VS?

Re: what's the final escalation?

Ignoring all pull requests from that person? Or is that too simple?

Re: If the choice is between the incompetent (Uncle Sam) and the corrupt (ICANN)

>> slammed by an independent review as at best incompetent and at worst deliberately mendacious. <<

Doesn't sound like clear evidence of corruption, bit too vague for that.

Re: Where's the hand wringing over other companies?

17 upvotes for whataboutery? Nice critical thinking guys!!

Re: electible again because

If the only argument for your candidate is that they aren't the other candidate you don't have a good candidate.

Is he ever going to release his tax returns?

Re: They might be painful to remember they exist

Only the Stallone one is a painful memory. The recent one is much more Dreddlike, he doesn't snog Anderson for a start!

Re: I don't get it

Google claimed Android was only a mobile OS and that was one of the reasons they won the previous case. It's in the article:

Yesterday's courtroom arguments hinged around a peculiar legal argument Google had made in the retrial. Google had argued that the Java infringements only concerned smartphones – because Android was a smartphone system. This was an odd argument to make, since the code was copied from Java SE – basically, desktop Java – not the mobile edition, Java ME.

Oracle argues that when Google announced its Android app runtime for Chromebooks at this year's I/O developer conference, Google had undermined its own argument. In other words, Google had indicated that Android and its rip off of Oracle's copyright went beyond phones and tablets.