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Harmful Interactions - Mixing medicine with alcohol http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/Medicine/medicine.htm[^] Benadryl is one of the drugs mentioned at that site.

See the "Criticism" section at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_Display[^] regarding pixel densities. All of those devices have overkill for image resolution. A higher resolution camera does not necessarily mean a better user experience. Such things as lens quality, focus speed, ease of focus control, image stabilization, color performance, and more, matter too. I would rather 8 MP if than 13 MP if those are better, but obviously I'd want more resolution for pictures if those other factors are equal. The other comments make sense, although most of those are not "key metrics" to me. And some key metrics, such as idle time batter life and call-time battery life are missing. Apple clearly wins in the storage category by providing a 64 GB storage and 128 GB storage option. It does cost a lot though. For the way I use my phone, I need the higher storage capability. A typical user is probably okay with 32 GB. So, I don't think it fair to call it "a generation behind." Some of the features of the Apple phone are better than their competitors, and visa versa. Apple also provides some features the other phone's don't provide at all, and the reverse is also true for that. Each manufacturer makes a different set of tradeoffs. A small set of numbers doesn't always tell the whole story. I'm going to wait for more in-depth user-experience reviews before I upgrade my phone.

I presume that "i6" means iPhone 6? I found this article on engadget http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/09/the-iphone-6-hands-on/[^] Which key metrics are you referring to?

Julien Villers wrote:

Well, a brute force, however optimized, 40 minutes run on an obscure* platform isn't quite a 'solution' to a Project Euler problem, is it? ;)

If the code solves the problem on the obscure platform, then it is a solution to the problem.

What is the school you are attending? My degree is in electrical engineering and I took a communications course in school decades ago. The theory has not changed since then. It helped that I was into amateur radio because I knew what theory was likely to show up on tests, and what was used less often. The communications exams I took had algebra and calculus. They were not typically multiple choice exams. I don't know what to tell you other than to study the course material. I could give tips, but I might tell you to study things that aren't on the exam. Do you have any specific questions?

to, too, two; right, write, rite; wait, weight; you're, your; great, grate, The aforementioned examples barely scratch the surface of homonyms in English. I wrote all that is above this sentence without using Google. With Google: [English Homonym List]

.NET reflection allows querying attributes of any type. Here's one example. I did not check any of the code there, but I expect the second example works. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5114469/how-to-check-whether-an-object-has-certain-method-property[^]

The article contained:

But when the algorithm is faced with images that are entirely different from the training set, it often fails. “When the [image] distribution changes, these methods may suffer a large performance drop,” say Chaochao and Xiaoou.

The problem where the computer defeats humans is a narrowly-defined situation where the system is trained with a specific set of faces. Typically humans can recognize thousands of faces in various contexts much of the time. It is still an impressive accomplishment though.

Number "1" mistake that authors make when writing a technical article: 1. Make an assertion without backing it up with data, or at the very least, anecdotal evidence. I have no data to back that up though. :)

At times, the teacher might not allow outside help, because that would provide an unfair advantage over other students. An assignment might even be a take-home test. Although, I do expect that getting help is often allowed; and I think it fairest to give the questioner the benefit of the doubt. If they are dishonest and cheating, then there is a public record. I am more inclined to answer such questions if it appears the person is using their own name for that reason, but I can see answering some questions anyway, again, the presumption of innocence seems fairest. However, I won't answer certain questions that seem to be a homework assignment because of the form of the question. If a teacher gives an assignment, then I presume all the necessary information has already been provided to the student. They only need to read the book, or the notes, and/or pay attention in class, and then they should be able to "try" to create a solution, and then ask a question of the form, "I did this, but that part isn't doing what I expect. What did I do wrong?" It's not appropriate to ask, "How do I do ?," without showing any work when is clearly the major part of the assignment, perhaps even all of it.

Happy Easter Marc!

harold aptroot wrote:

Humans are, unfortunately, not very rational. Sure, they can think rationally, the problem is that they often don't. There is a large group of humans who drank too much of the hippie kool-aid and glorify irrationality as "something that defines being human". Nothing pisses me off more.

Your anger is irrational! Some survival instincts apply to the human race, not to the individual. Altruism provides an evolutionary advantage by making people want to cooperate, even though some have to make sacrifices. For example, a mother will give up her life to save her children. That type of sacrifice has also been seen in other mammals. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one - Spock. Perhaps Azimov's three laws will be built into most robots. And, there will be a radio controlled "off" switch. Otherwise, a software or hardware bug might result in mayhem!

Your post is irrational. Why would you become angry because things are the way they have to be? No Vulcan would do that. Anger is irrational! We're all irrational. It's the nature of being human. Intelligent people seek rationality, but there is no way to achieve it perfectly all of the time.

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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

Bill_Hallahan wrote:

So, you would be willing to pay a monthly installment to be here?

CP wouldn't exist without its users.  CP's users provide content and answer questions.  Remove the users and what do you have left?
 
/ravi

ravi, the point was made in response to the OP writing:

Chris may believe that ads are important. And to some extent I agree. But the large number of ads is disconcerting.

I expect he did't considered the continuing costs of paying for high bandwidth from an ISP and server costs. I consider conditions here to be more than equitable. The advertisements never bothered me. And, I hope the people who made this site make a good profit too from advertisers. I can see this took a lot of work. The article quality varies. Open sites on the Internet are analogous to mining for gold. There's gold, but you have to sift through a lot of dirt to find it. Restricting access to the cognoscenti is neither possible, nor desirable. Good ideas come from all kinds of people with varied levels of expertise. Sites that do restrict access often have an higher average quality of material, such as sites that publish academic papers, such as the ACM or the IEEE sites, but that comes at the cost of having fewer members and fewer ideas, and also requires a financial price. There are a huge number of practical ideas here that never reach those types of sites.

gggustafson wrote:

Chris may believe that ads are important. And to some extent I agree. But the large number of ads is disconcerting. Also when ads hide navigation I am even more concerned.

So, you would be willing to pay a monthly installment to be here? I could never complain about the existence of advertisements on a totally free site. I would report if an advertisements is preventing navigating the site. I don't recall ever seeing that happen. I'm running Firefox 28.0. I wonder what browser you are running. If you see the "Help" menu item above, then click on that and go to "Bugs and suggestions." If that menu is covered by an advertisement, go to http://www.codeproject.com/suggestions.aspx[^]

Kent Sharkey wrote:

Jasper, go ask Siri about Cortana

Kent, lol! Inspired by your imperative statement, I just asked my iPhone, "Siri, are you as good as Microsoft's Cortana?" Siri replied, "No comment." I'm impressed by that answer. Perhaps a smartphone should run for a political office.

Ron Anders wrote:

XP is leaner meaner and more responsive than 7.

That has not been my experience. Windows XP would often freeze up for me. And, while Windows XP had much better performance than Windows Vista, I found that both XP and Vista had worse performance than Windows 7. And, I measure performance. By the way, I either read, or was told, that after the issues with Windows XP and Windows Vista, Microsoft went back to the Windows 2000 code base to develop Windows 7 so that the mistakes made with XP and Vista could be avoided. I dislike Windows 8's UI so much I am staying at Windows 7 until Microsoft either fixes Windows 8 or provides another operating system that makes it easy to switch between multiple applications that are all running simultaneously, just like previous versions of Windows. I am hopeful that the Windows 8.1 update on April 8 will fix this. When, on Ubuntu Linux 12.x, the UI was changed to use the "Unity" by default to support both tablets and desktop system, there were complaints from desktop developers about the new UI. I guess Microsoft developers missed that. I also wish they had read "User Interface Design For Programmers" by Joel Spolsky. This book is like a Cliff's notes version of a UI textbook. An understanding of the book's contents would have avoided lots of the issues with Windows 8. In any event, I don't doubt whatever network issue you're referring to exists. I do wonder what specific issue you're having. There can be more setup for Windows Vista and 7 than XP, because specific security settings have to be bypassed. I don't know if that applies to your situation or not.

A developer has enormously more freedom than a security expert. You can write programs that play chess, process images; video; 3D scenes; audio; that implement radar systems, medical applications, finance applications, business application, network servers, network clients, implement device drivers, do operating system development, do oil exploration, etc.. Any list I could put here would barely scratch the surface of the breadth of general software development. A good software developer often has to develop expertise that is related to the domain where the software will be used. If you're writing a chess program, you have to know how to play chess. If you're writing an imaging processing program, it's useful to know something about color science. It's not that the field of software security isn't a broad and interesting field, but it is more limited than general software development. As to which field will have more high paying jobs in the future, I have no data on that. However, my answer to you isn't based on what I wrote above. Do whatever you love to do. That's more important than money. If you don't like doing your job, you won't excel at it.