You have no idea how much this will improve road safety. Our local news lined this item with video of the current roadsituation. It is gridlock already. And if you replace all the small footprint motorcycles with this (in relation) huge automobile, there just is no moving traffic anymore! Which is the safest traffic there is!
On another note: this car will not be on sale in Europe like this. Why not? Lacks ABS and airbags, which are compulsory for new cars. Lets just hope they can add that someday.
I hope they have not been calculating when to add a leap second in years gone by, but I think they have and that's why the seasons all start a little earlier these days.
Why a leap-hour in 600 years when over the past 35 years you only had 22 leap seconds? That amounts to 377 leap seconds in 600 years. 377 seconds is (as any toddler will tell you) 6 minutes and 17 seconds. The leap-hour isn't due in 5727 years. Somehow I don't think civilization will get that far, at this rate. If we think we will, than I vote not to take this option. One hour is too much not to notice. Keep the leap second, nobody notices it, except for higher science, who will just have to hold their breath one second.
I have it turned off. And you are invited to search for virusses or malware on my machine. You won't find any. I run XP with SP2 and no (by myself) installed patches. And no, I don't trust Microsoft for a bit. And the trustlevel even goes down in time.
This isn't a mother giving Ballmer grief. I don't see any "back-and-forth between Ballmer and Genovese" in the article? I saw a simple one-two between a comedian and the guy that starts his routine. Mrs. G.: "Oh, my kid hates it" Mr. B.: Well, but let me tell you about the advantages... blahblahblah
I've always wondered why Ballmer and the other Microsoft guys don't get more lip from the audience at conferences. I mean, those conferences apparently are jam packed with Microsoft fanboys, or why else don't you ever hear of things like this? How in the hell is it possible that the first thing you hear about it is a mother pissed off about her child's Vista "experience"?
Or are all the anti-Microsoft people precautionally tasered before the conference?
Yes, finally! I've been testing Minimo when it still was in development, and apart from it's problems (especially the ghastly sluggishness) I liked it a lot. It rendered much better than other browsers for PDAs. Now I am forced to use Opera (at a price) together with Pocket Internet Explorer. Both have their +'es and -'es, but neither one is absolutely superior. There are websites that render nicely in Opera and don't in PIE and vice versa. That's my whole beef with current mobile browsers. There just isn't one product that's superior to the other.
Alas for the stop on Firefox development. I really need a proper email reader on my PDA.
I surely hope this is tongue-in-cheek. If not than boy, am I glad we have proper customer rights in the Netherlands.
If I buy anything in a store, my business is with that store and not with the manufacturer of the device. So if I need assistance or warranty, I go to the store and they have to sort it for me. The store provides my warrenty.
It even goes so far that the law requires to offer 2 years of warranty. Even if the manufacturer only provides 1 year, the store has to offer 2 years.
And the store will sort it with the manufacturer if they have to (e.g.: have it repaired), but it can not hide behind the fact that the manufacturer does not support the warranty.
No seriously, what bullshit is this article? Does it say that no one can make some device that samples 32 bits/s communication? Never mind computers, a simple one-chip design with a memory card for intermediate storage. Maybe even hook some network chip to it and connect it to your network. Give it an IP address and a web browser and you're good to go.
Seriously, no one can build this? My god, I submit that you can communicate with voyager with a bunch of latches and flipflops in 7400 hardware.
What is not clear to me is why Linux chooses to reply multicast to a single DHCP request. IMHO other computers are not interested in the response from the DHCP server, so why would you bother sending them one?
it reads "...and the once lucrative album market has been overshadowed by downloaded singles, which mainly benefits Apple" and here I thought Apple made most of their money with their hardware sales and a pittance on each track
That is not what is said.
It says that the majority of the money earned by downloading singles goes to Apple. It does not say that Apple makes more money from downloading singles that from selling hardware.
"I once knew this guy who's sisters boyfriend had a father that was living next to this guy who once dated the daughter of a man who worked at a job where a collegue of him had worked for a maintenance firm that did work at NASA. That's why all these FBI agents are now asking questions about my past, honey!"
I've used Synctoy and it painfully lacks one option. I don't remember which at this point, but I believe it is impossible to select specific files to sync both ways. It essentially is a program that uses one master and one slave device, and the slave has less options than the master. You can not sync two equal (in functionality) devices.
Calling a screen resolution of 480 x 320 "one giant leap for handheld devices"? Oh please. My 10 year old HP 620 LX does 640 x 240. How in the sane world can 480 x 320 then be considered "one giant leap for handheld devices"? Is Apple really 10 years behind?
As everyone (except maybe for Apple fanboys) know, there are already a number of PDAs out there wich offer true VGA at 640 x 480. Double the size of the "giant leap" of 480 x 320. This comparison is a piece of crud. Mod me down.
or better: uneducated in American law, but isn't this standard practice in any criminal investigation? Admit to a lesser crime to avoid the risk of being sentenced for a higher crime (that you didn't commit). Plea-bargain it is called, and in my eyes it is the worst form of extortion on the planet.
"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.
Doubtful.
Agreed. The most difficult part of the project is to utilise this 40Gbps link. In order to do so, you would need some serious hardware on the receiving end (filestorage at 40Gbps is no trivial task) or actually attach 1500 screens to your PC so you can actually watch those 1500 HDTV channels (maybe that's why it's so hard to install Windows. That's just not Intel hardware;) )
And of course, you need some serious hardware on the sending end. 40Gbps routers. Yeah, commonplace where I work...
MS pretty much seems to have cut-n-pasted their MSOffice help files and decided to call that a 'standard'.
No they haven't. Even the help files specify for each trigonomic function that the argument or return value is in radians.
Even better: the help text on most functions provide one or two example calculations so that you can even check the input!
MS hasn't even cut-n-pasted their MSOffice help files! They made a botch job and even managed to botch that up, and then slapped some money on the table to get it fast-tracked and approved. I can't even begin to describe how disgusted I am at this company.
Have you ever changed the battery in an iPod? It's possible, but a royal nuisance.
Apple Nano anyone? That wouldn't have happened if the battery was easy to replace. I think it would be a big + to have an easily replacable battery. For if it goes dead or when new technology comes that will double the battery capacity (now that has never happened before)...
Having said that, my Nokia 6310i is still working like a charm after 5 years on its original battery. So if Apple were ever to start making things as reliable as Nokia did...
No wait, that's a bad business model. People will still replace their broken iWhatever because it's cool.
So technically, it is not considered legal tender to pay an amount of 21 p with a coin of 20p and one of 2p and asking 1p in return, and a shopkeeper can refuse that payment?
I understand the thinking behind it, but putting it like this is just plain wrong. Just put down that amounts paid with more than x coins are not legal tender.
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You have no idea how much this will improve road safety. Our local news lined this item with video of the current roadsituation. It is gridlock already. And if you replace all the small footprint motorcycles with this (in relation) huge automobile, there just is no moving traffic anymore! Which is the safest traffic there is!
On another note: this car will not be on sale in Europe like this. Why not? Lacks ABS and airbags, which are compulsory for new cars. Lets just hope they can add that someday.
I hope they have not been calculating when to add a leap second in years gone by, but I think they have and that's why the seasons all start a little earlier these days.
Why a leap-hour in 600 years when over the past 35 years you only had 22 leap seconds? That amounts to 377 leap seconds in 600 years. 377 seconds is (as any toddler will tell you) 6 minutes and 17 seconds.
The leap-hour isn't due in 5727 years.
Somehow I don't think civilization will get that far, at this rate. If we think we will, than I vote not to take this option. One hour is too much not to notice. Keep the leap second, nobody notices it, except for higher science, who will just have to hold their breath one second.
How is this different from countries oppressing people using US-made and -funded guns?
... people do.
Eh..
Damn.
I have it turned off. And you are invited to search for virusses or malware on my machine. You won't find any.
I run XP with SP2 and no (by myself) installed patches. And no, I don't trust Microsoft for a bit. And the trustlevel even goes down in time.
Oh damn, I should have read the article first.
This isn't a mother giving Ballmer grief. I don't see any "back-and-forth between Ballmer and Genovese" in the article? I saw a simple one-two between a comedian and the guy that starts his routine.
Mrs. G.: "Oh, my kid hates it"
Mr. B.: Well, but let me tell you about the advantages... blahblahblah
Makes me puke even more.
I've always wondered why Ballmer and the other Microsoft guys don't get more lip from the audience at conferences. I mean, those conferences apparently are jam packed with Microsoft fanboys, or why else don't you ever hear of things like this? How in the hell is it possible that the first thing you hear about it is a mother pissed off about her child's Vista "experience"?
Or are all the anti-Microsoft people precautionally tasered before the conference?
Yes, finally! I've been testing Minimo when it still was in development, and apart from it's problems (especially the ghastly sluggishness) I liked it a lot. It rendered much better than other browsers for PDAs.
Now I am forced to use Opera (at a price) together with Pocket Internet Explorer. Both have their +'es and -'es, but neither one is absolutely superior. There are websites that render nicely in Opera and don't in PIE and vice versa.
That's my whole beef with current mobile browsers. There just isn't one product that's superior to the other.
Alas for the stop on Firefox development. I really need a proper email reader on my PDA.
Before you go bach to the store, remove the harddrive and tell the shop there is sensitive information on it.
If I buy anything in a store, my business is with that store and not with the manufacturer of the device. So if I need assistance or warranty, I go to the store and they have to sort it for me. The store provides my warrenty.
It even goes so far that the law requires to offer 2 years of warranty. Even if the manufacturer only provides 1 year, the store has to offer 2 years.
And the store will sort it with the manufacturer if they have to (e.g.: have it repaired), but it can not hide behind the fact that the manufacturer does not support the warranty.
No seriously, what bullshit is this article? Does it say that no one can make some device that samples 32 bits/s communication? Never mind computers, a simple one-chip design with a memory card for intermediate storage. Maybe even hook some network chip to it and connect it to your network. Give it an IP address and a web browser and you're good to go.
Seriously, no one can build this? My god, I submit that you can communicate with voyager with a bunch of latches and flipflops in 7400 hardware.
What is not clear to me is why Linux chooses to reply multicast to a single DHCP request. IMHO other computers are not interested in the response from the DHCP server, so why would you bother sending them one?
It says that the majority of the money earned by downloading singles goes to Apple. It does not say that Apple makes more money from downloading singles that from selling hardware.
"I once knew this guy who's sisters boyfriend had a father that was living next to this guy who once dated the daughter of a man who worked at a job where a collegue of him had worked for a maintenance firm that did work at NASA.
That's why all these FBI agents are now asking questions about my past, honey!"
I've used Synctoy and it painfully lacks one option. I don't remember which at this point, but I believe it is impossible to select specific files to sync both ways. It essentially is a program that uses one master and one slave device, and the slave has less options than the master. You can not sync two equal (in functionality) devices.
Calling a screen resolution of 480 x 320 "one giant leap for handheld devices"? Oh please. My 10 year old HP 620 LX does 640 x 240. How in the sane world can 480 x 320 then be considered "one giant leap for handheld devices"? Is Apple really 10 years behind?
As everyone (except maybe for Apple fanboys) know, there are already a number of PDAs out there wich offer true VGA at 640 x 480. Double the size of the "giant leap" of 480 x 320.
This comparison is a piece of crud. Mod me down.
So, putting obsolete vague drawings of Saturn V on the wall will get you into trouble (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/ 30/0215204) but having a detailed view of the current launch vehicle of NASA will not?
I say again: Americans are just plain stupid.
I'm not laughing. Sure they will.
Three letters: M.I.B.
or better: uneducated in American law, but isn't this standard practice in any criminal investigation? Admit to a lesser crime to avoid the risk of being sentenced for a higher crime (that you didn't commit). Plea-bargain it is called, and in my eyes it is the worst form of extortion on the planet.
And of course, you need some serious hardware on the sending end. 40Gbps routers. Yeah, commonplace where I work...
Groklaw had a good overview, way back in January:0 71154671
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070123
Even better: the help text on most functions provide one or two example calculations so that you can even check the input!
MS hasn't even cut-n-pasted their MSOffice help files! They made a botch job and even managed to botch that up, and then slapped some money on the table to get it fast-tracked and approved. I can't even begin to describe how disgusted I am at this company.
Having said that, my Nokia 6310i is still working like a charm after 5 years on its original battery. So if Apple were ever to start making things as reliable as Nokia did...
No wait, that's a bad business model. People will still replace their broken iWhatever because it's cool.
So technically, it is not considered legal tender to pay an amount of 21 p with a coin of 20p and one of 2p and asking 1p in return, and a shopkeeper can refuse that payment?
I understand the thinking behind it, but putting it like this is just plain wrong. Just put down that amounts paid with more than x coins are not legal tender.