This system will be the laughing stock of the automotive industry. Nobody is going to like it. Nobody. Ok, maybe the five year old in the back seat. With so much competition in the industry people will reject the purchase of a car based on this feature alone. They must have been trolled by some market research groups who said they wanted a talking avatar in their car.
They have to announce it or there won't be any further science. The people in charge of funding this kind of research need a constant supply of stories like this or they lose all interest.
Google should at least allow people a couple weeks of read-only access to their stuff after they give them the boot. BTW, I use Chrome to get gmail offline but according to the article's author I'm doing the impossible.
I stopped reading TFA at "For instance, the Office Web Apps version of PowerPoint doesn’t have the high-performance video editing tools found in the desktop version..." They actually used High-Performance and PowerPoint in the same sentence. You've got to be kidding me.
Worse. My flipping of the "pages" was interrupted by an ad. I don't know why people want humanoid robots because it's obvious that if they're anything like the electronics we have now they're just going to be rude, annoying, obnoxious, fucking assholes.
You only do that way, way up north where compasses aren't reliable. The runways in Canada use magnetic numbers just like everyplace else. At the Edmonton City Centre airport there's a pub located at the end of runway 30. The pub is named Runway 29, but they didn't want to change their name when the magnetic pole moved and the runway was renumbered.
Ah yes. The international HUB unit of radioactivity (hours until blister). This is why you run a technical interview before hiring or appointing a spokesperson.
Sounds like the emergency beacons have a major design flaw. When you can force something as expensive and dangerous as a SAR operation at the push of a button you can be 100% guaranteed that it will be misused. Even the simplest of two-way communications ability would allow rescuers to determine if SAR is actually needed.
Am I the only one finding it hard to read the PDF because of the font? The u has two different height sides to it. I would have actually preferred Comic Sans.
For a trip as critical as this one it might be a good idea to simulate a year long confinement with the actual crew being sent just to make sure they're compatible.
Just reading the above comments it looks like you won't get trolled. It looks like the Ribbon has lots of support. I think it is the best thing about Office 2007 and I pity the people that won't use it because it is different. The "OMG I'll have to learn a new interface" thing is hilarious. These are the same guys that would be lost if docked their start menu to the top of the screen instead of the bottom. Honestly, after a few hours with it you start liking it and after a few more you'll be competent.
Office 2007 is a great example of how they did out with the old and in with the new and better. Once you get used to it, and it really doesn't take long, the new ribbon interface is far superior to the old bloated menus and cluttered toolbars. The GUI isn't all that they changed. In Word, for example, they essentially force you to use proper header styles so hopefully that will help the formatting challenged who insist on using tabs and spaces to place text on a page. Anyway, I like the idea of redesign if the new design is better. I'm not so stubborn that I can't see the benefit.
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Exactly. But then again this is an article about something that's very dense.
This system will be the laughing stock of the automotive industry. Nobody is going to like it. Nobody. Ok, maybe the five year old in the back seat. With so much competition in the industry people will reject the purchase of a car based on this feature alone. They must have been trolled by some market research groups who said they wanted a talking avatar in their car.
They have to announce it or there won't be any further science. The people in charge of funding this kind of research need a constant supply of stories like this or they lose all interest.
Google should at least allow people a couple weeks of read-only access to their stuff after they give them the boot. BTW, I use Chrome to get gmail offline but according to the article's author I'm doing the impossible.
I stopped reading TFA at "For instance, the Office Web Apps version of PowerPoint doesn’t have the high-performance video editing tools found in the desktop version..." They actually used High-Performance and PowerPoint in the same sentence. You've got to be kidding me.
I must have amazing vision because I can see things way smaller tha 1x1x1.5 mm.
Worse. My flipping of the "pages" was interrupted by an ad. I don't know why people want humanoid robots because it's obvious that if they're anything like the electronics we have now they're just going to be rude, annoying, obnoxious, fucking assholes.
You only do that way, way up north where compasses aren't reliable. The runways in Canada use magnetic numbers just like everyplace else. At the Edmonton City Centre airport there's a pub located at the end of runway 30. The pub is named Runway 29, but they didn't want to change their name when the magnetic pole moved and the runway was renumbered.
Ah yes. The international HUB unit of radioactivity (hours until blister). This is why you run a technical interview before hiring or appointing a spokesperson.
They didn't get it wrong. Their statement is perfectly correct.
Exactly. The energy isn't a reference to the total energy output of the device but rather the energy of photons at that frequency.
You have to climb a flight of stairs to get to the kitchen.
Sounds like the emergency beacons have a major design flaw. When you can force something as expensive and dangerous as a SAR operation at the push of a button you can be 100% guaranteed that it will be misused. Even the simplest of two-way communications ability would allow rescuers to determine if SAR is actually needed.
When people take vacation they not only neglect regular maintenance but they leave behind some summer student to handle things.
Am I the only one finding it hard to read the PDF because of the font? The u has two different height sides to it. I would have actually preferred Comic Sans.
And technically they were nuked twice.
As the home of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures France already knows the time of day.
Not surprised that they failed considering they couldn't even figure out which way is up on a radiation symbol.
Government operation?
For a trip as critical as this one it might be a good idea to simulate a year long confinement with the actual crew being sent just to make sure they're compatible.
Radio stations are roughly 50% ads and 50% the same songs they played two hours ago.
Only an Air Force plane would become Air Force One.
Tom might have ordered one so he could review it.
You offer a draw when you think you're going to lose. If your opponent doesn't recognize that he's in a winning position he might accept it.
Just reading the above comments it looks like you won't get trolled. It looks like the Ribbon has lots of support. I think it is the best thing about Office 2007 and I pity the people that won't use it because it is different. The "OMG I'll have to learn a new interface" thing is hilarious. These are the same guys that would be lost if docked their start menu to the top of the screen instead of the bottom. Honestly, after a few hours with it you start liking it and after a few more you'll be competent.
Office 2007 is a great example of how they did out with the old and in with the new and better. Once you get used to it, and it really doesn't take long, the new ribbon interface is far superior to the old bloated menus and cluttered toolbars. The GUI isn't all that they changed. In Word, for example, they essentially force you to use proper header styles so hopefully that will help the formatting challenged who insist on using tabs and spaces to place text on a page. Anyway, I like the idea of redesign if the new design is better. I'm not so stubborn that I can't see the benefit.