What possible excuse could a person have to return a $300 watch which needs recharging every single day, doesn't tell you the time unless you light up the display (and you can't see any way in strong sunlight) and offers functionality which people don't need and doesn't work properly even if they did?
It's not surprising that the Telegraph has chosen to denigrate software developers. That's all the Telegraph does these days - troll for hits by spouting drivel about science, climate change, immigrants, the EU, and other topics that push buttons in their readers. Invariably these opinion pieces are written from a position of extreme ignorance. Look at James Delingpole and Christopher Booker as prime practitioners of this art but they're not alone.
The best course of action is to treat the Telegraph like the Daily Mail. Assume by default that their opinion on anything is outright wrong or a total fabrication from start to finish to support their agenda. It's easier that way.
Every form of execution has the potential to cause pain or be botched. Which is why all due consideration would be made when designing it to possible modes of failure and remedies. e.g. a gun could jam or misfire which is why you would have more than one gun. A person might falter with their aim, so you put the guns rigid, locked stands where the aim is calibrated and set in place. A small calibre bullet might not be fatal, so you use large calibre. And so on.
I really don't see how it is more an issue just because the form of execution is guns aimed at someone's chest any more than the procedure for electrocuting, hanging, gassing or injecting someone. Even highly reliable forms of execution such as the guillotine come under question due to the question of a person's consciousness after the act. Assuming the law requires a form of execution, I don't see a problem with it being death by bullets. It certainly beats having to source highly expensive drugs and dragging medical ethics and international relations into the discussion.
If Nintendo found itself losing a hardware war (and it's hard to see how the Wii U will sustain it) then it could just pull a Sega and exit the hardware completely. Look how Sonic has appeared in numerous (mostly crappy) games over the last 10 years. I'm sure Nintendo could do something similar.
One gun might fire which is why I said guns plural. As for the position of the person, if someone can be strapped to an electric chair, or a gurney, or over a trap door, or whatever, then they can be strapped to something which holds them still enough to be shot. I don't see the reliability being any worse than any other form of execution.
This really doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem. i.e. don't have a firing squad, mount the guns on tripods and do a test firing to ensure their aim.
Blank ammo doesn't have the same kick as live ammo (no bullet). You would know if it was you or not unless it was very small calibre.
Anyway I don't see why it should even matter. If someone can be designated to push a button to electrocute someone, or gas them, or to release a trap door, or to administer a lethal injection then I don't see what difference it makes that the switch actually is rigged to a weapon that fires a bullet into someone's heart.
Wild guess - Oracle? Most mainstream plugins abstract away the differences between NPAPI and ActiveX. I doubt another plugin API would make a huge difference to what they do already.
Most online banking systems in Scandinavia use Java applet. Same Java-based id/login system can be used for many public services and for web shop payments. They are working on moving away from it, but for now being able to do online banking is a pretty key requirement for most users.
A few sites in Ireland do it too, such as the Revenue website. Fortunately it's gotten rarer and these days there isn't much need for it. Modern browsers can store data like crypto keys locally (which is what Revenue used it for), or they could send a booklet of one time pads or a hard token if absolutely necessary.
My Synology NAS uses a Java object for its file manager, so I can drag and drop files from my local FS to the drive through a mostly HTML based UI.
So I hope Firefox has a "remember this site option".
As for Flash, many people seem to think that HTML5 video support can replace Flash, but then you are not aware of the huge amount of popular Flash games out there. As a tower defense game addict Flash is just a necessity for a long while still.
HTML5 could completely replace Flash but anyone who thinks it will lead to better rendering is in for a rude awakening. A Flash plugin instance had the potential to run in its own thread, or even in a separate process when the browser hosted it in a separate exe. Now all the HTML5 flash-like stuff in the page is running in a mostly single threaded JS and hogging the CPU with timers.
If users hate it so much then the site will soon hear these complaints and might actually do something to fix the issue. Doing nothing is not going to change anybody's behaviour. Not the site, not the user.
When Microsoft put UAC into Windows they got a lot of hate because so many apps were doing stupid things (e.g. open HKLM with read/write access, expecting users to run with admin privileges) that it would pop up all the time. But clearly it had an effect because the software was fixed to limit or remove its privileged operations to avoid these popups. Windows might not be impregnable but it's in a far better situation than if it had been left the way it was.
Anyway if Firefox does implement a popup, or a click to activate, I'm sure they could also provide a checkbox to not bug the user again for that specific site.
Bundling apps which would become rapidly bitrotten is a really stupid idea. Car manufacturers should be producing bluetooth profiles and protocols which allow apps from any smart phone OS to contribute interactive information to the car display. e.g. a fuel price app could transmit some graphics (e.g. a map), audio and some buttons to the car system so the user could interact with it even though the app is running on the phone.
It's not about credibility but adherence to the law. I expect France has dozens if not hundreds of religions, sects and possibly even cults operating within its borders in a completely lawful fashion. Scientology clearly wasn't and had the book thrown at it.
If the seats recline then people should be entitled to use them. I personally can sleep better in a reclined seat although the quality of sleep still sucks.
Let's see if you can read properly. If you are not satisfied with the standard of care offered from a universal public health system with regard to your made-up situation, then buy private health insurance. Companies like BUPA exist in the UK to supply this insurance and there are plenty of hospitals, doctors, health care clinics, etc which reside outside of the NHS to supply this market.
The Daily Mail is one of those newspapers where the default assumption should be that the entire story is a lie or so grossly distorted that the headline and the actual facts are in severe disagreement.
Many countries offer broad, sometimes universal healthcare. It doesn't stop someone taking out a private health insurance policy on top. Often that means you get a private room, faster consultations, treatments etc. But everyone else still gets a good standard of service, but one obviously subject to budgetary and resource stresses.
I think you will find that lots of people have a functioning immune system and still managed to die or suffer serious lifelong harm from infectious diseases. And of course many people don't have the luxury of a functioning immune system and rely on herd immunity to shield them from infection. In summary, you are a moron.
Your anecdotes are just that - anecdotes. I may as well claim I wore a seatbelt and turn my car lights on and I still crashed my car whereas my (idiot) buddy who never wears a seatbelt and drives without lights has never crashed. Perhaps that is the case, but it says nothing of the underlying statistics when measured as a whole.
And as it happens, a simple search on "flu jab effectiveness" will yield the information you seek and shows flu vaccine effectiveness is around 60%. In other words you more than halve your chances of getting the flu and gain partial resistance for other strains which reduce symptoms and recovery time.
I never said everyone was rational (hence "most people"), just pointing out that something doesn't have to be 100% effective to have a beneficial effect. Though IMO failing to vaccinate a child should be grounds to prosecute the parents if that decision causes harm to the child or others.
1080p60 is defined by HDMI 1.4a and is supported by MHL and MyDP amongst other resolutions. It might help to understand the terminology before piping up.
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XP was a fairly minor iteration to W2K, polishing off the UI and other rough edges to make it more suitable for mass consumption.
What possible excuse could a person have to return a $300 watch which needs recharging every single day, doesn't tell you the time unless you light up the display (and you can't see any way in strong sunlight) and offers functionality which people don't need and doesn't work properly even if they did?
The best course of action is to treat the Telegraph like the Daily Mail. Assume by default that their opinion on anything is outright wrong or a total fabrication from start to finish to support their agenda. It's easier that way.
I really don't see how it is more an issue just because the form of execution is guns aimed at someone's chest any more than the procedure for electrocuting, hanging, gassing or injecting someone. Even highly reliable forms of execution such as the guillotine come under question due to the question of a person's consciousness after the act. Assuming the law requires a form of execution, I don't see a problem with it being death by bullets. It certainly beats having to source highly expensive drugs and dragging medical ethics and international relations into the discussion.
If Nintendo found itself losing a hardware war (and it's hard to see how the Wii U will sustain it) then it could just pull a Sega and exit the hardware completely. Look how Sonic has appeared in numerous (mostly crappy) games over the last 10 years. I'm sure Nintendo could do something similar.
One gun might fire which is why I said guns plural. As for the position of the person, if someone can be strapped to an electric chair, or a gurney, or over a trap door, or whatever, then they can be strapped to something which holds them still enough to be shot. I don't see the reliability being any worse than any other form of execution.
Do you think it's likely that the firing squad would consist of people who've never fired that kind of weapon / ammo before?
This really doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem. i.e. don't have a firing squad, mount the guns on tripods and do a test firing to ensure their aim.
Anyway I don't see why it should even matter. If someone can be designated to push a button to electrocute someone, or gas them, or to release a trap door, or to administer a lethal injection then I don't see what difference it makes that the switch actually is rigged to a weapon that fires a bullet into someone's heart.
Wild guess - Oracle? Most mainstream plugins abstract away the differences between NPAPI and ActiveX. I doubt another plugin API would make a huge difference to what they do already.
Most online banking systems in Scandinavia use Java applet. Same Java-based id/login system can be used for many public services and for web shop payments. They are working on moving away from it, but for now being able to do online banking is a pretty key requirement for most users.
A few sites in Ireland do it too, such as the Revenue website. Fortunately it's gotten rarer and these days there isn't much need for it. Modern browsers can store data like crypto keys locally (which is what Revenue used it for), or they could send a booklet of one time pads or a hard token if absolutely necessary. My Synology NAS uses a Java object for its file manager, so I can drag and drop files from my local FS to the drive through a mostly HTML based UI. So I hope Firefox has a "remember this site option".
As for Flash, many people seem to think that HTML5 video support can replace Flash, but then you are not aware of the huge amount of popular Flash games out there. As a tower defense game addict Flash is just a necessity for a long while still.
HTML5 could completely replace Flash but anyone who thinks it will lead to better rendering is in for a rude awakening. A Flash plugin instance had the potential to run in its own thread, or even in a separate process when the browser hosted it in a separate exe. Now all the HTML5 flash-like stuff in the page is running in a mostly single threaded JS and hogging the CPU with timers.
They are only deprecating NPAPI because they want plugins to use Pepper instead.
When Microsoft put UAC into Windows they got a lot of hate because so many apps were doing stupid things (e.g. open HKLM with read/write access, expecting users to run with admin privileges) that it would pop up all the time. But clearly it had an effect because the software was fixed to limit or remove its privileged operations to avoid these popups. Windows might not be impregnable but it's in a far better situation than if it had been left the way it was.
Anyway if Firefox does implement a popup, or a click to activate, I'm sure they could also provide a checkbox to not bug the user again for that specific site.
Bundling apps which would become rapidly bitrotten is a really stupid idea. Car manufacturers should be producing bluetooth profiles and protocols which allow apps from any smart phone OS to contribute interactive information to the car display. e.g. a fuel price app could transmit some graphics (e.g. a map), audio and some buttons to the car system so the user could interact with it even though the app is running on the phone.
A completely bogus comparison. Reclining a seat is not "being an asshole". Jostling the seat *is* being an asshole.
It's not about credibility but adherence to the law. I expect France has dozens if not hundreds of religions, sects and possibly even cults operating within its borders in a completely lawful fashion. Scientology clearly wasn't and had the book thrown at it.
If the seats recline then people should be entitled to use them. I personally can sleep better in a reclined seat although the quality of sleep still sucks.
Let's see if you can read properly. If you are not satisfied with the standard of care offered from a universal public health system with regard to your made-up situation, then buy private health insurance. Companies like BUPA exist in the UK to supply this insurance and there are plenty of hospitals, doctors, health care clinics, etc which reside outside of the NHS to supply this market.
The Daily Mail is one of those newspapers where the default assumption should be that the entire story is a lie or so grossly distorted that the headline and the actual facts are in severe disagreement.
It's still vastly preferable to the US system.
I think you will find that lots of people have a functioning immune system and still managed to die or suffer serious lifelong harm from infectious diseases. And of course many people don't have the luxury of a functioning immune system and rely on herd immunity to shield them from infection. In summary, you are a moron.
And as it happens, a simple search on "flu jab effectiveness" will yield the information you seek and shows flu vaccine effectiveness is around 60%. In other words you more than halve your chances of getting the flu and gain partial resistance for other strains which reduce symptoms and recovery time.
And Android now has ChromeCast. Neither of which is relevant to the problem being discussed here.
I never said everyone was rational (hence "most people"), just pointing out that something doesn't have to be 100% effective to have a beneficial effect. Though IMO failing to vaccinate a child should be grounds to prosecute the parents if that decision causes harm to the child or others.
1080p60 is defined by HDMI 1.4a and is supported by MHL and MyDP amongst other resolutions. It might help to understand the terminology before piping up.