Special trip? Don't you ever go to ATM to get some cash? I do, usually once or twice a month. Any check I have just wait until I have to go to the bank.
What are they gonna do next -- cash withdrawal via iPhone? Show the photo of the cash to the clerk at the store....
I think so too. The demo looks very smooth and it could be nice to explore large project done by somebody else, but to use it for development? No thanks. I rarely find myself needing to look at more than two files at once. And, I like larger fonts.
Why on earth would they want to attach an ARM to a sensor? 8 bit micro is more than enough to service a sensor. And will take a fraction of a power that the ARM requires.
30-40K is nothing. One person should be able to handle that easily. Although I can imagine for an inexperienced programmer it can be too much. I remember the first 'large' program I wrote in school -- it was 400 lines.
10 years ago I had to port 1.5 million lines from one UNIX to another. Well that's a large project.
Computer to Pilot: We have an emergency, attempting safe landing... Ah, sorry, can't find a good spot. Controls are yours. You have 15 seconds until engine shutdown. Piolt to himself: Oh, HSIT!
Hm... Vertical Take off on a electric motor... Minimum 400 kg lift force? I'm too lazy to convert it to required motor power but it sounds not feasible.
+1. Artists ALWAYS made money through concerts only. That was so 200 years ago, that was so 30 years ago, and that is so now. Yes, there are few exceptions, like Metallica, Beatles, Madonna, Michael Jackson who made it to platinum albums. But these are few and far between.
Yes, there was a period of time when labels came into existence and enjoyed their position for nearly a century. Well, Label people. You got it good while it lasted, so don't feel bitter now. Your time is over. Go back to doing actual work.
And what about the arrows shooting through the windows of the choppers? The same windows that only get barely cracked when shot at from machine gun, are easily penetrated by an arrow?
Also, shipping companies don't lose when their ships are boarded or the goods stolen, as they're all insured. Everyone knows this, even the pirates. The ones who lose are the insurance companies, but they don't really care either coz they just make up for it in higher premiums.
Piracy! It's a win for all!
Genius. I bet you don't lose when your car is stolen, because you are all insured?
I looked through their tutorial and I'm not impressed. There is nothing revolutionary about the language. Why they claim it is so much easier to use and faster to write in? Anyone who can understand their language will be able to use Perl or VB equally easily.
There's more to the story than what you see in the slashdot summary - don't make any uninformed assumptions.
The guy apparently did try pulling the car out of gear and into neutral, but it didn't do anything (many auto transmissions are electronically controlled and have failsafe mechanisms to prevent desctruction). He also tried shutting off the ignition - but this vehicle like many other fancy new vehicles doesn't have a key ignition. It's a button, and when pressed while driving it won't turn the engine off. Buried in the owners manual is a single sentence that essentially says that in order to turn the engine off while driving, you have to hold the button down for three seconds.
Wow what a horrible engineering. Way to go -- keep the transmission from destruction, kill the driver.
Pppppplease. People get training specifically not panic in extreme situations. Hit the break, nothing happens, check if you hit the left pedal, hit it again, honk to alert cars around, put the gear in neutral. It all takes 2 seconds.
I've seen these incidents in movies so many times. It is a classic plot, stuck accelerator. When I see it I think how I'd react. In fact I do that when I learn about any kind of accident. In one case it helped me. (Car could not stop on ice, and collision with car in front was imminent. So I released the breaks and steered car into a snow bank on the shoulder. Steering requires a lot less grip with the road than breaking, so it worked. Accident avoided. )
That's probably bullshit. What's the name of the town? Virtually nobody is fined for going less than 10 km/hr over limit. Could be a little more strict in 40km/hr zone near a school.
There was one case few years back when a guy was fined for going 7km/hr over speed limit. The case made it to the main stream media, since it really bizarre. Chief of Toronto police himself promised to deal with the cop who gave that ticket. So, no. It is impossible to get ticket for going 50 in 50 zone in Canada.
I'm not really convinced that "game" based programming systems do anything to inspire the young programmer. I say put them in front of a blinking cursor, the apt ones will just get it.
Me neither. Besides, do we need MORE of Visual Basic programmers?
Recycling electronics components sounds like a good idea, but is unpractical. Components could could be recycled as a material source, that's all. Nobody will reuse the components in a new circuit.
And recycling them as a material is not much different from the current technology, where actually recycling them is MUCH more difficult than taking them out of the circuit.
Don't even start with RF. This could only work for simple low performance digital circuits. Screen printed conductors are too crappy for high-speed designs.
Of course authors forgot to mention that pretty much any circuit can be made waterproof by conformal coating or dipping into epoxy.
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Special trip? Don't you ever go to ATM to get some cash? I do, usually once or twice a month. Any check I have just wait until I have to go to the bank.
What are they gonna do next -- cash withdrawal via iPhone? Show the photo of the cash to the clerk at the store....
Must be real slow day...
I think so too. The demo looks very smooth and it could be nice to explore large project done by somebody else, but to use it for development? No thanks. I rarely find myself needing to look at more than two files at once. And, I like larger fonts.
Why on earth would they want to attach an ARM to a sensor? 8 bit micro is more than enough to service a sensor. And will take a fraction of a power that the ARM requires.
30-40K is nothing. One person should be able to handle that easily. Although I can imagine for an inexperienced programmer it can be too much. I remember the first 'large' program I wrote in school -- it was 400 lines.
10 years ago I had to port 1.5 million lines from one UNIX to another. Well that's a large project.
Computer to Pilot: We have an emergency, attempting safe landing... Ah, sorry, can't find a good spot. Controls are yours. You have 15 seconds until engine shutdown.
Piolt to himself: Oh, HSIT!
Hm... Vertical Take off on a electric motor... Minimum 400 kg lift force? I'm too lazy to convert it to required motor power but it sounds not feasible.
+1. Artists ALWAYS made money through concerts only. That was so 200 years ago, that was so 30 years ago, and that is so now. Yes, there are few exceptions, like Metallica, Beatles, Madonna, Michael Jackson who made it to platinum albums. But these are few and far between.
Yes, there was a period of time when labels came into existence and enjoyed their position for nearly a century. Well, Label people. You got it good while it lasted, so don't feel bitter now. Your time is over. Go back to doing actual work.
Yes, people using AOL for their email deserve it.
Poor stupid reporter :) But the video is really funny!
Idiots call cell phone unbreakable. Idiots try and test it. Make your cell phone from a solid chunk of steel, and it still will be breakable.
Oh really? A round from a machine gun weighs more than 600 grams traveling at more than 900m/s.
Arrow travels at 80m/s. It would have to be a 60kg arrow to match the kinetic energy of a round.
And what about the arrows shooting through the windows of the choppers? The same windows that only get barely cracked when shot at from machine gun, are easily penetrated by an arrow?
Also, shipping companies don't lose when their ships are boarded or the goods stolen, as they're all insured. Everyone knows this, even the pirates. The ones who lose are the insurance companies, but they don't really care either coz they just make up for it in higher premiums.
Piracy! It's a win for all!
Genius. I bet you don't lose when your car is stolen, because you are all insured?
I looked through their tutorial and I'm not impressed. There is nothing revolutionary about the language. Why they claim it is so much easier to use and faster to write in? Anyone who can understand their language will be able to use Perl or VB equally easily.
Once requiring training and years of experience, now even a kindergartner can master a word processor.
Exactly when did word processor required years experience and training?
Checking for CARRY flag is one instruction. Not exactly a dramatic slowing.
There's more to the story than what you see in the slashdot summary - don't make any uninformed assumptions.
The guy apparently did try pulling the car out of gear and into neutral, but it didn't do anything (many auto transmissions are electronically controlled and have failsafe mechanisms to prevent desctruction). He also tried shutting off the ignition - but this vehicle like many other fancy new vehicles doesn't have a key ignition. It's a button, and when pressed while driving it won't turn the engine off. Buried in the owners manual is a single sentence that essentially says that in order to turn the engine off while driving, you have to hold the button down for three seconds.
Wow what a horrible engineering. Way to go -- keep the transmission from destruction, kill the driver.
Pppppplease. People get training specifically not panic in extreme situations. Hit the break, nothing happens, check if you hit the left pedal, hit it again, honk to alert cars around, put the gear in neutral. It all takes 2 seconds.
I've seen these incidents in movies so many times. It is a classic plot, stuck accelerator. When I see it I think how I'd react. In fact I do that when I learn about any kind of accident. In one case it helped me. (Car could not stop on ice, and collision with car in front was imminent. So I released the breaks and steered car into a snow bank on the shoulder. Steering requires a lot less grip with the road than breaking, so it worked. Accident avoided. )
That's probably bullshit. What's the name of the town? Virtually nobody is fined for going less than 10 km/hr over limit. Could be a little more strict in 40km/hr zone near a school.
There was one case few years back when a guy was fined for going 7km/hr over speed limit. The case made it to the main stream media, since it really bizarre. Chief of Toronto police himself promised to deal with the cop who gave that ticket. So, no. It is impossible to get ticket for going 50 in 50 zone in Canada.
I am still waiting for what Microsoft Promised me for Windows 95.
Did you mean "I am still waiting for the promised Microsoft ME?" It was delivered years ago, and you don't want it, believe me.
I'm not really convinced that "game" based programming systems do anything to inspire the young programmer. I say put them in front of a blinking cursor, the apt ones will just get it.
Me neither. Besides, do we need MORE of Visual Basic programmers?
Recycling electronics components sounds like a good idea, but is unpractical. Components could could be recycled as a material source, that's all. Nobody will reuse the components in a new circuit.
And recycling them as a material is not much different from the current technology, where actually recycling them is MUCH more difficult than taking them out of the circuit.
Don't even start with RF. This could only work for simple low performance digital circuits. Screen printed conductors are too crappy for high-speed designs.
Of course authors forgot to mention that pretty much any circuit can be made waterproof by conformal coating or dipping into epoxy.
mosquitoes?
Birds that can hover flap their wing pretty much the same way. Find some videos of hummingbirds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJf-AQhDTz4&feature=channel