...when I showed them what a smartphone was able to do, the response was mainly, "who cares about Bluetooth or E-mail. I just want a phone that is thin and makes calls. Any more and that is what a laptop is for." Ironic how things change.
Smartphone features can be useful, but I'd say the iPhone's large touchscreen was the first to actually make them practical on a handheld.
2) What worked for me usually was to subscribe to a mailing list. Not necessarily even the 'official' *-users mailing list, but just one that talks about problems. By reading through other people's common problems, not-so-common problems, and more importantly, the community's solutions will help get a perspective of the language and how other people are using it.
Have any links? It's not hard to find a list if you know a languages' "official" site (Python), but something older (like C) seems to be harder to locate.
What is the inherent problem with software just being old? Do some of the bits fall off? Some of the bytes?
No, but the rest of the world does not stand still for you. New software doesn't get designed for your 2-or-3-versions-out-of-date OS. People start using docx. The internet stops jumping through hoops to make websites that work in your browser.
Opera is far more configurable.
Firefox plugins leave Opera's configurability in the dust.
Chrome's interface is cleaner and more compact.
Only mobile and cli browsers score lower on Acid3.
Everything else runs circles around IE's rendering times.
The second part is fair enough in this age of austerity (I'd rather have my taxes spent on schools and hospitals than software upgrade testing at the moment), but the whole reaction will be a disappointment to the petitioners."
That AutoRun virus that was going around a while back, how much did that cost to clean up?
The thing about Courier is that nobody ever saw it actually working: they just saw tech demos. In the tech demos, the stylus handwriting recognition was always perfect. Considering that we never once saw an on-screen keyboard in the demos, it appears that the handwriting recognition portion of the formula was crucial to the concept. What do you want to bet that it wasn't nearly as good as it was supposed to be?
You may be right. I had to set up Win7 on one of those tablet/laptop hybrids and decided to try in tablet mode. It read the stylus perfectly, as if I were writing on paper. But it wasn't able to actually read my handwriting. I couldn't write the name of our fileserver in Windows Explorer if my life depended on it.
I seriously doubt it. Humans are adaptable. Sure, we may go into another Dark Age in the next century or so, but the issues you show concern over would fall pathetically short of causing our extinction.
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Oh. OK.
But which gadgets? What toys do the populations of the different states choose to spend their money on? That's what this survey answers.
...he was chauffeured around the desert in one of the earliest-known high-performance vehicles.
I seriously doubt he ever went faster than his horses. So what does "high-performance" mean? It didn't wear them out so quickly?
Also, I think the word "sarcasm" would fit better than "irony" in that context. But I'm not sure.
No, "irony" is the correct term, though I would have phrased it "Isn't that ironic?".
...when I showed them what a smartphone was able to do, the response was mainly, "who cares about Bluetooth or E-mail. I just want a phone that is thin and makes calls. Any more and that is what a laptop is for." Ironic how things change.
Smartphone features can be useful, but I'd say the iPhone's large touchscreen was the first to actually make them practical on a handheld.
Though some of us still don't care.
It doesn't sound like Jobs has much time left.
They're using XXS to access the MAC address.
Way too many S sounds there.
An article would not an article without...
I think you accidentally a whole .
Not if you want to make a profit.
Anything that counts as income under our current Income Tax laws. We already have separate but similar messes covering Capitol Gains.
You missed the "Stuff that matters" part of Slashdot's motto up there.
Report just in: It wants and does not want a cheeseburger.
Why shouldn't he complain? By showing up but not filling out a ballot, he's voting "None of the above"
More than ever.
2) What worked for me usually was to subscribe to a mailing list. Not necessarily even the 'official' *-users mailing list, but just one that talks about problems. By reading through other people's common problems, not-so-common problems, and more importantly, the community's solutions will help get a perspective of the language and how other people are using it.
Have any links? It's not hard to find a list if you know a languages' "official" site (Python), but something older (like C) seems to be harder to locate.
No, it's definitely "oz" and "lb", which implies to me it is referring to the weight of (obsolete) medications, rather than the cost.
What is the inherent problem with software just being old? Do some of the bits fall off? Some of the bytes?
No, but the rest of the world does not stand still for you. New software doesn't get designed for your 2-or-3-versions-out-of-date OS. People start using docx. The internet stops jumping through hoops to make websites that work in your browser.
Opera is far more configurable.
Firefox plugins leave Opera's configurability in the dust.
Chrome's interface is cleaner and more compact.
Only mobile and cli browsers score lower on Acid3.
Everything else runs circles around IE's rendering times.
The second part is fair enough in this age of austerity (I'd rather have my taxes spent on schools and hospitals than software upgrade testing at the moment), but the whole reaction will be a disappointment to the petitioners."
That AutoRun virus that was going around a while back, how much did that cost to clean up?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Walmart is nutritious AND less calories than take-out?!
What food is available at your Wal-Mart? There are only two kinds at my local one: McDonald's, and ordinary grocery.
Missed that last line of the parent post. :-X
The legality of an action only matters if you get caught.
Non-jailbroken iPhones don't let you download and run programs from arbitrary websites. This is a well known limitation of the device.
Fixed that for you. Now that jailbreaking is unambiguously legal, markets like this have a chance of going mainstream.
The thing about Courier is that nobody ever saw it actually working: they just saw tech demos. In the tech demos, the stylus handwriting recognition was always perfect. Considering that we never once saw an on-screen keyboard in the demos, it appears that the handwriting recognition portion of the formula was crucial to the concept. What do you want to bet that it wasn't nearly as good as it was supposed to be?
You may be right. I had to set up Win7 on one of those tablet/laptop hybrids and decided to try in tablet mode. It read the stylus perfectly, as if I were writing on paper. But it wasn't able to actually read my handwriting. I couldn't write the name of our fileserver in Windows Explorer if my life depended on it.
I seriously doubt it. Humans are adaptable. Sure, we may go into another Dark Age in the next century or so, but the issues you show concern over would fall pathetically short of causing our extinction.