Beats me; I've just heard of this thing called 'pinch to zoom' and thought that didn't make any sense. If it's the way you've described then it's just named backwards.
Speaking of the pinch to zoom in, this is just not intuitive at all to me. Pinching seems more like scrunching something up so it should zoom out. Spreading apart should make it zoom in. They got it completely backwards.
First you think third graders learning science is pointless busywork and then you think a $420M probe to Mars has this wind detector as its sole and only purpose? Get over your jaded self, please.
You have to settle out of court *before* the ruling. Now that it's been ruled upon, that option is gone. What kind of chaos would ensue in the post-ruling take-it-back court system you're proposing??
some sort of standardized platform to launch PC games from besides windows or other alternatives. Something that is JUST for gaming.
You've just described a console game machine. What's needed is to just boot a PC OS on the powerful hardware of the console box whenever you don't put in a game disk to boot. Beats the heck out of me why they not only don't do this but also make it difficult to after-market fiddle the things to do it. I guess if a version of Windows were tailor made for certain hardware combination so the drivers and whatnot never freaked out and crashed everyone would whine endlessly over why their mish-mash PC ever has that problem.
Why the fuck would the United States Air Force want a botnet, when they could have the real thing? A tightly integrated computer network with near unlimited bandwidth, satellites, super computers, massive clustering, and secure, integrated control
In your excitement you've overlooked one minor detail; the US gov't has decreed it is going to move all its systems down to 50 or so access points to the wider internet. So no matter how big and bad a system the Air Force might concoct on its own internal network, it would still be hampered by the internal to external gateway speed and if those 50 gateways are known, they're easily blocked. So they wouldn't be able to Botnet-bomb the whoever nearly as well.
While being run over with a truck is awful for a person it really isn't that bad for a machine, even if it is a laptop. The truck's tire pressure on the road is only a few dozen psi due to all the contact area. Most laptops are reasonably strong and can handle some things stacked on them when just laying flat with the cover closed. Dropping it on its edge from airplane luggage rack height makes for a good test because the impact g force is huge. Rather than destroy some normal laptops doing that, just take my word for it that'd kill them and send them to me instead.
Physics PhD's do research. Civil engineers use physics in calculations to design infrastructure. Which activity is more needed in impoverished countries? Thanks for trying to be sarcastic.
Exactly - they need civil engineers and agriculturalists, not physicists. Sounds like this project is a symptom of 'when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail'-itis though the principals do have good intentions and it probably will help some individuals move up and out.
So does anyone really beleive that a SMS text message can cost 20-25% as much as a minute of a cellphone call?
I've never figured out why the pricing isnt the opposite - Since the phone (as a device) only uses the network for an instant to log in to send an SMS compared to yakking a few minutes on a call, they should encourage them instead of giving unlimited calling and charging for SMS. Why not charge by the minute to talk and send SMS as part of the basic charge?
The reasoning is that the basic reason for any living being to exist is to prolong its/its species/lifes (in ascending order of priority) span in this world...gripe that I have about prisons everywhere. It doesnt allow for creating new life
Whoa there; the basic reason for prolonging the species is for SUCCESSFULL individuals to procreate. Criminals who serve time and are released can go on to have children but ones that have been bad enough to be locked away for the rest of their lives (problems with any given judicial system are for another thread) should hardly qualify as "successful" and be rewarded with passing on their genes. And criminals are just the example you're complaining about; I further object to millions on welfare being encouraged by that broken program's policies to have yet more children that other people pay for.
To me it reads like, he thought the vote would go the way it did so he didn't need to vote against it
It sounds to me just like when the President doesn't sign a bill he doesnt like (but suspects there is enough support to override a veto) so it becomes law after 10 days.
tells you if your search results have been censored
I wonder what response rate you'd get with an option that said 'If you agree to our logging your IP would you like to see the uncensored search results'?
You bought the wrong keyboard then. Get yourself one fo these and never worry about it anymore. QWERTY, Dvorak, Gamer, who knows? Poke at a couple of keys and find out what's mapped where!
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may the fleas of a thousand camels infest their genitals
I'm in the US where there aren't many camels outside of zoos. Please express this in terms of fleas of Congressmen so I can better understand it.
a quick graphic of how the IP addresses are layed out over 'a typical' cluster of 1,800 machines
I'll bet they don't mess with tcp/ip - that's way too slow and bulky. Think Infiniband or some other switched fabric instead of heirarchical.
Will you accept a collect call from reality, Hatta?
You're kidding, right? Look what "Hatta" is advocating and tell me how likely it is he's thought everything through.
With production values this bad, who will watch The Watchmen?
I guess nobody, unless we get shipped off to Soviet Russia where, alas, we watch The Watchmen.
Beats me; I've just heard of this thing called 'pinch to zoom' and thought that didn't make any sense. If it's the way you've described then it's just named backwards.
Windows7 will support the "pinch" feature
Speaking of the pinch to zoom in, this is just not intuitive at all to me. Pinching seems more like scrunching something up so it should zoom out. Spreading apart should make it zoom in. They got it completely backwards.
First you think third graders learning science is pointless busywork and then you think a $420M probe to Mars has this wind detector as its sole and only purpose? Get over your jaded self, please.
No, no, no:
If the rock is missing: Martians
Hate it? Not at all. I love it when a government financed project provides simple yet effective solution.
You have to settle out of court *before* the ruling. Now that it's been ruled upon, that option is gone. What kind of chaos would ensue in the post-ruling take-it-back court system you're proposing??
some sort of standardized platform to launch PC games from besides windows or other alternatives. Something that is JUST for gaming.
You've just described a console game machine. What's needed is to just boot a PC OS on the powerful hardware of the console box whenever you don't put in a game disk to boot. Beats the heck out of me why they not only don't do this but also make it difficult to after-market fiddle the things to do it. I guess if a version of Windows were tailor made for certain hardware combination so the drivers and whatnot never freaked out and crashed everyone would whine endlessly over why their mish-mash PC ever has that problem.
Depends on your line of business.
Why the fuck would the United States Air Force want a botnet, when they could have the real thing? A tightly integrated computer network with near unlimited bandwidth, satellites, super computers, massive clustering, and secure, integrated control
In your excitement you've overlooked one minor detail; the US gov't has decreed it is going to move all its systems down to 50 or so access points to the wider internet. So no matter how big and bad a system the Air Force might concoct on its own internal network, it would still be hampered by the internal to external gateway speed and if those 50 gateways are known, they're easily blocked. So they wouldn't be able to Botnet-bomb the whoever nearly as well.
While being run over with a truck is awful for a person it really isn't that bad for a machine, even if it is a laptop. The truck's tire pressure on the road is only a few dozen psi due to all the contact area. Most laptops are reasonably strong and can handle some things stacked on them when just laying flat with the cover closed. Dropping it on its edge from airplane luggage rack height makes for a good test because the impact g force is huge. Rather than destroy some normal laptops doing that, just take my word for it that'd kill them and send them to me instead.
Physics PhD's do research. Civil engineers use physics in calculations to design infrastructure. Which activity is more needed in impoverished countries? Thanks for trying to be sarcastic.
Exactly - they need civil engineers and agriculturalists, not physicists. Sounds like this project is a symptom of 'when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail'-itis though the principals do have good intentions and it probably will help some individuals move up and out.
So does anyone really beleive that a SMS text message can cost 20-25% as much as a minute of a cellphone call?
I've never figured out why the pricing isnt the opposite - Since the phone (as a device) only uses the network for an instant to log in to send an SMS compared to yakking a few minutes on a call, they should encourage them instead of giving unlimited calling and charging for SMS. Why not charge by the minute to talk and send SMS as part of the basic charge?
What they still haven't revealed is how they got the Hubble to SMS them to be able to compare to the phone to phone SMS cost.
Wow; not my thing but as long as they pay their own way like their website says, well, go right ahead.
The reasoning is that the basic reason for any living being to exist is to prolong its/its species/lifes (in ascending order of priority) span in this world...gripe that I have about prisons everywhere. It doesnt allow for creating new life
Whoa there; the basic reason for prolonging the species is for SUCCESSFULL individuals to procreate. Criminals who serve time and are released can go on to have children but ones that have been bad enough to be locked away for the rest of their lives (problems with any given judicial system are for another thread) should hardly qualify as "successful" and be rewarded with passing on their genes. And criminals are just the example you're complaining about; I further object to millions on welfare being encouraged by that broken program's policies to have yet more children that other people pay for.
2/3 of the way through being born?
To me it reads like, he thought the vote would go the way it did so he didn't need to vote against it
It sounds to me just like when the President doesn't sign a bill he doesnt like (but suspects there is enough support to override a veto) so it becomes law after 10 days.
tells you if your search results have been censored
I wonder what response rate you'd get with an option that said 'If you agree to our logging your IP would you like to see the uncensored search results'?
Not to worry, the people responsible have been sacked.
I can't re-silkscreen the key caps though
You bought the wrong keyboard then. Get yourself one fo these and never worry about it anymore. QWERTY, Dvorak, Gamer, who knows? Poke at a couple of keys and find out what's mapped where!