This. It took nearly to the end of the page to find someone who actually uses a Windows Phone, for which the swipe keyboard is one of the best features. It seem pretty obvious to me that for chump change MS have bought a nice bit of IP that will help them improve their keyboard more cheaply than they could develop it themselves.
The Home screen is more useful than just for pinning the app tiles. You can pin a webpage, a contact, a document, or a place or pretty much any argument take by an app. For example I have my office location in maps pinned so I just tap it to find the current best public transport link to get there from wherever I am at the time. It works very well.
On what grounds? From a technological point of view there is little to choose between Airbus and Boing planes of a similar generation and duty. Which one gets chosen depends on the financing deal offered and not much else.
By far the most impressive robot from the series was Razor, one of the original wedge designs but rather than a flipper, was fitted with a 'beak' that could penetrate pretty much anything, albeit slowly.
Congratulations on the most twisted post of the day. What you said is "homophobia is a crime in Canada even if it is disguised as religion." In that case: Go Canada!
Long before we upload into silicon or whatever mineral construct we use for computing machines at the time I think it is more likely we will be able to grow new brain tissue to replace old and the transfer of consciousness would be gradual. OK it may not be uploading in the sense we normally think of but it may well be that the only way to keep a recording of a brain is in another brain. In the end the goal is immortality.
"If we were to snatch the screen-writers out-of-time, they'd be surprised that the world has changed so little."
What world does this guy live in? You don't need to go beyond the technology of bicycles to be amazed by the progress we've made in what was certainly considered a fully mature product back in the Back to the Future past...
The FAA and other regulatory bodies have to have a notional value of a human life to be able to balance the cost to society of new safety rules against the benefit to society in terms of lives saved.
I would think we'd be able to get people on the moon for a heck of a lot less money.
Sadly not. We've had nearly fifty years of tightening FAA regulations (rightly so, isn't it nice to feel safe on airplanes?) and there's not much on a Saturn V that would get a type certificate these days.
I like the neat new features like having two apps on the screen at the same time and photos that include a short bit of video! Apple has caught up with the Winphone and Surface I've been using for the last two years.
Synaptic, or any other package manager for that matter are one of the marvels of modern Linux distros. They had to be to fix the dependency hell problems we had previously. The original 'App Stores'
Notepad++ is one of the nicest text editors around, is Windows-only and open-source. I prefer it to Kate and let's just not go anywhere near Gedit.
+1 for Foobar, but on Linux why not try Clementine, which can be configured to be bit-perfect in a similar way to Foobar, and has the benefit of a neat remote control app for Android?
Me too. My earliest memory, aged four, was of Armstrong's 'giant leap' on a black and white TV. My dad woke me to watch it happen (early morning UK) and I've been hooked ever since. My favourites are the Mars rovers, what amazing pieces of kit!
Sadly I have no mod points tonight, but I have noted your ID and you will receive all of my next batch, even if you post 'moo cows' BTW you owe me a keyboard.
It will make no difference at all. It's a very different issue.
The most sensitive part of a modern aircraft wing is just aft of the leading edge where the flow makes the transition from subsonic to transonic. Having even 'frosting' in this area can destroy all lift from a wing so they are liberally sprayed with gelatinous treatments that are specially formulated to melt any ice that forms from rain or snow while the aircraft is static, yet become sufficiently diluted during the take off to be washed of the wing for flight.
Once airborne, the problem becomes one of thermal balance and heat is supplied to the wing leading edges using engine bleed air.
The bugs don't affect icing and so far, no coating has been found that cna get rid of ice under all conditions mandated by the FAA.
Regardless of whether or not the 'Frequent Contributor' writes anything worth reading (he doesn't; water bottle delivery at a hippy festival ffs?) when/. posts anything written by the venerable Bennett they know two things:
1. Massive clickbait to sell to advertisers.
2. Not a single positive comment from their contributors.
It's a sad situation that I come to this site to read the insights of fellow slashdotters, from whom I have learned a great deal, when my visit is earning money for a set of cynical pondlife amoeba like Dice. I guess I'm going to spend more time on stack from now on.
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This. It took nearly to the end of the page to find someone who actually uses a Windows Phone, for which the swipe keyboard is one of the best features. It seem pretty obvious to me that for chump change MS have bought a nice bit of IP that will help them improve their keyboard more cheaply than they could develop it themselves.
The Home screen is more useful than just for pinning the app tiles. You can pin a webpage, a contact, a document, or a place or pretty much any argument take by an app. For example I have my office location in maps pinned so I just tap it to find the current best public transport link to get there from wherever I am at the time. It works very well.
The US planes may be better in many respects.
On what grounds? From a technological point of view there is little to choose between Airbus and Boing planes of a similar generation and duty. Which one gets chosen depends on the financing deal offered and not much else.
Most notably it killed the house robot 'Matilda.
'It also used a self-righting mechanism that served a secondary purpose of enabling it to take a bow at the end of the battle. Very cool.
Accidentally modded you down, so having to post as me to burn the points. Curse these fat fingers...
I have a SP2 and using the pen is like writing on paper, especially in apps like OneNote
I'm glad not to have mod points tonight because it means I can tell you that that was the most insightful comment I've read on /. ever
Congratulations on the most twisted post of the day. What you said is "homophobia is a crime in Canada even if it is disguised as religion." In that case: Go Canada!
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Long before we upload into silicon or whatever mineral construct we use for computing machines at the time I think it is more likely we will be able to grow new brain tissue to replace old and the transfer of consciousness would be gradual. OK it may not be uploading in the sense we normally think of but it may well be that the only way to keep a recording of a brain is in another brain. In the end the goal is immortality.
"If we were to snatch the screen-writers out-of-time, they'd be surprised that the world has changed so little."
What world does this guy live in? You don't need to go beyond the technology of bicycles to be amazed by the progress we've made in what was certainly considered a fully mature product back in the Back to the Future past...
The FAA and other regulatory bodies have to have a notional value of a human life to be able to balance the cost to society of new safety rules against the benefit to society in terms of lives saved.
I would think we'd be able to get people on the moon for a heck of a lot less money.
Sadly not. We've had nearly fifty years of tightening FAA regulations (rightly so, isn't it nice to feel safe on airplanes?) and there's not much on a Saturn V that would get a type certificate these days.
I see what you did there
I like the neat new features like having two apps on the screen at the same time and photos that include a short bit of video! Apple has caught up with the Winphone and Surface I've been using for the last two years.
Indeed! Well done AC, should have logged in today.
Notepad++ is one of the nicest text editors around, is Windows-only and open-source. I prefer it to Kate and let's just not go anywhere near Gedit.
+1 for Foobar, but on Linux why not try Clementine, which can be configured to be bit-perfect in a similar way to Foobar, and has the benefit of a neat remote control app for Android?
Me too. My earliest memory, aged four, was of Armstrong's 'giant leap' on a black and white TV. My dad woke me to watch it happen (early morning UK) and I've been hooked ever since. My favourites are the Mars rovers, what amazing pieces of kit!
Sadly I have no mod points tonight, but I have noted your ID and you will receive all of my next batch, even if you post 'moo cows' BTW you owe me a keyboard.
And after that he should read why Tomi, the self-proclaimed guy-who-knows isn't all that He's a self-opinionated a*hole who twists or invents facts to suit his bias.
The most sensitive part of a modern aircraft wing is just aft of the leading edge where the flow makes the transition from subsonic to transonic. Having even 'frosting' in this area can destroy all lift from a wing so they are liberally sprayed with gelatinous treatments that are specially formulated to melt any ice that forms from rain or snow while the aircraft is static, yet become sufficiently diluted during the take off to be washed of the wing for flight.
Once airborne, the problem becomes one of thermal balance and heat is supplied to the wing leading edges using engine bleed air.
The bugs don't affect icing and so far, no coating has been found that cna get rid of ice under all conditions mandated by the FAA.
1. Massive clickbait to sell to advertisers.
2. Not a single positive comment from their contributors.
It's a sad situation that I come to this site to read the insights of fellow slashdotters, from whom I have learned a great deal, when my visit is earning money for a set of cynical pondlife amoeba like Dice. I guess I'm going to spend more time on stack from now on.
Markin hastened to add that he is, of course, not suggesting that NASA faked the moon landings and just filmed the events in a studio.
I just came here to say, f*ck right the way off, waaaay over there, whoever is peddling this old crap. sheesh.
So I'm agreeing with TooMuchToDo. My post came out more confrontational than I intended...