If the workers are underpaid for their effort, then why don't they return to their previous jobs or work the land like their ancestors? Apparently, their cost/benefit analysis has decided that working for Adidas or Nike is a better investment of their time.
why is having Stop and Reload share the same button a good idea? UI controls that change can be very annoying. Let's say a web site is slashdotted and loading VERY slowly. I try to hit Stop, but at that very moment that page is doen and the Stop button becomes Reload. Now I have accidentally hit Reload.. and now I'm download the same page again very slooowly.
and what about the Muslim woman who is suing the state of Florida because she does not want to remove her veil for her driver's license photo? Would the police officer believe her?
or instead of a bulky high tech gadget, the waiter could just write down your name and credit card number on a napkin. Or he could just steal the receipt carbon copy.
I remember that, as a kid, I once solved the cube in 39 seconds. Maybe I had a lucky start, but (at the time) I knew all the moves. Yes, I did learn them from a cheat book, but 39 seconds is still pretty fast.:-)
Circuit switching will probably return under the guise of "guaranteed quality of service" over the unreliable packet switched network. In fact, ATM does virtual circuit switching already.
I thought FreeBSD liked to brag about how bad ass FreeBSD was on cdrom.com, the "busiest FTP server in the world." If they're serious about testing FreeBSD 5.1, their servers should be running FreeBSD 5.1 Beta 2 right now.
Presumably, you just need to patch one machine instruction, which is probably = 4 bytes. Change "if userKey == correctKey then activate" to "if userKey != correctKey then activate".
Look at the work people did to crack the Microsoft XBox. They could do the same thing for Segways, if they wanted.
so if the thief cannot brute force the 64-bit key, then why not just open the sucka and bypass the key verification unit? That might be difficult, but it's an O(1) operation for stealing any Segway.
I interpreted his quote as meaning that the common human/chimp ancestor was 155 miles back. I don't think he implied that there were 154.9999 miles of humans and then that last human held a chimps hand. I think he was omitting that there would be a progression from that chimp to a chimp+1 and eventually today's human.
When I read his quote, I wondered by he chose to have grandmothers holding hands, effectively skipping every other generation. Just to make his example seem closer??
Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid" has some HEAVY examination of (human and machine) consciousness. My favorite metaphor he uses for consciousness is an ant hill. The ant hill has many layers of emergent, recursive properties.
In general, the UI was designed for a small screen, instead of trying to shrink the Windows UI. This is nice, because you can get more out of the small physical size of the screen.
The Smartphone UI is not like the Windows desktop or Pocket PC UIs. It is specifically designed for the phone. It's no more complicated than the Symbian UI. In fact, the Smartphone has some nice shortcuts where you can use the number keypad to select menu items without having to scroll down through the entire menu.
I have an SPV sitting on my desk right now. It's a nice phone and the UI is no more complicated than Symbian OS.
It does have hardware problems, though! About twice a week, the phone forgets which radio band it should use. I use 1900 MHz in my area, but the phone forgets and switches to the 900/1800 Mhz band. This causes the phone to lose all contact with the phone network. I can't place calls or use SMS. I have to go deep into the Settings menu, switch the band, and reboot the phone.
Some people (not Microsoft employees) on the microsoft.public.smartphone.developer newsgroup said they heard this was a firmware bug. There was no news if this had been fixed in any recent firmware updates.
What do you.. I just checked my phone and this problem JUST happened. >:-\
Many of Microsoft's most successful products are acquisitions. There is some speculation that even.NET/CLR was not developed in-house by Microsoft, but acquired from a startup company called Colusa:
.NET CLR is based on Colusa software's language-neutral OmniVM, a part of their Omniware product. OmniVM was based on research carried out by Steven Lucco at Carnegie Mellon University. Steven co-founded Colusa Software in February 1994 in Berkeley, California. Omniware was released in August 1995. Colusa started working with Microsoft in February 1996. Microsoft acquired Colusa Software on March 12, 1996. Steven is currently a senior researcher at the Microsoft Bay Area Research Center.
OmniVM was appealing to Microsoft because Colusa had already created Visual Basic and C/C++ development environments for the VM. The VM was also claimed to be capable of running Java. Microsoft took to calling the VM by the name of CVM, presumably for Colusa Virtual Machine. Or perhaps this is where the code name Cool came into being. Other names used at Microsoft include Universal Virtual Machine (UVM), and Intermediate Language (IL).
Microsoft denies rumors that C# went by the code name Cool, however there have been many apparent slip-ups by Microsoft employees where the word Cool is used in code snippets, file paths, etc.
For people with phones that don't have GPS, maybe this triangulation of cell ids can be done on the phone as a "poor man's GPS". I know most phone OSs, like Symbian, have some API to get the id of the current (ie strongest) cell, but I wonder if there is a way to get a list of ids for cells whose signal strength is weaker but still "within reach". Then you could triangulate those cell locations.
Actually, if there are 99 coins (1 cent through 99 cents), then there is no need for change. The buyer can just give you exact change, so no change must be returned.
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If the workers are underpaid for their effort, then why don't they return to their previous jobs or work the land like their ancestors? Apparently, their cost/benefit analysis has decided that working for Adidas or Nike is a better investment of their time.
why is having Stop and Reload share the same button a good idea? UI controls that change can be very annoying. Let's say a web site is slashdotted and loading VERY slowly. I try to hit Stop, but at that very moment that page is doen and the Stop button becomes Reload. Now I have accidentally hit Reload.. and now I'm download the same page again very slooowly.
and what about the Muslim woman who is suing the state of Florida because she does not want to remove her veil for her driver's license photo? Would the police officer believe her?
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/28/license.veil.ap
Religion is a memetic virus. It mutates, adapts, and evolves for the sole purpose for propagating itself.
Language is a virus, too.
People would no longer be able to buy DVDs are gifts because the birthday boy would need your credit credit to watch his new DCD! oops!
or instead of a bulky high tech gadget, the waiter could just write down your name and credit card number on a napkin. Or he could just steal the receipt carbon copy.
I remember that, as a kid, I once solved the cube in 39 seconds. Maybe I had a lucky start, but (at the time) I knew all the moves. Yes, I did learn them from a cheat book, but 39 seconds is still pretty fast.
Circuit switching will probably return under the guise of "guaranteed quality of service" over the unreliable packet switched network. In fact, ATM does virtual circuit switching already.
the same David Bowie whose name Avril Lavigne pronounced as David "Baui" (rhymes with Maui)?? This is a sad day in music..
The solution is to distribute
Just don't plug it into the Ether Killer.
I thought FreeBSD liked to brag about how bad ass FreeBSD was on cdrom.com, the "busiest FTP server in the world." If they're serious about testing FreeBSD 5.1, their servers should be running FreeBSD 5.1 Beta 2 right now.
By the time Quark finally releases QuarkXPress for Mac OS X, Apple will have released the 64-bit Mac OS X on the PPC970.
Q: How long will it take for Quark to make QuarkXPress' code 64-bit ready?
A: Never.
Don't forget:
#define private public
#include "class_with_private_members.h"
ta-da! The caller can now freely access the included class' "private" members.
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Presumably, you just need to patch one machine instruction, which is probably = 4 bytes. Change "if userKey == correctKey then activate" to "if userKey != correctKey then activate".
Look at the work people did to crack the Microsoft XBox. They could do the same thing for Segways, if they wanted.
so if the thief cannot brute force the 64-bit key, then why not just open the sucka and bypass the key verification unit? That might be difficult, but it's an O(1) operation for stealing any Segway.
I interpreted his quote as meaning that the common human/chimp ancestor was 155 miles back. I don't think he implied that there were 154.9999 miles of humans and then that last human held a chimps hand. I think he was omitting that there would be a progression from that chimp to a chimp+1 and eventually today's human.
When I read his quote, I wondered by he chose to have grandmothers holding hands, effectively skipping every other generation. Just to make his example seem closer??
Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid" has some HEAVY examination of (human and machine) consciousness. My favorite metaphor he uses for consciousness is an ant hill. The ant hill has many layers of emergent, recursive properties.
In general, the UI was designed for a small screen, instead of trying to shrink the Windows UI. This is nice, because you can get more out of the small physical size of the screen.
The Smartphone UI is not like the Windows desktop or Pocket PC UIs. It is specifically designed for the phone. It's no more complicated than the Symbian UI. In fact, the Smartphone has some nice shortcuts where you can use the number keypad to select menu items without having to scroll down through the entire menu.
I have an SPV sitting on my desk right now. It's a nice phone and the UI is no more complicated than Symbian OS.
It does have hardware problems, though! About twice a week, the phone forgets which radio band it should use. I use 1900 MHz in my area, but the phone forgets and switches to the 900/1800 Mhz band. This causes the phone to lose all contact with the phone network. I can't place calls or use SMS. I have to go deep into the Settings menu, switch the band, and reboot the phone.
Some people (not Microsoft employees) on the microsoft.public.smartphone.developer newsgroup said they heard this was a firmware bug. There was no news if this had been fixed in any recent firmware updates.
What do you.. I just checked my phone and this problem JUST happened. >:-\
Many of Microsoft's most successful products are acquisitions. There is some speculation that even
History Of C#
OmniVM was appealing to Microsoft because Colusa had already created Visual Basic and C/C++ development environments for the VM. The VM was also claimed to be capable of running Java. Microsoft took to calling the VM by the name of CVM, presumably for Colusa Virtual Machine. Or perhaps this is where the code name Cool came into being. Other names used at Microsoft include Universal Virtual Machine (UVM), and Intermediate Language (IL).
Microsoft denies rumors that C# went by the code name Cool, however there have been many apparent slip-ups by Microsoft employees where the word Cool is used in code snippets, file paths, etc.
Step 0: Use tracking device to locate potential target and analyse daily movement schedule
Step 1: Kidnap victim
Step 2: Forcibly extract tracking device in a dingy alley
For people with phones that don't have GPS, maybe this triangulation of cell ids can be done on the phone as a "poor man's GPS". I know most phone OSs, like Symbian, have some API to get the id of the current (ie strongest) cell, but I wonder if there is a way to get a list of ids for cells whose signal strength is weaker but still "within reach". Then you could triangulate those cell locations.
Actually, if there are 99 coins (1 cent through 99 cents), then there is no need for change. The buyer can just give you exact change, so no change must be returned.