Does Firefox 3 use the OS spellchecker rather than its own, use native widgets and expose a decent AppleScript dictionary? I don't want a Firefox which looks like a proper Mac application, I want one which works like a proper Mac application. I've never really cared what my desktop looks like, I look at the content not the chrome, but I still prefer the Mac GUI. I'd also like a proper KDE version so I can stick the menu bar at the top of the screen on my Linux boxen (well, box, only one runs X).
It's only pointless if you think of it as a recording machine designed for playback rather than one designed for analysis. Seismographs use similar technology to this day - thing vibrates, pen records vibrations. I'd hope you wouldn't call the recordings they produce pointless because we don't have the technology to recreate a quake.
That's why you need a DRM scheme which anyone can use (for a fee) like, say, Microsoft's Plays For Sure. Then your players would be interoperable. Except with Microsoft's Zune. I still can't get my head around that, it's just fucking insane.
Bluetooth 2.0 EDR promised higher data rates, which is exactly what is has given me. My mobile connection to the net goes faster than it did because it's now normally the HSDPA network rather than my phone-laptop bluetooth connection which is the bottleneck. For me, it did exactly what it said on the tin.
I don't now how cable operates elsewhere in the world, but here (Sheffield, UK) when they want to "cable" an area they put ducts in to cabinets, where they put some kit. They run ducts from cabinets to the wall outside your home. When you want cable, they come and run a cable from the cabinet to your home. A good chunk of the country therefore has a duct running to a cabinet, right outside their home. "Classic" telecoms (which means BT in 99% of the country) run ducts to the cabinets and the either ducts or overhead wires to the home - perhaps they just bury the cables in some places, I don't know, but that would be an absolute bitch to repair so it seems unlikely. Burying a duct doesn't cost that much more than burying a cable. BT have already developed tech for stringing fibre over poles in much the same way as they string twisted pair. So as far as I can see the "last mile" problem is already solved for most people - you just do it the same way as you do twisted pair. Sure, it'll cost a lot to deploy fibre-capable cabinets and string up all those last-miles of fibre, but we've been stringing bits of wire to millions of homes for half a century. Doing the same with bits of fibre really isn't a radically different a proposition.
What I'd like to know (read: what I'd like some slashdotter with the required know-how explain to me) is why are these moons hot on the inside, possibly hot enough for water ice to turn into liquid water. It's so incredibly far away from the sun.
The gravitational attraction between the moon and its parent planet is sufficiently strong that the modest changes in distance (and thus gravity) as the moon orbits are sufficient to repeatedly distort it by a 'significant' amount, which generates heat. It's kinda like a squash ball, which gets warm as it is repeatedly compressed during play.
The original 16 KiB and 48 KiB Spectrums had rubber keys, but the + and beyond had real keyboards. Still, I loved my 16 KiB speccy. The fact that so many games required 48 KiB probably helped push me towards programming.
Why on earth do you think code being readable means it has to work properly? That's a logical non-sequitur. Various languages can and do reduce or eliminate various classes of potential bugs, but none can force a programmer to write good code.
The question is flawed. Anyone worth their weight as a programmer doesn't care what language they
program in but. But Programing Methodoligy should they work with.
Certainly, once you know half a dozen languages picking up a new one with a paradigm you know is trivial and you can be writing code in half a day. But it takes time to learn the APIs, tricks and gotchas that make you a good $language programmer, rather than just a good programmer. Skills are transferable, but knowledge is much less so. I've seen far too many re-implementations of stuff that's already in the language or standard libraries; they generally worked in context, but rarely as efficiently or robustly and it's hardly optimal in terms of productivity.
My last three Macs haven't had disk access lights, I don't think any of them do. I do find it mildly annoying not having them, particularly as they've all had virtually silent drives.
I would run multiple apps (there are at least half a dozen I would never bother to close), play music and burn discs simultaneously on my last single-core machine, a 1.2GHz iBook. I could compile something at the same time too, the only limit I ever hit was lack of RAM. I've not found more cores to be any improvement in multi-tasking beyond the increase in processing power they bring.
No matter how easy they make knitting I'm never going to do it, because I don't want to knit my own clothes. I just want ones which look good and work. No matter how easy you make programming most people just aren't going to do it, because they don't want to write their own programs. They just want programs that work.
The 386 could run existing 16-bit code faster than the processors it replaced, so there was a market for it despite the lack of 32-bit code. This is not the same situation; an 80-core processor won't run today's code any faster than an 8-core proccessor (assuming the cores are the same). Nobody will buy an 80-core processor till there is software which would benefit from it.
The UK was extortionate till very recently. Last time I looked, about four months ago, you were looking at insanity like £6 for an hour or £40 for 60 hours over the course of one month. When I looked a few days ago, I found The Cloud (one of, if not the, largest providers) now charge just £6.99 for a month's unlimited access for one device, with no contract. That's not too bad.
Anyway, I don't give a shit any more as I've now got an HSDPA phone. 1Mbps or so (real world, theoretical limit for my setup is the 2.1Mbps throughput of bluetooth EDR - cables and dongles suck) is enough for me on the road. TFA is right - I just don't care about hotspots now I've tasted decent mobile data. Anyone from the UK remember Rabbit? No? Neither do most people. They were the mobile phone equivalent of hotspots.
Drug pushers don't exist. No one has to push drugs -- they sell themselves
That's what I thought till I received an offer, on the street, unsolicited, to try some crack. After a very brief conversation it became apparent the guy making the offer wasn't just some guy looking for someone to share a rock with, he was a crack dealer. I was approached by a prostitute (actually a girl promoting a brothel - the rapidly delivered "menu" was fascinating) that night too. I guess being out on your own at 4.30am in a dodgy area looking miserable[1] is the trick - I know from experience that three from four (in the same place) doesn't garner the same level of interest.
Why does the number of Li-Ion cells matter[1]? Are Li-Ion cells so commoditised now that they're only available in a single capacity? I can understand individual manufacturers sticking to a particular cell capacity for economies of scale, but I don't see why that would necessarily translate across manufacturers. A 6-cell 1.2Ah battery would have lower capacity than a 3-cell 3Ah battery. It's most meaningful when discussing battery capacity to talk in terms of how much energy they can deliver, with watt-hours being the preferred unit (because joules are too tiny).
The rail system has a greater upfront cost, but negligible ongoing cost. They did feasibility studies in my region, and determined that it would take around 20 million dollars to set it up.
Where is your region? That's an order of magnitude lower than the costs I've seen for first-world urban light rail projects.
Surely they have a right to expect a hand from air crew, porters, taxi drivers etc. because that's part of the service they offer. In the situation described in the post you replied to happens, they wouldn't have sufficient notice to check their carry-on. Fortunately though, there are enough people who aren't as selfish as you that people who need help can generally count on getting it. In the normal course of events it's not necessary, merely more expedient, for a member of the public to help. In exceptional circumstances people pull together. That's a large part of what makes us human.
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Does Firefox 3 use the OS spellchecker rather than its own, use native widgets and expose a decent AppleScript dictionary? I don't want a Firefox which looks like a proper Mac application, I want one which works like a proper Mac application. I've never really cared what my desktop looks like, I look at the content not the chrome, but I still prefer the Mac GUI. I'd also like a proper KDE version so I can stick the menu bar at the top of the screen on my Linux boxen (well, box, only one runs X).
It's only pointless if you think of it as a recording machine designed for playback rather than one designed for analysis. Seismographs use similar technology to this day - thing vibrates, pen records vibrations. I'd hope you wouldn't call the recordings they produce pointless because we don't have the technology to recreate a quake.
I think they mean the 8-bit CPU, not 8-bit bpp graphics.
That's why you need a DRM scheme which anyone can use (for a fee) like, say, Microsoft's Plays For Sure. Then your players would be interoperable. Except with Microsoft's Zune. I still can't get my head around that, it's just fucking insane.
Bluetooth 2.0 EDR promised higher data rates, which is exactly what is has given me. My mobile connection to the net goes faster than it did because it's now normally the HSDPA network rather than my phone-laptop bluetooth connection which is the bottleneck. For me, it did exactly what it said on the tin.
I don't now how cable operates elsewhere in the world, but here (Sheffield, UK) when they want to "cable" an area they put ducts in to cabinets, where they put some kit. They run ducts from cabinets to the wall outside your home. When you want cable, they come and run a cable from the cabinet to your home. A good chunk of the country therefore has a duct running to a cabinet, right outside their home. "Classic" telecoms (which means BT in 99% of the country) run ducts to the cabinets and the either ducts or overhead wires to the home - perhaps they just bury the cables in some places, I don't know, but that would be an absolute bitch to repair so it seems unlikely. Burying a duct doesn't cost that much more than burying a cable. BT have already developed tech for stringing fibre over poles in much the same way as they string twisted pair. So as far as I can see the "last mile" problem is already solved for most people - you just do it the same way as you do twisted pair. Sure, it'll cost a lot to deploy fibre-capable cabinets and string up all those last-miles of fibre, but we've been stringing bits of wire to millions of homes for half a century. Doing the same with bits of fibre really isn't a radically different a proposition.
Get a HAM license then. Last I looked, they didn't cost millions.
The gravitational attraction between the moon and its parent planet is sufficiently strong that the modest changes in distance (and thus gravity) as the moon orbits are sufficient to repeatedly distort it by a 'significant' amount, which generates heat. It's kinda like a squash ball, which gets warm as it is repeatedly compressed during play.
The original 16 KiB and 48 KiB Spectrums had rubber keys, but the + and beyond had real keyboards. Still, I loved my 16 KiB speccy. The fact that so many games required 48 KiB probably helped push me towards programming.
512 KiB would have been a hell of lot back then; it's 4x the maximum a standard BBC Micro could handle. IIRC the ones at our school had 32 KiB.
Why on earth do you think code being readable means it has to work properly? That's a logical non-sequitur. Various languages can and do reduce or eliminate various classes of potential bugs, but none can force a programmer to write good code.
ECMAScript 4 has classes, namespaces, static types and a bunch of other stuff that you find in "proper" languages.
Certainly, once you know half a dozen languages picking up a new one with a paradigm you know is trivial and you can be writing code in half a day. But it takes time to learn the APIs, tricks and gotchas that make you a good $language programmer, rather than just a good programmer. Skills are transferable, but knowledge is much less so. I've seen far too many re-implementations of stuff that's already in the language or standard libraries; they generally worked in context, but rarely as efficiently or robustly and it's hardly optimal in terms of productivity.
My last three Macs haven't had disk access lights, I don't think any of them do. I do find it mildly annoying not having them, particularly as they've all had virtually silent drives.
I would run multiple apps (there are at least half a dozen I would never bother to close), play music and burn discs simultaneously on my last single-core machine, a 1.2GHz iBook. I could compile something at the same time too, the only limit I ever hit was lack of RAM. I've not found more cores to be any improvement in multi-tasking beyond the increase in processing power they bring.
No matter how easy they make knitting I'm never going to do it, because I don't want to knit my own clothes. I just want ones which look good and work. No matter how easy you make programming most people just aren't going to do it, because they don't want to write their own programs. They just want programs that work.
The 386 could run existing 16-bit code faster than the processors it replaced, so there was a market for it despite the lack of 32-bit code. This is not the same situation; an 80-core processor won't run today's code any faster than an 8-core proccessor (assuming the cores are the same). Nobody will buy an 80-core processor till there is software which would benefit from it.
The UK was extortionate till very recently. Last time I looked, about four months ago, you were looking at insanity like £6 for an hour or £40 for 60 hours over the course of one month. When I looked a few days ago, I found The Cloud (one of, if not the, largest providers) now charge just £6.99 for a month's unlimited access for one device, with no contract. That's not too bad.
Anyway, I don't give a shit any more as I've now got an HSDPA phone. 1Mbps or so (real world, theoretical limit for my setup is the 2.1Mbps throughput of bluetooth EDR - cables and dongles suck) is enough for me on the road. TFA is right - I just don't care about hotspots now I've tasted decent mobile data. Anyone from the UK remember Rabbit? No? Neither do most people. They were the mobile phone equivalent of hotspots.
That's what I thought till I received an offer, on the street, unsolicited, to try some crack. After a very brief conversation it became apparent the guy making the offer wasn't just some guy looking for someone to share a rock with, he was a crack dealer. I was approached by a prostitute (actually a girl promoting a brothel - the rapidly delivered "menu" was fascinating) that night too. I guess being out on your own at 4.30am in a dodgy area looking miserable[1] is the trick - I know from experience that three from four (in the same place) doesn't garner the same level of interest.
Why does the number of Li-Ion cells matter[1]? Are Li-Ion cells so commoditised now that they're only available in a single capacity? I can understand individual manufacturers sticking to a particular cell capacity for economies of scale, but I don't see why that would necessarily translate across manufacturers. A 6-cell 1.2Ah battery would have lower capacity than a 3-cell 3Ah battery. It's most meaningful when discussing battery capacity to talk in terms of how much energy they can deliver, with watt-hours being the preferred unit (because joules are too tiny).
[1] Beyond providing an acceptable voltage.
Perhaps they did. Linux geeks are not their target audience. Photoshopped blondes on beaches are.
Where is your region? That's an order of magnitude lower than the costs I've seen for first-world urban light rail projects.
Surely they have a right to expect a hand from air crew, porters, taxi drivers etc. because that's part of the service they offer. In the situation described in the post you replied to happens, they wouldn't have sufficient notice to check their carry-on. Fortunately though, there are enough people who aren't as selfish as you that people who need help can generally count on getting it. In the normal course of events it's not necessary, merely more expedient, for a member of the public to help. In exceptional circumstances people pull together. That's a large part of what makes us human.
Yeah, fuck the elderly and infirm. Why the hell should they get to take belongings with them when they travel?
Explain the organised crime which exists associated with cannabis production and distribution then.