if assange does anything that irritates russian intelligence (kgb fsb or whatever) the very next day he'll be an unfortunate victim of a very peculiar, uncommon and comically spectacular accident. russians aren't the half-assed weak-sauce fascists that the americans are.
take a course in mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics or a course in elementary particles.
you will change your tune. as a physics msc i have to say that sometimes i feel as if math not only describes the workings of reality but in fact dictates them.
I lost the last phalanx (joint including) of my right middle and right ring fingers. I am impatiently waiting for the tech to get here so i can get my fingers back...
the assembly is ok. the materials are cheap beyond comprehension.
after a *month* of medium-heavy use, the center button has lots its paint.
contrast that to my hp calculator which after 12 years of use and abuse (used more than once as a hammer) the buttons haven't even lost their touch and feel.
after buying an e63 and feeling like i've paid for buying battery powered feces i wouldn't trust nokia to design or engineer a matchstick
the manufacturing is shoddy at best, the software is flaky and the support is laughable (two firmware updates later and the only difference i can see is that the equalizer doesn't work when you've got the headphones plugged in)
proper engineering indicates margins for error, graceful failure and other engineer-y things
i wouldn't know more, since i'm a scientist, but that much, i do now.
suppose you are correct. in that case, proper QA would be... what? not selling those devices that fail? that would be hiding the design and/or engineering issues. so in the end it still is an engineering issue.
anyway, it's a software issue. there's a lockup somewhere, someone forgets to shut off a component, or something similarly pedestrian.
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if assange does anything that irritates russian intelligence (kgb fsb or whatever) the very next day he'll be an unfortunate victim of a very peculiar, uncommon and comically spectacular accident. russians aren't the half-assed weak-sauce fascists that the americans are.
in other words
a competent photographer can take good photographs with a crappy camera.
a crappy photographer can not take a good photograph with a better camera.
a photographer with a fancy camera can not take more creative photographs. the *camera* can.
a photographer can be creative with a box with a hole on the side. in fact, he *has* to be.
the photographer is the one who puts in the effort and who in the end determines the quality (whichever way you want to measure it) of the photograph.
take a course in mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics or a course in elementary particles.
you will change your tune. as a physics msc i have to say that sometimes i feel as if math not only describes the workings of reality but in fact dictates them.
funny thing is, 1=0! is correct :)
> a pathologist employed by Mr Walker's family, said a fall while out drinking 11 days earlier may have caused her death.
(mr walker is suspect for fatally wounding the girl)
i'm speechless
cool, thanks
just give us proper scripting with proper exposure of the internals to the scripting language
like hp calculators have RPL.
i see stuff on the android market that would take 3 lines of scripting to accomplish... yet they are presented as "apps".
with the exception of the pixel count there were devices that surpassed the iphone in many areas. i used one of them.
mda pro. vga. it even had physical qwerty.
what's good about the iphone is the boost it gets from it being an apple branded device.
it's not particularly powerful, not exceptionally well engineered or even affordable.
but it is backed by apple.
I lost the last phalanx (joint including) of my right middle and right ring fingers.
I am impatiently waiting for the tech to get here so i can get my fingers back...
is VT really significant? VMware on a CPU without VT works just fine, doesn't it?
if anyone has come across a portable media player that can reach the volume of a jet engine, even for the duration of a short song
please name it
i'm still searching...
i shall pee into my palm and then extend it to you for a hearty handshake.
urine is sterile, after all, right?
sometimes some things are disgusting enough to warrant a lawsuit.
How far are they from growing me the last phalanx that i lost in an accident? Sorry, i'm on my cellphone
at some point, they will have to admit it can't work.
i'm waiting for the day.
then again, a friend of mine said "nature doesn't toy around. when she creates an idiot, she means it"
what are they trying to achieve?
surely after years of being beaten to a pulp they MUST have learned that any attempt at controlling is more than futile?
says 'made in finland'
the assembly is ok. the materials are cheap beyond comprehension.
after a *month* of medium-heavy use, the center button has lots its paint.
contrast that to my hp calculator which after 12 years of use and abuse (used more than once as a hammer) the buttons haven't even lost their touch and feel.
after buying an e63 and feeling like i've paid for buying battery powered feces i wouldn't trust nokia to design or engineer a matchstick
the manufacturing is shoddy at best, the software is flaky and the support is laughable (two firmware updates later and the only difference i can see is that the equalizer doesn't work when you've got the headphones plugged in)
if you want i can give examples and photos.
laugh about it but (on a slightly different subject) i haven't found something as good as ReValver from the OSS community.
proper engineering indicates margins for error, graceful failure and other engineer-y things
i wouldn't know more, since i'm a scientist, but that much, i do now.
suppose you are correct. in that case, proper QA would be... what? not selling those devices that fail? that would be hiding the design and/or engineering issues. so in the end it still is an engineering issue.
anyway, it's a software issue. there's a lockup somewhere, someone forgets to shut off a component, or something similarly pedestrian.
"little too close to the edge of what is technically possible."
exactly.
pretty sloppy engineering.
quick to stamp 'ignorant' on someone, aren't we?
taking other posts into consideration i'd say you've lost the bet.
that's what i thought too...
repeating the test in a vacuum would test this hypothesis pretty easily.
you're right, we should just kill him.
he kills your horse so his horse is the only one left standing.
you are free to go on worrying which one would be faster.