You control the gear ratio by varying the speed at which you spin another axle? So what drives that crank, and how do you smoothly vary the speed at which it's driven?
Using a 4-tiered architecture (from CERN's central computer at Tier 0 to individual scientists' desk/lap/palmtops at Tier 3) [...]
Sorry for being pedantic, but the article says there are three tiers between the central computer and the scientist's machines (which are tier 4, not 3).
“Each” includes the term “every” and “every” includes the term “each.” “Any” includes the term “all” and “all” includes the term “any.” “And” includes the term “or” and “or” includes the term “and.”
Problem is the rest of the industry is as miserable as HTC in this regard
Not quite *everyone*, no? I seem to recall a certain company that does simultaneous releases of their mobile OS across all their phones, and is only now after 3 years dropping support for their oldest model.
"Didn't crash" isn't good enough for me. When I get on a plane I want the engines to remain functional for the *full* duration of the flight, and I want to land at my intended destination, not whatever runway was within gliding distance when the engines conked out.
Personally I find it kinda weird because I do understand that they don't want to lose a lot of money by staying out of business for days but do they really want to risk their planes by flying?
From the POV of an airline, even if a plane crashes the odds are it won't be one of theirs. So their perception of the risks involved is quite different to that of someone who's worrying about *all* the planes.
They *can* be vague, as your examples demonstrate. But buying a company in order to cut off the competition's supply of a crucial piece of technology is pretty black-and-white, no?
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It works fine here in Greece.
The only thing that confuses it is that I live near a port, so it occasionally picks up shipboard nets and decides that I must therefore be floating in the middle of the Aegean sea.
I don't think they render the page to a bitmap, but rather preprocess the HTML+CSS to generate a fixed layout, which is much simpler (=faster) for the client to render. But if that is indeed what they're doing, I dunno how they deal with animating elements (which would require the entire layout to be recalculated frame-by-frame).
But giving people any choice over who gets their organs is problematic - orthodox Jews would no doubt see it as state-sanctioned religious discrimination, since they claim that being non-donors is a requirement of their religion. The strawman argument would be "Why not also let donors bar Arabs from receiving their organs?"
He's a Slashdot-reading wannabe geek, yes? You posted this question knowing he'd see it, yes? You were hoping the flood of ridicule would embarrass him into changing his ways, yes?
Yeeeesssss...I'm seeing Matt Damon as the earnest geek who refuses to back down, James Gandolfini as the litigious scumbag, and Brent Spiner as Bruce Perens.
However for sensible, practical phones that just work without the unwanted fancy fluff Nokia is a clear winner.
Hmm...I went from an N95 to an iPhone 3GS, and I have to disagree. To pick an example, I used the Nokia maps app ~10 times in the 2 years I had the N95. It was horribly slow to start up, slow to get a GPS lock, slow to redraw, slow to zoom, so slow as to be basically useless. The iPhone maps app has way less bullet-point-type features, and yet I use it almost every day. And I'm not sure what 'fancy fluff' you're referring to either - it's a giant map you scroll around with your finger, end of story.
Your point is well taken, though. If you want to give away free samples, giving them to notorious critics of mostly everything is probably not a good idea.
It's just a shame that all that cash goes to the least scrupulous companies. Someone should start a rumour that the perfect speaker-casing material is Haitian rubble.
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You control the gear ratio by varying the speed at which you spin another axle?
So what drives that crank, and how do you smoothly vary the speed at which it's driven?
Sorry for being pedantic, but the article says there are three tiers between the central computer and the scientist's machines (which are tier 4, not 3).
Good thing there's competition in the browser space then, innit?
Nice! :)
It renders correctly on iPhone too, selectable text and all
And I nearly overlooked this one:
Genius.
...is a word now?
I also enjoyed this gem:
I unconsciously started humming the theme from 'Brazil' as I was reading this little masterpiece.
Mod parent "+mu, Has Buddha Nature"
Yep. Beats the hell out of losing support at the *start* of you contract.
Problem is the rest of the industry is as miserable as HTC in this regard
Not quite *everyone*, no?
I seem to recall a certain company that does simultaneous releases of their mobile OS across all their phones, and is only now after 3 years dropping support for their oldest model.
"Didn't crash" isn't good enough for me. When I get on a plane I want the engines to remain functional for the *full* duration of the flight, and I want to land at my intended destination, not whatever runway was within gliding distance when the engines conked out.
Personally I find it kinda weird because I do understand that they don't want to lose a lot of money by staying out of business for days but do they really want to risk their planes by flying?
From the POV of an airline, even if a plane crashes the odds are it won't be one of theirs. So their perception of the risks involved is quite different to that of someone who's worrying about *all* the planes.
They *can* be vague, as your examples demonstrate. But buying a company in order to cut off the competition's supply of a crucial piece of technology is pretty black-and-white, no?
It works fine here in Greece.
The only thing that confuses it is that I live near a port, so it occasionally picks up shipboard nets and decides that I must therefore be floating in the middle of the Aegean sea.
I think that the laid-back local police might take the excitement out of GTA: Amsterdam somewhat.
I don't think they render the page to a bitmap, but rather preprocess the HTML+CSS to generate a fixed layout, which is much simpler (=faster) for the client to render.
But if that is indeed what they're doing, I dunno how they deal with animating elements (which would require the entire layout to be recalculated frame-by-frame).
Very good idea.
But giving people any choice over who gets their organs is problematic - orthodox Jews would no doubt see it as state-sanctioned religious discrimination, since they claim that being non-donors is a requirement of their religion. The strawman argument would be "Why not also let donors bar Arabs from receiving their organs?"
You might also have mentioned that you live in Israel, dude.
But here goes: I don't think this DRM would be a huge problem in my life*.
[(*) Assuming it worked "correctly"--i.e. the Ubisoft servers were never down [...]
RTFA dude. In fact, just read the *title* and you will learn that this is not a hypothetical discussion - the Ubisoft servers ARE down.
He's a Slashdot-reading wannabe geek, yes?
You posted this question knowing he'd see it, yes?
You were hoping the flood of ridicule would embarrass him into changing his ways, yes?
Yeeeesssss...I'm seeing Matt Damon as the earnest geek who refuses to back down, James Gandolfini as the litigious scumbag, and Brent Spiner as Bruce Perens.
The guy got a functioning touchscreen smartphonefor £25. Counterfeit or not, it's hard to call that a ripoff IMHO.
However for sensible, practical phones that just work without the unwanted fancy fluff Nokia is a clear winner.
Hmm...I went from an N95 to an iPhone 3GS, and I have to disagree. To pick an example, I used the Nokia maps app ~10 times in the 2 years I had the N95. It was horribly slow to start up, slow to get a GPS lock, slow to redraw, slow to zoom, so slow as to be basically useless. The iPhone maps app has way less bullet-point-type features, and yet I use it almost every day. And I'm not sure what 'fancy fluff' you're referring to either - it's a giant map you scroll around with your finger, end of story.
Your point is well taken, though. If you want to give away free samples, giving them to notorious critics of mostly everything is probably not a good idea.
An entertaining case in point.
Mod parent +1, Danceable
It's just a shame that all that cash goes to the least scrupulous companies.
Someone should start a rumour that the perfect speaker-casing material is Haitian rubble.