I can't wait to see who they're going to cast as the annoying kid ghostbuster, complete with mini-backpack.
I hear Jessica Biel is going to play the kick-ass female ghostbuster who doesn't take crap from nobody - but is she falling for the hunky new ghostbuster (Shia LaBeouf)?
Secret questions are only less secure than passwords if they tell you the password right away. But if they reset the password and email the new one to a pre-specified email account then just guessing the answer isn't enough; you'd have to have access to the victim's email account too.
This doesn't really work that well if the password is actually for someone's email account, though.
We (Western nations) should just bite the bullet and install fibre. The theoretical limit of data transfer over fibre is far in excess of what we can reach now, so a good fibre network would serve the country for decades.
Wireless is a cheap cop-out. It'll always be slower than fibre.
If I want to change the channel on my TV I'm not going to muck around with the 'remote' app on my smartphone. I'm going to pick up an actual remote and press the button.
Smartphones are great for a lot of things, but proper remote controls have a set of fixed, tactile buttons that respond instantly. Versatility isn't worth much if it's a pain to use.
>Two weeks after the launch of Google Latitude, your inbox is probably full of requests
Mine isn't. I don't think any of my friends have even heard of it. Not everyone jumps on the latest social trend as soon as it's announced. I still don't know anyone who uses Twitter.
All the comments about "just use USB!" miss one important point: it's not necessarily the best form-factor for a charger. If anything, the Nokia charger is.
-it's tiny and cheap to make: just a 2mm barrel. -rotational symmetry, unlike USB, so you can plug it in while talking. -low friction, so it won't damage the phone if the cable gets pulled.
I think the best solution would be to make the Nokia charger plug into a standard, as part of the EIAJ barrel connector standards. Those plugs are already just a series of different-sized barrels, so the Nokia connector would make sense there, at the small end of the range.
This doesn't solve the problem of a data connection. But as far as simple charging goes, nothing beats the Nokia connector.
When I was a kid I used to dream about having a tabletop Foucalt pendulum. My friends told me I was mad, and my parents tried to discourage me from thinking about it. "There's no such thing as a small Foucalt pendulum, Zouden! Maybe one day we'll take you to visit the one in Paris, but you'll never get to have your own one." Now, finally, my prayers have been answered.
You're condemning government in general because of the actions of a few despotic regimes?
Your argument that we should examine the deaths caused by government vs those caused by terrorism is pretty weak. More people die in car accidents than from terrorists. Perhaps the problem is the propaganda being spread by those pro-car people (driving instructors)?
Analogies aside, government is just a tool of the people. Government itself doesn't hurt anyone. The army might. Blame them, if you like.
I think the point the judge was trying to make is that the boy hadn't thought things through. Sure he knew if he killed his parents they'd be dead forever, but he probably didn't realise that eventually he'll get bored of Halo, but he'll always miss his parents.
If only for the graphics control. It lets you draw text anywhere on the screen, and clear it, enabling quite sophisticated graphics and animations. It can also wait for user input and respond, so you can make games with it. Kids love that sort of thing.
Logo has good graphics control but poor input-response, and Python is a much better language than both Logo and QBasic, but since it can't (easily) do graphics, it appears quite boring.
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"an application that permits users to write short notes in the air with their phone, and have that note automatically sent to an e-mail address."
My god! They've invented text messaging from a phone, but... worse.
I can't wait to see who they're going to cast as the annoying kid ghostbuster, complete with mini-backpack.
I hear Jessica Biel is going to play the kick-ass female ghostbuster who doesn't take crap from nobody - but is she falling for the hunky new ghostbuster (Shia LaBeouf)?
Secret questions are only less secure than passwords if they tell you the password right away. But if they reset the password and email the new one to a pre-specified email account then just guessing the answer isn't enough; you'd have to have access to the victim's email account too.
This doesn't really work that well if the password is actually for someone's email account, though.
"No wireless power. No space for meter. Lame"
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Correction: according to the Skytone website, it needs a USB dongle to get 3G access, which is a shame.
This is a smartphone. It's a netbook-sized smartphone, for $100. How is that not awesome?
Is also known as the guy who made a periodic table table (for which he was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize).
We (Western nations) should just bite the bullet and install fibre. The theoretical limit of data transfer over fibre is far in excess of what we can reach now, so a good fibre network would serve the country for decades.
Wireless is a cheap cop-out. It'll always be slower than fibre.
If I want to change the channel on my TV I'm not going to muck around with the 'remote' app on my smartphone. I'm going to pick up an actual remote and press the button.
Smartphones are great for a lot of things, but proper remote controls have a set of fixed, tactile buttons that respond instantly. Versatility isn't worth much if it's a pain to use.
They said manned, not pigged.
On most phones, you can activate the camera with one button press. How, then, is it better to use "a three-axis accelerometer and 72 surface sensors"?
>Two weeks after the launch of Google Latitude, your inbox is probably full of requests
Mine isn't. I don't think any of my friends have even heard of it. Not everyone jumps on the latest social trend as soon as it's announced. I still don't know anyone who uses Twitter.
All the comments about "just use USB!" miss one important point: it's not necessarily the best form-factor for a charger. If anything, the Nokia charger is.
-it's tiny and cheap to make: just a 2mm barrel.
-rotational symmetry, unlike USB, so you can plug it in while talking.
-low friction, so it won't damage the phone if the cable gets pulled.
I think the best solution would be to make the Nokia charger plug into a standard, as part of the EIAJ barrel connector standards. Those plugs are already just a series of different-sized barrels, so the Nokia connector would make sense there, at the small end of the range.
This doesn't solve the problem of a data connection. But as far as simple charging goes, nothing beats the Nokia connector.
When I was a kid I used to dream about having a tabletop Foucalt pendulum. My friends told me I was mad, and my parents tried to discourage me from thinking about it. "There's no such thing as a small Foucalt pendulum, Zouden! Maybe one day we'll take you to visit the one in Paris, but you'll never get to have your own one." Now, finally, my prayers have been answered.
You're condemning government in general because of the actions of a few despotic regimes?
Your argument that we should examine the deaths caused by government vs those caused by terrorism is pretty weak. More people die in car accidents than from terrorists. Perhaps the problem is the propaganda being spread by those pro-car people (driving instructors)?
Analogies aside, government is just a tool of the people. Government itself doesn't hurt anyone. The army might. Blame them, if you like.
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I'm sure his widow certainly would.
When IBM is doing things like increasing the resolution of MRI by a hundred million times, I'd say they must have earned a lot of their patents. They do much more research than HP or Microsoft.
I think the point the judge was trying to make is that the boy hadn't thought things through. Sure he knew if he killed his parents they'd be dead forever, but he probably didn't realise that eventually he'll get bored of Halo, but he'll always miss his parents.
Now if only HP and AT&T would bring back their R&D departments we might see more companies doing basic research like this.
If only for the graphics control. It lets you draw text anywhere on the screen, and clear it, enabling quite sophisticated graphics and animations. It can also wait for user input and respond, so you can make games with it. Kids love that sort of thing.
Logo has good graphics control but poor input-response, and Python is a much better language than both Logo and QBasic, but since it can't (easily) do graphics, it appears quite boring.