Functional languages are good for inplementing algorithms and imperative languages are good for handling data. It happens that in most real-life situations we need the latter.
It depends. If you count economists as scientists, many of whom has similar same beliefs, then they do aggree with science. Of course, most economists trust their own models more than empirical facts.
It's very hard for a standing wave to form on a 36000km long string, whose tension also varies with height. Vibration can cause problems but hopefully we will find a way to dampen it.
I think the problem is that Firefox needs 3-5 extensions even for the most basic browsing, and those are eating up memory as they are not connected to tabs.
If they disclose the vulnerability instead of just exploiting it than it's useful. Also, Russians are very good at IT in general, you just only hear about the hackers as they are the ones to make the news.
Ice Ages interrupted by warm periods have been here since the beginning of time. There was ice covering the bigger part of Europe for thousands of years that happened to melt in a natural way.
This is how it should be, but sadly most OS-es just grant user rights to every program. Although a similar effect can be achieved by sandboxing in BSD, and a lot of mobile OSes started to move in the right direction. Also, firewalls are the first materialization of the idea. I am optimistic, I hope that a secure desktop OS will arrive much sooner than 10 years.
Fly-by-wire is one of the very few exceptions when enough time and work was put into coding for it to be safe. It's possible to create safe software, but it requires enough resources.
Kids type slowly because they aren't taught to type. After you learn it, typing is way faster and more correct then writing. This is why it's so sad that children still get wasted years of their lives by forced to learn cursive (a torture to a lot of them) wich they will never use outside of school, instead of using that time to teach them to type properly that they will have to use everyday. I don't understand why do you think that moving from paper to digital would mean that teachers are also replaced by computers, they will still be needed. Special formulas can be solved by TEX or just drawing notes on a touchscreen like a piece of paper.
I am really looking forward to the time when first graders won't have to deal with 10kg bags (causing many of them scoliosis later). Also, it would be much more easier to organize all information in a single ebook/netbook. And there is a lot of knowledge that we consider obvious but in fact acquired by spending a lot of time with digital devices. Ever wondered how can you move your mouse lightning fast and with pixel perfection, how can you solve most errors that arise or how can you spot scams on the Internet? These look like trivial skills now but in fact they took a lot of practice. Wich is why kids need to spend more time with digital devices as being able to use them will be essential to their future. Schools should move with the times and embrace technology.
Not, it's fewer younger people relative to the number of old people. The ratio of young people and old people is getting smaller with fewer births and longer lifespan.
Politicians don't need to be scientists, they just need to know their limits and rely on experts in complicated things (instead of breeding their own set of politically-motivated "expert" groups).
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Functional languages are good for inplementing algorithms and imperative languages are good for handling data. It happens that in most real-life situations we need the latter.
It depends. If you count economists as scientists, many of whom has similar same beliefs, then they do aggree with science. Of course, most economists trust their own models more than empirical facts.
It's very hard for a standing wave to form on a 36000km long string, whose tension also varies with height. Vibration can cause problems but hopefully we will find a way to dampen it.
Note that these are the allegations of an angry fired employee, and while I could easily believe everything what he said it's in no way proof.
Ericcson is a phonemaker company that just happened to be bought by Sony but is mostly independent from them.
It can be rolled up into nanotubes.
I hope they find a way to make it strong enough for a space elevator.
then you have much bigger problems than Facebook.
I think the problem is that Firefox needs 3-5 extensions even for the most basic browsing, and those are eating up memory as they are not connected to tabs.
The test measures many other things like memory usage, reliability and standard compliance.
If they disclose the vulnerability instead of just exploiting it than it's useful. Also, Russians are very good at IT in general, you just only hear about the hackers as they are the ones to make the news.
I guess this is the time when those websites that serve content in 20 pages actually come handy.
Any phone smart enough to run Linux us smart enough to run WP7.
Not true. Lots of embedded devices use Linux, it can have a very small footprint.
Well, we can only alter it if we are the ones causing it.
It's repeating every 100k years. I'm not saying that global warming doesn't have an artifical part but this is no proof.
Ice Ages interrupted by warm periods have been here since the beginning of time. There was ice covering the bigger part of Europe for thousands of years that happened to melt in a natural way.
No proxy stays online for long - if they do that alone is suspicious. Google 'proxy' and you will find thousands of alternatives.
The energy that can be captured from a few steps most likely won't even reach manufactoring costs in its lifetime.
This is how it should be, but sadly most OS-es just grant user rights to every program. Although a similar effect can be achieved by sandboxing in BSD, and a lot of mobile OSes started to move in the right direction. Also, firewalls are the first materialization of the idea. I am optimistic, I hope that a secure desktop OS will arrive much sooner than 10 years.
Fly-by-wire is one of the very few exceptions when enough time and work was put into coding for it to be safe. It's possible to create safe software, but it requires enough resources.
Kids type slowly because they aren't taught to type. After you learn it, typing is way faster and more correct then writing. This is why it's so sad that children still get wasted years of their lives by forced to learn cursive (a torture to a lot of them) wich they will never use outside of school, instead of using that time to teach them to type properly that they will have to use everyday. I don't understand why do you think that moving from paper to digital would mean that teachers are also replaced by computers, they will still be needed. Special formulas can be solved by TEX or just drawing notes on a touchscreen like a piece of paper.
I am really looking forward to the time when first graders won't have to deal with 10kg bags (causing many of them scoliosis later). Also, it would be much more easier to organize all information in a single ebook/netbook. And there is a lot of knowledge that we consider obvious but in fact acquired by spending a lot of time with digital devices. Ever wondered how can you move your mouse lightning fast and with pixel perfection, how can you solve most errors that arise or how can you spot scams on the Internet? These look like trivial skills now but in fact they took a lot of practice. Wich is why kids need to spend more time with digital devices as being able to use them will be essential to their future. Schools should move with the times and embrace technology.
Not, it's fewer younger people relative to the number of old people. The ratio of young people and old people is getting smaller with fewer births and longer lifespan.
Politicians don't need to be scientists, they just need to know their limits and rely on experts in complicated things (instead of breeding their own set of politically-motivated "expert" groups).
The existence of these planets is yet to be confirmed. There are currently only two planets confirmed to be in the habitable zone.
Removing Java completely because you don't want to play applets seems like an overkill to me.