The first one will be build 10525, which introduces some color personalization options
Will I finally be able to have active/inactive windows coloured differently enough that I can tell which is which at a glance? That's been missing since Vista (unless you're willing to disable Aero)
Because TV manufacturers would have to support it first, or at the very least someone would have to make left/right switchable glasses. And 3d's bad enough, flickering between eyes, but at least it doesn't block your whole view of the screen at any one moment.
According to crime statistics from the San Francisco Police Department there were only two drunken driving arrests last New Year's Eve in San Francisco
Those "crime statistics" amount to six numbers. Six. One for each year since 2009. And all of them are below 10. And we're not shown the stats before 2009, which would have helped to work out the normal variation.
This news comes on the heels of a new study revealing that the introduction of UberX reduces drunk driving deaths across California.
While I'm not going to dispute the results of the study mentioned (which covers the whole of California, and presumbly for a longer period than one day a year), it seems way too much to imply from it that Uber was also behind the "reduction" (actually more like a restoration to the 2009 figure) in DUI arrests on one single night of the year.
There must be many more factors to take into account when looking at something so specific as the number of New Year DUI arrests in SF. Temperature and day of the week spring to mind. If New Year 2011/2012 was warmer than average, more people might have gone out to celebrate. It fell on a Saturday - I don't know how public holidays work in the US, but here in the UK that would have meant an extra day off to recover, something people might well factor in when it comes to deciding how steamed to get.
In other news, the world is getting warmer. This news comes hot on the heels of a study that shows 18th-century-style piracy has been declining for centuries!
Yes. Was that ^ supposed to make you look superior?
If you didn't get it, or did and just didn't think it was funny anyway, that's okay. But what makes you care so much that you felt you had to tell everyone that you didn't find it funny?
At least one other person has found it funny enough to mod it so, so I'm calling that a win.
If I've misinterpreted your post, and you're upset because you recently lost someone dear to you in a Linux mainframe related accident, then you have my sympathies.
There used to be a Windows ad along the lines of "the software that runs forfty percent of the world's computers." They later changed it, either to "runs on" or "is run by" or something like that.
F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters
I have no idea what generation the F-35 is considered to be, so I had no idea what the headline was trying to say. Couldn't you have just said "older"?
So how does this work again? The Republicans have got all these potential candidates, and one of them will get elected to officially run for President by regular joe party members?
Wouldn't you get a compiler error (or at least a warning) about trying compare a size_t* with a size_t? And if you didn't, the trick would still rely on the caller passing the pointer rather than the value... wouldn't it?
There's lots of high quality, popular stuff. xkcd isn't.
That's your opinion and you're welcome to it - just remember that that's all it is. Something who enjoys something you don't like is not automatically worse than you for it.
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Parent fails English interpretation.
Sentence fragment.
The first one will be build 10525, which introduces some color personalization options
Will I finally be able to have active/inactive windows coloured differently enough that I can tell which is which at a glance? That's been missing since Vista (unless you're willing to disable Aero)
and look at memory dumps on desktops?
That sounds like a disgustingly euphemistic photo album.
Splitscreen Gaming Is a Culture, Not a Mode
Next you'll be telling us that splitscreen gamers are being repressed as a people.
Because TV manufacturers would have to support it first, or at the very least someone would have to make left/right switchable glasses. And 3d's bad enough, flickering between eyes, but at least it doesn't block your whole view of the screen at any one moment.
Even more accurate headline: drunk driving arrests went up, then they went down again, and Uber somethingsomething.
and not every insurance claim revolves around alcohol.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all life's problems.
According to crime statistics from the San Francisco Police Department there were only two drunken driving arrests last New Year's Eve in San Francisco
Those "crime statistics" amount to six numbers. Six. One for each year since 2009. And all of them are below 10. And we're not shown the stats before 2009, which would have helped to work out the normal variation.
This news comes on the heels of a new study revealing that the introduction of UberX reduces drunk driving deaths across California.
While I'm not going to dispute the results of the study mentioned (which covers the whole of California, and presumbly for a longer period than one day a year), it seems way too much to imply from it that Uber was also behind the "reduction" (actually more like a restoration to the 2009 figure) in DUI arrests on one single night of the year.
There must be many more factors to take into account when looking at something so specific as the number of New Year DUI arrests in SF. Temperature and day of the week spring to mind. If New Year 2011/2012 was warmer than average, more people might have gone out to celebrate. It fell on a Saturday - I don't know how public holidays work in the US, but here in the UK that would have meant an extra day off to recover, something people might well factor in when it comes to deciding how steamed to get.
In other news, the world is getting warmer. This news comes hot on the heels of a study that shows 18th-century-style piracy has been declining for centuries!
Well, yeah, it's probably better for them to breathe the local air through a filter tip.
A video. On Slashdot. And I watched all of it.
Yes. Was that ^ supposed to make you look superior?
If you didn't get it, or did and just didn't think it was funny anyway, that's okay. But what makes you care so much that you felt you had to tell everyone that you didn't find it funny?
At least one other person has found it funny enough to mod it so, so I'm calling that a win.
If I've misinterpreted your post, and you're upset because you recently lost someone dear to you in a Linux mainframe related accident, then you have my sympathies.
There used to be a Windows ad along the lines of "the software that runs forfty percent of the world's computers." They later changed it, either to "runs on" or "is run by" or something like that.
IBM is introducing two mainframe servers that only run on Linux.
In Capitalist America, Linux runs on mainframe servers.
F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters
I have no idea what generation the F-35 is considered to be, so I had no idea what the headline was trying to say. Couldn't you have just said "older"?
So how does this work again? The Republicans have got all these potential candidates, and one of them will get elected to officially run for President by regular joe party members?
Wouldn't you get a compiler error (or at least a warning) about trying compare a size_t* with a size_t? And if you didn't, the trick would still rely on the caller passing the pointer rather than the value... wouldn't it?
for (i = 0; (len(enteredPassword) > i) && (enteredPassword[i] == validPassword[i]; ++i) {
Did you miss a ) out of there somewhere?
How are we supposed to spot the bug in your bug-riddled code? ;)
it is entirely possible that our PM after the next general election in 2020 will be Boris Johnson
Yeah, but we'd be voting for him ironically.
You're on to something. This earth is not unlike an egg. Get the right angle to stress its plates across each other, and it comes apart.
Like putting too much air in a balloon!
There are way more science-fans than scientists, and the worst of these tend to enjoy xkcd.
What makes you the arbiter?
There's lots of high quality, popular stuff. xkcd isn't.
That's your opinion and you're welcome to it - just remember that that's all it is. Something who enjoys something you don't like is not automatically worse than you for it.
100, not 1000
Ten hundred, not the hundred.
I made that mistake too, at first. I guess "thousand" isn't in the list (though I'm not sure which specific list he's using).
How California Is Winning the Drought
Who came up with that headline? You don't "win" a drought. You might beat a drought, or win against a drought.
California's population has grown faster even as the drought has deepened.
Or, to put it another way, the drought has deepend as the population has grown faster.
I seem to remember Germany doing quite well in WWII, as well, until they weren't.
'My Name is C.H.I.P. and I'll Be Your $9 Computer Today'
Was there any point to this headline, or did someone just think it was cute (for some reason)?
Fuck me, clearly not a medical professional.
Stethoscopes are used to listen to the pulse, and so detect at which pressures it (or its constituent "lub" and "dub") becomes audible/inaudible.
And that's how you measure blood pressure without a fancy gizmo.