Not just that, but programmers have their own system of referents. All those in-jokes and group assumptions that don't necessarily make sense to others, such as counting from zero and answering "X or Y" questions with just "Yes".
A GUI at my company has a circle inside a circle as an icon. Everybody here knows exactly what it means, but we have to explain it to every new hire because it isn't obvious unless you know it represents "check rotational balance".
Unless you start something spinning at 100k+ RPM without hitting that button and oscillates itself apart like a cracked CD on a dremel:)
Icons are kind of like playing pictionary with somebody from a different culture. Representative images greatly require common references to understand properly. Drawing an armored guy on a horse and a picture the joint between tibia and thigh only gets "Knights who say Ni" if you come from or are familiar with a european culture that had mounted horsemen in a feudal government. Oh, and had seen Monty Python.
Otherwise you might guess "chronic joint pain" or something.
Alternately, reference Troi's speech about cups in the TNG episode "Darmok"(and Jalad at Tanagra)
While it wouldn't make PDF viewing much easier, the fictional computer cuff at the bottom of the article had approx 2-3"x 3" viewing area, similar to an iphone or bb storm. And I know people who read PDFs on those.
Isn't the royalty hike a good thing for authors? Amazon's yelling "hey, don't contract away your digital rights, we'll give you 70% of list, your publisher will only give you 12.5%"
The Kindle's battery is actually very, very small. The reason it lasts so long is that only page turns draw current, and even then only a small amount of current, and then you have to read a whole page before you draw current again. If you're refreshing every three seconds instead of every two minutes, you're going to see a serious drop in battery life, especially if the apps expect wireless connectivity. My two week Kindle battery could drop to two days easily.
Turn the page every two minutes? So that's why I don't get the week+ everyone else gets.
I was actually in a study using this game, and it didn't seem very asteroids like to me, other than having vector style graphics.
The controls involved both a joystick in one hand, a mouse in the other, and car-style pedals. One phase had you alternately pumping the foot switches at a specific tempo for long stretches of time(as a measure of concentration) and I had just done a long distance bike trip that morning. God, my legs hurt just thinking about it.
It was OK for a few days, but after I overflowed the score, it got a bit boring except for the challenge of using a joystick and mouse at the same time.
Seriously, if you are going to do something important in the cloud, get data storage from a different cloud than the one you use for processing.
Even better, have the data only exist in an unencrypted form while it is in use on the zero-storage processing cloud and run the keyserver in a third location. Preferably somewhere you'd notice when the cops break the door.
It took 11 years before Wine got far enough along that it was so much less effort to convert Wine instead of write their own, that they could mentally justify scrapping their own code.
People frequently have a problem writing off with sunk costs.
Back around 200 BC, King Ashoka encouraged a lot of buddhist proselytizing, and is one of the earliest historical evidences of buddhism. But he was a recently converted newbie buddhist, so it is to be expected:)
But yah, encouraging someone to convert or thinking you "belong" to a religion is just self-grasping thought.
As far as I'm aware, there aren't any equivalent all-in-one chips yet. Most pair a 3-axis accelerometer with two 2-axis or one 3-axis gyros in the same package but separate chips.
The motionplus is a set of angular rate sensors, which is why you have to "calibrate" it, because it detects rotation, not absolute angle i.r.t. gravity. The nunchuck, on the other hand, does have linear accelerometers, which is why it is awkward to do a hook in the boxing game.
If they had them initially, they would have had a worse shortage of extra controllers and it would have cost more like $100. The price has dropped greatly since the Wii came out, but the motionplus is still an additional $20 over the cost of the base controller.
Odds are, though, any homebrewed piracy detection the programmers have in place will flag it. Same when people upgrade to the latest model, switch sim chips, or possibly even go roaming or use wifi to connect.
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Not just that, but programmers have their own system of referents. All those in-jokes and group assumptions that don't necessarily make sense to others, such as counting from zero and answering "X or Y" questions with just "Yes".
A GUI at my company has a circle inside a circle as an icon. Everybody here knows exactly what it means, but we have to explain it to every new hire because it isn't obvious unless you know it represents "check rotational balance".
Unless you start something spinning at 100k+ RPM without hitting that button and oscillates itself apart like a cracked CD on a dremel:)
Icons are kind of like playing pictionary with somebody from a different culture. Representative images greatly require common references to understand properly. Drawing an armored guy on a horse and a picture the joint between tibia and thigh only gets "Knights who say Ni" if you come from or are familiar with a european culture that had mounted horsemen in a feudal government. Oh, and had seen Monty Python.
Otherwise you might guess "chronic joint pain" or something.
Alternately, reference Troi's speech about cups in the TNG episode "Darmok"(and Jalad at Tanagra)
If the watch was just a display+wireless to the main unit, it wouldn't need much juice. Consider it a way to dual/triple head your phone.
While it wouldn't make PDF viewing much easier, the fictional computer cuff at the bottom of the article had approx 2-3"x 3" viewing area, similar to an iphone or bb storm. And I know people who read PDFs on those.
Isn't the royalty hike a good thing for authors? Amazon's yelling "hey, don't contract away your digital rights, we'll give you 70% of list, your publisher will only give you 12.5%"
What percentage does B&N charge on Nook?
Turn the page every two minutes? So that's why I don't get the week+ everyone else gets.
just imagine "X times quieter" means x^(-1) the volume
I was actually in a study using this game, and it didn't seem very asteroids like to me, other than having vector style graphics.
The controls involved both a joystick in one hand, a mouse in the other, and car-style pedals. One phase had you alternately pumping the foot switches at a specific tempo for long stretches of time(as a measure of concentration) and I had just done a long distance bike trip that morning. God, my legs hurt just thinking about it.
It was OK for a few days, but after I overflowed the score, it got a bit boring except for the challenge of using a joystick and mouse at the same time.
Argh... it ate my lt/gt
Confucious say <pulls out retro-styled pistols and shoots some punks in slow motion> respect your elders!
Hey, it does have Chow-Yun Fat in it. It's probably an action flick.
Confucious say respect your elders!
I dunno. The tiger demo(which appears to just display a picture of a tiger) maxes out 1 core in Chrome.
The animated stuff barely tickles it, though. Odd.
Nobody on here is going to be taking 3 girls home on a bike.
They'd die of a heart-attack first, either from the effort or the anticipation.
I can think of a few times where a tumble turned into a bad fall because I couldn't get away from the bike.
On the other hand, I'm not sure if I'd rather have risked a fractured tibia instead of a displaced kneecap.
It would be like buying one each of whatever you wanted to emulate, brand new, 5 years ago and then putting them in storage until today.
IE, really slow or really expensive.
Plus, you'd have to make some swappable connectors whenever you changed interfaces. Or solder a lot.
Seriously, if you are going to do something important in the cloud, get data storage from a different cloud than the one you use for processing.
Even better, have the data only exist in an unencrypted form while it is in use on the zero-storage processing cloud and run the keyserver in a third location. Preferably somewhere you'd notice when the cops break the door.
I'm sorry, but this is abuse.
You want room 12A, just along the corridor.
Stupid git...
It took 11 years before Wine got far enough along that it was so much less effort to convert Wine instead of write their own, that they could mentally justify scrapping their own code.
People frequently have a problem writing off with sunk costs.
All those s/f things make my eyes bleed. I'm glad that dropped out of modern handwriting, but the new s isn't much better.
Die, handwriting cursive script. Block letters or fancy computer fonts for everyone.
Hey, if that is what they mean, could we guarantee which isomer of a molecule we get? That could come in handy.
Or it'll result in stuff like Phentermine jumping up the ranks of Scheduled chemicals.
Back around 200 BC, King Ashoka encouraged a lot of buddhist proselytizing, and is one of the earliest historical evidences of buddhism. But he was a recently converted newbie buddhist, so it is to be expected:)
But yah, encouraging someone to convert or thinking you "belong" to a religion is just self-grasping thought.
As far as I'm aware, there aren't any equivalent all-in-one chips yet. Most pair a 3-axis accelerometer with two 2-axis or one 3-axis gyros in the same package but separate chips.
The motionplus is a set of angular rate sensors, which is why you have to "calibrate" it, because it detects rotation, not absolute angle i.r.t. gravity. The nunchuck, on the other hand, does have linear accelerometers, which is why it is awkward to do a hook in the boxing game.
If they had them initially, they would have had a worse shortage of extra controllers and it would have cost more like $100. The price has dropped greatly since the Wii came out, but the motionplus is still an additional $20 over the cost of the base controller.
Odds are, though, any homebrewed piracy detection the programmers have in place will flag it. Same when people upgrade to the latest model, switch sim chips, or possibly even go roaming or use wifi to connect.
I'm just surprised that they used the same provider. I would think someone conducting espionage would vary their proxies a bit more.
I guess standards/budgets go down in the intelligence industry as much as any other industry in a bad economy.
The knowledge of when not to act requires no labor.