Is the problem that they chose something 'different' than what everyone else uses, or is there a real technical reason behind the snarkiness? I think it's a good thing they even considered the issues involved, though I'd disagree with the 'ease of typing' issue - once your fingers leave the home row, you dramatically increase the chances of a typo. People who aren't touch typists have some pretty serious misunderstandings about typing ease. (Hello, Apple keyboard designers, I'm looking at you.)
If they had simply added to this list: CSS 3 columns, multiple backgrounds, and border-radius, I think I'd be pretty satisfied with it. *sigh*
Well, that's also not taking into account the abysmal js performance it's going to have compared to FF3.1, Safari/Chrome & Opera.
At least they got most of CSS 2.1 in there. We can treat it as the retarded sibling, rather than the quadriplegic sibling that has to be turned a couple of times a day so it doesn't get bed sores.
I think IE8 will be a great competitor to Firefox.
Those are much better numbers than they were getting with the Al Gore unit...
Well, there is a fundamental difference in design philosophy between the Al Gore unit and the Sarah Palin unit. With the Al Gore model, they were naively assuming that artificial intelligence would allow it to pass the Turing test. With the Sarah Palin unit, they realized the simple truth of what was missing: artificial stupidity.
With a bald pate, you'd have a better platform to mount a black silicon solar cap to power your wireless cranial Internet connection. C'mon, geeks, see the possibilites here! When life hands you shit, make shit sandwiches!
If you build a 3-D version of this in a pyramid shape, you could either destroy the Sun (something that Man has yearned to do since the dawn of time), take photos of the future or the past, or, if you're really ambitious, hook it up to a very powerful laser and spin it, and you could vaporize a human target from orbit.
Either way, it sounds like it's time to party with the ladies from the local cosmetology school. They're so impressive; I don't think I could handle that zero gravity stuff.
...then publish it far and wide. Contact the media, the whole nine yards. Evil must be exposed before it will ever be punished.
The other side of this is to note that non-compete agreements have in some areas, been found to be unenforceable. Contact a lawyer, and perhaps negotiate a satisfactory agreement with the prospective employer. But realize what kind of company you're fighting to work for in the first place.
I find it difficult to believe that people cannot design and implement a reliable, electrically actuated hole punching machine usable by everyone eligible to vote in the bloody country.
You seem to be missing a rather large point. I'm sure that if someone were to ATTEMPT to make such a machine, it would not get bought. You don't think there might be a REASON for this, do you?
Watch streaming video without having to hit 'pause' on the player to let it fully buffer before even starting to play?
Not have to shut down other applications because my 4 BitTorrent connections are making my email logon time out and my web browser not load images on the pages (assuming it can even load the page to begin with)?
Lots of possibilities for new applications, but just fixing the current problems would be marvelous.
Yeah, these problems won't be fixed without backbone upgrades, but I bet Japan doesn't have that problem to the degree those of us in the U.S. do.
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What does Windows 7 get in BogoMIPS?
TorrentFlux. Look into it.
"Republicans - they're a series of crooks!"
OMG, an informative reply on Slashdot! I think you're my hero for the day. :)
Thanks for the info. This really DOES look like an asinine decision.
Is the problem that they chose something 'different' than what everyone else uses, or is there a real technical reason behind the snarkiness? I think it's a good thing they even considered the issues involved, though I'd disagree with the 'ease of typing' issue - once your fingers leave the home row, you dramatically increase the chances of a typo. People who aren't touch typists have some pretty serious misunderstandings about typing ease. (Hello, Apple keyboard designers, I'm looking at you.)
Go into Daylight Savings Time one year, and never come out. No more changing during the year. Many countries don't bother, so it's obviously possible.
I can honestly say that I have no preference of one over the other; having only just heard of them both by the OP.
Shut up, Palin.
You can have my cvsroot when you pry it out of my cold dead fat hands.
Shut up, McCain.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024.aspx
If they had simply added to this list: CSS 3 columns, multiple backgrounds, and
border-radius, I think I'd be pretty satisfied with it. *sigh*
Well, that's also not taking into account the abysmal js performance
it's going to have compared to FF3.1, Safari/Chrome & Opera.
At least they got most of CSS 2.1 in there. We can treat it as the
retarded sibling, rather than the quadriplegic sibling that has to be
turned a couple of times a day so it doesn't get bed sores.
I think IE8 will be a great competitor to Firefox.
Firefox v1.5.
If people didn't occasionally reinvent the wheel, we'd still be using those old ones made of stone.
It will wind up looking like what we all use as 'pseudo-code' when teaching someone something in a language-neutral way.
It will use real words or phrases as commands, instead of ridiculously stupid things like 'elif' or 'printf'. *sigh*
Those are much better numbers than they were getting with the Al Gore unit...
Well, there is a fundamental difference in design philosophy between the Al Gore unit and the Sarah Palin unit. With the Al Gore model, they were naively assuming that artificial intelligence would allow it to pass the Turing test. With the Sarah Palin unit, they realized the simple truth of what was missing: artificial stupidity.
Despite massive glitches, the Sarah Palin unit has already convinced around 30% of the population that it's human. I think it's the winking module.
I still think it was a mistake to have armed it.
With a bald pate, you'd have a better platform to mount a black silicon solar cap to power your wireless cranial Internet connection. C'mon, geeks, see the possibilites here! When life hands you shit, make shit sandwiches!
If you build a 3-D version of this in a pyramid shape, you could either destroy the Sun (something that Man has yearned to do since the dawn of time), take photos of the future or the past, or, if you're really ambitious, hook it up to a very powerful laser and spin it, and you could vaporize a human target from orbit.
Either way, it sounds like it's time to party with the ladies from the local cosmetology school. They're so impressive; I don't think I could handle that zero gravity stuff.
drawing a big black rectangle is 10x faster and there is no way you can de-obfuscate that
Just make sure you're not saving in a file format that has a preview, where the preview doesn't have the obfuscation updated. :)
...then publish it far and wide. Contact the media, the whole nine yards. Evil must be exposed before it will ever be punished.
The other side of this is to note that non-compete agreements have in some areas, been found to be unenforceable. Contact a lawyer, and perhaps negotiate a satisfactory agreement with the prospective employer. But realize what kind of company you're fighting to work for in the first place.
I'm thinking a few days watching CNN will jolt me back to reality...
I'm pretty sure CNN and reality don't intersect. Unless you mean the reality of how crappy tv news is.
I find it difficult to believe that people cannot design and implement a reliable, electrically actuated hole punching machine usable by everyone eligible to vote in the bloody country.
You seem to be missing a rather large point. I'm sure that if someone were to ATTEMPT to make such a machine, it would not get bought. You don't think there might be a REASON for this, do you?
...only if all the votes went to the GOP candidate. Otherwise, it was voter fraud!
Paper ballots?
Chad disagrees. Ask him yourself - he's hanging out around here somewhere.
... but I'm shocked.
I'm feeling positively negative about this year's election.
Is the InfoWorld article this seems to have come from:
Right here
This is being shown in a laptop, and will be in a Schwinn bicycle next year.
This sounds good, certainly, but I'm *really* hoping eeStor's superduperultracapacitor technology works out as advertised. That will change the world.
...along with electricity and thus, computer culture.
So...how do I go about overclocking a shotgun?
Perhaps time to scale up from my desktop trebuchet to a real one?
To be honest, I was really hoping for a *zombie* type apocalypse, but oh well.
Watch streaming video without having to hit 'pause' on the player to let it fully buffer before even starting to play?
Not have to shut down other applications because my 4 BitTorrent connections are making my email logon time out and my web browser not load images on the pages (assuming it can even load the page to begin with)?
Lots of possibilities for new applications, but just fixing the current problems would be marvelous.
Yeah, these problems won't be fixed without backbone upgrades, but I bet Japan doesn't have that problem to the degree those of us in the U.S. do.