Well technically yes, if you point something at someones eyes that has the ability to damage them then its just like firing a gun at them. Obviously its not as dangerous as a gun but neither is punching someone with a 'fist that meets US safety regulations' - its still assult.
Actually it just came to me: why on earth would any computer system ever use a '2 digit date'!? who would store years as decimal digits? - certainly no-one who was trying to save memory (as they did 30 years ago hence the 'problem'). storing 2 digit dates would involve 2 chars (for the truely wasteful) ie 16 bits, or for the less wasteful 2 4-bit nibbles (0->15) and both those would waste a ton of memory! Am I totally missing the point? anyone care to explain?
Any idea why they decided on a signed int? seems like a stupid idea to me. After doubling it to a 64bit int well have 584942417355 years! which brings me to the point.. why didnt they just make it a 64 in the first place, sure most machines wernt 64bit back then, but hey, most wernt even 32bit!
Have to agree there, Microsoft (and Apple) spend allot of time researching interfaces and watching average people use computers. If you havn't put time into research, atleast copy what they do;)
Actually i think i have the answer: Warner makes cheap and crap material as bate for people to download, AOL sells the bandwidth, and as a spin-off they also manage to flog DVDs of the shit...
Most ISPs are pretty flat rate, their ideal customer is a mug who will pay for a 1mb connection but only check their mail once a week. People who leave their computers on connected all night are bad customers because while they're taking advantage of a flat bandwidth fee, the ISP is the one actually paying for that bandwidth. It would be well in their interests to rat out the customer in private and for a price, but I guess they just havn't done it yet. Now if its variable fee bandwidth then ISPs really want to get as many fileshares as they can, kick anyone who doesnt use their connection more than 5 hours a day and make sure they absolutely have no legal liability for all the crap going through there network. Actually that would be the capitalist free-market way, which means it all depends on which side is paying the republicans the most - givin this court case id say the ISPs are probably paying more? which kinda gets weird when you think of AOL Time Warner..
Anyone know how much difference is there in energy from producing hydrogen from x amount of oil vs. producing petrol from the same amount of oil? Considering that hydrogen is pollution free would it be a good trade off to just use it instead of petrol?
This is one of the few things I remember from chemistry.. we watched a video where they had various tanks of gases, they put them in a field and shot that them, then tried the same experiment but with a spark generator near-by. Can't remember the exact results except the conclusion that Hydrogen was pretty safe. The Hindenberg was something to do with the skin of the airship.
Let me guess: they could have done this right from the start and a couple of engineers probably brought it up 10 years ago but were shut up by management? Wow im pessimistic today...
Knowing the price of pizza in London this will still be a theft target! Its more likely that someone will just steal it thinking its food and then get a good/bad surprise depending on the quality of your laptop and their hunger. Great joke though, I wonder how many they will actually sell? it was probably some student project..
You underestimate Microsofts marketing capabilities, remember these are the people who sold.NET! If they can't sell it on the shelf, they'll get OEMs to bundle it. They will find a way even if it means advertising on peoples PCs with dodgy IE security hole pop-ups!
A java server that never goes down isn't that hard, but a java server that actually runs faster than a ZX spectrum...? I think we're gona need to wait for moores law to catch up on that one.
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Have any of the people that are against this thing even read it?
Its interesting you ask that, know ask how many senators actually read it before it passed?
Well technically yes, if you point something at someones eyes that has the ability to damage them then its just like firing a gun at them. Obviously its not as dangerous as a gun but neither is punching someone with a 'fist that meets US safety regulations' - its still assult.
Actually it just came to me: why on earth would any computer system ever use a '2 digit date'!? who would store years as decimal digits? - certainly no-one who was trying to save memory (as they did 30 years ago hence the 'problem'). storing 2 digit dates would involve 2 chars (for the truely wasteful) ie 16 bits, or for the less wasteful 2 4-bit nibbles (0->15) and both those would waste a ton of memory! Am I totally missing the point? anyone care to explain?
Any idea why they decided on a signed int? seems like a stupid idea to me. After doubling it to a 64bit int well have 584942417355 years! which brings me to the point.. why didnt they just make it a 64 in the first place, sure most machines wernt 64bit back then, but hey, most wernt even 32bit!
Have to agree there, Microsoft (and Apple) spend allot of time researching interfaces and watching average people use computers. If you havn't put time into research, atleast copy what they do ;)
That 20% MSN search at Microsoft accounts for all the times Bill Gates or some other senior hovers over someones shoulder...
Actually i think i have the answer: Warner makes cheap and crap material as bate for people to download, AOL sells the bandwidth, and as a spin-off they also manage to flog DVDs of the shit...
Most ISPs are pretty flat rate, their ideal customer is a mug who will pay for a 1mb connection but only check their mail once a week. People who leave their computers on connected all night are bad customers because while they're taking advantage of a flat bandwidth fee, the ISP is the one actually paying for that bandwidth. It would be well in their interests to rat out the customer in private and for a price, but I guess they just havn't done it yet. Now if its variable fee bandwidth then ISPs really want to get as many fileshares as they can, kick anyone who doesnt use their connection more than 5 hours a day and make sure they absolutely have no legal liability for all the crap going through there network. Actually that would be the capitalist free-market way, which means it all depends on which side is paying the republicans the most - givin this court case id say the ISPs are probably paying more? which kinda gets weird when you think of AOL Time Warner..
Anyone know how much difference is there in energy from producing hydrogen from x amount of oil vs. producing petrol from the same amount of oil? Considering that hydrogen is pollution free would it be a good trade off to just use it instead of petrol?
This is one of the few things I remember from chemistry.. we watched a video where they had various tanks of gases, they put them in a field and shot that them, then tried the same experiment but with a spark generator near-by. Can't remember the exact results except the conclusion that Hydrogen was pretty safe. The Hindenberg was something to do with the skin of the airship.
Let me guess: they could have done this right from the start and a couple of engineers probably brought it up 10 years ago but were shut up by management?
Wow im pessimistic today...
Hey and I was spot on (golf clap) - look around the site, its just a students fictional product..
Knowing the price of pizza in London this will still be a theft target! Its more likely that someone will just steal it thinking its food and then get a good/bad surprise depending on the quality of your laptop and their hunger. Great joke though, I wonder how many they will actually sell? it was probably some student project..
You sure??
You underestimate Microsofts marketing capabilities, remember these are the people who sold .NET! If they can't sell it on the shelf, they'll get OEMs to bundle it. They will find a way even if it means advertising on peoples PCs with dodgy IE security hole pop-ups!
Theres only one logical explination.. the whole OS is a spagetti code and they have absolutely no idea whats wrong, how to fix it, and where to start.
No, ironic is that allot of people will actually buy it.
I hope the firmwares upgradable? they must be doing something dodgy to get windows media format support? no i didnt RTFA. Sue me.
Just givem San Andreas and they'll be set..
It took me 3 years to have a basic understanding of what .NET was. 3 years just to figure out that it was basically Java.
Yeah but watching George Bush stand next to her and look like a little boy makes everything worthwhile...
A java server that never goes down isn't that hard, but a java server that actually runs faster than a ZX spectrum...? I think we're gona need to wait for moores law to catch up on that one.
I was channel surfing i swear! that shows really really gone down hill, but then I went and checked it out on the net so it must be true!
because child molesters have 1 inch dicks so know-one would know.. BAM!
Looks like his successor is going to be discovered accidentally fast tracking someones visa then...