Indeed. Why not solve the problem at its roots, i.e. start a sort of propaganda in muslim countries that shows America and the west in a good light instead of an evil one. And also stop being so one sided with a certain nation.
Politicians or other middle men may get a commission (or other benefits) from Microsoft in order to promote the use of Windows. Browsers don't cost anything, and so politicians can play the political game of fairness.
Since most of us curry a mobile phone, it would be nice if we could pay using our phone. Here is a possible solution when buying a product:
1) the clerk scans the product (or products) and a total price is formed. 2) the client activates the "pay" command on his/her phone. 3) the total price of goods is transmitted via infrared to the phone. All the client has to do is hold up the phone to the infrared emitter of the cashier device. 4) the client sees on his/her phone the price. 5) the client accepts the payment. 6) the phone sends an SMS (possibly encrypted) to the bank; each phone is linked with a bank account. The transmitted information contains the bank account of the shop. 7) the bank transfers the amount of money to the bank of the shop. 8) the client receives an SMS that the payment was successful.
This is not only the fastest way to pay, but it can also eliminate fraud (like tax evasion) in the large scale.
The reason we have speculated about dark matter is because we can't account for the gravity we observe, isn't it so?
If so, then how come dark matter can interact with non-dark matter via gravity? in other words, if dark matter can distort spacetime like normal matter, then dark matter is normal matter, by all accounts and purposes.
It's a total shame that, in this day and age, and after millions of hours spent by academics on programming languages, to use a language like C or C++ for games or desktop apps that require performance.
Yes, I know, I have told this many times on/., and the standard answer is "it's the programmer, stupid". Well, it may be so, but writing bug free software requires god programmers. If there were better system programming languages, programmers would not need to be gods.
Mr Tanenbaum, as I have told you in an email, modern CPUs lack any hardware support for modules within a process! that's a major flaw that does not allow for proper isolation of modules within a process.
You said that "it will be a hard sell to hardware manufacturers" when I proposed you to promote this idea. But it's so easy to make! the hardware extensions required for modules within a process are minimal - mostly extensions to page tables; existing software needs not be modified!
Of course, this is not a panacea, but it is certainly a step in the right direction...
The Windows taskbar, in spite of its name, doesn't understand human tasks at all: instead, it would group all browsers together, all editors together, all terminals together, and so on.
You can always move the task bar icons together using the mouse (pre-Vista, you can do it with TaskBar Shuffle).
Are there any "truly patentable" software innovations? we first need to solve the P vs NP issue and then the halting problem in order to make truly new algorithms. All the algorithms that we could discover have been discovered so far (no truly new algorithm has been discovered in the last decades).
and so absent patent protection an engineer could simply disassemble your new vacuum cleaner or program with amazing new algorithm (for example) and produce a clone, cheaper than yours as they don't have to cover the R&D costs.
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But for us common folks, Picard was his most interesting work.
The frame rate is very low. Perhaps it's the software renderer that it is at fault.
Personally, and after having played DN3D on desktop, I do not care about playing it on a phone...I'd rather have MAME as a time waster.
Indeed. Why not solve the problem at its roots, i.e. start a sort of propaganda in muslim countries that shows America and the west in a good light instead of an evil one. And also stop being so one sided with a certain nation.
Do the hacks exploit buffer overflow or wilder pointer issues? anyone knows?
I wonder why I remembered about this...
"functional transistor? thanks but no thanks! wake me up when they discover an object-oriented one"!!!
It's funny that the dictator's initials are A.H...
To be as slow as Flash?
Politicians or other middle men may get a commission (or other benefits) from Microsoft in order to promote the use of Windows. Browsers don't cost anything, and so politicians can play the political game of fairness.
Since most of us curry a mobile phone, it would be nice if we could pay using our phone.
Here is a possible solution when buying a product:
1) the clerk scans the product (or products) and a total price is formed.
2) the client activates the "pay" command on his/her phone.
3) the total price of goods is transmitted via infrared to the phone. All the client has to do is hold up the phone to the infrared emitter of the cashier device.
4) the client sees on his/her phone the price.
5) the client accepts the payment.
6) the phone sends an SMS (possibly encrypted) to the bank; each phone is linked with a bank account. The transmitted information contains the bank account of the shop.
7) the bank transfers the amount of money to the bank of the shop.
8) the client receives an SMS that the payment was successful.
This is not only the fastest way to pay, but it can also eliminate fraud (like tax evasion) in the large scale.
The reason we have speculated about dark matter is because we can't account for the gravity we observe, isn't it so?
If so, then how come dark matter can interact with non-dark matter via gravity? in other words, if dark matter can distort spacetime like normal matter, then dark matter is normal matter, by all accounts and purposes.
Then why can't we detect it?
If Herschel can can find matter previously unseen with other telescopes, can this be used to avoid the dark matter theory?
"At which time you slaughtered millions in silly arguments about how to divide the resources of your little world."
That's what is going on in the middle east...a silly war over how to divide the resources.
For how long?
It's a total shame that, in this day and age, and after millions of hours spent by academics on programming languages, to use a language like C or C++ for games or desktop apps that require performance.
Yes, I know, I have told this many times on /., and the standard answer is "it's the programmer, stupid". Well, it may be so, but writing bug free software requires god programmers. If there were better system programming languages, programmers would not need to be gods.
Mr Tanenbaum, as I have told you in an email, modern CPUs lack any hardware support for modules within a process! that's a major flaw that does not allow for proper isolation of modules within a process.
You said that "it will be a hard sell to hardware manufacturers" when I proposed you to promote this idea. But it's so easy to make! the hardware extensions required for modules within a process are minimal - mostly extensions to page tables; existing software needs not be modified!
Of course, this is not a panacea, but it is certainly a step in the right direction...
The exact same picture was used in other sites as an artist's conception of Betelgeuse...
32 million seems to much for just 3 video games. Why is it so high?
You can always move the task bar icons together using the mouse (pre-Vista, you can do it with TaskBar Shuffle).
The Nintendo console is quite cheap anyway.
"Illegal" is always defined in relation to the laws set by the establishment.
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...Because it never comes to their mind to type "man page" at the command line!!!
(seriously now: what the heck is with you Unix guys? typing "manual" was too long for you? or using "help"?)
What about Microwaves running Linux? are users scared of them too?
Are there any "truly patentable" software innovations? we first need to solve the P vs NP issue and then the halting problem in order to make truly new algorithms. All the algorithms that we could discover have been discovered so far (no truly new algorithm has been discovered in the last decades).
There...fixed that for ya.