Indeed; my daughter has a myolectric prosthesis (and a passive one). The significant difference here appears to be that the fingers are fully articulated whereas "normally" the thumb and first finger just open and close.
Other work in development is a better means to attach the prosthesis.
I'm not entirely sure myolectric is *significantly* better than passive: the added weight is a problem and the combination of "full grip (natural hand) + limited grip (myolectric prosthesis)" isn't necessarily so much more useful in practice than "full grip (natural hand) + very limited grip (passive prosthesis)"
The fanboy wars in the 80s were a bit sad then and here we have them all over again. >sigh
I think you can choose any number of criteria where one machine wins over the other. Fact is, those 8-bit machines kick- started a revolution which led to most of us being where we are today; I think we should celebrate them all.
True, but CTRL-ALT-DEL was pretty severe back then, causing an instant reboot. Nowadays all it does is bring up the task manager, or something similar. Your point is still valid and this does seem a tad silly, but it'll probably be no more irritating than hitting the Windows key by mistake.
In the US prices are shown before sales tax whereas in the UK they have to be quoted VAT inclusive. When you factor that in there's still a difference so the point about pricing is still valid, but the difference is not quite as much as it seems.
In Commodore BASIC you'd have to write INPUT FOOT, BALL to get that effect. Then you could enter two comma-separated values at the ? prompt. If you only entered one value then you'd get a second prompt, this time ??.
If you entered INPUT FOOT BALL (no comma) then BA would never get assigned to and you'd get no error message.
But isn't there a major difference between the future and past games? Once a game has taken place its existence is merely historical record and to charge a licence to use that information is absurd (as per the article). But _before_ it has taken place the only way you could know of it is through the FA's planned schedule. Whether you should require a licence to use that information is another matter altogether.
The BBC films and transmits all its current tv output in 16:9 widescreen, and has done for a number of years.
On analogue terrestrial transmissions the programmes are cropped to 14:9 (not 4:3).
Doctor Who was filmed in 16:9 and intended to be shown that way, although it was also filmed / titled etc so that it could be cropped to 14:9.
(BTW - the BBC has also been filming in HD for a while. Although HD transmissions don't start until later this year it does mean that re-runs of current shows will be in HD. I don't specifically know for sure whether Doctor Who was filmed in HD but I presume it was.)
Eclipse on Linux seems to have greater memory requirements: perhaps parent has Windows and grandparent has Linux.
My own experience: running 3.0 on a PIII 700Mhz 512MB under XP is "fine". On slightly better h/w (PII 800Mhz 512MB) under Debian Sarge and Gnome performance was abysmal until memory was doubled to 1GB.
Great. Right now I like Linux, and I can use it knowing that because it is a relatively small player all those virii out there are going after someone else; no-one is going to stop me installing my media player because it's anti-competitive.
If Linux is too successful, things will get worse.
> Television
Baird's system was mechanical. The CRT-based system we know and love was developed at roughly the same time by, I believe, Germans.When the BBC started transmitting television they experimented with both systems; I believe Baird's was the very first though.
Claiming Baird invented television seems to me to be akin to claiming that the first baloonist invented manned flight. Well yes, it's sort-of true, but not really what you meant.
The latest COBOL standard is object orientated. Micro Focus' COBOL (and others) have had object orientation in them since the mid 90s. I was at Micro Focus whilst it was being developped: we had lots of fun deciding on names then. Apart from the ADD 1 TO COBOL example, there was also COOL (COBOL Object Orientated Languate) and - the one that stuck - Object COBOL>
ADD 1 TO COBOL is equivalent to ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL. In general, the format is ADD value TO source GIVING destination, but if the GIVING clause is omitted, destination is the same as source.
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Won't affect SLRs, then. Ironically, cheap compact cameras could end up taxed more than expensive DSLRs.
Indeed; my daughter has a myolectric prosthesis (and a passive one). The significant difference here appears to be that the fingers are fully articulated whereas "normally" the thumb and first finger just open and close. Other work in development is a better means to attach the prosthesis. I'm not entirely sure myolectric is *significantly* better than passive: the added weight is a problem and the combination of "full grip (natural hand) + limited grip (myolectric prosthesis)" isn't necessarily so much more useful in practice than "full grip (natural hand) + very limited grip (passive prosthesis)"
The fanboy wars in the 80s were a bit sad then and here we have them all over again. >sigh I think you can choose any number of criteria where one machine wins over the other. Fact is, those 8-bit machines kick- started a revolution which led to most of us being where we are today; I think we should celebrate them all.
Plus, the BBC clocked the 6502 at 2MHz.
Then you are very naive. What happens when _you_ get charged with downloading kiddie porn / copyrighted music / etc ?
True, but CTRL-ALT-DEL was pretty severe back then, causing an instant reboot. Nowadays all it does is bring up the task manager, or something similar. Your point is still valid and this does seem a tad silly, but it'll probably be no more irritating than hitting the Windows key by mistake.
In the US prices are shown before sales tax whereas in the UK they have to be quoted VAT inclusive. When you factor that in there's still a difference so the point about pricing is still valid, but the difference is not quite as much as it seems.
The US did once use the dd/mm/yy form. This is still evident in "4th of July".
Japan does.
Would it be useful to you if it could also differentiate the meanings of the word "pissed" in US and British English?
In Commodore BASIC you'd have to write INPUT FOOT, BALL to get that effect. Then you could enter two comma-separated values at the ? prompt. If you only entered one value then you'd get a second prompt, this time ??.
If you entered INPUT FOOT BALL (no comma) then BA would never get assigned to and you'd get no error message.
But isn't there a major difference between the future and past games? Once a game has taken place its existence is merely historical record and to charge a licence to use that information is absurd (as per the article). But _before_ it has taken place the only way you could know of it is through the FA's planned schedule. Whether you should require a licence to use that information is another matter altogether.
The BBC films and transmits all its current tv output in 16:9 widescreen, and has done for a number of years.
On analogue terrestrial transmissions the programmes are cropped to 14:9 (not 4:3).
Doctor Who was filmed in 16:9 and intended to be shown that way, although it was also filmed / titled etc so that it could be cropped to 14:9.
(BTW - the BBC has also been filming in HD for a while. Although HD transmissions don't start until later this year it does mean that re-runs of current shows will be in HD. I don't specifically know for sure whether Doctor Who was filmed in HD but I presume it was.)
I'm a COBOL programmer, you insensitive clod.
Eclipse on Linux seems to have greater memory requirements: perhaps parent has Windows and grandparent has Linux. My own experience: running 3.0 on a PIII 700Mhz 512MB under XP is "fine". On slightly better h/w (PII 800Mhz 512MB) under Debian Sarge and Gnome performance was abysmal until memory was doubled to 1GB.
Great. Right now I like Linux, and I can use it knowing that because it is a relatively small player all those virii out there are going after someone else; no-one is going to stop me installing my media player because it's anti-competitive. If Linux is too successful, things will get worse.
> Television Baird's system was mechanical. The CRT-based system we know and love was developed at roughly the same time by, I believe, Germans.When the BBC started transmitting television they experimented with both systems; I believe Baird's was the very first though. Claiming Baird invented television seems to me to be akin to claiming that the first baloonist invented manned flight. Well yes, it's sort-of true, but not really what you meant.
> Fax Machine - Patented by Scottish mechanic Alexander Bain in 1843.
Last time I looked, Scotland was part of Great Britain.
The latest COBOL standard is object orientated. Micro Focus' COBOL (and others) have had object orientation in them since the mid 90s. I was at Micro Focus whilst it was being developped: we had lots of fun deciding on names then. Apart from the ADD 1 TO COBOL example, there was also COOL (COBOL Object Orientated Languate) and - the one that stuck - Object COBOL>
No it doesn't.
ADD 1 TO COBOL is equivalent to ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL. In general, the format is ADD value TO source GIVING destination, but if the GIVING clause is omitted, destination is the same as source.
Alternatively, you can write
COMPUTE COBOL = COBOL + 1.
There's a new COBOL standard out in the last couple of years, and a new one being worked on ...