I've got to admit that I don't have much of an interest in farming, despite the fact that your argument is far more applicable to farming than it is to technology. I'm not interested in learning to milk a cow, or learning to turn wheat in a field into bread.
What separates us from a basic agrarian society is the recognition that one person can't do or know everything, and so a person becomes a specialist in a field at the expense of other fields. The weaver doesn't need to be able to bake his own bread because the baker does so, and the baker doesn't need to be able to weave his own clothes because the weaver does so. They don't need to know a thing about these other fields, but they do need to be at the top of their own field.
If we didn't have this arrangement, then there would be no technology, because there would be no time to develop it in-between all the bread-baking and cloth-weaving.
Don't you get the feeling that Wave was just a public testing ground for features that Google would eventually integrate into its other products?
The UI was certainly innovative, and as mentioned above it did offer new features, but there was no compelling reason for it to be a separate product from Google's existing line-up.
Depends on how frequent the hoops are on the road I guess. You could afford to paint solid white lines as a visual cue, perhaps with accompanying warning text.
I wonder just how visible it will be in regular car mirrors, with the body of the vehicle being above, rather than to the left, right or directly behind.
Here in Scotland we used STV in our most recent local council elections, which is basically preference voting with multi-member wards. Although we were able to number all the candidates 1-n, we were under no obligation to do so - if you only wanted to vote for one candidate you could just put a 1 by their name and it would still be counted.
I only marked two candidates, because they were the only two (out of the eight or so on the list) that I had actually heard of.
The sailing of the Lusitania in the first place was the single biggest act of stupidity the US has ever been guilty of. The German navy had widely publicised the fact that their u-boats would sink any ship found sailing in British waters.
Those piloting the Lusitania arrogantly believed that, because there was an American flag hanging off the back of their ship, they somehow constituted an exception. They were wrong.
Sure, wind power isn't feasible for large-scale power generation, but you're wrong in assuming that this is the case for all renewable sources of power.
Onshore wind turbines are common because they're relatively cheap and easy to set up, and if you'll allow me some cynicism, because they're highly visible; they allow politicians and companies to be seen to be encouraging renewable energy, even if the effect is slight.
Tidal power, from a political, environmental and financial perspective, is more risky. However, it can provide significant amounts of energy, and while there is downtime associated with high and low tide, the times of these are predictable and relatively short so storage needs can be planned.
Or, failing that, treat road signs as having priority over GPS instructions.
The road sign is more likely to be correct than the GPS route, and
The GPS unit should be able to automatically recalculate your route if you deviate.
Okay, if it says 'make a U-turn' and tells you to go back the way it originally told you, you're going to have to stop and check, but I find that most of the time mine will choose another route that 9 times out of 10 is more sensible.
You talk as if everybody living in the country used to live in the city, and made a conscious choice to leave.
Me? I was brought up in rural areas. I never made a conscious choice to stay here (in fact, I'd quite like to move), but this is where my family is and, more importantly, where my job is.
I'm not asking for any favours from private companies, but when it comes to government investment, the government is meant to represent the whole country and I don't think I should be left out because of what part of the country I'm in.
You and the commenter you're replying to are talking about two completely different things.
The first incarnation of the iPlayer was a Windows-only app that downloaded content onto your computer for viewing. While developing the Windows app first was the obvious decision due to market share, Mac OS X users were concerned that they might be left out in the cold.
The iPlayer started using Flash on the website, and Mac (and Linux) users were able to stream content, but not download it. The ability to download content allowed Windows users with slower connections to use the iPlayer, which Mac users were unable to do. I also believe that, at the time, the video quality of the Flash streams was lower than the downloads.
At this point, Mac users were starting to become concerned that this was the final word on Mac compatibility, and that they would be left as second-class citizens. What happened, of course, is that the BBC released an Adobe Air version that they rolled out to all users, which is perfectly capable.
The iPhone has had a web-based version of the iPlayer for a while now that seems to please most people. I know it's fashionable to complain about the lack of Flash on the iPhone and iPad, but it's becoming a bit tiring when it has nothing to do with anything else.
I didn't know National Rail had a mobile site, do you have a link for it? Or is this sarcasm? I can't tell.
National Rail are still charging a fiver for their iPhone app, and the only reason that they can get away with that is that they pulled legal strings that ended with all competing apps being banned from the App Store. Fortunately I still have one of those competing apps on my phone, a lovely little app called Trains that cost 59p.
Not unless the experienced manual driver had either a very stiff clutch or a very slack brake pedal, because they should feel completely different. Applying pressure to the brake pedal as if it were a clutch shouldn't be enough to put the car into a skid.
They won't go down automatically, but all the networks offer SIM-only tariffs that are cheaper than the equivalent contract+phone tariff, and it's pretty easy to switch. The added bonus, in the context of this article, is that they're usually also available with a minimum duration of 30 days, so there's no early termination fee.
It doesn't matter what kind of phone you have, if you're careless with it, it will eventually break. They sell insurance on most phones for a reason.
I had to install a GPS-based app on a Nokia E71 for the MD of the company next door. After a few minutes spent wondering why the app wasn't working, I realised that none of the GPS apps were working on the phone. There was a large dent in one of the speaker grilles, which had damaged the GPS antenna. When I took it back to him and explained the situation, he didn't bat an eyelid. This was a man used to having to replace broken phones.
As for my own two-year-old iPhone, it has two small scratches on the screen that are invisible when the backlight is on. It's never been in a case, just my pocket.
It's relevant to the UK as well, where O2 are discontinuing 'unlimited' data in the same way, and introducing caps of 500 MB per month on all but their most expensive tariffs.
At the same time, we have the option of companies like giffgaff (who, ironically, operate as a virtual operator on O2's network) who offer genuinely unlimited data for 'personal mobile use'.
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I've got to admit that I don't have much of an interest in farming, despite the fact that your argument is far more applicable to farming than it is to technology. I'm not interested in learning to milk a cow, or learning to turn wheat in a field into bread.
What separates us from a basic agrarian society is the recognition that one person can't do or know everything, and so a person becomes a specialist in a field at the expense of other fields. The weaver doesn't need to be able to bake his own bread because the baker does so, and the baker doesn't need to be able to weave his own clothes because the weaver does so. They don't need to know a thing about these other fields, but they do need to be at the top of their own field.
If we didn't have this arrangement, then there would be no technology, because there would be no time to develop it in-between all the bread-baking and cloth-weaving.
Don't you get the feeling that Wave was just a public testing ground for features that Google would eventually integrate into its other products?
The UI was certainly innovative, and as mentioned above it did offer new features, but there was no compelling reason for it to be a separate product from Google's existing line-up.
You read that headline, and your biggest criticism is their use of the word 'hacker'?
Depends on how frequent the hoops are on the road I guess. You could afford to paint solid white lines as a visual cue, perhaps with accompanying warning text.
I wonder just how visible it will be in regular car mirrors, with the body of the vehicle being above, rather than to the left, right or directly behind.
Flash for some... miniature American flags for others!
Do you have to mark all 84 boxes though?
Here in Scotland we used STV in our most recent local council elections, which is basically preference voting with multi-member wards. Although we were able to number all the candidates 1-n, we were under no obligation to do so - if you only wanted to vote for one candidate you could just put a 1 by their name and it would still be counted.
I only marked two candidates, because they were the only two (out of the eight or so on the list) that I had actually heard of.
Sure you can, Nissan sell them. (And it's not just the one they were given to test, I've seen them on the road.)
You'd have to make sure that it runs on petrol - diesel cars are much easier for inexperienced drivers to drive without stalling.
I'm pretty sure that the initial problem will soon lead to this solution if left to itself.
The sailing of the Lusitania in the first place was the single biggest act of stupidity the US has ever been guilty of. The German navy had widely publicised the fact that their u-boats would sink any ship found sailing in British waters.
Those piloting the Lusitania arrogantly believed that, because there was an American flag hanging off the back of their ship, they somehow constituted an exception. They were wrong.
Sure, wind power isn't feasible for large-scale power generation, but you're wrong in assuming that this is the case for all renewable sources of power.
Onshore wind turbines are common because they're relatively cheap and easy to set up, and if you'll allow me some cynicism, because they're highly visible; they allow politicians and companies to be seen to be encouraging renewable energy, even if the effect is slight.
Tidal power, from a political, environmental and financial perspective, is more risky. However, it can provide significant amounts of energy, and while there is downtime associated with high and low tide, the times of these are predictable and relatively short so storage needs can be planned.
Or, failing that, treat road signs as having priority over GPS instructions.
Okay, if it says 'make a U-turn' and tells you to go back the way it originally told you, you're going to have to stop and check, but I find that most of the time mine will choose another route that 9 times out of 10 is more sensible.
You talk as if everybody living in the country used to live in the city, and made a conscious choice to leave.
Me? I was brought up in rural areas. I never made a conscious choice to stay here (in fact, I'd quite like to move), but this is where my family is and, more importantly, where my job is.
I'm not asking for any favours from private companies, but when it comes to government investment, the government is meant to represent the whole country and I don't think I should be left out because of what part of the country I'm in.
You and the commenter you're replying to are talking about two completely different things.
The first incarnation of the iPlayer was a Windows-only app that downloaded content onto your computer for viewing. While developing the Windows app first was the obvious decision due to market share, Mac OS X users were concerned that they might be left out in the cold.
The iPlayer started using Flash on the website, and Mac (and Linux) users were able to stream content, but not download it. The ability to download content allowed Windows users with slower connections to use the iPlayer, which Mac users were unable to do. I also believe that, at the time, the video quality of the Flash streams was lower than the downloads.
At this point, Mac users were starting to become concerned that this was the final word on Mac compatibility, and that they would be left as second-class citizens. What happened, of course, is that the BBC released an Adobe Air version that they rolled out to all users, which is perfectly capable.
The iPhone has had a web-based version of the iPlayer for a while now that seems to please most people. I know it's fashionable to complain about the lack of Flash on the iPhone and iPad, but it's becoming a bit tiring when it has nothing to do with anything else.
Because supporting a J2ME app across a multitude of different handsets is an utter nightmare.
Better to just write your app for one or two platforms and make it work well.
I didn't know National Rail had a mobile site, do you have a link for it? Or is this sarcasm? I can't tell.
National Rail are still charging a fiver for their iPhone app, and the only reason that they can get away with that is that they pulled legal strings that ended with all competing apps being banned from the App Store. Fortunately I still have one of those competing apps on my phone, a lovely little app called Trains that cost 59p.
I take it you mean a single passenger? This wasn't a UAV, it had a pilot.
Not unless the experienced manual driver had either a very stiff clutch or a very slack brake pedal, because they should feel completely different. Applying pressure to the brake pedal as if it were a clutch shouldn't be enough to put the car into a skid.
It's anything but simple.
Land means land, not island. Switzerland is landlocked!
And anyway, the UK isn't an island. Great Britain is.
I was about to add that Isaac Newton was an alchemist who started playing with mathematics and physics because they were fun...
...but I think I've already been trumped by the "Jesus was Jewish" comment.
They won't go down automatically, but all the networks offer SIM-only tariffs that are cheaper than the equivalent contract+phone tariff, and it's pretty easy to switch. The added bonus, in the context of this article, is that they're usually also available with a minimum duration of 30 days, so there's no early termination fee.
It doesn't matter what kind of phone you have, if you're careless with it, it will eventually break. They sell insurance on most phones for a reason.
I had to install a GPS-based app on a Nokia E71 for the MD of the company next door. After a few minutes spent wondering why the app wasn't working, I realised that none of the GPS apps were working on the phone. There was a large dent in one of the speaker grilles, which had damaged the GPS antenna. When I took it back to him and explained the situation, he didn't bat an eyelid. This was a man used to having to replace broken phones.
As for my own two-year-old iPhone, it has two small scratches on the screen that are invisible when the backlight is on. It's never been in a case, just my pocket.
It's relevant to the UK as well, where O2 are discontinuing 'unlimited' data in the same way, and introducing caps of 500 MB per month on all but their most expensive tariffs.
At the same time, we have the option of companies like giffgaff (who, ironically, operate as a virtual operator on O2's network) who offer genuinely unlimited data for 'personal mobile use'.