Agreed, it is the responsibility of the driver/rider to keep their vehicle in control at all times, and the same would be true of a joystick-based vehicle. My point was not that it's an excuse for accidents, but that it's not a problem unique to a joystick-based control system, or even a new problem.
This is somewhat a problem in motorbikes. You pull the throttle using your right hand in order to accelerate, and the acceleration pulls you backwards, which in turn opens the throttle wider, applying more acceleration. And of course, there's no chair or seatbelt to hold you in place.
The best way to find a bug is to take the code away from the original programmer and give it to a dedicated tester.
The best way to fix a bug once it's found is to give the code back to the original programmer, and tell them to go fix. Because they know the code. And it's less likely that fixing the bug will introduce more bugs. Obviously, this limits the amount of people you can set to the task of fixing them - and in a project the size of Windows, there are a lot of them.
What? Opera has skins, and it's a lot easier to customise out of the box than Firefox is (have a poke about the community site, you might be surprised). I'm pretty sure it has configuration dialogs too:P
Sure, no extensions. Personally I find that the most useful Firefox extensions are the ones that offer functionality that Opera already has, by default, and in a smaller download.
I guess some countries (France, say) could be worried if the US decides to pull its control over the.fr TLD as a political measure (for say, refusing to support them in other wars of questionable legality).
What the EU hoped to achieve by this I don't quite know. It would have been better for them to delegate country-code TLDs to individual countries, and set up mirrors of the root servers. It would have at least been less confrontational.
Even if hydrogen fuel for cars is manufactured using traditional energy sources (fossil fuel, nuclear, renewable), there are still advantages to using it. Oil-produced hydrogen would move the pollution associated with fossil-fuel burning away from population centres, helping rid cities of smog. They also be able to run with much higher efficiency than the average car, as well has having facilities for filtering out the most harmful pollutants.
And one of the often-publicised disadvantages to renewables such as wind and wave energy is the fact that they need to be situated far from population centres to work efficiently. Hydrogen could be shipped from hydrogen-producing windfarms in the same way as petrol is shipped to filling stations.
I don't have an Evian bottle to hand right now, but I'm pretty sure it says something on the side like "This bottle is not intended for use with anything but Evian water."
OSX is full of inconsistencies. The one that pops into my head right now is that some of the icons in the menu bar can be reordered by holding Command and dragging them, but a lot of them, such as Quicksilver and Spotlight, cannot.
Oh, and just try running any X11 apps, it's a UI nightmare.
A lecturer at my old university told me that around 90% of papers get written, then put into a drawer somewhere. And nobody reads them again. I wonder what proportion of papers that are read are 'wrong'?
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Agreed, it is the responsibility of the driver/rider to keep their vehicle in control at all times, and the same would be true of a joystick-based vehicle. My point was not that it's an excuse for accidents, but that it's not a problem unique to a joystick-based control system, or even a new problem.
This is somewhat a problem in motorbikes. You pull the throttle using your right hand in order to accelerate, and the acceleration pulls you backwards, which in turn opens the throttle wider, applying more acceleration. And of course, there's no chair or seatbelt to hold you in place.
The best way to find a bug is to take the code away from the original programmer and give it to a dedicated tester.
The best way to fix a bug once it's found is to give the code back to the original programmer, and tell them to go fix. Because they know the code. And it's less likely that fixing the bug will introduce more bugs. Obviously, this limits the amount of people you can set to the task of fixing them - and in a project the size of Windows, there are a lot of them.
Whoops :)
What? Opera has skins, and it's a lot easier to customise out of the box than Firefox is (have a poke about the community site, you might be surprised). I'm pretty sure it has configuration dialogs too :P
Sure, no extensions. Personally I find that the most useful Firefox extensions are the ones that offer functionality that Opera already has, by default, and in a smaller download.
The article is ruined by the accompanying picture. There is no way in hell that that guy is well-dressed.
Nah, the TV Licence doesn't work like that, it's actually a fee that you have to pay every year. Some current information.
I guess some countries (France, say) could be worried if the US decides to pull its control over the .fr TLD as a political measure (for say, refusing to support them in other wars of questionable legality).
From TFA:
"They [critics] also point to the dangers associated with building a bridge in an area that has been hit by earthquakes."
What the EU hoped to achieve by this I don't quite know. It would have been better for them to delegate country-code TLDs to individual countries, and set up mirrors of the root servers. It would have at least been less confrontational.
At least good old IP addresses will still work.
It almost makes it look like Safari...
You'd need LOOBOOS in order to take into account the moons of Mars, which are not large enough to maintain a spherical shape.
I was hoping for something along the lines of the Catbus...
A manned flight to Mars means up to three years of discomfort and isolation - how would the cosmonauts cope?
Even if hydrogen fuel for cars is manufactured using traditional energy sources (fossil fuel, nuclear, renewable), there are still advantages to using it. Oil-produced hydrogen would move the pollution associated with fossil-fuel burning away from population centres, helping rid cities of smog. They also be able to run with much higher efficiency than the average car, as well has having facilities for filtering out the most harmful pollutants.
And one of the often-publicised disadvantages to renewables such as wind and wave energy is the fact that they need to be situated far from population centres to work efficiently. Hydrogen could be shipped from hydrogen-producing windfarms in the same way as petrol is shipped to filling stations.
These people regularly use their feet. The problem is that all that effort is wasted when they get deported.
I don't have an Evian bottle to hand right now, but I'm pretty sure it says something on the side like "This bottle is not intended for use with anything but Evian water."
OSX is full of inconsistencies. The one that pops into my head right now is that some of the icons in the menu bar can be reordered by holding Command and dragging them, but a lot of them, such as Quicksilver and Spotlight, cannot. Oh, and just try running any X11 apps, it's a UI nightmare.
http://portal.opera.com/startup/customize/
A lecturer at my old university told me that around 90% of papers get written, then put into a drawer somewhere. And nobody reads them again. I wonder what proportion of papers that are read are 'wrong'?
On the other hand, just imagine the look on a British person's face if you told them you went to work in a trolley.
Just imagine the 'Here's Johnny!" sequence from The Shining with this door. Hilarious!
But then, once their animals have been shipped to the states, you fill the ecological gap with HIV-resistent crocodiles.
Australia would then be compensated for their lack of crocs with hairdressers, bricklayers and mechanics, and everyone's happy!
Of course it is, it's The Register.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1546 148,00.html
We're kinda feeling left behind too. Right now, Sweden looks not very far away and very attractive...