They reversed the anti-proton to tachyon ratio in the main deflector array after flooding it with a plasma burst diverted from the warp core and then polarising it by reinforcing the nucleon field.
The HSBC bank ask for your online ID (username), date of birth, and three digits from an 8 digit security number that you've memorised. Which digits they ask for is always randomised. Sometimes it's the 1st, 2nd and 3rd, maybe next time it would be the 3rd, 4th and 8th and so on.
On their phone system they ask for your account #, date of birth, and 3 digits from your security number. I've always been impressed by their system.
On a side note, I love how you never have to start telling the story from the top whenever they pass you on to another service representative. As soon as they pick up the phone it's "Hello Mr ______, how can I help?" I never thought I'd say this about a bank but the HSBC rocks!
Do we really want robots out there that can reproduce themselves? maybe Iv'e seen too many Sci-fi movies, but it feels pretty scary to me.
I once read about the idea of self-replicating robots landing on a distant world and getting it ready for humans that would arrive later. Nice idea, but there would be an ethical consideration; how would we feel if some metal strangers from another solar system landed on our moon and made themselves at home? For more local planets though, it'd be a great application.
f all you believe that the US has done since Moonshot is arm itself; and if all you believe the US should do with its space program is go to the Moon, you have an amazing amount of ignorance about NASA. Do a little reading, and come back when you have an informed opinion.
I love it when AC trolls make fools of themselves. Space exploration budget was cut, defence budget was not. My original comment was correct.
Who cares!!! We had PEOPLE on the moon 35 years ago!
Yeah, and after a handful of missions you shut up shop and never went back because you were too busy arming yourselves to the teeth. I don't see your lot making much progress in getting back to the moon.
user interface issues should not be solved with the most CREATIVE solutions, but rather with the most PEDESTRIAN solutions. Users shouldn't find any surprises in the interface of your site or application -- it should look and feel just like all the other sites and applications they're already familiar with.
I'm confused. How on earth do you get "bad interface design" from "creative solutions? I never even mentioned interfaces, I was talking in general terms about design. In any case, a rennaissance man is more likely to produce a more usable interface. Get a pure designer to design a user interface and you frequently get stuff that looks like a million dollars but well nigh impossible to use. Get a pure coder to produce an interface and it may work but it'll look like crap.
back in the days of Da Vinci design and engineering overlapped quite a bit. And we all remember how well his helicopter designs functioned, right?
The technology to provide enough power did not exist and the basic aerodynamics and mechanics of helicopter flight were unheard of to say nothing of being understood. His designs were still pretty creative for their time though, wouldn't you say? And his work in the Sistine Chapel wasn't bad either.
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I don't know about that. Myself being more skilled in the programming area.....
I probably should have explained myself a bit better. The point of my original post was that there are people out there who make good designers and good coders at the same time, regardless of what you personally as an individual are good or bad at. It is possible.
as a coder I'm pathologically unable to design the type of showcases that you see at the CSS Zen Garden
I wish people would get out of this mindset that you must be either a coder or an artist and never the twain shall meet. I work quite comfortably on both sides of that fence and I have met plenty of renaissance people in this industry who are just as comfortable with code as they are with a graphic design tool like Photoshop. It's that kind of thinking that leads to the most creative solutions IMHO. Back in the days of Leonardo DaVinci there was no Berlin Wall seperating technical and creative people, it's a relatively recent addition to our culture and a bit of an unhelpful one.
I'll second that. And stopping the slide show doesn't do you any good either. After you click 'next' you have to click 'stop' on the next page because it seems to automatically resume playing. Had it been done in Flash, the./ers would have been out in force blaming the technology rather than the page designers as usual.
because if they mess up my favourite childhood villain...
They just did. They have to account for how his accent changed from an American to an English one, and so far in the trailers we hear Vader answering the Emperor "Yes Masterr?" but with a very slightly supressed pronunciation of the trailing R, kinda like a transatlantic accent. Doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "Yes Masta?"
I'll second that. And the headline writers on here crack me up. Even if this story were true, he wasn't jailed 'for using lynx.' He would have been 'arrested' for supposedly breaching the Computer Misuse Act by unlawfully trying to access information that he has no business viewing.
Backward compatibility with Flash was only a problem when they went from Flash 4 to 5. Since then it's been pretty good, and in any case you should make a reasonable attempt to stay with current technology as long as your target audience is going to have the right version of the plugin.
But I must say that I hope it fails because I don't want one company to control so much.
You see, this is what I just don't get. On the one hand you say what a great technology it is, and on the other you say you want it to fail because it's proprietary. This is what I call open source fundamentalism. "Proprietary=bad. Open source=good." There are examples of propriatary technology going bad (Microsoft) and propriatary technology being good (Apple). Just because something is not open source does not make it bad. Macromedia is not Microsoft.
Perhaps the simulation of an entire virtual organism would not even be necessary in many cases.. only the molecules (and many properties thereof) that make up the portion of skin and flesh to be tested against topical agents, for example.
It never ceases to amaze me that the anti Macromedia brigade so quickly rolls out their rebuttals along the lines of "Oh but if you do a week's worth of DHTML coding, use a few iFrames here and there, throw in a bit of server-side trickery, and anything else you can do in SVG, what could be simpler?" while casually ignoring that Flash or Flex can do all of this in a single easy-to-use package.
In any case SVG doesn't have half the abilities of Flash and it definitely doesn't have anywhere near the same level of browser penetration, hence the maturity of Flash. I remember someone telling me two years ago about how SVG was going to render Flash obsolete. Two years later and I have still yet to see a single SVG file rendered in my web browser, to say nothing of a job ad asking for this skill.
The PDFs were getting a little slashdotted so I couldn't fully RTFA, but here's what I see as an exciting area: Getting the richness and usability of the desktop application in a web-based application. The metaphor of the submitted 'form' and requested 'page' is very limiting. Imagine using Word in such a way that you had to destroy and patiently reload the page every time you wanted to embolden a bit of text or reformat a paragraph. The reach of applications has taken a step forward with the web, but in terms of usability a giant step was taken back.
This is where technology like Macromedia Flex comes in. I've seen this stuff in action, and the process of creating complex applications is so easy it's unbelievable. A field of sortable and stretchable columns can be generated with about three lines of code, and the data that goes into it can come from any application server you like.
Sure, anything that uses the Flash player gets a hammering on Slashdot, but I sense that times are a changing around here and more people are starting to wake up to the potential of this stuff, even if it goes a little against the open source ethos of the place.
BTW, if you're a member of the "Flash sucks and I hate it because some people used to abuse it by making annoying animations with it" brigade, see my journal where I've already refuted your half-baked criticisms.
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They reversed the anti-proton to tachyon ratio in the main deflector array after flooding it with a plasma burst diverted from the warp core and then polarising it by reinforcing the nucleon field.
On their phone system they ask for your account #, date of birth, and 3 digits from your security number. I've always been impressed by their system.
On a side note, I love how you never have to start telling the story from the top whenever they pass you on to another service representative. As soon as they pick up the phone it's "Hello Mr ______, how can I help?" I never thought I'd say this about a bank but the HSBC rocks!
Shoot! Comment withdrawn. I read "UPN" and thought "unofficially." [skulks off and hopes nobody notices...]
Actually I haven't a clue what you're trying to say. No offence, but I can't understand you.
Huh?
No way Jose. Vader's accent was always English to my ears.
I'll second that. And stopping the slide show doesn't do you any good either. After you click 'next' you have to click 'stop' on the next page because it seems to automatically resume playing. Had it been done in Flash, the ./ers would have been out in force blaming the technology rather than the page designers as usual.
I'll second that. And the headline writers on here crack me up. Even if this story were true, he wasn't jailed 'for using lynx.' He would have been 'arrested' for supposedly breaching the Computer Misuse Act by unlawfully trying to access information that he has no business viewing.
Yeah, and those people who dreamed up a computer smaller than ten feet by ten and weighing less than two tonnes. What were they thinking?
Backward compatibility with Flash was only a problem when they went from Flash 4 to 5. Since then it's been pretty good, and in any case you should make a reasonable attempt to stay with current technology as long as your target audience is going to have the right version of the plugin.
By using a 3rd party swf generator or actionscript auhoring tool. Next question...
Linux has some substantial market penetration. SVG has what, zero?
In any case SVG doesn't have half the abilities of Flash and it definitely doesn't have anywhere near the same level of browser penetration, hence the maturity of Flash. I remember someone telling me two years ago about how SVG was going to render Flash obsolete. Two years later and I have still yet to see a single SVG file rendered in my web browser, to say nothing of a job ad asking for this skill.
This is where technology like Macromedia Flex comes in. I've seen this stuff in action, and the process of creating complex applications is so easy it's unbelievable. A field of sortable and stretchable columns can be generated with about three lines of code, and the data that goes into it can come from any application server you like.
Sure, anything that uses the Flash player gets a hammering on Slashdot, but I sense that times are a changing around here and more people are starting to wake up to the potential of this stuff, even if it goes a little against the open source ethos of the place.
BTW, if you're a member of the "Flash sucks and I hate it because some people used to abuse it by making annoying animations with it" brigade, see my journal where I've already refuted your half-baked criticisms.