If anyone gets any Apple-product prediction right it's because enough monkeys pounding on typewriters will eventually write Shakespeare.
If someone could finally give the monkeys modern computers with word processors, the error and typo rate would go down and they could write Shakespeare a lot faster.
Flash needs to die, and Apple is pushing web standards as the alternative (as opposed to Microsoft who would also like to see Flash die but only to replace it with Silverlight).
No Flash on extremely popular devices is a good thin. It forces people to stop using Flash where there's no reason to use it, such as navigation and video.
And then, 24 hours later, they will all get their dupe too. And then another 24 hours later half of those will get a second dupe because the posters don't even read Slashdot themselves.
When I play a videogame I play the character itself, so feedback is important. But when I watch a movie I don't imagine I'm one of the character. I'm watching a story about other people. Why the hell should I have physical feedback about what they're going through? It makes no sense.
But bigger = heavier = requires more power to move around.
What if you had specialized units? That way you reduce the cost, the number of sensors, the size and the required power all at the same time. Let's say 100 units that can do task X, 100 units that can do task Y and 100 units that can do task Z, similar to how ants are specialized.
If posting H.264 files on the Web can get you in trouble, you're also going to be in trouble for posting H.264 files via a Flash video player.
The whole argument against H.264 is pointless because Flash or HTML5, you're going to be using H.264 anyway. And before anyone says "Theora" (or Windows Media or something similarly pointless), you can't install plug-ins on most cellphones and portable devices. And even if you could, you'd be bypassing the built-in hardware to play H.264 and depleting the battery life by doing video decoding via the main CPU.
So, aside from video, Flash is only used for games. And regular websites aren't games, if you're doing your navigation menu in Flash you're doing it wrong (indexability, accessibility, multiple platform access, etc).
Instead of sending a single, big, expensive unit, shouldn't we increase our chances and areas of exploration by sending dozens if not hundreds of smaller, cheaper units?
If the landing of that Mini-Cooper goes wrong, we lose the only unit. If the landing of 300 small units goes wrong, we still have a chance that some units may still be intact on landing not to mention that less mass equals less impact force. And even if all goes well, we can explore a lot more area with 300 small units than with a single big unit.
Leave the launcher in orbit, have the units communicate with it (less energy and smaller antenna required) and have the launcher/orbiter communicate with earth.
I'm sure NASA has thought about that scenario, so where's the flaw in that idea since they're not doing it?
Girl: "Animals are better than people, they don't have war." Death: "What the hell are you talking about, animals fight all the time!" Girl: "Not with nuclear arms. You can't hug children with nuclear arms." Death then reaches over and touches (killing) her.
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Well, you can't contr[Connection dropped by USA Presidential request].
If someone could finally give the monkeys modern computers with word processors, the error and typo rate would go down and they could write Shakespeare a lot faster.
Flash needs to die, and Apple is pushing web standards as the alternative (as opposed to Microsoft who would also like to see Flash die but only to replace it with Silverlight).
No Flash on extremely popular devices is a good thin. It forces people to stop using Flash where there's no reason to use it, such as navigation and video.
And then, 24 hours later, they will all get their dupe too. And then another 24 hours later half of those will get a second dupe because the posters don't even read Slashdot themselves.
When I play a videogame I play the character itself, so feedback is important. But when I watch a movie I don't imagine I'm one of the character. I'm watching a story about other people. Why the hell should I have physical feedback about what they're going through? It makes no sense.
Whoever it was, I hope they're insured.
But bigger = heavier = requires more power to move around.
What if you had specialized units? That way you reduce the cost, the number of sensors, the size and the required power all at the same time. Let's say 100 units that can do task X, 100 units that can do task Y and 100 units that can do task Z, similar to how ants are specialized.
http://www.youtube.com/html5
If posting H.264 files on the Web can get you in trouble, you're also going to be in trouble for posting H.264 files via a Flash video player.
The whole argument against H.264 is pointless because Flash or HTML5, you're going to be using H.264 anyway. And before anyone says "Theora" (or Windows Media or something similarly pointless), you can't install plug-ins on most cellphones and portable devices. And even if you could, you'd be bypassing the built-in hardware to play H.264 and depleting the battery life by doing video decoding via the main CPU.
So, aside from video, Flash is only used for games. And regular websites aren't games, if you're doing your navigation menu in Flash you're doing it wrong (indexability, accessibility, multiple platform access, etc).
Instead of sending a single, big, expensive unit, shouldn't we increase our chances and areas of exploration by sending dozens if not hundreds of smaller, cheaper units?
If the landing of that Mini-Cooper goes wrong, we lose the only unit. If the landing of 300 small units goes wrong, we still have a chance that some units may still be intact on landing not to mention that less mass equals less impact force. And even if all goes well, we can explore a lot more area with 300 small units than with a single big unit.
Leave the launcher in orbit, have the units communicate with it (less energy and smaller antenna required) and have the launcher/orbiter communicate with earth.
I'm sure NASA has thought about that scenario, so where's the flaw in that idea since they're not doing it?
I'm not sure, but we'll need to make one much bigger than the regular 58 grams size.
I'm not your buddy, friend.
What internet money, guy?
Not all libraries have DVDs. Mine only has books.
Yeah but to be fair, if you remove CSS then webpages look like crap.
What are you doing, Dave?
Especially for my co-workers. The last one who touched my display got stabbed in the hand by a spork.
If somebody starts screwing around with the lights to play Tetris on my apartment building, I'll install red lights just to fuck with his game.
Microsoft, doing business by ignoring its own users for the last three decades!
Nope, I'm sorry but you didn't get the frist post. On the other hand you did get the first post! Congratulations!
Now be a good boy and go back to the main page to wait for the next article so you can try and be the first one to post something again.
CubeStormer, Rubik's Cube solver made in LEGO bricks with Mindstorms kits.
Okay, so it doesn't look like a "robot" and has four "hands", but it's still much faster than the one from Maker Faire 2010.
Girl: "Animals are better than people, they don't have war."
Death: "What the hell are you talking about, animals fight all the time!"
Girl: "Not with nuclear arms. You can't hug children with nuclear arms."
Death then reaches over and touches (killing) her.
From the Death Lives, Family Guy episode.
Oh, the cake is real. I'm not sure about the frosting though.
Won't somebody think of the lock makers!
I knew I forgot one.