Why do you need the computer you posted that on? Ridiculous argument. At root you don't 'need' anything more than enough food to keep you alive and some basic shelter from the elements (may even be optional depending on the climate.)
my laptop PC will drain the batteries if left unused for a week or so, while my powermac will not.
Your PC is probably only going to Standby (S3, suspend to RAM, RAM is still on and drawing power) while your Mac is going to Hibernate after an initial period in standby (S4, suspend to disk, everything is powered off.)
Hibernate is simply "off", there is zero power consumption.
This is all configurable, you could have your PC behave in the same way. I have heard anecdotal evidence that Macs are a bit better at this; XP is quite good but my own XP laptop can still sometimes fail to come back from either standby or hibernate. As Apple is in control of the hardware you might expect better performance in this area.
...final order was bike, boat, public transport and last- car. So they are pretending to bemoan that Top Gear is ruined by this (it's rush hour in London, they knew well the car wouldn't be winning.) But back in the studio they then joke that the film was misleading and the boat blew up, Richard Hammond flew off his bike onto a railing and that the car actually won.
Thanks, and what might explain why they picked a charity for diabetes?
I don't know why they picked diabetes; I was explaining the comment about why they should have chosen Friends of the Earth. Clarkson is a notorious anti-environmentalist. A lot of what he says and does is posturing - he's deliberately offensive to goad a reaction out of people, but there is a certain segment of the British public that laps up anything the man says as gospel (a segment not unlike the rednecks mentioned above;-)
On the flip side, a recent episode of Top Gear featured the presenters in a race across London- by car, bicycle, public transport, and speedboat on the Thames. Of course the bike won...
Any explanation for those of us across the Atlantic from all things Limey?
Clarkson presents Top Gear, a very popular BBC motoring show, and is well known for his skepticism of all things hippie or environmental.
You may appreciate his views on America (choice quote 'when being chased by a gang of rednecks': "I honestly believe that in certain parts of America now, people have started to mate with vegetables.")
...which actually takes precedence over member states' national law in cases of conflict. It also makes up over 50% of codified law in most, possibly all member states. Whether you like it or not is another matter; that is the way it is.
...mistyped addresses. The operators of the root servers for the TLD are in the best position to provide this. They do not need to see every request. Cybersquatters would be very interested in registering these domains for crappy stuff like this.
...which has existed, with it's juries, for centuries before the Founding Fathers and the US Constitution, even for that matter before America was discovered.
Not that I disagree with your points otherwise mind.
Check out the pictures as mentioned in the summary. I'm sure it's a much easier problem probably basically solved, but I was also impressed by the finish, you'd have to look very closely to even notice that these are prosthetics at all (gallery shows both skeletal and finished/covered limbs.) Which of of these two hands is bionic? That they actually work too is amazing, I'm not surprised by the wide grins in all the photos.
...mobile internet is not going to see _widespread_ consumer adoption until the prices come down. They are currently set at a ridiculous rate only "business" is willing to pay. It's really mainly a data transfer pricing issue at this stage, the web is perfectly usable on many modern mobile gadgets. This is definately going to take off, but only when the prices come down, and right now the operators are afraid of losing the revenue from the overpriced services they are offering to businesses (broadband was in the exact same position a few years ago.)
...I know I've ripped wide-ankled trousers more than once because I didn't roll them up or use clips. So yes, absolutely, it is a risk. An alternative is to tuck the trouser bottoms into your socks. I can only presume that people who don't see the need exclusively wear narrow-ankled trousers (or don't cycle much!)
If they think ClearType's psychedelic colours are great, they shouldn't be complaining about the dithering.
If you're seeing psychedelic colours with ClearType you either have it configured wrong for your LCD (e.g. wrong RGB subpixel ordering) -or you're not using an LCD in the first place. It will indeed do the psychedelics on a CRT. In my experience it even looks great with LCDs connected through an analogue VGA, never mind a digital connection.
In the case of a 6-bit LCD panel, I would have presumed it was the panel hardware was doing the dithering, and certainly not the operating system.
Is it possible that what they think is a Windows superiority in this regard is due to ClearType, which is tangentially related (e.g. OS-based sub-pixel dithering of text only, with the aim of simulating a resoltion increase rather than a colour one.)
...unless you are referring to the fact that Irish whiskey has an 'e' unlike Scotch "whisky" not quite sure what you're getting at - written references to Irish whiskey predate Scotch by almost a century.
...euroskeptics agree as much as anyone that the EU is first a common market. As such I think there is a benefit of an.eu name for a company that serves primarily the EU (often with the addition of EFTA countries) - and such pan-european retailers are on the rise.
Work still has to be done here on several fronts to get to a similar open market like the US - delivery, even simple willingness to serve the entire EU, and yes, a common currency. But even as things are I've been buying from all over the last few years (Germany, France, Norway, UK) and I appreciate the extra choice and lower prices.
I guess you don't consider Google, IBM, Apple or Microsoft to be serious companies then.
Interesting tidbit though - this Autonomy patent is a US one, they wouldn't get a patent on this in their own home country of the UK, where software patents are (currently) not allowed.
...just like it doesn't catch you burning a CD and giving it to your friend physically. Or the Scouts singing "Happy Birthday."
However it may well do what it is designed to do, finding copyright infringement on the web. Autonomy are a serious company working on pattern recognition, not some fly-by-night cowboys. This copyright-finding thing would just be a side application of their core technology.
...just google for "3G auctions." AFAIK the total recovered by governments from sale of the 3G spectrum was substantially higher in Europe than the US (One 2001 source quotes $190bn for Europe vs $17bn for the US.)
I design internal software for users that are largely computer-illiterate...and yet you expect these people to write high quality accurate software specs. Why?
Parent is exactly right, it _is_ your job. But even then, if you need specs, they are for your own use. There is no point writing thick specification documents for the users as even if they are accurate, they will not be read/understood by the people you are writing the software for.
So prototype. Start off with a paper based mock-up as sibling poster suggests, and follow up with a complete click through GUI before you write any code. Run through this with them and make sure it is what they need before you actually write the software.
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Why do you need the computer you posted that on? Ridiculous argument. At root you don't 'need' anything more than enough food to keep you alive and some basic shelter from the elements (may even be optional depending on the climate.)
...I also found this, a machine that produces shit.
Hibernate is simply "off", there is zero power consumption.
This is all configurable, you could have your PC behave in the same way. I have heard anecdotal evidence that Macs are a bit better at this; XP is quite good but my own XP laptop can still sometimes fail to come back from either standby or hibernate. As Apple is in control of the hardware you might expect better performance in this area.
...final order was bike, boat, public transport and last- car. So they are pretending to bemoan that Top Gear is ruined by this (it's rush hour in London, they knew well the car wouldn't be winning.) But back in the studio they then joke that the film was misleading and the boat blew up, Richard Hammond flew off his bike onto a railing and that the car actually won.
On the flip side, a recent episode of Top Gear featured the presenters in a race across London- by car, bicycle, public transport, and speedboat on the Thames. Of course the bike won...
You may appreciate his views on America (choice quote 'when being chased by a gang of rednecks': "I honestly believe that in certain parts of America now, people have started to mate with vegetables.")
...which actually takes precedence over member states' national law in cases of conflict. It also makes up over 50% of codified law in most, possibly all member states. Whether you like it or not is another matter; that is the way it is.
...mistyped addresses. The operators of the root servers for the TLD are in the best position to provide this. They do not need to see every request. Cybersquatters would be very interested in registering these domains for crappy stuff like this.
...which has existed, with it's juries, for centuries before the Founding Fathers and the US Constitution, even for that matter before America was discovered.
Not that I disagree with your points otherwise mind.
...to a man on the moon within the space of only 12 years. Just shows you what is possible.
The Vatican has been a very important centre for astronomical research since well before the space race. A Catholic priest developed the Big Bang theory. The Vatican accepts the reality of evolution and has criticised the American movement to teach "Intelligent Design" in science classes.
Things have changed since 1633 you know (and no, I am not a Catholic.) Maybe you thinking of some other denomination?
Check out the pictures as mentioned in the summary. I'm sure it's a much easier problem probably basically solved, but I was also impressed by the finish, you'd have to look very closely to even notice that these are prosthetics at all (gallery shows both skeletal and finished/covered limbs.) Which of of these two hands is bionic? That they actually work too is amazing, I'm not surprised by the wide grins in all the photos.
...mobile internet is not going to see _widespread_ consumer adoption until the prices come down. They are currently set at a ridiculous rate only "business" is willing to pay. It's really mainly a data transfer pricing issue at this stage, the web is perfectly usable on many modern mobile gadgets. This is definately going to take off, but only when the prices come down, and right now the operators are afraid of losing the revenue from the overpriced services they are offering to businesses (broadband was in the exact same position a few years ago.)
The original mastering equipment used videotape.
...I know I've ripped wide-ankled trousers more than once because I didn't roll them up or use clips. So yes, absolutely, it is a risk. An alternative is to tuck the trouser bottoms into your socks. I can only presume that people who don't see the need exclusively wear narrow-ankled trousers (or don't cycle much!)
If they think ClearType's psychedelic colours are great, they shouldn't be complaining about the dithering.
If you're seeing psychedelic colours with ClearType you either have it configured wrong for your LCD (e.g. wrong RGB subpixel ordering) -or you're not using an LCD in the first place. It will indeed do the psychedelics on a CRT. In my experience it even looks great with LCDs connected through an analogue VGA, never mind a digital connection.
In the case of a 6-bit LCD panel, I would have presumed it was the panel hardware was doing the dithering, and certainly not the operating system.
Is it possible that what they think is a Windows superiority in this regard is due to ClearType, which is tangentially related (e.g. OS-based sub-pixel dithering of text only, with the aim of simulating a resoltion increase rather than a colour one.)
...unless you are referring to the fact that Irish whiskey has an 'e' unlike Scotch "whisky" not quite sure what you're getting at - written references to Irish whiskey predate Scotch by almost a century.
Me, give me a decent German champagne any time...
...euroskeptics agree as much as anyone that the EU is first a common market. As such I think there is a benefit of an .eu name for a company that serves primarily the EU (often with the addition of EFTA countries) - and such pan-european retailers are on the rise.
Work still has to be done here on several fronts to get to a similar open market like the US - delivery, even simple willingness to serve the entire EU, and yes, a common currency. But even as things are I've been buying from all over the last few years (Germany, France, Norway, UK) and I appreciate the extra choice and lower prices.
I guess you don't consider Google, IBM, Apple or Microsoft to be serious companies then.
Interesting tidbit though - this Autonomy patent is a US one, they wouldn't get a patent on this in their own home country of the UK, where software patents are (currently) not allowed.
...just like it doesn't catch you burning a CD and giving it to your friend physically. Or the Scouts singing "Happy Birthday."
However it may well do what it is designed to do, finding copyright infringement on the web. Autonomy are a serious company working on pattern recognition, not some fly-by-night cowboys. This copyright-finding thing would just be a side application of their core technology.
...just google for "3G auctions." AFAIK the total recovered by governments from sale of the 3G spectrum was substantially higher in Europe than the US (One 2001 source quotes $190bn for Europe vs $17bn for the US.)
...Dell, HP, etc. Dell even offers Linux on This article is about Linux _desktops_.
I design internal software for users that are largely computer-illiterate ...and yet you expect these people to write high quality accurate software specs. Why?
Parent is exactly right, it _is_ your job. But even then, if you need specs, they are for your own use. There is no point writing thick specification documents for the users as even if they are accurate, they will not be read/understood by the people you are writing the software for.
So prototype. Start off with a paper based mock-up as sibling poster suggests, and follow up with a complete click through GUI before you write any code. Run through this with them and make sure it is what they need before you actually write the software.
...as you rightly suspect.