Counterpoint: Apple quite shamelessly claimed to have invented cellphone video chat, although it had been established in Europe for so long that it had become a vestigial feature on almost every phone.
Good question. Carriers and other phone manufacturers are keen to say that HSPA+ (which the iPhone supports) is 4G but the article is explicitly about LTE (which the iPhone doesn't have).
The author designed some of the instruments on Venera, in fact. I can find several articles by him in the aformentioned journal but nothing that suggests "aliens".
Just to clear up my other post, Metro UI on the Xbox is basically the old Blades with a facelift, and Metro UI on the PC is just a graphical style for big, simple, touch-friendly icons. I don't think either is going to drive people to try it out on the phone where it is genuinely effective at summarising information and letting you get things done.
I'm not sure they're really pushing the Windows Phone UI. They're certainly pushing the Metro UI look, but the interface on the Xbox is so far from the ideas incorporated into WP7 (the information density on the Xbox is very, very low) that I'm not sure they know what they're doing well enough to get any sort of "synergy" going.
It was a great plan, but Nokia simply did not execute. They needed to start delivering on that plan in 2009. Qt was supposed to be a stopgap between 2008-era Symbian and 2010-era Meego, right? Well, they didn't start shipping Qt on phones until 2010. The stopgap was two years late. And then the first Meego device appeared in 2011! Software development on Nokia devices was dead as a doornail long before Elop became involved.
To put that in a clearer context, Elop was an outsider that the Nokia board hired precisely because they understood their own ignorance about the situation and needed someone willing to make changes. Promoting from the same board that's been screwing up RIM for the past half-decade is a mistake.
Union actions are public knowledge. Whatever benefits the union gains are slightly counterbalanced by businesses' responses and negative reactions from the public and politicians. Corporate agreements are not public. Someone looking to be hired by one of these companies cannot use it to their advantage in the decision-making process, and they avoid any public reaction.
If they want to make these "corporate unions" public they're welcome to have them, but the clandestine nature of the agreements makes it obvious that they already know that there'd be hell to pay.
I was merely observing that there is a distinction to be made between feelings and speech. The OP claimed the former was under attack, but the issue at hand is entirely to do with the latter.
Your freedoms end where other people begin. I mean, there's an incredibly obvious distinction to be made between me feeling that your post is sophomoric and inane, and me broadcasting the notion with a megaphone.
Frustratingly, the PNAS article isn't published yet, so it's impossible to assess how they came to their conclusions. Did the Beeb break embargo, or are the scientists actually doing the press release before the paper?
That's not what pandemic means. (A flu which affects a wide area and makes people sick is just regular old seasonal flu.) A pandemic is an epidemic of a single flu strain which occurs on a global scale.
Galvanic corrosion can occur whenever two dissimilar metals meet and are provided with an electrolyte, so you might want to be careful about that. I wouldn't get anything with a copper heat sink wet, for example.
It's restricted by the Xbox 360's dodgy USB controller, not by the available bandwidth. And reportedly that's something that will be addressed in software.
You missed "If I'm going to use it in an unofficial capacity". If it's a prerequisite that he is going to get a Kinect, then he should get the subsidised one.
There's nothing stopping you using it on any other OS, however there is no SDK for those platforms, and therefore no expectation of compatibility. Hence, "Kinect for Windows".
I'm not sure what you mean by that. If you're thinking about the "Kinect" port on the new Xboxes, it's truncated so that normal USB devices won't fit, but the corresponding Kinect plug will fit into a normal USB port.
Actually, he does mean "control the aircraft directly". UAVs are piloted in real time on a system that wouldn't look particularly alient to a flight sim nut.
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I guess any little thing can spark a fire.
Only when you have enough fuel. Which in this case is probably a metaphor for workplace resentment.
Counterpoint: Apple quite shamelessly claimed to have invented cellphone video chat, although it had been established in Europe for so long that it had become a vestigial feature on almost every phone.
Good question. Carriers and other phone manufacturers are keen to say that HSPA+ (which the iPhone supports) is 4G but the article is explicitly about LTE (which the iPhone doesn't have).
The sun is responsible for the heating. The dense atmosphere is responsible for keeping the heat in. Like, y'know, a greenhouse.
Or did you think that the atmosphere was dense enough to undergo nuclear fusion and release heat, or something?
The author designed some of the instruments on Venera, in fact. I can find several articles by him in the aformentioned journal but nothing that suggests "aliens".
http://www.springerlink.com/content/0038-0946/?k=Ksanfomaliti
Digging back to the original source gets "Solar System Research". Seems like a legit journal:
http://www.maik.ru/cgi-perl/journal.pl?name=solsys&page=main
Just to clear up my other post, Metro UI on the Xbox is basically the old Blades with a facelift, and Metro UI on the PC is just a graphical style for big, simple, touch-friendly icons. I don't think either is going to drive people to try it out on the phone where it is genuinely effective at summarising information and letting you get things done.
I'm not sure they're really pushing the Windows Phone UI. They're certainly pushing the Metro UI look, but the interface on the Xbox is so far from the ideas incorporated into WP7 (the information density on the Xbox is very, very low) that I'm not sure they know what they're doing well enough to get any sort of "synergy" going.
It was a great plan, but Nokia simply did not execute. They needed to start delivering on that plan in 2009. Qt was supposed to be a stopgap between 2008-era Symbian and 2010-era Meego, right? Well, they didn't start shipping Qt on phones until 2010. The stopgap was two years late. And then the first Meego device appeared in 2011! Software development on Nokia devices was dead as a doornail long before Elop became involved.
To put that in a clearer context, Elop was an outsider that the Nokia board hired precisely because they understood their own ignorance about the situation and needed someone willing to make changes. Promoting from the same board that's been screwing up RIM for the past half-decade is a mistake.
That is why there would be hell to pay.
No they aren't.
Union actions are public knowledge. Whatever benefits the union gains are slightly counterbalanced by businesses' responses and negative reactions from the public and politicians. Corporate agreements are not public. Someone looking to be hired by one of these companies cannot use it to their advantage in the decision-making process, and they avoid any public reaction.
If they want to make these "corporate unions" public they're welcome to have them, but the clandestine nature of the agreements makes it obvious that they already know that there'd be hell to pay.
I was merely observing that there is a distinction to be made between feelings and speech. The OP claimed the former was under attack, but the issue at hand is entirely to do with the latter.
Your freedoms end where other people begin. I mean, there's an incredibly obvious distinction to be made between me feeling that your post is sophomoric and inane, and me broadcasting the notion with a megaphone.
Frustratingly, the PNAS article isn't published yet, so it's impossible to assess how they came to their conclusions. Did the Beeb break embargo, or are the scientists actually doing the press release before the paper?
That's not what pandemic means. (A flu which affects a wide area and makes people sick is just regular old seasonal flu.) A pandemic is an epidemic of a single flu strain which occurs on a global scale.
Don't make me define "epidemic" for you.
When there is no current, electronics are inert.
Galvanic corrosion can occur whenever two dissimilar metals meet and are provided with an electrolyte, so you might want to be careful about that. I wouldn't get anything with a copper heat sink wet, for example.
It's restricted by the Xbox 360's dodgy USB controller, not by the available bandwidth. And reportedly that's something that will be addressed in software.
You missed "If I'm going to use it in an unofficial capacity". If it's a prerequisite that he is going to get a Kinect, then he should get the subsidised one.
There's nothing stopping you using it on any other OS, however there is no SDK for those platforms, and therefore no expectation of compatibility. Hence, "Kinect for Windows".
"let's assume only half of those are USB units"
I'm not sure what you mean by that. If you're thinking about the "Kinect" port on the new Xboxes, it's truncated so that normal USB devices won't fit, but the corresponding Kinect plug will fit into a normal USB port.
There's some debate about whether "B" or "b" means "bits". I see you prefer the "small b means small quantity" convention.
Actually, he does mean "control the aircraft directly". UAVs are piloted in real time on a system that wouldn't look particularly alient to a flight sim nut.
I am not sure that any amount of Lego tires would fit onto a full-sized car. People, do not replace your spare with a trunk full of Lego ones.