How many ounces in a pound, how many pounds in a hundredweight, how many pounds in a ton? None of those numbers ends in zero...all are a pain to convert.
It's called "wood". You get it by chopping up those big leafy things in forests... what are they called? Oh, "trees". Google has some pictures of them.
Or, I dunno, a small netbook and a USB-to-serial cable. They're hardly massive.
It's not like you don't know in advance when you're going to need a terminal. If you can remember to bring that massive dongle thing along you can remember a netbook.
If you want to be an important consumer brand then it's important, yes. You want people to go around saying "have you seen THIS???" and the other person to reply "Dude, that's awesome!!!"
I'm sure Microsoft also has mapping but I've never used it - Google already had me.
Microsoft probably also wants me to install something called "Silverlight" before I can even use it. What's that all about? Oh, yes, it's another cheap attempt to lock me into Windows or something.
Microsoft's political machinations are also helping to keep them out of the market. I imagine many places won't/can't install Silverlight (whatever that is) when Google maps works with plain AJAX/Flash. Why install yet another security/maintenance headache on everybody's machine?
If the problem with cards was that people were swiping their friend's cards, and the problem with fingerprints is that they're faking them, then the problem seems to be a social one.
As noted, there's no technical solution that will keep motivated teenagers at bay.
When was the last time you saw something from Microsoft that made your jaw drop?
Remember the first time you saw Google Earth? Remember the first time you saw your house on Google Street View? The iPhone...?
When did Microsoft last produce that effect on anybody? For me I think it was maybe Windows 95. You'd have to be a really sad specimen to get excited over Windows 7 or the Office Ribbon.
MIDI also has a "through" wiring on the ports so you can connect multiple machines together and any machine can talk to any other. You can't really do that with RS232.
Atari STs could also run the midi at a higher clock speed if you wanted to (4x MIDI speed I think, or was it 8x...) Many people used this as a cheap way of networking machines together.
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How many ounces in a pound, how many pounds in a hundredweight, how many pounds in a ton? None of those numbers ends in zero...all are a pain to convert.
How does "America" define the pound...?
I used to use an HP200LX for that.
I've still got it somewhere, haven't switched it on for a while though.
The iPhone battery would probably die before you got far enough away to need 3G to connect to it.
What we really need is a moderation for eight minutes of video with only ten interesting seconds in it.
It's called "wood". You get it by chopping up those big leafy things in forests... what are they called? Oh, "trees". Google has some pictures of them.
Or, I dunno, a small netbook and a USB-to-serial cable. They're hardly massive.
It's not like you don't know in advance when you're going to need a terminal. If you can remember to bring that massive dongle thing along you can remember a netbook.
Just don't microwave any popcorn while you're watching the movie...
Well, at least we found out why Oracle bought Java...
If you want to be an important consumer brand then it's important, yes. You want people to go around saying "have you seen THIS???" and the other person to reply "Dude, that's awesome!!!"
I'm sure Microsoft also has mapping but I've never used it - Google already had me.
Microsoft probably also wants me to install something called "Silverlight" before I can even use it. What's that all about? Oh, yes, it's another cheap attempt to lock me into Windows or something.
Microsoft's political machinations are also helping to keep them out of the market. I imagine many places won't/can't install Silverlight (whatever that is) when Google maps works with plain AJAX/Flash. Why install yet another security/maintenance headache on everybody's machine?
They invented all that, not some Japanese guy.
(If the show isn't a trick...)
When I was at school we had to sit in a room and the teacher would read out a list of names and you had to say "here!".
So... you do what Mythbusters did and make a thin gel fingerprint and stick it to your real finger. You'll have temperature, heartbeat, everything.
It's an unsupervised machine and input sensors can *always* be fooled. Period.
If the problem with cards was that people were swiping their friend's cards, and the problem with fingerprints is that they're faking them, then the problem seems to be a social one.
As noted, there's no technical solution that will keep motivated teenagers at bay.
$524 million probably doesn't even cover the Xbox returns/recalls.
When was the last time you saw something from Microsoft that made your jaw drop?
Remember the first time you saw Google Earth? Remember the first time you saw your house on Google Street View? The iPhone...?
When did Microsoft last produce that effect on anybody? For me I think it was maybe Windows 95. You'd have to be a really sad specimen to get excited over Windows 7 or the Office Ribbon.
On complex software, sure ... but this is a fixed-function machine with a couple of input screens containing a bunch of checkboxes.
There's probably only a couple of dozen possible code paths in the user interface.
These machines aren't running office suites with millions of variables and working on unknown sources of data.
They perform one function and follow a linear sequence of events.
But you know your stocks are worthless and he's paying 100 times too much for them, right?
Sure they have settings to make it impossible to play but where's the fun in that?
MIDI also has a "through" wiring on the ports so you can connect multiple machines together and any machine can talk to any other. You can't really do that with RS232.
Atari STs could also run the midi at a higher clock speed if you wanted to (4x MIDI speed I think, or was it 8x...) Many people used this as a cheap way of networking machines together.
Riiiiight. Nobody ever noticed this during testing, got it.
I suppose you believe that painting lead bricks with gold paint and selling them as gold ingots is Ok, too?
It's all just "knowledge differential"...
Fixed that for ya. The word you wanted was "money".
You really don't see a problem...?
If you know your stocks are worthless and the other guy doesn't then it's fraud, simple as that.