as a frequent off road driver I think this would be a crappy device to have, very disorienting
You might be right as a frequent off-road driver - but as someone who occasionally drives off-road I would welcome it, as I get a really disconcerting feel when you come to the brow of a steep hill and all you can see in the windscreen is sky but you have to keep on driving until the car goes over the bump and you can see again.
Yes very much so. And VB.Net still puts people off because of that long history. Even though it's pretty much exactly the same functionality as C#. Last I checked, it has some features C# didn't have, the biggest of which is better background compiling. You can add entire classes with actually compiling your project, and Intellisense will work. Maybe C# will do that now, but VB.Net has basically always had this feature.
A developer who converted a lot of VB code from VB7 to.NET said that one difference with C# is that typing is more strictly enforced at compile time. After testing on a sample he discovered that porting to VB.NET was quicker, but converting to C# discovered some obscure bugs in the original code - some of which had work-arounds applied as they had ever been fully understood. We went for the port to C# with the result that the ported application was more stable than the original.
Thermal conductivity of water: approx 0.58
Thermal conductivity of copper: approx 401
The only reason to have water cooling in anything is to brag to your friends that you have water cooling. In reality, metal cooling works better.
Easy solution,
Run your CPU at over 1,085 C and use molten copper as a coolant
As a culture have improved our speed-reading skills? I don't see how this is a problem, especially as a student who can apply these concepts and skills to textbooks.
Disclaimer: I skimmed this summary and TFA may address this.
The summary makes it clear that the 'problem' is that the improved skim reading may come at the expense of in-depth reading.
this is for all the people who tell people to install linux rather than windows. it's more of an ideological thing than a desire to help.
I think often it is a desire to help by someone who misjudges the ability, desire to learn, and time someone is prepared to put towards solving a problem. I have heard people advise owners of old XP-based laptops to upgrade to linux because its free. The people giving the advice often enjoy tinkering, see time spent getting it working and learning the new interfaces as fun, pick up new tech easily, and assume that the others will be the same. The person receiving the advice may see the time spent as boring, difficult, and wish they'd bought a new copy of windows (or a new laptop) instead.
A quick search reveals http://www.noip.com/, and I'm sure they'll be more. Anyway isn't this supposed to be a stopgap before IPV6 means we can all have permanent static IPS?!
Didn't you get the memo? Your right to protest or have a contradictory view is only protected if it is accepted by a big enough mob or those in power.
Disagree? The IRS will be auditing you shortly...
Or if you are a privileged group - If he was a Muslim and he suggested that homosexuals should be killed (never mind just not get married) everyone would be falling over them selves to protect his right to believe this.
Advertisers are parasites, and the only reason they will ever give in to anything is if we threaten them with extinction otherwise.
I'm sort of playing devil's advocate here because I hate pop-up ads, but you could put up a pretty strong argument that people accessing free (advertising supported) sites with adblock are the parasites.
I don't know what the solution is. i wouldn't mind seeing a few unobtrusive adverts, particularly if they are relevant - but turn off adblock and you often get those annoying pop-up adverts that tell lies like "you computer is infected, click OK to quarantine the virus", or ones where hitting the close icon on the window launches a pop-up or download.
As a motorcycle rider, I always try to view the driver of the car in his side mirror. If I can see him, he should, in theory, be able to see me.
With the side mirrors removed, how am I going to tell if I'm out of the cars black spot?
One good thing about the cameras is that it will make it harder for those motorcycle traffic cops to deliberately place themselves in a blind spot to "keep an eye" on your driving. Not that I'm doing anything wrong but it makes me very nervous when I see a motorcycle come up behind then disappear except when I look over my shoulder - I think "what if I have to take evasive action?".
This is exactly correct. Plus, H1B visa holders are tied to the company that issues the visa. If they leave the company, they must return to their home country. Tech companies like Facebook like to have such indentured servants.
H1B visas serve only to drive down wages for US employees. Additionally, they end up training foreign talent that are later kicked out of the country (after 3 or 6 years, depending upon whether the visa is renewed). They don't help the nation's interests, nor the public's interest. They serve only to increase the profit margins of the large firms.
Get rid of the H1B, and increase the green card slots available to foreign workers, especially the Indians. I've very pro-immigrant, but the H1B visa only provides for indentured servitude.
I am seriously worried about the future of IT in the UK. A few years back we used to have half a dozen trainee graduate programmers a year. Now management outsources this work. The people who specify requirements, verify architecture, check for quality, etc are people who used to be trainee programmers a couple of decades ago. From what I have heard this is pretty typical for the industry. What will happen in a couple of decades time? Will we have to go to Indian companies for the whole system, specification, build, compliance, etc? They are the only ones with entry-level programmers gaining experience now, so it seems likely.
Slashdot Mirror
Recently both rear view cameras and sideview camera systems have been criticised as a bad idea by some here on Slashdot.
This Land Rover invisible hood system seems beyond criticism. But I'm sure slashdot naysayers will find an angle anyway. Go for it...
Just be prepared to have to constantly get out of your vehicle to clean all those different lenses, or else camera tech is useless.
I would hope there's be high-pressure water jets to do it for you.
as a frequent off road driver I think this would be a crappy device to have, very disorienting
You might be right as a frequent off-road driver - but as someone who occasionally drives off-road I would welcome it, as I get a really disconcerting feel when you come to the brow of a steep hill and all you can see in the windscreen is sky but you have to keep on driving until the car goes over the bump and you can see again.
Wouldn't think Ausies would be coy about debunking .. anything. I can just imagine it
Patient: J'a think that homeopathy would help?
Doctor: Nah, 'ts bollocks cobber - don't waste yu money
Option Strict is your friend.
I'm not a .net developer but from what i was told C# was stricter than "Option Strict" in VB.Net
Yes very much so. And VB.Net still puts people off because of that long history. Even though it's pretty much exactly the same functionality as C#. Last I checked, it has some features C# didn't have, the biggest of which is better background compiling. You can add entire classes with actually compiling your project, and Intellisense will work. Maybe C# will do that now, but VB.Net has basically always had this feature.
A developer who converted a lot of VB code from VB7 to .NET said that one difference with C# is that typing is more strictly enforced at compile time. After testing on a sample he discovered that porting to VB.NET was quicker, but converting to C# discovered some obscure bugs in the original code - some of which had work-arounds applied as they had ever been fully understood. We went for the port to C# with the result that the ported application was more stable than the original.
We've come a long way from the original BASIC to VisualBasic.NET, which is basically C# with a BASIC type syntax.
Just like Nuclear Fusion it will be commercially viable in 7-10 years...
Nuclear fusion is commercially available already, you just can't have your own reactor.
Thermal conductivity of water: approx 0.58 Thermal conductivity of copper: approx 401 The only reason to have water cooling in anything is to brag to your friends that you have water cooling. In reality, metal cooling works better.
Easy solution, Run your CPU at over 1,085 C and use molten copper as a coolant
that lying is the norm.
I told you before Yoda, leave poor Norm alone
That word doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.
He's developing brains in his fingers
As a culture have improved our speed-reading skills? I don't see how this is a problem, especially as a student who can apply these concepts and skills to textbooks. Disclaimer: I skimmed this summary and TFA may address this.
The summary makes it clear that the 'problem' is that the improved skim reading may come at the expense of in-depth reading.
this is for all the people who tell people to install linux rather than windows. it's more of an ideological thing than a desire to help.
I think often it is a desire to help by someone who misjudges the ability, desire to learn, and time someone is prepared to put towards solving a problem. I have heard people advise owners of old XP-based laptops to upgrade to linux because its free. The people giving the advice often enjoy tinkering, see time spent getting it working and learning the new interfaces as fun, pick up new tech easily, and assume that the others will be the same. The person receiving the advice may see the time spent as boring, difficult, and wish they'd bought a new copy of windows (or a new laptop) instead.
Permanent static IPs sound like a privacy nightmare, anyway.
but think of the time it will save the NSA
A quick search reveals http://www.noip.com/, and I'm sure they'll be more. Anyway isn't this supposed to be a stopgap before IPV6 means we can all have permanent static IPS?!
Office is a avery intricate application.
You're thinking of angry birds
Too long, didn't read.
I could do with a "+1 same here" rating
1-2 year min is the warranty time in most EU countries. 12 years of support for a product is already pretty good.
That's a good point - since it was last sold in 2010 they have done more than enough to cover their legal obligations.
This has been going on in most Western countries since before the internet, mainly in the 60s and 70s. America is just late to the game.
The graphs on this page illustrate this.
This has been going on in most Western countries since before the internet, mainly in the 60s and 70s. America is just late to the game.
Just imagine if a Muslim got hold of this info
Didn't you get the memo? Your right to protest or have a contradictory view is only protected if it is accepted by a big enough mob or those in power.
Disagree? The IRS will be auditing you shortly...
Or if you are a privileged group - If he was a Muslim and he suggested that homosexuals should be killed (never mind just not get married) everyone would be falling over them selves to protect his right to believe this.
Advertisers are parasites, and the only reason they will ever give in to anything is if we threaten them with extinction otherwise.
I'm sort of playing devil's advocate here because I hate pop-up ads, but you could put up a pretty strong argument that people accessing free (advertising supported) sites with adblock are the parasites.
I don't know what the solution is. i wouldn't mind seeing a few unobtrusive adverts, particularly if they are relevant - but turn off adblock and you often get those annoying pop-up adverts that tell lies like "you computer is infected, click OK to quarantine the virus", or ones where hitting the close icon on the window launches a pop-up or download.
As a motorcycle rider, I always try to view the driver of the car in his side mirror. If I can see him, he should, in theory, be able to see me. With the side mirrors removed, how am I going to tell if I'm out of the cars black spot?
One good thing about the cameras is that it will make it harder for those motorcycle traffic cops to deliberately place themselves in a blind spot to "keep an eye" on your driving. Not that I'm doing anything wrong but it makes me very nervous when I see a motorcycle come up behind then disappear except when I look over my shoulder - I think "what if I have to take evasive action?".
Uh, the Irish are British..
Uh...No, they are not.
Some are ..
This is exactly correct. Plus, H1B visa holders are tied to the company that issues the visa. If they leave the company, they must return to their home country. Tech companies like Facebook like to have such indentured servants.
H1B visas serve only to drive down wages for US employees. Additionally, they end up training foreign talent that are later kicked out of the country (after 3 or 6 years, depending upon whether the visa is renewed). They don't help the nation's interests, nor the public's interest. They serve only to increase the profit margins of the large firms.
Get rid of the H1B, and increase the green card slots available to foreign workers, especially the Indians. I've very pro-immigrant, but the H1B visa only provides for indentured servitude.
I am seriously worried about the future of IT in the UK. A few years back we used to have half a dozen trainee graduate programmers a year. Now management outsources this work. The people who specify requirements, verify architecture, check for quality, etc are people who used to be trainee programmers a couple of decades ago. From what I have heard this is pretty typical for the industry. What will happen in a couple of decades time? Will we have to go to Indian companies for the whole system, specification, build, compliance, etc? They are the only ones with entry-level programmers gaining experience now, so it seems likely.