I don't understand? If he/she needed a tampon and managed to buy one with help of advertising on google, how did he/she loose? In your example IMO everyone won.
I haven't extensively used Win8, but I've tried it for a while and the thing that is the most frustrating about the new UI whatever it is called this week is the dual nature of it. If Metro can be used just as a start menu, that's fine for it, but having desktop applications and metro applications side-by-side or well, on top of each other kind of made me feel lost. I'm sure I could get used to this, but it isn't a good UI because the metro and desktop are so far philosophically from each other. I think I could even feel more comfortable with ALL windows running full screen than having a desktop feel like it's just one metro application.
The next version will also include a directional EMP device that will automatically fire at the drone. Too bad, if the Rotax it hears is a manned ultralight.
VAG cars have windows that can be opened by remote. Holding the open door locks button will roll down all the windows and holding the lock doors button will close them. Problem solved for Audi, Skoda, Seat and Volkswagen. And maybe Bugatti.
My first thought on the first picture "A rendering of a future version of the crash-proof AirBurr, navigating a disaster site" was if that's the way things look after it has done its navigating.
I don't think statistics work like that.
If a single tire has a 5% chance of failing in 50000 miles doesn't mean that if you have 20 tires, one will fail in 50000 miles. Each of them still has individually just 5% chance of failing.
Isn't it the other way around? The illiterate masses think that 1 GB is 0.9313 Gigabytes, while 1 GB really is 10^9 bytes and 1 GiB is 2^30 bytes, so the conclusion is that 1 GiB is the capacity you (and lots of software) are mistakenly refering to as 1 GB.
This is the way I see it. Besides, I like the fact that in the normal scenario where I'm assessing wether some chunk of data will fit the free space I can easily convert the units in my head. Will a file the size with reported size of 3221225473 fit reported free space of 3.0 gigabytes?
There are enough fingers for that. Except when we realize that we can calculate in base 2 and easily change the result to octal, we could use fingers for binary calculations.
I switched completely to Chrome soon after I got a new laptop and switched clients to one that doesn't require me to use IE or Firefox. On Win7 on an i7 with 8GB of memory, Firefox still is constantly saying "Not Responding" on the top of the window. Well, it's probably Windows that is actually saying it, but it really means it and I really can't take it. And no extensions.
> The most efficient aircraft are gliders. Even they require a lot of power to maintain flight.
But since the gliders maintain flight after takeoff just by using thermals, they could actually be called solar powered flight.
Though, I have no idea how to calculate how much power they consume when climbing in a thermal, so I cannot really judge wether they require a lot of power or not to maintain flight.
Well, at least on my Galaxy S, I upload photos to FB through m.facebook.com, just because it works better (faster and more reliable) than the Android FB App.
True. I run into email validation problems constantly. I have a two-part first name that has "-" in the middle, so my firstname.lastname email addresses (usually work addresses) always have a "-". In addition at the moment I'm a consultant in a large company, where they put "ext-" in front of everyone who is not employed by them but works for them and has an email account from them. I also often run into problems with length, because my name is 19 characters and the last place I worked for had a 15 character company name and when you add TLD to that, you sum to an email address that is 39 characters long, which for some seems to be too much. I really don't get why you would use only 32 characters to store an email address..
This problem very often bites in name fields, too, that don't accept "-" and two capital letters in my first name.
And I used to live near a border of two cities, where my postal address was from one city while my real city of residence was the other one. I have had a lot of problems with that, when the guys who made the systems were trying to deduce my city of residence from my postal address. Which is also impossible in my country, because the national post office also permits addresses that have postalnumber + company (instead of city) for large companies who take their mail in one place and deliver it themselves the rest of the way.
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Having it work on microbes takes the phrase "my battery just died" to a new level.
BSON is more efficient!
Because it's binary. Binary is good.
I don't understand? If he/she needed a tampon and managed to buy one with help of advertising on google, how did he/she loose? In your example IMO everyone won.
I haven't extensively used Win8, but I've tried it for a while and the thing that is the most frustrating about the new UI whatever it is called this week is the dual nature of it. If Metro can be used just as a start menu, that's fine for it, but having desktop applications and metro applications side-by-side or well, on top of each other kind of made me feel lost. I'm sure I could get used to this, but it isn't a good UI because the metro and desktop are so far philosophically from each other. I think I could even feel more comfortable with ALL windows running full screen than having a desktop feel like it's just one metro application.
The next version will also include a directional EMP device that will automatically fire at the drone. Too bad, if the Rotax it hears is a manned ultralight.
Fire your (directional) EMP generator at the drone, of course.
VAG cars have windows that can be opened by remote. Holding the open door locks button will roll down all the windows and holding the lock doors button will close them. Problem solved for Audi, Skoda, Seat and Volkswagen. And maybe Bugatti.
Well, it is very cold above 30 thousand feet and the Turkeys are struggling not to freeze up there.
Replied already to an earlier comment, but my first thought really was "that's what things look like after it has done its navigating"
My first thought on the first picture "A rendering of a future version of the crash-proof AirBurr, navigating a disaster site" was if that's the way things look after it has done its navigating.
I don't think statistics work like that. If a single tire has a 5% chance of failing in 50000 miles doesn't mean that if you have 20 tires, one will fail in 50000 miles. Each of them still has individually just 5% chance of failing.
Q: "Why climb Mount Everest?" A: "Because it is there."
Sometimes also in form of "Because I can", which is almost equivalent
The car was equipped for disabled drivers, which is skillfully omitted from this story. The controls are not like the ones we are used to. And the driver was also disabled. http://www.inquisitr.com/523747/125-mph-no-brakes-disabled-driver-stuck-in-runaway-car/
Isn't it the other way around? The illiterate masses think that 1 GB is 0.9313 Gigabytes, while 1 GB really is 10^9 bytes and 1 GiB is 2^30 bytes, so the conclusion is that 1 GiB is the capacity you (and lots of software) are mistakenly refering to as 1 GB.
This is the way I see it. Besides, I like the fact that in the normal scenario where I'm assessing wether some chunk of data will fit the free space I can easily convert the units in my head. Will a file the size with reported size of 3221225473 fit reported free space of 3.0 gigabytes?
Funny how everyone knows pretty much what the manufacturers mean by their giga and still is complaining that they are being ripped off.
What next? I didn't get the amount of free space stated on the cover of the box after I formatted the disk with a file system?
Octal would be nice.
There are enough fingers for that. Except when we realize that we can calculate in base 2 and easily change the result to octal, we could use fingers for binary calculations.
I switched completely to Chrome soon after I got a new laptop and switched clients to one that doesn't require me to use IE or Firefox. On Win7 on an i7 with 8GB of memory, Firefox still is constantly saying "Not Responding" on the top of the window. Well, it's probably Windows that is actually saying it, but it really means it and I really can't take it. And no extensions.
That's how I use Win7. Except it keeps my desktop visible.
> The most efficient aircraft are gliders. Even they require a lot of power to maintain flight.
But since the gliders maintain flight after takeoff just by using thermals, they could actually be called solar powered flight.
Though, I have no idea how to calculate how much power they consume when climbing in a thermal, so I cannot really judge wether they require a lot of power or not to maintain flight.
This exotic matter that you speak of is of course melange?
Well, at least on my Galaxy S, I upload photos to FB through m.facebook.com, just because it works better (faster and more reliable) than the Android FB App.
And in iPhone 5 they could make it go to 11. Which is one more.
True. I run into email validation problems constantly. I have a two-part first name that has "-" in the middle, so my firstname.lastname email addresses (usually work addresses) always have a "-". In addition at the moment I'm a consultant in a large company, where they put "ext-" in front of everyone who is not employed by them but works for them and has an email account from them. I also often run into problems with length, because my name is 19 characters and the last place I worked for had a 15 character company name and when you add TLD to that, you sum to an email address that is 39 characters long, which for some seems to be too much. I really don't get why you would use only 32 characters to store an email address..
This problem very often bites in name fields, too, that don't accept "-" and two capital letters in my first name.
And I used to live near a border of two cities, where my postal address was from one city while my real city of residence was the other one. I have had a lot of problems with that, when the guys who made the systems were trying to deduce my city of residence from my postal address. Which is also impossible in my country, because the national post office also permits addresses that have postalnumber + company (instead of city) for large companies who take their mail in one place and deliver it themselves the rest of the way.
I take a different route. I don't have adblock installed. If a site has annoying ads (that you refer to), I choose not to use the site.
He was probably needing them for "some old instruments" that use floppies but are in no way pc's.