"...and the use of Windows on nuclear submarines" Talk about your Blue Screen of Death
It could be worse:
Sub Commander: "Enemy vessel has locked on and fired anti-sub missile. Impact in 10 seconds. Immediate Anti-missile counter-strike authorised. Target enemy vessel with Tomahawk."
Sub operator: "Incoming target acquired and locked on. Tomahawk ready for launch authorisation."
Computer: "Automatic update has replaced current program with I.E 8 as default. Computer re-booting. This will take 30 seconds"
Sub crew: "S**t!"
This is where Clippy would be reassuring and helpful, is in a situation like this.
and a user enters commands by tracing patterns with his finger on a surface of the touchpad. No immediate visual feedback is provided as a command pattern is traced, and the user does not need to view the device to enter commands.
Is it just me, or does 'tapping' not constitute 'tracing patterns with his/her finger'?
Gestures? Visual feedback is immediate (zooming, scrolling, rotations, etc)
The team's goal is to build an all-electric car with similar performance capabilities of gasoline-only counterparts, which includes a top speed of about 161 kph, a family sedan capacity, a range of about 320 kilometers and the ability to recharge in about 10 minutes. They hope to complete the project, which they chronicle on their blog, by the third quarter of 2010
Law is sometimes like code, in that it can create unexpected and unintended behaviors when executed literally. It's not stupid, IMO... It's a sign that we need better law.
Does anyone outside of Microsoft use Silverlight? Seriously? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? I thought not. Stop giving Microsoft press every time they "update" their shitty little plugin that no one cares about, and let it die.
It is my hope they will reproduce the aesthetic they put into their Google Chat client. Very clean iface, no extra clutter anywhere. No clownish rainbow logo. Not ugly at all.
I hope they will not forget performance...maybe the ARM systems will deliver on this.
Perhaps someone can inform me on this topic, but I am under the impression that ARM is not going to offer this performance in situations where lots of floating-point ops are required.
The thing is that security is no better now than it was before 9/11. People can still sneak things onto airplanes. In fact, the last two times I have flown, I have, entirely by accident, smuggled two knives onto an airplane. Note that these were simply a "multitool"-type knife that I use for taking computers apart when I have no other tools available, but they were still knives, still not allowed, and still, according the DHS, a security risk. Yet twice TSA screeners missed it. I myself didn't even realize it was stuck in my usual carry on (I won't say how or why it was missed because that information can be misused) -- I thought it was lost. But what if I had been a terrorist, fully aware of the knife?
I was traveling with a stop over in Chicago a few years back. In my bag was a hand-made Nepali singing bowl (a musical instrument). Mind you, it was quite large and took up most of the bag, and is made of an alloy of 5 types of metal. The first time I went through security nobody noticed it. Then I went back outside for a smoke and had to go through security again. *This* time the scanner guy watching his little TV waved his arms frantically for all the other securty to run over and check out the bag. They were freaked out and furious. I told them it was a musical instrument and even gave them a demonstration of how it worked.
Just as they were letting me leave/proceed, I told them, "oh yeah, the first time I went through here, not one eyebrow was raised". Then I got to see them all gallop back to the little TV sets in anger.
With all the hoops he's making people jump through to send in code, I'd say they've got a world of problems over there. Count out Drizzle as the MySQL fork that rises to the top.
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What the hell are they thinking?
If indeed it is true, I will answer by saying, they weren't.
"...and the use of Windows on nuclear submarines" Talk about your Blue Screen of Death
It could be worse: Sub Commander: "Enemy vessel has locked on and fired anti-sub missile. Impact in 10 seconds. Immediate Anti-missile counter-strike authorised. Target enemy vessel with Tomahawk." Sub operator: "Incoming target acquired and locked on. Tomahawk ready for launch authorisation." Computer: "Automatic update has replaced current program with I.E 8 as default. Computer re-booting. This will take 30 seconds" Sub crew: "S**t!"
This is where Clippy would be reassuring and helpful, is in a situation like this.
Is it just me, or does 'tapping' not constitute 'tracing patterns with his/her finger'?
Gestures? Visual feedback is immediate (zooming, scrolling, rotations, etc)
How much will it cost?
What a shocker, Microsoft releases something using that dangerous viral license GPL. Well at least, dangerous and viral according to Microsoft.
[ a bit of reading on the topic for those who think GPL is viral ]
Best bagpipe analogy ever.
Indeed. However, due to lack of coffee, I cannot seem to grasp anything less than a car analogy.
Hah! Like Apple treats its iphone app developers ?
This is precisely why I abandoned iPhone development, and have embraced Android instead.
The Vogons must not be in today, or this would have been modded +5 insightful. :D
What's the current SMP/NOK exchange rate?
The same as the current SMP/ATD (Alterian Dollar) exchange rate. The problem here is the Vogons mod everything down except their own poetry.
I wish people would return to thinking with their heads, instead of with their attorneys.
:/
Or pay-for-download and/or pay-for-lookup service, and keep the site online.
In such a case, they would clearly need to change their SLD name, to not have the word 'free' in it.
This article says about 9 pieces fell off of the fuel tank and struck the shuttle.
It's not a bug. It's an undocumented feature.
.... and US people are simple minded. Any stereotype missing?
Simple minded? I thought we were just fat and lazy.
Law is sometimes like code, in that it can create unexpected and unintended behaviors when executed literally. It's not stupid, IMO... It's a sign that we need better law.
And better compile-time checks. :)
Does anyone outside of Microsoft use Silverlight? Seriously? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? I thought not. Stop giving Microsoft press every time they "update" their shitty little plugin that no one cares about, and let it die.
I wouldn't say that nobody uses it, exactly.
only outlaws will have umbrellas.
Relinquish your right to carry an umbrella. After all, if you carry an umbrella, you must have something to hide.
I can do it, at a paltry 14 million.
It is my hope they will reproduce the aesthetic they put into their Google Chat client. Very clean iface, no extra clutter anywhere. No clownish rainbow logo. Not ugly at all.
For how many years will the Chrome OS stay in beta? Place your bets.
How much did you get paid to post this ?
Is it just me or has that site gone down already?
WFM
I hope they will not forget performance...maybe the ARM systems will deliver on this.
Perhaps someone can inform me on this topic, but I am under the impression that ARM is not going to offer this performance in situations where lots of floating-point ops are required.
The thing is that security is no better now than it was before 9/11. People can still sneak things onto airplanes. In fact, the last two times I have flown, I have, entirely by accident, smuggled two knives onto an airplane. Note that these were simply a "multitool"-type knife that I use for taking computers apart when I have no other tools available, but they were still knives, still not allowed, and still, according the DHS, a security risk. Yet twice TSA screeners missed it. I myself didn't even realize it was stuck in my usual carry on (I won't say how or why it was missed because that information can be misused) -- I thought it was lost. But what if I had been a terrorist, fully aware of the knife?
I was traveling with a stop over in Chicago a few years back. In my bag was a hand-made Nepali singing bowl (a musical instrument). Mind you, it was quite large and took up most of the bag, and is made of an alloy of 5 types of metal. The first time I went through security nobody noticed it. Then I went back outside for a smoke and had to go through security again. *This* time the scanner guy watching his little TV waved his arms frantically for all the other securty to run over and check out the bag. They were freaked out and furious. I told them it was a musical instrument and even gave them a demonstration of how it worked. Just as they were letting me leave/proceed, I told them, "oh yeah, the first time I went through here, not one eyebrow was raised". Then I got to see them all gallop back to the little TV sets in anger.
Yes, hurry up with that.... so you can keep them in BETA for 5+ years afterwards. :p
With all the hoops he's making people jump through to send in code, I'd say they've got a world of problems over there. Count out Drizzle as the MySQL fork that rises to the top.
Perhaps it may 'drizzle' to the bottom.