Ahem, I suspect he is a little more tha noted. He holds the same chair as Sir Isaac Newton did at Cambridge University, worked out how black holes work and is probably the most famous scientist in the world. Even the article says:
I remember Input magazine had a competition to write a program for the BBC in 1 line of code (255 characters). The winner wrote a rotating ball program.
255 CHARACTERS!!! That was the Beeb alright. Best machine for learning coding. Also allowed you to try out assembly.
ermmm... the whole article is about apple ipod not playing flash. The apple ipod has some kind of windows manager (sorry don't know the exact details). Not playing Flash means certain video sites (ie the most popular one) cant be used on the ipod. So, if you want to play any type of video the the ipods not for you.
I know. There's a musical coming out on Broadway soon, I'm sure. I think it's called: "S-C-O, Way to Go!" with such hits as "It's a wonderful mockery", "It's my rights and I'll do what I what with them", "Back in the Old Routine", "Look what happened to Darl" and the big hit number "Hello Lolly!"
... How about a choice of 1 window manager that actually works?...
Which one works? Your definition of "works" may be different from mine. My gran's definition of works is "it's easy to send texts and it's big enough that I don't drop it". Yours may be "I can play any type of video". Mine may be "I really just need access to the internet to check emails and online bank account details when I'm not near a computer". All of these require different attitudes / standards / capabilities / skillsets / choices from the development / marketeting / engineering bods at apple / ms / nokia / adobe....
All these requirements are not neccessarily mutually exclusive, but when you bring price into the equation, thats when these choices have to be made.
No, people are not stuck in their ways. If it was easier to keep the clocks the same throughout the year, don't you think it would have been kept? It was tried in the 1970's and many children were killed on the roads walking to school, despite reflective bands being handed out, so it was changed back.
It's much easier if the clocks are changed. As one small example, imagine what a bus/train timetable would be like if the times changed rather than the clocks.
So we have to putt an if statement in our code, or do a lookup on timezones. No biggy. Anyway, most DBs/OS's will handle ST and TZs.
... most of which weren't obviously predictable without hindsight...
Ahem, isn't an engineer's job to reduce the need for hindsight? And cutting corners from an engineering perspective, increases the risk of "if only we'd...".
The parent was right about risk versus consequences.
Are we talking about the same film? The screenplay was as close as a film could get to the book. Tolkein was not a "professional" writer. He was an intellectual, a professor of language history, not a novelist. We forgive him writing fooibles that we would not forgive other authors for, because the characters, the plot and the landscape are so well crafted.
For example, the whole second book is split into the three journeys. No jumping between them. That just wouldn't have worked in a film so they jump between the three. In fact the original publishers wanted him to change it. Watch the extras, it explains in more detail.
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Ahem, I suspect he is a little more tha noted. He holds the same chair as Sir Isaac Newton did at Cambridge University, worked out how black holes work and is probably the most famous scientist in the world. Even the article says:
It's not that incmprehensible, surely. The answer is always 42!
And you assume it's a microsoft universe.
I can't wait until OLEDs become commonplace.
What is The Onion going to do for stories now? Surely nothing can look more silly than this story.
I like the link to Gordon Bell. It says Extended Biography and it's one page of HTML. He says he stores 1GB per month. Not very extended.
Upstreams should be no slower than downstreams. That is an artificial limit placed by trhe ISPs.
Too bad that super conductors will come of age just as wireless power starts taking off commercially in a big way. ;-)
I remember Input magazine had a competition to write a program for the BBC in 1 line of code (255 characters). The winner wrote a rotating ball program.
255 CHARACTERS!!! That was the Beeb alright. Best machine for learning coding. Also allowed you to try out assembly.
Try this: http://www.mikebuk.dsl.pipex.com/beebem/
Not quite the same but you can experiment to your hearts content (and change the machine between A, B and Master.
All that says is Apples are overpriced.
In soviet Russia our dogs ...
You forgot the most important
4) common cause is the root of both.
I may be wrong, but I suspect you're not a 70 year old lady with arthritis.
ermmm... the whole article is about apple ipod not playing flash. The apple ipod has some kind of windows manager (sorry don't know the exact details). Not playing Flash means certain video sites (ie the most popular one) cant be used on the ipod. So, if you want to play any type of video the the ipods not for you.
I know. There's a musical coming out on Broadway soon, I'm sure. I think it's called: "S-C-O, Way to Go!" with such hits as "It's a wonderful mockery", "It's my rights and I'll do what I what with them", "Back in the Old Routine", "Look what happened to Darl" and the big hit number "Hello Lolly!"
Which one works? Your definition of "works" may be different from mine. My gran's definition of works is "it's easy to send texts and it's big enough that I don't drop it". Yours may be "I can play any type of video". Mine may be "I really just need access to the internet to check emails and online bank account details when I'm not near a computer". All of these require different attitudes / standards / capabilities / skillsets / choices from the development / marketeting / engineering bods at apple / ms / nokia / adobe....
All these requirements are not neccessarily mutually exclusive, but when you bring price into the equation, thats when these choices have to be made.
No, people are not stuck in their ways. If it was easier to keep the clocks the same throughout the year, don't you think it would have been kept? It was tried in the 1970's and many children were killed on the roads walking to school, despite reflective bands being handed out, so it was changed back.
It's much easier if the clocks are changed. As one small example, imagine what a bus/train timetable would be like if the times changed rather than the clocks.
So we have to putt an if statement in our code, or do a lookup on timezones. No biggy. Anyway, most DBs/OS's will handle ST and TZs.
If you look at the site they are currently looking for programmers to work with them.
Because in most people's mind "the intertube[sic]" is like that bit on a map that says "here be dragons".
Ahem, isn't an engineer's job to reduce the need for hindsight? And cutting corners from an engineering perspective, increases the risk of "if only we'd ...".
The parent was right about risk versus consequences.
I didn't say 60/24/7 ;-)
From dictionary.com
Citation 1, definition 3:
actually; without exaggeration or inaccuracy: The city was literally destroyed.
Citation 1, definition 4:
in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually.
So if he dreamed about the project(which I'm sure he would have) then I used the word correctly.
They do mention that there are problems with this word in that it is ocassionally used in front of something that is obviously not the case.
I didn't. I suspect, on a project that size, he did live the project 24/7 for 10 years.
Are we talking about the same film? The screenplay was as close as a film could get to the book. Tolkein was not a "professional" writer. He was an intellectual, a professor of language history, not a novelist. We forgive him writing fooibles that we would not forgive other authors for, because the characters, the plot and the landscape are so well crafted.
For example, the whole second book is split into the three journeys. No jumping between them. That just wouldn't have worked in a film so they jump between the three. In fact the original publishers wanted him to change it. Watch the extras, it explains in more detail.
I was talking about Weta digital.