Re: Another nail for M$

That reminds me of Mucky Foot's Urban Chaos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQe1fhgQ6EA

http://www.gamefaqs.com/dreamcast/366268-urban-chaos/images/gs_screen-3

Re: Two years too late

Or perhaps a Nokia smartphone which run Android apps

Re: Over forties

Seeing the first 2009 film at the Cinema, I though Quinto had Spock nailed, and Pine was close, but seeing it on TV recently, I don't think even Nimoy was convicted of Pine's Kirk. The first film suffered from too much explaining and not enough science (fiction). Saldana has not yet developed into the character played by Nichols.

Some of the original series charm, is also that of Doctor Who - low budget Hitchcock effects, is missing.

Re: Cobol

My COBOL book is on an unreachable shelf, at this moment, but isn't the IDENTIFICATION DIVISION the short one?

I seem to remember using the same template, with all the long words already filled out and spell checked, for almost every program and usually someone (the database guy) had already filled out the records with all the fields, and you just had to extract/print the indicators.

Oh the fun of each processor having its own machine representation of numbers.

Re: UK gov is the only reason we have a MS Win machine

One bit of a gov.uk site did insist on uploading a Word dot-doc and would not accept a text file, but you could copy n paste from your text file into the web-page's text box, so no biggie.

Re: Never put complexity into code

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-04-10/

Re: Fibreglass? Meh!

I would imagine they build an empty shell of fibreglass, and the locals fill it with soil dug out to make the containment pit.

Surely, it would be better to use the mechanical rotation directly (like during the industrial revolution: a man or boy or steam-engine got the wheel up to speed).

Changing the radius of the mass, would change the speed of rotation.

Kinetic energy; K_r = 0.5 m v^2 or 0.5 I w^2

Moment of inertia for a particle mass m at radius r; I = m r^2

So it is better to increase radius of the rim and angular velocity w, except centripetal force is F_c = m r w^2

Lets say 1 tonne rim at radius 1 metre, energy 15 kWh = 54 MJ; w = 329 rad/sec = 52 Hz = 3138 RPM; tangential velocity = 329 m/s (almost speed of sound) = 1184 km/h = 740 mph -- sonic boom anyone?

A 12V 60Ah battery is 0.72 kWh -> 15 kWh = 21 batteries

Re: Streetmap is superior

Yes, but the pedestrian route is often stupid.

The USA has missed a trick

If they have a separate trademark office and patent office, they can employ more officials and charge handling fee twice.

Would separating the brand from the inventions help?

Re: NeXT cube - what about the NeXT slab?

The pizza box was like a squashed cube.

Re: Privatised Education

No it wouldn't, banks do not have the skills, only those who can guarantee the loan by having rich or influential parents, and perhaps company sponsorship, would go to University. Many parents might re-mortgage to pay for their offspring, but few teenagers would thank you for taking away their minor luxuries so they can go to Uni. and have the guilt placed upon them.

Re: the obvious

You can patent new combinations of existing things, but that assumes it solves some problem combining the things. For example using a large finger compared to a fine (resistive) stylus on a touch-screen creates problems of the finger obscuring what you are trying to do.

As we know, the smartphone and laptop computer have converged, there are few or no problems implementing desktop/laptop tech on a smartphone.

Re: Reality check for lotuseaters

You lost me at 24x7x365

Perhpas you were being metaphoric.

There are only approximately 52+5/208 weeks in a year, or does it mean 7 years. There are leap years.

Re: Why Care About The OS?

Few people have the time or tools to evaluate hardware, firmware, and software mix, so they rely on brands, (except Apple) there are three brands to consider: one for the hardware, one for the firmware/OS, and a multitude for the software/apps.

Like with cars, there are different manufacturers, VW might use Bosch electronics, and you might fit Michelin tyres.

A strong brand might have enough goodwill to survive a few mistakes. You pay a little extra for a brand because of the notion of quality (not luxury) it provides (McDonalds is not a luxury experience, but of a known quality).

How do brands become strong?

Re: Am I missing something?

Although world-wide, the iPhone is second place in market share, I think they are quite popular in the USA.

Rather annoyingly, friends call both Nexus 7 and 10 an iPad (and complain at the high cost of getting an iPad for their daughter), so iPad is now becoming the generic term for an iPad like device.

Re: More likely

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/wildducks/index.php?title=Wild_ducks_project/Hardware

Re: Faster, higher, better ...

Doesn't push services like MS Exchange demand you have an always on connection?

Pulling/polling on the email/calendar server every 10 mins (using lowest power data) and switching to fastest when there is something to down/upload, perhaps.

Re: mifi

6 to 10 hours, but when it is dead you still have a separate (3G) phone

Re: Will someone think about the nozzles?

The filament is pushed through a temperature controlled heated nozzle. Typically gear teeth grip the cold filament, and it is heated to its plastic (and sticky) point.

For overhangs without separate soluble support material, a scaffold is built with a very thin breakaway to the overhang. Also models can be made in parts and glued, snapped or melted together, perhaps using alignment studs.

Re: vi...

or Esc ZZ (if you want to save and exit) or Esc :q! (if you wish to quit and disregard any changes)

The Esc exits insert mode (if any), the : (colon) gets you to the "ex" command line, where (in VIM) you can type 'help'

Sorry to be so yawn-worthy

Re: @bazza

The emergency/parking/hand brake has to be a separate system, AFAIK

Re: "Dark side of the moon"?

There is no dark side, it's all dark.

Re: Sir

Perhaps some sort of education, but wrapped up in a less 'dusty jacket'.

Typing hex listing (on a rubbery keyboard), I think made me a more careful coder. Although I take longer to write the program, than the other programmers, they would spend all day in the debugger which I rarely did (unless trying to get one of their programs to work).

Re: But no support for Mifare Classic....

You mean the NXP proprietary hacked protocol, the one that Oyster cards had to move from to a more secure protocol.

Re: Broadcom and Austria Microsystems have had these for a year, already

I was more upset by 'the present a press release as an article'.

The Broadcom chip can be either reader or tag, and I think a version (bonding option) has an embedded secure element (SIM) in the package (for mobile phone use). The aerials range from credit card size down to postage stamp, but this was last year.

Re: Baaa baaa baaa!

It is also a protest, indicating that Facebook user is unhappy with Facebook misrepresenting them.

Re: Does anyone know the etimology of the word "Inglish"?

I think I read, all those years ago, it was like English, but not quite English, hence Inglish.

Re: Great where do I sign up?

If you consider an XML or HTML document a tree (elements within elements) and directory structure as a tree, why the separation between the file tree and the directory tree?

Many places access a Linux workhorse computer (farm) through an X-Windows* server running on a Windows desktop machine.

* I heard, X-Windows has a server displaying the graphics and gathering the keyboard and mouse input, for an X-Windows client application running remotely.

Re: Repeating Windows mistakes of decades past...

Does it do USB host mode with an adapter?

Not that you want a memory stick tail.