In the EU this is called Autonomous Early Braking and is effecively mandatory on all new cars (you don't get an NCAP rating without it). The argument, as others have explained, is not that this technology is foolproof but that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

I've no idea if EU cars will keep this feature in US models, but it would be great if we could use the same terminology on both sides of the Atlantic.

Resolution has multiple meanings, this one is a late arrival to the list. In the early days of Computer Graphics the term was used in the scientific sense that applies, for example, to telescopes.

I don't object to this new meaning, but it is simply not true to say that this is the only meaning of that word in the context of electronic displays.

Another plus point for Go

With the possible exception of Brian May :)

Andrew Wakefield started the MMR controvesy by publishing a paper describing research that linked MMR to various negative outcomes. This clearly marks him out as a scientist not just a physician. This paper has since be shown to be both incorrect and fraudulent, so he was equally clearly an immoral person who used science to gain popularity.

As well as being pedantic I am also trying to make the serious point that scientists who become celebrities are not necessarily good scientists.

Indeed. But they are not entitled to present their opinions as science.

This is a very hard line to walk and it is easy to inadvertently add opinion to a scientific statement. For example, "Scientists are warning that infant mortality will fall significantly over the next 10 years" or "Scientists are warning that CO2 emissions will cause a rise in global temperatures". Both of these statements expression an opinion about a prediction rather than simply stating the prediction. Better to use neutral words to focus on the science not the opinion: "Scientists are predicting that infant mortality will fall significantly over the next 10 years" or "Scientists are predicting that CO2 emissions will cause a rise in global temperatures"

And, to be fair, these opinions are often added by the media in order to make the results more interesting.

Simple, I saw it happen to someone close to me.

Unfortunately you can't ethically perform the experiments that would prove this in the way that you would like. The fact is that a lot of medical evidence comes from looking at the results of long-term population studies which can show correlation but can never prove causation.

What you can or cannot believe isn't important, the truth is that canabis can have a devastating effect on the developing teenage mind. Even if you don't consider that enough to warrant criminalization, that does not justify insulting those of us who do.

Books are limited by physical constraits which require a continuous text to be divided into pages. Computers are not so restricted and provide flexible layout and continuous scrolling. In this situation a portrait screen is more appopriate because the eye finds it difficult to scan very long lines of text (which is why books are usually portrait and why wide pages are often divided into multiple columns).

The good news is that computers give you the flexibility to choose whichever option you prefer.

My personal view is that if you are generating very long lines of output or typing very long command lines, you are doing something wrong.

I get 150 columns in portrait mode which is enough for me, YMMV.

Coding: You get way more lines of code on the screen

Text: It is easier to read pages on top each other than side-by-side

Command-line: You can see more lines of output

Make sure you rotate by -360 degress in the Southern Hemisphere or the electrons will get tangled.

You should be OK with DisplayPort for 4K, it has been around for a while. HDMI is more recent and therefore more marginal.

And I totally agree about waiting for 60Hz, 30Hz feels very sluggish for interactive work. I just got a 120Hz monitor and that feels pretty slick for desktops (as well as games, of course!)

And C got the block syntax from B which got it from BCPL which was a simplified version of CPL which was influnced by the first block structured language, ALGOL.

I was taugh ALGOL at University, though I had already been "mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration" by BASIC before that...

Nope, ENIAC couldn't do that either:

"The freeze on design in 1943 meant that the [ENIAC] computer design would lack some innovations that soon became well-developed, notably the ability to store a program."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Nope, the program was not stored in the computer, it was configured using switches and cables.

But perhaps you meant to say "EDSAC" :)