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Comment Re:Not a matter of caring (Score 1) 580

to just blindly flinging poo at the wall and praying something sticks.

I assume the wall in question is... the consumers? On their next 'product' launch, remind me to wrap myself in saran wrap. That should do for software, but just remember to add a layer of padding beforehand if the product in question is something like a 'ZuneTwo'.

Comment Re:Umm, no... (Score 1) 449

as Airbus has always told everybody with great confidence and pride that it's impossible to stall an Airbus

That would mean that it is also impossible to land an Airbus (a landing ~is~ a controlled stall). You are right on the banking angle though - and at 30,000 feet, there was time enough for ~some~ maneuvering.

I really think the pilots got stuck in a panicked "are my instruments or instincts right?" quandry, until it was too late.

Comment Re:Is IT/CS/... not easy enough already? (Score 3, Interesting) 606

After having RTFA, I can understand that the author has no solution for the problem, but because many topics covered in CS2 should be part of CS1 - or in other words, students should be introduced to the ~context~ of programming before being thrown into the code itself.

Coming from both a creative and academic background, I can say that programming (that I learned on my own) is a mindset completely different from any other course or trade I have learned - it is a trade of ~method~ more than anything, but classes today are putting the language before the method. Yes, I know I'm repeating myself.

The best way to learn programming is to ask a student "what do you want to do - what is the goal of the program you would like to make?". Only after he is able to draw a logical schema of what he wants to do, and identify the types of input/data that he would like to treat in his program, can he fully understand the purpose and syntax of the language he is going to be programming in. Better still, a student using this method will more quickly understand the capabilities and limitations of the language he is programming in, and this will allow him to think constructively, if not creatively, about the task he has at hand. What's more, once he has the 'goal, step and method' logical mindset down pat, learning yet another language will be much easier for him.

Comment Re:Heavy users? (Score 1) 303

Pfffft - looks like you read the fine print for me ; P All the same, 24€ is around $17 nowadays. And yes, the "only with home combo" and "unlimited but limited high-speed options" imposition sucks too; basically, at the end of the month, you'll have no VOIP and will have only Edge for the web.

FWIW, I'm hooked up to a 'real' unlimited mobile plan (with Orange), but it costs me €72 ($50) a month.

Submission + - Long term of Daily news Maps (longtermofdailynewsmaps)

reubencox1019 writes: It was regarding 600 many years ago that the 'Age of Discovery' began. At which direct of time a vast component of the the earth was even now undiscovered by the Europeans. Sailors and discoverers from a variety of nations went around the world 'locating' new lands. This was the golden age to be a cartographer, once new terrains have been becoming discovered each and every other day.

Maps possess been designed and used because Claudius Ptolemy launched the elementary ideas of geography to the industry in his reserve Tetrabiblos. He produced a big variety of maps of various kinds, that were quite accurate for his day and age. The initially world map and world was made by topographer Gerhard Mercator at the end of 16th century. At some point, the artists, scientists and geographers of the renaissance took the science of cartography to far higher levels. With the introduction of airborne images maps became even far more correct.

Nevertheless, a issue which plagued travelers, effectively into the 1990's is the bulkiness, and studying problems which arrives with basic report roadmaps. However relatively precise and exact folks typically misread them; which has led to scores of unsuccessful visitors stranded on mysterious roads nearly the world.

Enter in the age of GPS the place one can navigate to an definitely new location with utmost simplicity and all with the improve of a handy little system which it is possible to set up in your car.

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Does doing so spell the end of paper roadmaps? Most reply with an emphatic yes although others tend to disagree.

Followers of old style report maps argue in prefer of the poet sense of the map. Electronic maps they argue, do not offer the sort of information that a daily news map, or a keep book of road directions offers.

Those in facilitate of satellite tv for pc navigation systems disagree. With the world becoming a smaller stick and people sharing a lot more details about the places they reside in and checking, e-maps, as some get in touch with them, have get a storage facility of all the info you'd need once you visit a unusual new stick. Doing so incorporates shortcuts, useful small tips, areas to eat out etc. Additionally, employing GPS allowed maps; one minimizes the chance of misreading to practically zero, making certain increased safety and speed.



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Submission + - Robert Vamosi: Gadgets degrade our common sense (silicon.com)

ShelleyPortet writes: "In a world where gadgets are growing more sophisticated, human behaviour is changing — and not in a good way.

That is what Robert Vamosi, author of When Gadgets Betray Us argues in his book, which examines the dangers of our growing dependence on technology.

As gadgets develop the ability to multitask seemingly endless functions, Vamosi argues that people are increasingly unable to think for themselves.

"Instead of lifting our heads, looking around and thinking for ourselves," Vamosi writes, some of us no longer see the world as human beings have for thousands of years and simply accept whatever our gadgets show us."

Microsoft

Submission + - Does Microsoft need bug bounties? (threatpost.com)

chicksdaddy writes: The threats and attacks may have changed in the last decade, but one thing has remained constant: software giant Microsoft doesn’t pay for information on vulnerabilities in its products. Never has. Never will — even as rivals like Mozilla and Google have introduced successful bug bounty programs. But with the value of zero day vulnerabilities rising and targeted hacks making headlines, the company may be forced by circumstance to start paying vulnerability researchers for their work.

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