Comment Re:Want to be cut off from tech companies complete (Score 1) 123
...I'm checking them out... I've got it figured out. Talking Heads, 'Cities' - great song! Although I always heard 'thinking' as 'drinking' in the last line you cited.
Comment Re:Oooooooo! I can't wait! (Score 1) 37
I was referring to the point that this 'article' reads like an ad (and tried to link it to the 'no ads' feature) - perhaps I wasn't clear, sorry.
Comment Oooooooo! I can't wait! (Score 1, Flamebait) 37
I see that my 'disable ads' option is gone... has this changed for article content too?
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.
Comment Re:Heavy users? (Score 1) 303
Not true! Numericable(.fr) just came out with an unlimited calls/unlimited data combo for only €29 a month.
Comment Re:The Only Feasible Strategy... (Score 1) 455
You are already aware that your suggestion is insufficient for the needs of the hypothetical average Joe
My name is Joe, you insensitive clod!
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.
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The International Placing System (GPS) is a space-based international navigation satellite pc which provides dependable area and time information in all weather, at all times and anyplace on or near the Earth. The computer was created in the nineteen seventies by the US Division of Defense. In the nineties, visiting its excellent possible to ease the life of millions of individuals around the planet, the computer was launched for civilian use. To go out with the US Air Power manages the maintenance and upgradation of the system.
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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.
The International Placing System (GPS) is a space-based international navigation satellite pc which provides dependable area and time information in all weather, at all times and anyplace on or near the Earth. The computer was created in the nineteen seventies by the US Division of Defense. In the nineties, visiting its excellent possible to ease the life of millions of individuals around the planet, the computer was launched for civilian use. To go out with the US Air Power manages the maintenance and upgradation of the system.
Aided by GPS and accurate digital mapping, Automotive Navigation Systems or Satellite tv for pc Navigation methods produce vacationers accurate navigational data. The significant advantage that Satellite Navigation provides at the time of traditional daily news atlases is portability, accuracy and ease of use. These navigation gadgets are very small and simple to carry. Most of these devices can be thrown out of the car with you as you take a walk around and discern new spots.
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.
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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."
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."
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.
Submission + - Lawsuit accuses Apple of foxing worker pay (forbes.com)
mangu writes: Siddarth Hariharan, a former software engineer for Lucasfilm, filed a class action suit in California accusing a number of companies of antitrust violations and unfair competition. At the core of the suit is a series of agreements among the corporations, with Apple in the central role, to limit the competition among them for technology workers. Besides Apple, the companies mentioned are Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Google, Intel, and Intuit. Basically, the interconnected agreements consisted in not to “cold call” one another’s employees. Considering that switching jobs is one of the few opportunities a technology worker has to get a significant pay raise these agreements imposed strong limits on career evolution.
Submission + - New Rechargeable Battery Uses Water (gizmag.com)
fergus07 writes: Scientists at Stanford have developed a battery that uses nanotechnology to create electricity from the difference in salt content between fresh water and sea water. The researchers hope to use the technology to create power plants where fresh-water rivers flow into the ocean. The new "mixing entropy" battery alternately immerses its electrodes in river water and sea water to produce the electrical power.
Submission + - CNET sued over LimeWire downloads (arstechnica.com)
suraj.sun writes: Alki David, the wealthy film producer and entrepreneur behind sites like FilmOn, has sued CNET and its owner, CBS, for providing hundreds of millions of downloads of LimeWire P2P software over the last decade. He argues that CNET had "direct participation in massive copyright infringement on peer-to-peer systems, such as LimeWire, that are used to copy and distribute songs, films and other artistic works," and that CNET's Download.com was the "main distributor" of the software. P2P software isn't illegal, though companies that use it to induce or encourage copyright infringement can be held liable. The principle, most famously articulated by the US Supreme Court in the Grokster shutdown, was extended to LimeWire last year when a federal judge shut down most of the company's activity.
ars technica: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/cnet-sued-over-limewire-blamed-for-internet-piracy-phenomenon.ars?comments=1#comments-bar
ars technica: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/cnet-sued-over-limewire-blamed-for-internet-piracy-phenomenon.ars?comments=1#comments-bar
Submission + - iOS 5 rumored to bring over-the-air iOS updates (edibleapple.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A new report suggests that Apple has plans to eventually include within iOS 5 the ability for users to download iOS updates over the air. As it stands now, iOS updates can only be downloaded via iTunes on a tethered connection. While the feature isn’t expected to be available when iOS 5 launches this Fall, sources relay that Apple is planning to add that functionality in subsequent iOS 5.x updates.
