Comment Re:The problem with American Embargos (Score 1) 254
He has someone for that now.
He has someone for that now.
"Why are we encouraging people to buy new Macs? We should be forcing our own users to upgrade, not theirs."
— Satya Nadella, Internal Memo, 7 August 2014
Don't forget CEILINGCAT.
(...and I apparently have Tony the Tiger's spellchecker, since it completely missed that typo.)
I'll give them this one, considering one of the purposes of this project is to prove the feasability of extraterrrestrial flight in atmospheres as thin as that of Mars.
He managed to attach a square filter to a round duct; that's NASA-level ingenuity right there.
Almost all air purifiers are nothing more than a fan blowing through a filter. Thanks to fans and filters being commodity items, there are many retail HEPA air purifiers on sale for close to this guy's price. The article is little more than a cherry picking fallacy.
Next up: Man rigs cheap alternative to $500 Denon patch cable.
The android anthropologists then went back to university and learned traits which benefit the survival of the group do not necessarily benefit the survival of the individual.
Not that I can blame you, but I guess you've all blocked this from your memories.
Palm had one thing going for it, at least in the early days: excellent battery life. With no wireless, no background serivces, and no traditional backlight, battery life was measured in days—or weeks—or months!
While they don't hold a candle to modern devices in every other respect, I loved being able to tap away at the thing forever without ever worrying about finding a charger. And the EL backlight was pretty darn cool (though it made you really hate dimly lit rooms)...
It's hideously slow and limited by today's standards, the standards are horribly out of date (802.11b anyone?) the ten year old battery is surely shot, and the platform is dead, dead, dead.
If you're looking for a cheap hackable device, get a no-frills Android tablet. If you're looking to get into mobile development, get any decent smartphone.
Still, if you really want to work on that old Palm, you should still be able to find the Garnet OS Development Suite.
Making wildly exaggerated claims always has been legal. Imagine if it were otherwise: you'd have to arrest whole advertising companies, and political parties, and organized religions, and the people who send me forwarded emails...
Right here, it's a bit confusing because the maps in the article are turned ~90 degrees.
As the author points out, each phone release is accompanied by a major OS release. With a major software release comes bugs, as well as a raft of CPU-eating new features to play with, so it makes perfect sense that there would be a spike in complaints about performance and a host of other issues. No conspiracy necessary.
The baseline healthy person is of mixed race, has 1.93 arms and 2.1 children, and is a hermaphrodite.
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol