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If Blackberry jumps on the Internet Of Things bandwagon then we can finally get our wish of having the term killed, beaten to a pulp, and buried.
If Blackberry jumps on the Internet Of Things bandwagon then we can finally get our wish of having the term killed, beaten to a pulp, and buried.
Blackberry has incredible resistance to change. That's why they were left in the dust by Apple and Google. They might get around to repositioning the company in ten years but unfortunately they won't be around then.
I've had an SSD in my desktop for years now. It's fine. I think that poster might have a sense of humour.
This is why I'll never use an SSD in my computer. They're just unreliable.
I didn't know Bill Gates had the ability to control ISPs in this way.
I wonder how many programmers are going to complain that they only coded for leap seconds and never bothered allowing for the reverse. It'll happen one day.
The horseless carriage was a novelty at first. I mean, who wants to ride in a machine that has no mind of its own? Something that can't even avoid minor obstacles on its own?
Don't forget the all important jet engine test. (you won't get that if you're not a Far Side fan)
23:59:59 is normally followed by 00:00:00 (or 24:00:00). In this case it goes 23:59:59, 23:59:60, and then 00:00:00. One second gets added at the end of the day.
XKCD has it covered: https://what-if.xkcd.com/26/
The problem is that you don't understand it.
What makes you think his grandfather is over fifty?
I use a TI-85 emulator because that's the calculator that I used in high school and university and I'm used to it. The non-skeuomorphic calculators on the Android app store all suck. I swear there are only maybe two that get order of operations right when you type it in, and they all have other critical flaws. 99% of the calculators can't even do square roots let alone anything slightly complicated. They all use ÷ as a symbol for division and x for multiplication instead of / and *. It drives me nuts that I can't, even in 2015, get a proper calculator that isn't a skeuomorph of something from the 80's.
Pricing isn't the only issue, it's availability. The media companies want to control how you watch something, when you watch something, how many times you watch it, what quality it is. The best thing about pirated movies is that they're far far better than what you can buy. No ads, no 'must watch' content on a disc, you can play it on ANY device, and they often come with more subtitles.
There's this thing called BitTorrent. It's a brand new technology for downloading... wait, they're telling me it's been out since 2001.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.