The principle reason to put 2560x1440 pixels on a phone is to further the embarrassment of monitor manufacturers who can only manage to get 1/4 of the pixels into a 19" screen.
Monitor manufacturers like, LG?
It seems that for a long time (say, up to 90s or 00s) it was believed that Gates said that 640KB thing. Then people did some research and didn't find any solid evidence of him saying that. So for some years people were reminded that "Gates never actually said that". But during the recent 5 years or so, talks about it being true after all have been coming back. I personally haven't followed the research much to know what's the current opinion. Hmm.
At the time he is alleged to have made that statement, most versions of the then-dominant desktop OS, CP/M, were limited to a maximum of 64 KB. Weather or not he actually made that statement, at the time it would have been true.
It's called Autoconfig
Or, alternately, 'Plug and P[l|r]ay'.
How about something that can read an IR sensor such that: 1. approach woman at bar, place phone on bar next to drink 2. phone takes baseline body temps of said woman 3. chat with woman for 5 minutes 4. phone takes update body temps to see where the blood is flowing 5. pick up phone and get 1 to 10 scale on how "excited" the woman was with me could work on men too just have to look for different "hot spots"
Easy, when started just print "1".
We can drop nukes in tornadoes too for much less, not that I'm advocating that either.
But we should probably keep this in mind in case of Sharknado.
However once you combine incompetence with malice, then you have a solid foundation to create a government department.
No, you need a huge budget and lack of oversight as well.
If you think that there isn't a file somewhere in the depths of the Manned Flight Operations Manual (or whatever idiot acronym that NASA gives it) detailing exactly what you are supposed to do with a dead body, you're crazy.
They've thought of things you haven't thought of to think of.
Death is a pretty obvious one.
Ground Control to Major Tom,
Your circuit's dead. Is something wrong?
Can you hear me Major Tom?
Can you hear me Major Tom?
I wonder what would happen if someone took this concept and reversed it, what would currently used code sound like?
I suspect that some of my code would sound like Death Metal.
Perl 6 is about love, care, tolerance and friendship.
Well, it clearly isn't about deadlines!
Perl 6 is the language of the future and always will be!
I would say it's the Duke Nukem Forever of languages but DNF actually shipped.
(too bad though, Although I haven't coded in it for nearly a decade I've always liked Perl, at least once I was able to wrap my brain around regular expressions.)
It would be hard to make a programming language slower than Java, even if you tried.
Actually, the problem with Java isn't as much that the language itself is slow but that most of the GUI frameworks (particularly older ones) are slow.
C# is typically slightly slower than Java so....
Citation please? In my experience C# is somewhat slower than native code but much faster than Java.
It's not super-clear from the article what sort of systems there are, even with the Wikipedia link to IPMI. I mistakenly assumed that BMC was the configuration management company at first...
Without linking to XKCD, can anyone explain this to me like a child?
BMC (the company) does not make configuration management software. They make software designed to torture sysadmins.
"Also, I'm permitted to eat Carrot Top."
Please do, that guy is annoying beyond all reason.
Say "twenty-three-skiddoo" to logout.
