Comment YOU INSENSITIVE CLODS! (Score 1) 420
Although the model sure does look hot in that clingy grey and slightly greyer dress
Although the model sure does look hot in that clingy grey and slightly greyer dress
Windows Phone 7
This was, and still is, a UX that fitted the device perfectly, it is intuitive, efficient and beautiful.
Some 'for instances'
why do we need a 'button'? This is already an artificial construct; if an idea is captured by text then touch the text to access the associated sub-levels. Or headings that extend beyond the screen; so you naturally swipe to see the end of the title and you get to the next page with a new title.
I am probably as upset as anybody for how Windows8/8.1/10 has evolved but for entirely the opposite reasons of most people.
Plus, obligatory XKCD
Really? In what way?
He's a secular despot, which I'd take over any theocracy.
To be quite blunt: if a bird of 8lb goes into your engine you're ok, if a bird of 9lb goes into your engine there's no guarantee. If the bird's bigger brother goes down the other engine then you're in the realms of statistical probabilities and prayer.
So let's get to details and look at 33.76 regarding bird strike. The rules regarding what an aircraft engine should be able to ingest are enlightening: even the largest engines are only certified safe to fly after ingesting a bird of 8lb. This is a lot less than a person (that was a ridiculous example from the GP; ingesting a person would destroy an engine). Birds are obviously a lot more easily ingested than a carbon-fibre and steel drone.
Any reasonably large drone would have enough mass to endanger a civil airliner and you're just playing the numbers until one is brought down with three to four hundred deaths.
What I know now is that I would have been happier and/or richer being either:
(a) a banker, or
(b) a programmer.
Most of engineering is very, very dull indeed.
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