Hey now... there's no need to start hurling insults around!

Sadly, this is not what happens in the real world. Software updates are often tied to other deadlines which are "set in stone," or at least enough so that no amount of complaining from the people doing the software will change them. What should result is a negotiated (perhaps reduced) set of functionality that might be decided literally at the last second, but that's OK, because it's agreed upon. What usually results instead is "buggy" software because these types of negotiations always take time and when they happen at the "last second" there is almost always someone left out of the loop.

This is what happens in my industry, at least.

Fuck yeah!

Surely you must be joking.

As I understand, Spaceship 2 didn't use the same technology, and the mechanism of actuation that supposedly caused the crash was initiated by a human, so it wasn't an accidental deployment as far as the craft's systems are concerned.

To make a somewhat haphazard analogy, you're saying that we shouldn't have ABS on vehicles, because there was an instance of someone crashing their car while applying the throttle pedal.

Feel free to keep playing CS 1.6, it's a good game too.

Good idea; I would gladly wipe my ass with Jar Jar Binks' face.

Star Wars the FLAME THROWER!

This is generally correct, although Boeing is moving more towards the Airbus model than previously, with automation taking a more prominent role on 787 and future airplane designs.

Hehe, thanks for the good laugh.

My point is that It's easier to do the math myself, for my own application. All that "retina" tells me is that the resolution is above MxN threshold, assuming some distance. What if the distance in my particular application is different than that assumed for the "retina" terminology? Just tell me how many damn pixels the thing has so I can figure out if it will work for my application!

So this means that any display touted as "retina" would depend on the distance from the eye to the display, right? Meaning, the diagonal measurement + "retina" requires another piece of data to know how many pixels are on the damn thing.

I could claim that my old VGA display is "retina" if I don't need to specify the viewing distance, right?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xps+compu...

10 cats doesn't count

I'm not speaking as a nurse, but from what I understand, it's tough to have that attitude towards your "career" when you don't get paid what you deserve, and your job is more about dealing with the fact that your employer wants to be as cheap as possible in every regard, rather than providing care to patients. Honestly, I think a major outbreak in the US would be a good thing because it might make people think more about the value that they assign to the people actually doing most of the work caring for them when they go to the doctor's office.