kharbour - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Good one (Score 1) 1142

by kharbour on Thursday October 18, 2012 @04:07PM (#41697807) Attached to: Ask Richard Dawkins About Evolution, Religion, and Science Education

It's pretty rare right here in the solar system.

Hmmm, 1 planet out of 9 (sorry, 8) - not that rare.

If you know of any decent theories that explain its creation, I'd like to read about them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

I find it odd that so many believe without doubt that there is extraterrestrial life despite no indication that there is, yet are just as certain that God doesn't exist.

Well, I know for a fact that where extraterrestrial life might live definitely exists.

Comment Re:PREDICTIONS ARE LIKE INSTINES !! (Score 1) 504

by kharbour on Thursday August 23, 2012 @11:39AM (#41096431) Attached to: Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP

No, people who make dyslexia screening tool software http://www.dyslexia-check.com/instines01_demo.htm

Comment Re:Wrong area of focus. (Score 1) 287

by kharbour on Friday June 22, 2012 @11:42AM (#40412285) Attached to: Fedora Introduces Offline Updates

As with many things with Windows, it seems that the problem of restarts after updates is a problem that Microsoft are aware of, and indeed have provided a solution to...but for some reason people (and Microsoft themselves!) don't seem to use it.

Comment Re: Obligatory (Score 1) 426

by kharbour on Saturday May 19, 2012 @01:10PM (#40052053) Attached to: Aero Glass UI No More On Windows 8

On Windows, at least, you can just type "appearance" into the start menu search box and go straight to it. Where's that functionality on the command line?

Go straight to what though? If I type something at the command line, what I type *is* the command (you know, hence the name) - it doesn't need to "go" anywhere, what I wanted to happen was achieved by my typing.

Comment Re:virus (Score 1) 143

by kharbour on Friday May 11, 2012 @12:24PM (#39968215) Attached to: Xbox 360 Kinect Said To Add Internet Explorer Browsing

I love when they compare the newest version of IE to 7 full versions previous of Firefox. It always makes for such an objective comparison.

At the rate Firefox versions come out these days, I'd say it's a fair comparison.

Comment Re:Sharing data between Metro and desktop versions (Score 1) 197

by kharbour on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @09:51AM (#39559319) Attached to: Firefox Demos Prototype Metro Interface

Microsoft is full steam ahead on this trainwreck.

Wouldn't that be a shipwreck?

Something like this maybe: http://www.forensicgenealogy.info/images/train_wreck_replica.jpg

Comment Re:$99 per year (Score 1) 276

by kharbour on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @03:57PM (#39265599) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do Kids Still Take Interest In Programming For Its Own Sake?

Oh yeah...I forget the little issue of having to buy a Mac - which I did, mainly so I could do iOS development. Unfortunately I bought it before I realised that you can't put programs you write yourself on your iPad without, as you say, overcoming a lot of barriers and paying the annual Apple developer tax. I'm still amazed at how Draconian it is...I don't have a problem with the AppStore business model per se, but Apple should at least allow a developer to install a permanent profile on their device for their own apps.

Comment Re:$99 per year (Score 1) 276

by kharbour on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @12:49PM (#39262333) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do Kids Still Take Interest In Programming For Its Own Sake?

Not sure about the other platforms, but on iOS it's even worse than it sounds. Even if you pony up the $99 to Apple, you can still only create a provisioning profile that let's you run your own app on your own device for 3 months. At the end of 3 months, you have to do it over again. If your $99 annual subscription expires, you're no longer able to run your own app on your own device. Of course you can publish via the Appstore, but for a homebrew program, it's almost certain Apple aren't going to approve it.

Comment Re:Queller Drive (Score 1) 458

by kharbour on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:25PM (#39224427) Attached to: Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside

Looking forward to the sequel http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/space-2099-television-remake-288601

Comment Re:Queller Drive (Score 1) 458

by kharbour on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:19PM (#39224297) Attached to: Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside

Um, no? It was just a reaction drive.

It was also fictional and still FTL. I didn't think scientific accuracy was too important...whatever that means in a show where, you know, the moon blasts out of orbit and wanders round the universe.

Comment Queller Drive (Score 5, Interesting) 458

by kharbour on Friday March 02, 2012 @02:56PM (#39222997) Attached to: Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside

In Space:1999, the Alcubierre warp-drive was known as the Queller Drive. There was an episode about this exact subject (the drive killing everyone) in the first season episode, Voyager's Return: http://www.fanderson.org.uk/epguides/spaceyr1eg3.html#Episode%20Twelve. In an almost unbelieveable coincidence, I happened to be watching it at the exact moment this Slashdot story came in. Spooky.

Comment Re:Eh... (Score 1) 262

by kharbour on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @12:51PM (#33058052) Attached to: Microsoft Should Dump Middlemen, Build Own Phones

Microsoft releasing a phone that, to the public, functions similar to the way Apple's runs will most likely be seen as copying Apple.

Right, and that strategy has certainly never worked for Microsoft before. Oh, wait...

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