There was an episode on Nova that posited exactly this. Ultimately, pitot tubes iced over and the plane was unable to determine airspeed so kicked out of autopilot, and the human pilots were too slow to respond with the suggested throttle and pitch settings in such a case.
What amazes me is the incredibly thin window they (speedwise) they have to fly in to be safe. +/- 10kts or something like that.
Why can't MS do stuff like this in all their departments? Are there not enough smart people to go around? You get truly cool things like this, juxtaposed with
lame "us too!" attempts like WP7 and Bing.
> Make cities denser
has led to
>
Where, exactly?
I've heard that called "auto attack". I remember it first in Everquest. Having come from FPS' at the time, it was very foreign to me.
> I know what you mean, but what else can you do other than levy a fine?
The gov't and/or judicial arm has a very big carrot in future contracts they could easily withdraw for some period of time; say 5 years? Or, the corresponding stick of prison as someone else mentioned.
I don't necessarily think either of these is practical, but there are other means available.
> > Considering it takes me an average of 7865.349 msec to plug in my charger, still a fair trade..
> Really? You timed this to millisecond precision?
He listed it as an average, so he could have done it 1000 times and only tested to the second.
> Also, did they test the battery life? which phone would die first?
No. Nor did they test weight, color, specific gravity, reflectivity, touchscreen sensitivity, resistance to solar flares, ability to pass through a bovine's intestinal tract unscathed, nor bullet-proof-ness.
It doesn't matter how good the idea is if the execution is sloppy. I do suspect browsers are more secure, and at least partially due to the sandboxing idea, than in the past, no?
Even worse, I used an "algorithm" to play (which is to say, a pattern), and I had a 11:2:7 (win:lose:draw) record. This was also on 'veteran'.
Ahhh, I see; I totally misunderstood you there. My apologies. Yes, Win 7 by all accounts was what Vista should have been in terms of reliability.
I was with you till the Windows 7 comment. Mind you, I'm no MS lover (and perhaps irrationally biased against them), but Windows 7, as far as an MS OS goes, is quite good. Maybe I had worse luck with Vista than most; maybe that was MS' plan all along, but I'm forced to live with it for my employment, and Win 7 was an absolute godsend compared to Vista.
A Ballmer-Borg? It feels wrong - not that I disagree that the Gates-Borg is a bit hackneyed now, but Ballmer just isn't... scary. And somehow "ScreamingMonkeyBorg" doesn't roll off the tongue.
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
