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Comment Re:Was .NET all a mistake? (Score 4, Interesting) 688

The problem is, if you remove cross platform then there's little advantage to .NET.

Only if you ignore C# with all it's feaures and .NET's ability to effortlessly combine several languages (like C#, F# and IronPython) in the same program.

As for tighter integration to the host system... A lot of applications doesn't actually need this, and is happy with the basics provided by the platform/library of choice, be it .NET or Qt.

Comment Re:Think of the children! (Score 1) 493

WTF is that shiate? How can they evaluate the risk if they are protected from the consequence?

But they aren't. That's exactly why I emphasized that they should be protected from serious injury. If they misjudge they could get hurt, and learn from that experience. By trying again, they can map out their limits.

Comment Re:Think of the children! (Score 1) 493

That's not a bad thing either, after a few issues like that, they might learn wearing clothes with dangly bits like that carries it's own dangers they need to be prepared for.

The issue I mentioned is primarily a problem for young children, less than 6 years of age, which even if their parents allowed them to couldn't make informed decisions about such things.

Comment Re:Think of the children! (Score 1) 493

If a kid learns that falling off a high place hurts, he'll be less likely to do so in the future. Its how people learn.

Indeed. A good playground should contain elements where the kids can evaluate the risk of doing something, but protect them from serious injuries if they misjudge. A kid should be able to get banged up a bit, but not die or lose a limb.

A good playground should also protect the kids from dangers they cannot readily evaluate. For example the cords from their hoodies have a tendency to get stuck in wedges and can end up strangling them.

These issues involve not only a good design of the playground elements and the playground itself, but also routine inspections and maintenance.

Comment Re:Correction (Score 1) 291

You can't just load a VEVO video, let it buffer, and watch it when it's ready.

I've never had that problem. I pause immediately and go surf something else for a wee bit. When I come back it's fully loaded and ready to go. Every now and then the server has a hiccup and I need to refresh the page, but it's seldom. I'm in Norway if that matters.

Comment Re:Summary? (Score 1) 990

Second, in order for that redeposition to occur, the envelope must remain extremely hot (250 C/482 deg. F), regardless of the wattage of the bulb.

Ah this could explain why the halogen bulb I got to test as a replacement for a 60W incandescent bulb died after 2 months while the incandescent bulb I used before had lasted for over 3 years at that point: I ran them dimmed at 60%.

The salesman said they supported dimming, but that must have been just temporarily. My incandescent bulbs lasted another year before I moved...

Comment Re:Artist's Concept (Score 5, Informative) 38

Why does it seem like every time I read an article about space imaging, there is an artist's rendition, instead of an actual rendition of the image?

The actual image would most likely be of the star itself, and usually is just a few pixels wide. Not a lot for people to look at.

However by observing those pixels over a long time they may see changes in the color / spectrum indicating the vapors in the atmosphere of the planet when it passes in front of the star.

Here's a Hubble image of an actual exoplanet, 25 light years away. The exoplanet they're imaging in the story here is 1000 light years away...

Comment Re:How can they detect anything at all? (Score 1) 128

I thought neutrinos almost never interact with more regular matter because they're too small to collide with atoms, how can they get their statistics?

About 60 billion solar neutrinos pass through every square centimeter of the Earths surface every second, give or take.

The Super-Kamiokande has a cross section of about 630000 cm^2 (~20 m diameter), so roughly 3.2 * 10^18 solar neutrinos pass through the detector each day.

When looking for solar neutrinos, the Super-Kamiokande had about 15 events per day which they could attribute to solar neutrinos...

Comment Re:An alternative to reliance on a single toolkit (Score 1) 177

Windows 64-bit was the other major reason I wanted to move off of Qt. You can pull it off in Qt, but it takes some source hackery and is unofficial, last I checked anyway (4.6.x)

That has been fixed for some time now, no special settings needed. IIRC for 4.6.2 all I had to do was copy a file to and edit it slightly to make the qt build system recognize Visual Studio 2008.

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