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No, it just implies that you have to go 250MLY that way.

...an argument often, rightly made here on earth.

No, I don't. I didn't say anything about the author. How did you conceive of that one?

Didn't the Americans already have that electronics elections thing? Or was it electronic selections? Electric infections? Eclectic erections?

Ah, never mind....

On lots of the implementations I have seen either the menu loops indefinitely or it just disconnects you. To be honest though this is something I only have noticed in countries in the Mediterranean. So maybe it is somehow related to economic insolvency?

Anonymous Cowards have a reputation for not understanding such things

No, the violence started because some clueless religious fanatics:
1. can't comprehend the idea of free speech
2. would outrage even if they did understand

It's a moebious strip really. The film exists because people exist that would organize mass violence about anything that puts their faith in bad light, which sort of is the film.

I have to side with the fanatics on this one though; there isn't one redeemable thing to the film. Viewing it, even in order to teach people what not to do, could easily be classified as psychological torture.

Especially if after pressing all possible combinations and you finally get to the part where it says "I'll connect you to a human being" the while system blows up and you have to start over. Which in my experience happens approximately 100% of the time.

In those positions the only way for the device to record accelerations that represent a "whack" is for the car to crash or the wearer to crash. In which case you bet you want the device to auto pick up and give you a chance to an early response rescue. ;-)

There is no reason why one would need an additional layer of abstraction to implement such a thing. That's why Firefox OS is even possible. You just get rid of all the java, replace it with a nice js compiler and of you go. So instead of having to write a java vm for each new architecture, device devs just implement the compiler onto it.

I have no idea about windows. Sorry.

Also the best way to measure a browser's responsiveness is after you have done a bit of work and expanded your session to more than ten tabs.

Startup times are pretty much irrelevant.

Not new but unfortunately it deals with tech that is sufficiently advanced to be indistinguishable from magic by an uneducated observer. Or in this case the tech involved could be perceived as non obvious by a patent judge.

Very acute.

Some might even argue that every sharp acceleration while in an alarm state could be classified as a whack. Since the operator is in the state of directly moving the device he is aware of the alarm.

Also you can go the data crunch way and just train a device to recognize your whacks with a support vector network.