Comment Re:UAV to hunt for life on Mars... (Score 0) 152
why not "kinetic bombardment" or something similar...
I always thought these were kind of a neat idea: Kinetic Harpoon
why not "kinetic bombardment" or something similar...
I always thought these were kind of a neat idea: Kinetic Harpoon
Unfortunately, I don't know what a better alternative is. Personally, I try and stick with C (and have recently started to enjoy programming in Objective-C; Crazy, I know). But I would feel terrible for anyone forced to program in that language.
It'd be like forcing everyone to drive an Alfa Romeo... sure, some guys get off on that sort of thing (in the same way that I love C), but most sane people don't... I think...
Apple's UI patents (the pinch-to-zoom gesture springs to mind)
They patented that?
Did the TED talk not count as prior art there? (See 6 minutes in for some pinch to zoom)
Right about at the peak of Microsoft's power is when the company saw they had to [change].
You may have a solid point there
I mean, it's one thing for a company with a stable market-share to pull the kinds of shenanigans that Apple has been called out for (repeatedly on this site). But they're gaining market-share. Pretty rapidly too. There was that one story on here that mentioned how most students going into university are doing so with iMacs and MacBooks. There was yet another story in Fortune that mentioned how government procurement of Apple has recently surged.
Right now, they're riding a pretty huge wave of profit increases. No investor in their right mind is going to demand that Jobs change his tactics.
But what happens when their market-share plateaus and people start to give the company flak, in the same way that they did for Microsoft back in the late 90s? Once the quarterly numbers start to look a little less incredible, public sentiment is going to mean quite a bit.
The only question is, how long will it be before the voices of the irked consumer are no longer drowned out by fantastic quarterly reports?
Disclaimer: Written using a MacBook Pro
annnnd *whoosh*
My sarcasm-meter was malfunctioning... just ignore the havokca in the corner
Wow... I hope you've never done something socially unacceptable... like tailgate... or speed... or run the odd red light (accidentally or not)... or been drunk in public or one of the million other socially unacceptable things that most people do from time to time.
Child porn is flat out wrong. But the completely and utterly arbitrary line in the sand delineating when a child ceases to be a child and when they become a young adult capable of bearing responsibility for many/all of their actions is set way too high in most places.
I've seen 15 year old girls get fake ID's so they could go to a bar and pick up guys. Are you seriously trying to tell me that the guy, who brings them home (believing they're of legal age) and has sex with them is guilty of taking advantage of "an innocent minor"?
The Tao is like a stack: the data changes but not the structure. the more you use it, the deeper it becomes; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
