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What? Oh, Microsoft. I thought it was about DEC.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I thought it was about DEC
Wrong century!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Wrong Millenium!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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yes we can say it...![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
Thanks & Regards
Puneet Goel
Save Paper >> Save Tree >> Save Huminity
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Er. Puneet Goel wrote: Save Paper >> Save Tree >> Save Huminity
Not from bad spelling it would seem!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Berlin-based artificial intelligence startup EyeQuant has developed a tool that will automatically judge how clean the design of your website is.
The system was developed by teaching a computer to look at websites in the same way a human might. EyeQuant, founded by a team of neuroscientists, was building on work it had done on an Eye-Tracking tool that predicts how people will look at websites to create an inexpensive heat map. The service provides an inexpensive alternative to eye-tracking studies and is used by companies such as Google. Or just hire a better web designer.
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A U-2 spy plane caused a computer glitch at a California air traffic control center that led officials to halt takeoffs on Wednesday at several airports in the Southwestern United States and ground planes bound for the region from other parts of the country, NBC reported on Saturday. Bono and The Edge have since apologized.
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passed through air space monitored by the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center and appears to have overloaded a computer system at the center...Computers at the center began operations to prevent the U-2 from colliding with other aircraft, even though the U-2 was flying at an altitude of 60,000 feet and other airplanes passing through the region's air space were miles below, NBC reported.
One plane, nowhere near any other planes. Soooo...what happens when there really is a plane on a collision course with another plane? And we trust our lives with this kind of software??? Then again, I'm surprised this hasn't been chalked up to a UFO or a Klingon cruiser descending to San Francisco to rescue the whales.
It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman...no, it's a U-2!
Marc
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You just know that the system was designed with current airliners as test data and the U2's flight characteristics caused an integer overflow somewhere.
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You mean, the altitude was 65537 feet?
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According to the results of GFI Software's third annual IT Admin Stress Survey, conducted by Opinion Matters, fully 79 percent of IT staff are actively considering leaving their jobs due to job-related stress. Don't worry, be happy!
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... and the other 21% are so burned out they no longer care?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The dream of producing hydrocarbon fuels from carbon dioxide and sunlight is one step closer thanks to chemists in Europe who have made jet fuel from scratch in a solar reactor for the first time. Just remember, the third act is called The Prestige.
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If the dream is still hydrocarbon fuel, then we are still having a nightmare.
My dream is a non-hydrocarbon fuel that is low-cost, and provides effective transportation, without ruining the air we breathe.
Last I heard, H2 (Hydrogen) fuel is somewhere in the ballpark with that.
I'm still waiting to see how much of the "H" in "H2" is "Hype" and how much is truly "Hopeful"
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C-P-User-3 wrote: without ruining the air we breathe
How does, say natural gas, ruin air when burnt?
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Munchies_Matt wrote: How does, say natural gas, ruin air when burnt?
Good point.
Just edited my comment
added "non-hydrocarbon"
My Opinion: As long as we are chasing the next great supply of dead dinosaurs to get our motor fuel; we continue the nightmare.
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You misunderstand, why is a hydrocarbon fuel such as natural gas a nightmare, why does it ruin the atmosphere?
When it burns it produces water and co2, its very clean, not like sulphurous coal or lignite for example.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Munchies_Matt wrote: why is a hydrocarbon fuel such as natural gas a nightmare,
Because it's a hydrocarbon, that's why.
That's how we got here to this point today: using hydrocarbon fuels.
I would like to see us using a fuel that doesn't require drilling, or searching, for such a scarce resource; a resource which is (possibly, arguably, whatever) dwindling in supply, and which will inexorably rise in price in a manner that will have significantly negative results for the overwhelming majority of the population.
Sure, natural gas is clean stuff.
That's not the point.
It's still a hydrocarbon, and it is closely related to petroleum.
Any hydrocarbon fuel shares the same negative consequences; and those consequences propagate far and wide to just about everybody in the economy.
That's my point: we should seek a non-hydrocarbon fuel.
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C-P-User-3 wrote: That's how we got here to this point today
What 'point today'?
C-P-User-3 wrote: I would like to see
As soon as the cost exceeds a supportable figure alternative fuels will take their place; capitalism dictates this.
C-P-User-3 wrote: Any hydrocarbon fuel shares the same negative consequences
What negative consequences? And no, coal is bad because its sulphurous and produces soot. Gas is very clean burning so they are not all the same.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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You both misunderstand each other!
He is implying the problem due to Global Warming!
You are ignoring them, maybe because you don't "believe" in it, or simply realize this will take it carbon from the atmosphere to start with and will it back, no more, no less, hence it's not very relevant to global warming (which he didn't consider, apparently)
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I always thought you could write comprehensible English, what went wrong? 
Oh, and don't mention GW here, its a taboo subject and gets people upset.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Munchies_Matt wrote: I always thought you could write comprehensible English, what went wrong?
Because you missed his obvious point! He was implying all the problem with...
Ho never mind!
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