Splendid. Someone found a way to break Browser Scrolling. (Firefox 115.16 for Win7) Well done.
I hadn't seen this before, thought it looks interesting. Wondered why it is perpetually unfinished... until I saw the 'Make an off-line version of this book' and 'Make a PDF of the book' sections. Oh, OK. The authors…
A disappointingly indecisive work, dare I say giving a wishy-washy impression. So much more could have been said, if the artist had worked in the far more assertive medium of #FFFFEE. Or perhaps the almost ineffable…
There's a deeper reason. Remember 3Dfx? They made the entire source code for their 3D hardware available to developers, all in C and a tiny bit of assembler. It could be easily ported to non-Wintel platforms. (I know,…
Thanks! As an old (retired) programmer I was hoping a good intro to GPUs would turn up. Now, I don't suppose you could add 'ink on paper' to the color options? Gray on light gray, with medium gray highlighting, is hard…
Funny! A lengthy review of writing implements, and comments about them, without a single mention of mechanical (clutch) pencils. Like the Pentel P205 (0.5mm leads), and various other sizes of pencil and leads available.…
I don't think you'd be able to get any new non-computerized car at all today. Emission control makes computerization an absolute requirement. That's why choice in cars for people who feel the way I do is limited to old…
I'm a retired electronics design engineer and embedded programmer, and I will NEVER own a car with any kind of vehicle/engine management computer. Old cars for me, forever. I flatly refuse anything but fully manual and…
"There is a button on the remote to activate voice." More likely: There is a button on the remote to make users believe they have the ability to disable voice data relay to someone's remote servers. What are the chances…
"all the events of the last week seem so orchestrated that it is hard not to be cynical" Uh... make that the last 51 years. If you only just noticed, you're not paying attention. And I only say 51 years from picking an…
Fascinating. Presumably it wouldn't be possible for any planets to be orbiting in the vicinity of the 0.258 days orbital period binary. Or maybe, if far enough away? However, imagine being a species on such a planet,…
Stating that the formula is still a secret after all these years, isn't google-compatible. http://oozinggoo.com/howto.html
It's been done before. It's called coal. But then at the end of the Carboniferous Era fungi learned how to break down lignin. This ended the trapping of vast amounts of atmospheric carbon in layers of non-rotting plant…
There's a fatal flaw. Even if commercial delivery drones could be engineered to not crash into people or houses, not tangle with power lines, not cause accidents on highways, and not collide with each other once they…
Brilliant idea! And while we are going about removing unsightly, brain-straining details from every UI, let's remove all street signs, house numbers, highway exit signs, and so on. Also, hide all place names on all…
I'm amazed that some people don't by default make a conscious choice of where to put archive extractions, Which would typically include deliberate creation of a new folder, named by them, in a suitable place in their…
Hmmm, in this thread the dead comments are some of the best. Or at least, the ones with which I best agree. Only a few more days to go before April 1st. Did PG accidentally post a little early? If he's indeed serious,…
It seems to me you're forgetting an important aspect of human psychology with this system. People generally don't like submitting to 'supervision', in what they feel should be free discussion. If you create an…
Perhaps it's made of cake... But seriously, mockup for testing optical image-recognition guided anti-ship missiles, in all weather conditions. Unlike for radar guided missiles, for image recognition systems 'looking…
Superficially it may seem like a generous response from Fluke. But you can bet that if there wasn't such a backlash against their action of lodging a complaint with US Customs, they would not have done this. Also I…
Some other problems with the prize task as defined: * Wikipedia is light on images (due to copyright issues I suppose) but the wider challenge of compressing 'human knowledge' really has to deal with the vast masses of…
When bitcoin started it was touted as anonymous, reliable and secure against fraud and theft by central authorities (especially government.) I had some doubts (and other interests) so didn't bother getting into…
Emotionally appealing as it is, at this stage such legislation has about as much chance of being implemented as for someone nuking all the NSA facilities from orbit. Though I actually wish that could happen. It's the…
It might be a little harder than you think. Satellites typically use some kind of encryption on the command channel, since no one wants to find their satellite has been hijacked. Even back in 1978 that was likely the…
Given the character of the president as described here http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/maydan/maydan.... (by someone who's opinion I trust) I strongly doubt the man has the capability to learn anything,…
Splendid. Someone found a way to break Browser Scrolling. (Firefox 115.16 for Win7) Well done.
I hadn't seen this before, thought it looks interesting. Wondered why it is perpetually unfinished... until I saw the 'Make an off-line version of this book' and 'Make a PDF of the book' sections. Oh, OK. The authors…
A disappointingly indecisive work, dare I say giving a wishy-washy impression. So much more could have been said, if the artist had worked in the far more assertive medium of #FFFFEE. Or perhaps the almost ineffable…
There's a deeper reason. Remember 3Dfx? They made the entire source code for their 3D hardware available to developers, all in C and a tiny bit of assembler. It could be easily ported to non-Wintel platforms. (I know,…
Thanks! As an old (retired) programmer I was hoping a good intro to GPUs would turn up. Now, I don't suppose you could add 'ink on paper' to the color options? Gray on light gray, with medium gray highlighting, is hard…
Funny! A lengthy review of writing implements, and comments about them, without a single mention of mechanical (clutch) pencils. Like the Pentel P205 (0.5mm leads), and various other sizes of pencil and leads available.…
I don't think you'd be able to get any new non-computerized car at all today. Emission control makes computerization an absolute requirement. That's why choice in cars for people who feel the way I do is limited to old…
I'm a retired electronics design engineer and embedded programmer, and I will NEVER own a car with any kind of vehicle/engine management computer. Old cars for me, forever. I flatly refuse anything but fully manual and…
"There is a button on the remote to activate voice." More likely: There is a button on the remote to make users believe they have the ability to disable voice data relay to someone's remote servers. What are the chances…
"all the events of the last week seem so orchestrated that it is hard not to be cynical" Uh... make that the last 51 years. If you only just noticed, you're not paying attention. And I only say 51 years from picking an…
Fascinating. Presumably it wouldn't be possible for any planets to be orbiting in the vicinity of the 0.258 days orbital period binary. Or maybe, if far enough away? However, imagine being a species on such a planet,…
Stating that the formula is still a secret after all these years, isn't google-compatible. http://oozinggoo.com/howto.html
It's been done before. It's called coal. But then at the end of the Carboniferous Era fungi learned how to break down lignin. This ended the trapping of vast amounts of atmospheric carbon in layers of non-rotting plant…
There's a fatal flaw. Even if commercial delivery drones could be engineered to not crash into people or houses, not tangle with power lines, not cause accidents on highways, and not collide with each other once they…
Brilliant idea! And while we are going about removing unsightly, brain-straining details from every UI, let's remove all street signs, house numbers, highway exit signs, and so on. Also, hide all place names on all…
I'm amazed that some people don't by default make a conscious choice of where to put archive extractions, Which would typically include deliberate creation of a new folder, named by them, in a suitable place in their…
Hmmm, in this thread the dead comments are some of the best. Or at least, the ones with which I best agree. Only a few more days to go before April 1st. Did PG accidentally post a little early? If he's indeed serious,…
It seems to me you're forgetting an important aspect of human psychology with this system. People generally don't like submitting to 'supervision', in what they feel should be free discussion. If you create an…
Perhaps it's made of cake... But seriously, mockup for testing optical image-recognition guided anti-ship missiles, in all weather conditions. Unlike for radar guided missiles, for image recognition systems 'looking…
Superficially it may seem like a generous response from Fluke. But you can bet that if there wasn't such a backlash against their action of lodging a complaint with US Customs, they would not have done this. Also I…
Some other problems with the prize task as defined: * Wikipedia is light on images (due to copyright issues I suppose) but the wider challenge of compressing 'human knowledge' really has to deal with the vast masses of…
When bitcoin started it was touted as anonymous, reliable and secure against fraud and theft by central authorities (especially government.) I had some doubts (and other interests) so didn't bother getting into…
Emotionally appealing as it is, at this stage such legislation has about as much chance of being implemented as for someone nuking all the NSA facilities from orbit. Though I actually wish that could happen. It's the…
It might be a little harder than you think. Satellites typically use some kind of encryption on the command channel, since no one wants to find their satellite has been hijacked. Even back in 1978 that was likely the…
Given the character of the president as described here http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/maydan/maydan.... (by someone who's opinion I trust) I strongly doubt the man has the capability to learn anything,…