Disregard text (or put it into some translator Ru->En), just look at the pictures. Basically the board is some hard base with blue paper on top of it, and all that covered with glass sheet. Write on it with white markers. The target was to make the board very similar to the blueprint.
Video games market IS antiquated. Crappy gamepad controllers, requirement to use TVs, hardware upgrades lock for 5-6 years, dumbed down games (as a result of gamepad use).
Sure, it has billion marketing budgets, easy to start using equipment, but technologically it is antiquated.
28 crashes a day is a lot. But author assumes that storage magically appear inside 747 during takeoff add disappears during landing.
But if we will include this strange institution called customs then 28 item loss per day won't be unrealistic at all.
Items detained indefinitely in the customs, items detained until bribe is paid, items lost, items stolen during load/unload, items broken (hits, pressure changes, magnetic gateways and handheld scanners etc.). Lots of problems in general, all are multiplied if your country customs and airport personnel are incompetent.
Picture 1, "Less Visual Fixation":
I think it is wrong, if I'm processing simple (or repeating) stack of windows I do not read all labels (at least after a few similar tasks), I see OK button and I click it.
Picture 3, "Maps to the expected button functions"
This is also wrong, there are specific labels for actions on the picture - Back/Next, Backward/Forward, Return/Continue.
Picture 4, "Gives users a more efficient task flow"
I agree with eyesight map (left to right, up to down) and this is precisely why OK should be on the left side - so we don't need to read further.
I confess that I'm Windows biased a little. But the author is biased just the same, only he is using Mac :) .
NEC EA231WMi on ccfl, or its successor on LEDs.
It is even cheaper than Dell 24" but for a reson - it is 23" 16:9. But it has comparable quality and being 25% cheaper I bought it.
My back hurts just to look at those "notebook workspaces" :( . I've worked on 10" netbook 6 hours a day for a year, on 15" notebook for two years. It is just soo bad for eyes, hands, back. Ugh...
I think that this angle is set so that person standing near the table would look at the display at 90 degree angle, just like with general monitor setup advice (monitor perpendicular to the line of sight, line of sight ends at the top border of the display). Since people are standing, not sitting, then notebook display should be a bit tilted backwards.
I don't know about electronics specifically and different country issues (I live in Ukraine), but in general store if you would accidentally* break anything then, regardless of store rules, the store can't require customer to pay for it.
*I don't exactly remember about "accidental" part. I suppose that store would be required to prove that action was intentional in court.
Soon Facebook will acquire enough mass to cross Chandrasekhar limit and collapse into a black hole of the internet. No information will ever leave the system, its existence will be observed only by interaction with advertisement radiation in the internet. People will claim that they left FB space but that is physically impossible.
Over time interstellar drift may cause FB blackhole to collide with Google or Apple galaxy. And then whole internet cluster will collapse.
What is so important about email in 2012? Tell your contacts your new email, and change restore email option at web resources. Sure, it is a bit uncomfortable and will take 1-2 days to finish, but probability of this scenario is very low.
It is beyond my understanding how could Ms. Fong-Jones even considered being responsible. This a complete bullshit.
It is like suing knife salesman for each harmful incident involving knifes he sold.
Also I don't understand why people here say that "In car sharing, someone must bear the cost of this risk.". If lightning would stuck that car, who would they sue, Zeus?
In a GitLaw there won't be merge conflicts. There will only be merging to the trunk. The first one (by UTC time) to commit will be revised first and either merged or rejected. Then later entries processed in the same way. Trunk is a current working law. To prevent overworks there should be made freeze periods (180 days is sufficient I think) where no merges occur and merge periods (30 days max) when commits are processed.
This leaves problem with system abuse with millions atomic commits to disrupt work process. Can be solved (probably) by setting penalties for abuse (fines etc.).
System abuse is very hard topic overall, preventing it sufficiently will be hardest thing to make in all GitLaw project.
Gamepads are shitty too and that doesn't prevent consoles to sell in gazillions. My fingers tire after 30 minutes of active gaming and I can't possibly play longer that an hour, my thumbs are burning by that point. And I can play for days (literally) with a good mouse and keyboard.
Developers need to think, not just copy/paste tech tested on PCs and consoles. Or they'll fail spectacularly.
Worse thing is that this crap games occupy Top charts of the store (along with ad-ware), so digging for hidden treasures is actually a game of itself. Sometimes you can notice a game in a "Customers also bought" section, sometimes in a "developer" section, but mostly you'll need to search through reviews and charts on the web, filtering out ad-ware and major-ware.
PS: I actually think that some old game ports will sell like hot cakes, just not the ones the publishers think. They make most money on the realtime games on the PC, so they port them to touch devices. What they need to do is to port turn based games.
At first I thought it mean preventing packages from breaking when they are piled one on top of another for storage. To preserve fragile products inside.
Twitter was designed for a process of acquiring information, results (the information itself) are irrelevant. RSS was designed for results, the process of acquiring them is irrelevant.
In other words - in Twitter what matters is When and How, not What. In RSS it is the opposite - What matters, not When or How.
RSS will be just like now for years. Twitter will be indefinitely more popular all that time until any moment in the future more trendy network will emerge all every one will leave the ship in months. And probably no one will compete with RSS. It is like a Unix tool - no point in touching it, if it works.
I'm from Ukraine and I can say that at least in case of one school you are wrong. There was complete pack of school BS - nerds, geeks, alpha's, omega's, dominance games, bullying, etc. etc. And it was a little better than average school in the capital. I wondered at times what it is like in the regional schools...
PS: you don't need to call geek "a geek" to bully him ;)
I'm extrapolating on all industry actually, but I have a friend in a small (<100) company in ex-USSR that does exclusively patent reverse engineering for Freescale/Motorola. This one company (there are at least several others working for F/M in Czech and few other countries) does at least hundred patent researches per year for 10+ years at least, meaning buying devices by Apple, Samsung, TI, Microsoft etc. demolishing to bare crystal and then photographing layer by layer microscheme structure, restoring it on PC to reverse integral scheme and find patent infringing (and maybe a little more, some interesting tech things that wasn't known publicly, i.e. TI does very innovative tricks that are interesting for F/M).
So returning to your question,no, I don't have sources, only second hand experience which I find very believable.
This is more because of secrecy (and ignorance). Any company of such scale is engaged in hundreds patent disputes every year at least, maybe thousands, maybe tens of thousands, it really hard even to estimate. And this continues for decades.
Those ten-twenty disputes that made to journals and blogs are in such small amount that they can be counted as statistical deviation and more of PR or anti-PR moves.
Real patent wars are never off, especially for multinationals.
Nice feature of GReader is that it uses browser native engine with all user mods - adblock, flashblock, greasemonkey, stylish etc. Stand-alones that I've used are mostly Trident (IE engine) so despite their great features they are also annoying.
So for your question - it will take lots of effort to relocate RSS reader and large portion of user base will be lost in transition.
Netflix, really? The one with "Sorry, we are not available in our country" label on the homepage?
Sure, all those good (and bad) series are also unavailable on TV in my country :) ...
PS: just about every legal streaming site is unavailable outside USA. Or outside 10-15 premium countries in best case.
Can someone clarify, is this behavior on iPad3 or on previous generation? Because iPad1 and iPad2 clearly don't display such behavior. I have around a hundred apps on iPad2, and before and after mass updates went out they took relatively same space, 15Gb or so. Nice indicator is RealRacing2HD - 1.1Gb in size before and after upgrade.
6Gb apps triple in size? Really?..