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That's the new strategy I just wanted to suggest.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Now it's got Win10 and Android up and running,
Which Android, R2D2 or C3PO? With my luck if I buy it they'll ship it to me with Marvin...
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
I'm a puny punmaker.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'm loading Chrome so I don't have to put up with Edge a moment longer
Going a bit the long way about it, aren't you?
I mean, installing chrome so you can download Maxthon seems a bit much -- unless edge is so cr@p that it can't download it, of course.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Let me check this.
You ordered the WookieTab somewhere near a month ago. The original order was cancelled yesterday and you reordered and recieved it today?
Original order from China at 3% cheaper than the UK option? Why do we all do this?
veni bibi saltavi
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Yes.
Ordered on Jan 11th from GearBest (China) for dispatch around 20th, added the stylus to it on 17th. Got an email on the 24th that it was not going to be delivered and they promptly closed for Chinese New Year. Refunded when they reopened, and reordered via Aliexpress (think Amazon of China) on Feb 6th. They rejected the order on 7th, saying I might not be me and should send them copies of my ID, bank account, etc if I want to do business with them. No Chance!
Looked on FleaBay, found a UK supplier with them in stock (latest version, as well) ordered on 7th, delivered on 8th.
OK, I would have paid £206 + 20% VAT, plus £10 DHL delivery = £257 and I paid £288 all in in the UK. But I got it, and next day. And if there is a problem, the supplier is in the UK as well.
Why buy from China? No idea anymore ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Lately I am seeing articles from Futurist who say that this or that is impossible. A good example would be faster than light speed travel. I'm old. I've seen everything from floor model radios to 98 inch flat screen TVs with Netflix etc. I would be afraid to say any technological advance is impossible.
Leadership equals wrecked ship.
If you think you are leading my look behind you. You are alone.
If you think I am leading you, You are lost.
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Ygnaiih wrote: Futurist
No clue what this is.
Ygnaiih wrote: I would be afraid to say any technological advance is impossible
Not if you add "based on current technology and science knowledge I have".
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Ygnaiih wrote: I would be afraid to say any technological advance is impossible.
The speed of light is a known physical limit of the universe. It has little to do with what we can invent, and more with the limits that exisist in the universe.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: The speed of light is a known physical limit of the universe.
Quote: "based on current technology and science knowledge I have".
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The Earth was known to be flat. Bloodlettings were known to be healthy...
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
I'm a puny punmaker.
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It isn't?  They aren't? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: It isn't?
Only in Alabama.
Johnny J. wrote: They aren't?
See above.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Only in Alabama.
By my experience, the heads are totally flat in Alabama, not the Earth.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Flatheads were mostly produced in Michigan by the auto makers and they were a popular design for their ease of maintenance.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Only in Alabama.
That genealogical tree don't have no branches! (yes I know, it's supposed to be doesn't have any branches)
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No. It was known that people used to think the Earth was flat. Indeed Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference more than 2000 years ago. At least the Greeks had drawn their conclusions from ships apparently disappearing behind the horizon and trying to measure and calculate the circumference would have been kindof pointless if they still had thought the Earth to be flat.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Euclid was the one ruining it. If he had, say, drowned when he was a kid, space would have had two large circular dimensions, and one short linear one.
And understanding string theory would have been much easier.
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It was one of the early forms of DoubleThink.
You had to believe and say that the Earth was flat as that was part of the one true infallible word of the State Religion.
But you would also know that it was incorrect.
See also 'The Emperors new clothes'.
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I think you are confusing that with the Sun going around the Earth. (That's what got Galileo in trouble).
But that was based on religious belief, not misapplied science.
Truth,
James
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den2k88 wrote: Bloodlettings were known to be healthy...
Yes, but that was before we found the limit of our universe. Nowadays you'd need to be very convincing and stuff.
It is also not limited to what we know, but what we can observe - has there ever been a particle observed that moved faster?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Have we the technology to observe faster particles?
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
I'm a puny punmaker.
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For those that can collide with existing particles, yes. We'd have no way to determine their speed if they existed, but if they did and could collide with matter - then yes, one would notice an impact.
..what about all those planets that should have intelligent life? Any aliens passed by recently?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Heh. I'll cheat here.
Some particles can travel faster than light, under centain conditions (see cherenkov radiation - Wikipedia[^]).
I believe the limit we are all talking about here, is the speed of light in vacuo. Supposedly, the speed of light in vacuo is the fastest speed any information can travel. However that too has been debunked under certain conditions (EPR paradox - Wikipedia[^]).
We've yet to observe any tachyons, that's true. But we'd yet to observe any gravitational waves up to last year as well (and we did). And the theory we have describing the world around us is just that: a theory. When it stops corresponding to reality, we don't (shouldn't, at least) try to change reality, we change (should, at least) the theory. The same way that the theory of relativity and it's imposed limit that no massive object can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuo, was a better approximation of Newtonian physics in the limit of very large speeds (i.e. it described phenomena that Newtonian physics couldn't), there may be some other theory that describes some exotic (yet unobserved) phenomena that occur in extremely large speeds, and where the limit of the speed of light is no longer applicable (though I can't think of any phenomenon that this has been observed so far) and that degenerates to relativistic theory for large speeds and to Newtonian theory for small speeds.
Physics was in a similar position at the turn of the 20th century - there were just a handful of phenomena that had yet to be interpreted adequately by classical physics - one of them was the photoelectric phenomenon, and another one was the linear emission spectrum of gases. Yet these two gave birth to quantum physics, and a whole lot of new areas of research for more than a century.
Relativity theory still has a few things not very well defined (naked singularities comes to mind). And the universe is a very big place, so we can't really say we have looked everywhere and there's nothing more to observe. I, for one, believe that we are still in for quite a few surprises in terms of exotic physical phenomena in the future.
Φευ! Εδόμεθα υπό ρηννοσχήμων λύκων!
(Alas! We're devoured by lamb-guised wolves!)
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