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That is the first prank I think of when I think of April Fools Day. So awesome... At least one person took a screenshot for posterity.

THIS is how a flying car should look like dammit
https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/...
and should sound like this
http://paulweb.org/Pweb%20back...
anything else is just an airplane :(

If you are going to make jokes about Chris, you should at least TRY. Here are a few photos for you to look at:

http://www.chipscollection.com/Foto/Usa-58.jpg
http://cdn1.viewpoints.com/pro-product-photos/000/007/258/300/1195075582-08966_full.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2722/4365267305_1f5bcdb3cc.jpg
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--r46VgJ3W--/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_center,h_900,q_80,w_1600/ayrpv3s5wm7efa2z8wu4.png

I hope I have illustrated my point. What is interesting is that their marketing team changed it from "cooler" to "cool" in recent years. Are their flavors different? Or was it a ploy to milk more money from the general populace by increasing MSG content and making the product more addictive. You decide, and post in the comment section below.

And remember to have a great day.

What they are doing at the moment is like teaching someone to drive a car, where the instructor takes over when something goes wrong. What they also need to be doing is being like a flight school where they train the pilots to handle things when they go wrong. Otherwise, there are always going to be high profile accidents in the news, like the Viola Group accident:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

I've seen these kinds of bridges in Norway. One end of the road at the bridge becomes a solid concrete wall. The other end becomes an empty void with no barriers.

In may places they paint murals on the outside walls of buildings. Those extended from the ground to the top of the building and can be anything from crowds of people to fake roads, staircases and windows.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com...
http://www.theparisblog.com/wp...
http://assets.design.cultuurpl...

The UK allows buses to have advertising on them. Those can be anything from pictures of other vehicles to a collage of road signs. Sometimes even an aircraft. For a simple vision systems, those are going to be confusing.

How are trains at parallel parking?

Trains only park parallel to each other.

U wot m8? You're 'aving a fucking giraffe!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Total power generation in 2013 was 213.4 TWh, which comes from coal (38.4%), natural gas (31.1%), nuclear (18.8%), solar and wind (4.5%), co-generation (3.4%), oil (2.3%) and pumped-storage hydro (1.5%). In 2012, Taipower purchased 7,652.1 MW of electricity from Taiwan's current nine IPP.[9] Taiwan has seen an annual growth of 4.4% in terms of electricity generation in 1992â"2012.

In terms of price to produce electricity, the average generation cost of electricity in Taiwan was US$7.0 cent/kWh, which consists of US$1.9 cent/kWh for nuclear, US$5.8 cent/kWh for coal and US$11.25 cent/kWh for natural gas.[10]

Taipower operates three types of power plant based on the generation characteristics, which are peaking power plant, load following power plant and base load power plant.[11]

In 2012, the base load power source constituted for 42.4% of the total power generation in Taiwan, below the expected level of 55-65%. Over the past decade, the capacity of peak load energy sources was between 10.3-14.8%, slightly lower than the expected 10-15% value.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They're phasing out nuclear too, much to my dismay. All that will do is make Taiwan more vulnerable to a blockade of fossil fuel imports by the massive fascist dictatorship over the water openly plotting an Anschluss. More nuke plants is what Taiwan needs, not fewer. A few more solar cells wouldn't hurt either.

This is what American food looks like: https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-m...

Here is another example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Another: https://static1.squarespace.co...

Here is what American Food looks like in a big city: https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/...

Here is what the regional cuisine looks like in the part of America that I live in: (this is the most popular restaurant in my neighborhood, though not the most expensive) https://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.c...

Here is what American food looks like in a "red state": https://ncstatecommuters.files...

You can watch on old Andy Warhol movies and the like, they used to have 3 slots for dime, nickel, or quarter. Each gave you a set amount of time. I searched for "old pay phone" on duckduckgo images and pretty well every picture is of this model. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/...

I owned a 701c. No the edges didn't flex like one of the other comments purports, at least not unless you used the weight of your arms to press a key instead of just your fingers. The overhang was only about an inch on either side, so there just wasn't enough leverage for it to flex significantly. IBM did a great job designing it.

Its critical flaw (at least for me) was the complete lack of a wrist rest. I had to carry a cushioned wrist rest around with it in my bag to be able to use it comfortably. (This was back before trackpads were common nor very good. Most of us just plugged in an external mouse. So having only a trackpoint wasn't a problem.). To be fair most laptops of that era didn't have a wrist rest. The keyboards were all shoved up against the front edge like a desktop keyboard, except desktop keyboards didn't sit 1" above the desk so you could use the desk as a wrist rest. When laptops started moving keyboards closer to the screen to give you a built-in wrist rest, the butterfly keyboard was doomed. There was no way to implement its sliding motion with a forward wrist rest, without also incorporating some vertical travel as it "unfolded" - it used that empty space in front of it to unfold.

For most people looking for a great keyboard, the Macbooks are a non-starter even if they can accept the OS change, because of the half-height arrow keys and lack of spacing between every 4 function keys (or lack of physical function keys on the touch bar models). For some reason this is glossed over in all the MBP reviews. Every PC laptop which dares to commit these transgressions gets dinged for it in all the reviews, but in the Mac reviews it's never mentioned.

The Thinkpads have shrunken their arrow keys slightly compared to their old keyboards. But they remain suitably large for comfortable editing, and the function keys mimic the spaces between every 4 keys like a desktop keyboard for touch typing.

All is not lost.

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Here is a picture of an IBM XT. As you can see, it has no buttons on the front at all. The IBM AT was the same. According to Wikipedia, IBM didn't add a reset button to their PCs until the early 90s. PC clones did offer this earlier though.

"...coming paradigm shift to digital currency..."

Check the top of the graph.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7236/6918834286_483518f635_b.jpg

signed, little girl.

with GREAT FLAMING EYEBROWS!

Those renderings have a Georges Seurat vibe, no?

comets dont have radios

Yes they do

There are lots of problems. One I am curious about would be resupply/docking of any floater (heh) in the atmosphere. But if you were to conceive of any off world human presence starting with the most earth-like conditions in the solar system seems like the best bet. Using Rei's graphic he linked below. https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/...

Enough with Mars. We cannot live on Mars. Ever. The difference in gravity and radiation will guarantee that. You can't fix biology and evolution. And don't say "live in caves" or "underground". Give us all a break.

So, Venus's middle cloud layer, then?

A few more nightclub dress codes:

http://media.npr.org/assets/im...

No athletic wear, baggy clothing, and chains.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/...

No athletic wear, du rags, bandanas, baggy clothing, or ball caps.

https://thesocietypages.org/so...

No athletic wear, sideways backwards baseball caps, baggy clothing, doo rags.

http://www.afro.com/wp-content...

Baggy clothing, flat bill hats, chains, athletic apparrel.

Many of the dress codes prohibit "work boots", which is because a lot of black people like wearing Timberlands.

Here in Iceland we got a new highest waterfall out of the deal. Our highest used to be Glymur, but the glacier Morsárjökull receded up a cliff and in its place left a series of waterfalls that are higher than Glymur (now called Morsárfossar).

Glymur is prettier though. Morsárfossar was prettier partially glaciated, like the cliffs to the right still are.

No doubt, credit where credit is due and my hats off to MS in their browsers efficiency, however, it still doesn't change the fact that Microsoft's browser will always be seen as inferior like IE. I guess (sadly) the same as many people see Firefox as always bloated and inefficient compared to Chrome.

MS will no doubt use this to their advantage in ads as much as possible, but I don't think it will change the browser war - until perhaps they (like Google) also spend billions in advertising Edge all over the world in train stations to newspapers to billboards... all over the world! :)

But good news for the rest of us, hopefully it will force competition and hopefully get (especially) Mozilla to create a more efficient browser!

If you really dig down into the root cause of instability in this portion of the Middle East, I'd blame the Europeans for carving up the region after they defeated the Ottoman Empire in the first World War. They drew those borders with little to no consideration for the indigenous cultural, lingual, and political boundaries.

They intentionally split cultures across countries and placed minority cultures in power to weaken the country and keep the ruling minority class beholden to the UK. So while they may have created this mess, they didn't do it out of disregard, they did it by design.

If you really dig down into the root cause of instability in this portion of the Middle East, I'd blame the Europeans for carving up the region after they defeated the Ottoman Empire in the first World War. They drew those borders with little to no consideration for the indigenous cultural, lingual, and political boundaries. As a result, you have disparate peoples forced together into the same "country" trying to form a unified government. And (in the most extreme case) the Kurds - 28 million people spread across as minorities in four countries without a country to call their own.

This is a great point. After WWI, the Brits & French simply divided up the region based on what THEY occupied, regardless of who lived where. Hence you have the Kurds spread out between 4 countries, none of which to call their own. Given how none of these countries are our friends - Iraq being an Iranian puppet - it's worth revisiting that, carving out Kurdistan from all 4 countries, and giving them that country. Just put one condition - there has to be genuine religious pluralism: Kurdistan can't become an Islamic state. Also, they must accommodate and give full freedoms to Yazidis, Assyrian and Syrian Christians, and all other religious minorities within their area. Include in their territory cities like Kirkuk, Palmyra, and even some areas of eastern Turkey.

For the Alawites, give them the entire Mediterranean coast, including Turkey's Hatay province, so that they have Ladakya and Antakya. Give Damascus to the Druze. For the Sunnites, unite the Sunnite areas of Iraq & Syria - running from Raqqa to al Anbar province, and hand it over to Jordan, instead of creating a new country. Central and Southern Iraq - from Baghdad to Basra - unite that with Iran's Khuzestan province (which is Arab) to form a Shi'ite country - maybe include Bahrein in it as well as Saudi Arabia's al Hasa province, which is majority Shi'ite.

If you really dig down into the root cause of instability in this portion of the Middle East, I'd blame the Europeans for carving up the region after they defeated the Ottoman Empire in the first World War.

A nation is possible only when people stop thinking of themselves as being of this or that tribe. Otherwise, each tribe only tolerates their own tribe winning the "democratic" election. This is why separation of church and state, is also so important. So, carving things up along tribal boundaries still doesn't really resolve these issues, as it doesn't shift people to thinking of themselves as "citizens" who live and let live, forming political compromises with others, which is sort of the basis for tolerance. So even if you carve it up along tribal boundaries, there is still nothing to stop one tribe wanting to attack the other tribe to gain territory and resources or resolve some perceived grievance. As a very general example, assuming the Sunni/Shia identities matter, Saudi Arabia is Sunni and Iran is Shia, and they each have their own country, yet they are locked in a long set of proxy wars. The problem is basically the final scene in Laurence of Arabia: the leaders come to the table, and instead of hammering out political solutions, they fight each other. But this is no surprise, as a nation is a big powerful entity and it doesn't get created without a number of civil wars along the way, all too often. The idea that you could go from the Ottoman Empire's system, straight to a bunch of nation states, no matter how carefully draw, in one step, was never going to work, not for anyone. I mean it is kinda fascinating to imagine what system they should have used, perhaps some sort of loose empire where they left most of the day to day running of things to the existing tribal networks, and only provided some very general policing and industrial assistance.

I'm sure last week it was the destabilization of Iraq that was the cause of ISIS.

While the second Iraq war provided the opportunity for ISIS/ISIL to form, they didn't become big players until two main events. The Arab Spring in 2011 caused unrest in the region; notably in Syria, which devolved into civil war giving them a window of opportunity to spread their influence (both by persuasion and by force). And the capture of massive amounts of U.S. military weapons that had been given to Iraqi troops. The Iraqis fled from ISIL's advance leaving the weapons, rather than stood to fight because U.S. troops had been withdrawn from Iraq to keep Obama's campaign promise. I think most would agree now that that withdrawal was premature, and the Iraqis could've used several more years of training and support before being left to fend for themselves.

There's plenty of blame to go around. Yeah Bush dropped the cake on the floor. But Obama tried to shove it under the carpet to meet a self-imposed deadline, instead of truly cleaning up the mess. Of course the ants were going to find it. And the situation with Syria being caught in a tug-of-war between the U.S. and Russia dates back to the Cold War, and arguably all the way back to the end of WWII and the formation of Israel.

If you really dig down into the root cause of instability in this portion of the Middle East, I'd blame the Europeans for carving up the region after they defeated the Ottoman Empire in the first World War. They drew those borders with little to no consideration for the indigenous cultural, lingual, and political boundaries. As a result, you have disparate peoples forced together into the same "country" trying to form a unified government. And (in the most extreme case) the Kurds - 28 million people spread across as minorities in four countries without a country to call their own.

Dissatisfied with earlier efforts to correct tech's gender imbalance, it appears Google may be getting ready to play hardball. On Saturday, news leaked of the search giant's soon-to-launch 'Project Moses,' which a Google spokesperson would only say will draw inspiration from the project's namesake and utilize Google Maps' new 'Share Location' feature.

You mean like this?

Dammit, you mean I'm going to have to buy my own batteries now?!!

And GET OFF of my lawn!

Every problem can be solved with gaffer tape and WD40.

Using tools that already exist, create your art and explain how you actually achieved the effect. Then, you get coding geniuses that will want to automate your result to create other art. I've been lucky that some of my madness have inspired coders to automate some of my flows (and very appreciative too). You have to give a little to get more. Not rich, but I heard that rich people implement this philosophy too. :)

Some shameless self promo of things that I concocted and then others actually created automated presets for me afterwards:

ref: http://www.fontplay.com/freeph...
render: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/...

ref: (freehanded using Flame Painter
render: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/...

Using tools that already exist, create your art and explain how you actually achieved the effect. Then, you get coding geniuses that will want to automate your result to create other art. I've been lucky that some of my madness have inspired coders to automate some of my flows (and very appreciative too). You have to give a little to get more. Not rich, but I heard that rich people implement this philosophy too. :)

Some shameless self promo of things that I concocted and then others actually created automated presets for me afterwards:

ref: http://www.fontplay.com/freeph...
render: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/...

ref: (freehanded using Flame Painter
render: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/...

"repurpose the "No Smoking" light to one where the pilot can indicate when we're allowed to get our portable electronic devices out or when it's time to put them away again"

You mean like this? https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/...

Dilbert obligatory

The Skyhawk may not be to OP's liking as it's a bit Flava Flav-esque, but don't let that dissuade you from Citizen Eco-Drive. I've been rocking a titanium Citizen for fifteen years now as well. https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/... is an image of one of its brothers. They're built like a tank, never need a battery replacement (though eventually the rechargeable will need changing, but that is possible), and this one has the benefit of having a countdown timer in the digital portion of it.

If you want to go all-out nerd cred, there are upgraded versions that will receive WWVB (and its global peers) timekeeping broadcasts, or even full on GPS time from the satellites. They do have a bluetooth-enabled line called Proximity, but I'm suspect of any consumer technology-tied device with a long projected lifespan, as the lifecycles are totally different.

And we thought Stallman was crazy

Being correct and being crazy are not mutually exclusive! He could make his points in a ways consistent with social norms or he can stand outside and yell at people while wearing a sign like a crazy person.

I think his concerns are valid and he's correct on many things but I also think he could use some psychiatric help.

... infringe on patents held by a Finnish bicycle tire manufacturer?

The app was envisioned as a tool to ease new users on to Twitter's flagship platform.

This is Twitter's flagship platform, in case you were wondering. Hey, it hasn't sunk yet.

An established sitka spruce here grows at about half a meter a year. So yes, the forests have grown quite a bit since then. And forestry efforts have significantly increased since then. Our largest tree is now 22 meters tall (72 feet). Even in Reykjavík we have some decent ones growing - for example, this is Öskjuhlíð, by Perlan. They're bigger / more extensive right outside of town, in Heiðmörk - althoug the biggest forests are in northeast Iceland (and the biggest trees in the south / southeast, where it's wettest and they grow fastest)

/sarcasm What!? Faux News spews propaganda? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you ! It is such as a bastion of objective, well researched topics !

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A downvote is NOT I disagree.

Are your users stupid?
Introducing the StupidaMouse, a mouse with no buttons!
What your users can't click, they can't screw up!

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Lets have Febo

Yes, Simpletons. We ought to have 25 people selling the last mile

Here's the libertarian version of network delivery - New York City:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-...

https://keithyorkcity.files.wo...

Lest we think it can't happen today - in India:

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/... By the way folks, don't use the many providers over one fiber stuff - to have one company put up the wire/fiber then force them to allow anyone to use and charge fo rit is about as anti-libertarian as you can get.

Meh, everyone has their own goals. I personally wish we'd be focusing toward a colony in Venus's cloudtops (the most Earthlike place in the solar system).

But Mars gets all the money.

I once heard that the US spends all of it's resources on Mars because the Soviets had put a lander on Venus. The US wanted to prove its superiority, so it chose to explore the more distant and inhospitable Mars.

Meh, everyone has their own goals. I personally wish we'd be focusing toward a colony in Venus's cloudtops (the most Earthlike place in the solar system).

But Mars gets all the money.

Okay Google... Tell me exactly where on the planet THIS PHOTO was taken.

I'll wait...

The difference is that Apple isn't squandering MY money on hookers or whatever because I have an Android phone. If Samsung's phone quality/hooker ratio dipped too low I could get a phone from Motorola or LG. Or if ALL the Android and Windows Phone manufacturers had unacceptably low hooker/quality ratios, I could get an Apple phone./quote> You most very clearly do not get Corporatism. The hookers, and sometimes the fine blow and with no possible doubt, the baksheesh, is an integral part of operations. Corruption, or "Doing business" is the modus operandi. Do not think you can buy any phone without participation in the game.

Anyone who thinks that private industry is less corrupt than teh evilz guvmint, needs to get a grip.

And if so, here is your poster child - I'll sell you some of thease at a deep discount. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/...

With governments, there's just the government. It doesn't matter how much quality they deliver, you still have to pay for their hookers.

Who's learning more here: Cameron vs. 10-Month-Old Baby vs. Obama?

A marked-up document (.docx) from July on the website of the STEM Education Coalition, which counts Microsoft as a member, seems to attribute the enrichment eligibility criteria clause to NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Last year, Gillibrand said, "Typically, in STEM fields, science, technology, engineering and math, it's typically white men. Very few women, very few minorities, very few from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. So we want to change that."

... so the Unicode consortium should introduce the Five Mullah Facepalm emoji in response.