lawÂbarring retailers from printing paper receiptsÂunless a customer requests one.Â
Which means they will not be purchasing more receipt paper or ink once it runs out and you won't be able to request a paper receipt after that. As soon as the printer breaks it won't get fixed either. Not that it matters, because after this goes into effect within two years no one will know how to push the "Print Receipt" button either.
So the training gets embedded in the DNA and transferred to the new generation?
Did you not read TFS?
She was cloned from a 7-year-old female dog, known as Huahuangma,
So in 2 years when the clone is full grown, the original dog will be 9 and probably getting too old. So they can just scoop out it's brain and put it into the clone. Instantly having 9 years of training and life experience in a 2 year old. It's a clone, so tissue rejection shouldn't be an issue either. Bonus points if they replace the skull with a clear gorilla glass cover and the larynx with a buzzy electronic sounding speaker.
Where's the petition to not bring Clippy back? Or better yet, the petition to delete any and all code related to Clippy? I'll sign one or both of those.
If they are changing the name because of some sort of negative association with cable, wires, or whatever; then I suppose I can see it.
But if it's because of the shitty reputation that the cable companies have gotten due to the way they operate, then this is just stupid. If they want to be thought of in a more positive way, then perhaps they should stop being douche bags and treating their customers the way they have been for the last couple of decades.
But I guess a name change is easy, while actually doing something meaningful is probably against the very fiber of their being.
So what happens if the owner is injured and has no other way to get medical treatment other than to drive to a medical facility? If the car recognizes that the driver is not paying attention due to being in excruciating pain and pulls over and won't move, that's not good. Or if the driver is transporting an injured family member? I'm sure checking on the family member while driving could be seen as distracted too. There are so many ways this could go wrong.
I'm at the point where I think randomly picking people, like jury duty,
Lucky you, you're still optimistic. I've gotten to the point where I think a Magic 8-ball wouldn't do any worse than the politicians we've had for the last 20 or 30 years now.
Nobody has proven that it causes cancer. That's the point. After hundreds of studies all the data is still negative. We can't prove a negative, but we can certainly point to all of the studies which failed to disprove it. That's how science works.
How many decades did it take until it was official that smoking cigarettes caused cancer? My doctor when I was a kid smoked in the exam room. I knew people that were told by there doctors to smoke to calm their nerves. Yet my grand parents called them "coffin nails". How many decades did the American Cancer Society rally against smoking?
This is one of the things that I've always found a bit scary in the US. If there's a lot of money involved, it takes damn near irrefutable proof that something is really bad before it's accepted as true.
No it doesn't, why do you think Monsanto sold themselves to Bayer? The management knew the shit was about to hit the fan and cashed out. Man, they really did a number on Bayer though.
It's kind of ironic that Monsanto, the company that screwed up the manufacture of Agent Orange because it was more profitable, was bought by the company that made Zyklon B.
I happened to be in Home Depot the other day buying weed killer and a gallon of professional Roundup was $169. That is extremely expensive. They must be proud of that stuff. It must be like Agent Orange at that price.
It's funny that you mention Agent Orange. Monsanto was the company that set their autoclave temperatures too high during production which caused the high dioxin levels. They knew this, but they could make a batch of it in 45 minutes by doing so. Obviously this was much more profitable than it taking the normal 12 hours when made correctly.
I typically overwrite all sectors on a HD for a month with random crap, and drill holes in the platters.
After that it gets spun around inside a 15 Tesla magnet for 2 hours. Then I use thermite to melt it into a pool of slag, grind up the slag into a fine powder and divide that into 5 equal portions.
I feed one of those portions to my dogs and then set half of their waste on fire and put the other half into the garbage. I use honey to stick another portion to the bird seed I have in a feeder. The third portion I take to a metal recycling place. The fourth portion gets flushed down the toilet. The fifth portion is in a safe deposit box, just in case I need to recover anything.
If I'm being extra careful, I encrypt the drive with ROT13, twice, before the random writes.
This happened to me. My 2017 MacBook had the exact problem described in TFA.
I sent it in to be repaired in January of this year. There were a few other issues that were fixed at the same time: Sticky keys, and one USB-C port didn't work.
My repair bill was $800.
When it comes time to buy a new laptop, will it be from Apple? If so, then I see no reason why they would care to fix this issue. Or worry about such things in the future.
I'm curious, how long did you own your 2017 MacBook before you had to send it in? While I'm not a big Windows fan, my Dell laptops for work have always lasted for 5+ years with heavy travel. They've always been replaced due to company policy, not because they had any issues, other than the battery wear.
Actually glass is becoming a problem. The price paid for glass has dropped a lot. So many of the glass recycling centers have closed. A lot of areas have stopped recycling glass as it's heavy and the transportation costs to get it to the remaining centers is too high. Where I live I've watched all of the areas around me stop taking glass over the last year and the city I live in is going to discontinue glass next month. I believe they are going to take it as part of the curbside recycle pickup and keep it in a separate section of the local landfill. So hopefully some day it will become profitable again.
Why would anyone think it was good idea to set this off in the middle of the night? I suppose if this was an ISIS hacker I can see why they might. It would obviously be a good idea to have better security on emergency systems. But I find it a shame that it's even necessary. I would like think people would have the decency to not bother systems like this. But I guess when we're in an age where swatting is a thing it's not surprising.
Maybe cheap crappy ones. Of the half dozen monitors I had back then the smallest was 19" that was 1600x1200. Up until 4 years ago I still had a pair of Eizo medical grade 1600x1200 21 inch monitors from 1998 that I kept. They weren't cheap, but I got tired of moving them as they weighed 90lbs. each. I had an SGI monitor that I bought in 1997. I don't remember what the resolution was any more, but it was higher than the Eizo monitors. .
Heart disease, obesity, cancer, anthrax and any number of other things have kill lots of people, but not all at the same time. Just look how crazy people get over those.
The biggest heartbreak about Bohemian Rhapsody was its inaccuracies.
Freddie was not "always gay." His band members cited on several occasions
that it was "all girls" in the beginning. And the implication that all gays come
out at some truck stop is just too much. The movie had little to do with the
amazing music of Queen, and that is a real Bohemian Rhapsody tragedy.
That and that there were other people in Queen besides Freddie Mercury. Brian May is a hell of a great guitarist. It would have been nice for them to have added 2 to 5 minutes about him building the Red Special.
According to the movie the only thing Roger Taylor contributed to the band was a song about loving his car and being the soprano part in "Bohemian Rhapsody". John Deacon's only contribution was the bass line for "Another One Bites the Dust".
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lawÂbarring retailers from printing paper receiptsÂunless a customer requests one.Â
Which means they will not be purchasing more receipt paper or ink once it runs out and you won't be able to request a paper receipt after that. As soon as the printer breaks it won't get fixed either. Not that it matters, because after this goes into effect within two years no one will know how to push the "Print Receipt" button either.
Seriously, we don't need 3 separate Apple stories on the front page.
Actually four out of the last five stores have been about Apple. I guess this just proves that dentists prefer Apple. Or was it Trident?
So the training gets embedded in the DNA and transferred to the new generation?
Did you not read TFS?
She was cloned from a 7-year-old female dog, known as Huahuangma,
So in 2 years when the clone is full grown, the original dog will be 9 and probably getting too old. So they can just scoop out it's brain and put it into the clone. Instantly having 9 years of training and life experience in a 2 year old. It's a clone, so tissue rejection shouldn't be an issue either. Bonus points if they replace the skull with a clear gorilla glass cover and the larynx with a buzzy electronic sounding speaker.
Where's the petition to not bring Clippy back? Or better yet, the petition to delete any and all code related to Clippy? I'll sign one or both of those.
Robots kill people
Robots and guns don't kill people. I do. -TGR
Can you really put an apostrophe anywhere? Asking for a friend.
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If they are changing the name because of some sort of negative association with cable, wires, or whatever; then I suppose I can see it.
But if it's because of the shitty reputation that the cable companies have gotten due to the way they operate, then this is just stupid. If they want to be thought of in a more positive way, then perhaps they should stop being douche bags and treating their customers the way they have been for the last couple of decades.
But I guess a name change is easy, while actually doing something meaningful is probably against the very fiber of their being.
So what happens if the owner is injured and has no other way to get medical treatment other than to drive to a medical facility? If the car recognizes that the driver is not paying attention due to being in excruciating pain and pulls over and won't move, that's not good. Or if the driver is transporting an injured family member? I'm sure checking on the family member while driving could be seen as distracted too. There are so many ways this could go wrong.
I'm at the point where I think randomly picking people, like jury duty,
Lucky you, you're still optimistic. I've gotten to the point where I think a Magic 8-ball wouldn't do any worse than the politicians we've had for the last 20 or 30 years now.
Nobody has proven that it causes cancer. That's the point. After hundreds of studies all the data is still negative. We can't prove a negative, but we can certainly point to all of the studies which failed to disprove it. That's how science works.
How many decades did it take until it was official that smoking cigarettes caused cancer? My doctor when I was a kid smoked in the exam room. I knew people that were told by there doctors to smoke to calm their nerves. Yet my grand parents called them "coffin nails". How many decades did the American Cancer Society rally against smoking?
This is one of the things that I've always found a bit scary in the US. If there's a lot of money involved, it takes damn near irrefutable proof that something is really bad before it's accepted as true.
No it doesn't, why do you think Monsanto sold themselves to Bayer? The management knew the shit was about to hit the fan and cashed out. Man, they really did a number on Bayer though.
It's kind of ironic that Monsanto, the company that screwed up the manufacture of Agent Orange because it was more profitable, was bought by the company that made Zyklon B.
I happened to be in Home Depot the other day buying weed killer and a gallon of professional Roundup was $169. That is extremely expensive. They must be proud of that stuff. It must be like Agent Orange at that price.
It's funny that you mention Agent Orange. Monsanto was the company that set their autoclave temperatures too high during production which caused the high dioxin levels. They knew this, but they could make a batch of it in 45 minutes by doing so. Obviously this was much more profitable than it taking the normal 12 hours when made correctly.
Really? Then provide yours.
Okay. 3. I'm really old.
I typically overwrite all sectors on a HD for a month with random crap, and drill holes in the platters.
After that it gets spun around inside a 15 Tesla magnet for 2 hours. Then I use thermite to melt it into a pool of slag, grind up the slag into a fine powder and divide that into 5 equal portions.
I feed one of those portions to my dogs and then set half of their waste on fire and put the other half into the garbage. I use honey to stick another portion to the bird seed I have in a feeder. The third portion I take to a metal recycling place. The fourth portion gets flushed down the toilet. The fifth portion is in a safe deposit box, just in case I need to recover anything.
If I'm being extra careful, I encrypt the drive with ROT13, twice, before the random writes.
Dr. Strangelove had a few issues with the first generation arm.
Regarding the Dell laptops, they've been Percision M. So not their low end models. But probably in a similar price range of a MacBook Pro.
This happened to me. My 2017 MacBook had the exact problem described in TFA.
I sent it in to be repaired in January of this year. There were a few other issues that were fixed at the same time: Sticky keys, and one USB-C port didn't work.
My repair bill was $800.
When it comes time to buy a new laptop, will it be from Apple? If so, then I see no reason why they would care to fix this issue. Or worry about such things in the future.
I'm curious, how long did you own your 2017 MacBook before you had to send it in? While I'm not a big Windows fan, my Dell laptops for work have always lasted for 5+ years with heavy travel. They've always been replaced due to company policy, not because they had any issues, other than the battery wear.
Glass and paper are not a problem
Actually glass is becoming a problem. The price paid for glass has dropped a lot. So many of the glass recycling centers have closed. A lot of areas have stopped recycling glass as it's heavy and the transportation costs to get it to the remaining centers is too high. Where I live I've watched all of the areas around me stop taking glass over the last year and the city I live in is going to discontinue glass next month. I believe they are going to take it as part of the curbside recycle pickup and keep it in a separate section of the local landfill. So hopefully some day it will become profitable again.
Why would anyone think it was good idea to set this off in the middle of the night? I suppose if this was an ISIS hacker I can see why they might. It would obviously be a good idea to have better security on emergency systems. But I find it a shame that it's even necessary. I would like think people would have the decency to not bother systems like this. But I guess when we're in an age where swatting is a thing it's not surprising.
No; twenty year old displays are 1280x1024.Â
Maybe cheap crappy ones. Of the half dozen monitors I had back then the smallest was 19" that was 1600x1200. Up until 4 years ago I still had a pair of Eizo medical grade 1600x1200 21 inch monitors from 1998 that I kept. They weren't cheap, but I got tired of moving them as they weighed 90lbs. each. I had an SGI monitor that I bought in 1997. I don't remember what the resolution was any more, but it was higher than the Eizo monitors. .
I think the bigger story here is that Myspace is still around. Or that it's still around and someone thought it was worth moving to a new server.
I use a tablet for my connectivity needs. Because it is not a cell phone, I'm in the clear.
So do you use one of these?
Not all at the same time.
Heart disease, obesity, cancer, anthrax and any number of other things have kill lots of people, but not all at the same time. Just look how crazy people get over those.
Huh? The "exhaust" from burning hydrogen is water.Â
Are you crazy? Dihydrogen mono-oxide has killed millions of people.
The biggest heartbreak about Bohemian Rhapsody was its inaccuracies. Freddie was not "always gay." His band members cited on several occasions that it was "all girls" in the beginning. And the implication that all gays come out at some truck stop is just too much. The movie had little to do with the amazing music of Queen, and that is a real Bohemian Rhapsody tragedy.
That and that there were other people in Queen besides Freddie Mercury. Brian May is a hell of a great guitarist. It would have been nice for them to have added 2 to 5 minutes about him building the Red Special.
According to the movie the only thing Roger Taylor contributed to the band was a song about loving his car and being the soprano part in "Bohemian Rhapsody". John Deacon's only contribution was the bass line for "Another One Bites the Dust".