I bet if you get one of those recall notifications, you drive a LOT more carefully!
I suspect you're correct. I drove an older Cadillac, with big chrome bumpers, until 15 years ago. And nothing newer before that. I was surprised how much differently people drove around me after I had a modern car. I guess no one wanted to pull out in front of a car that weighed twice as much as theirs and had a huge chrome and steel bumper between me and them.
Sorry, but refrigeration would be impossible without that little rotating electric thingy called an electric motor.
And you couldn't charge your iPhone without the electric motor either. Unless you have one of those solar chargers. But that probably couldn't have been built without the electric motor.
The program is aiming to teach 100,000 low-income non-white teenagers how to write code,
I guess poor white people don't matter? What if we changed that from "non-white" to non-black? Non-Mexican? Or non-gay? That would suddenly make this program racist or homophobic.
The way we've been treating each other in the US or on the planet, for that matter, has been embarrassing for most of my life as far as I can tell. But the recent trends do not give me much hope. It's a step in a different direction, but I'm not entirely sure it's a good one, just different.
Apple's earnings report last week saw the company report a year over year decline in profits for the first time since 2003.
It's crazy the way people perceive things in the finance world. Read that first sentence again. Apple is not losing money, they are still making a profit. Just not as much as last year. In fact, they have had increasing profits for the last 13 years. There's only so much money in the world. No company can continue to increase profits year after year indefinitely. And when the company rakes in as much as Apple does, it's even harder to maintain that. They still have billions of dollars that they apparently have no idea what to do with.
Oh wait, what am I saying!. Run for the hills, this is obviously the death knell for Apple. In fact Silicon Valley is going to fall into the ocean now. The entire planet going to deorbit and fall into the sun. Apple is going under.
FWIW, I'm not an Apple fanboi either. I have a gen 5 iPod classic, my daughter has an iPhone (I don't), and my wife has an iPad.
Don't forget, it was Bush and his cronies that passed the Patriot act.
I'm not a supporter of Bush or Obama, but...
I'm inclined to be a little more pissed at Obama. Bush signed the original Patriot Act into law a little less than 7 weeks after 9-11. At that point in time, probably more than half of Americans would have been fine if it decreed all children will start military training at age 5. Damn few who voted even knew what all was in it. There were only 66 in the House who voted against it and only one in the Senate. And virtually all of the "leaders" of the democrat party voted for it. The dems had control of both houses for most (if not all) of the renewals of it under Bush. We already had somewhat of an idea of it's issues by then, yet it was still renewed by a democrat controlled congress.
Obama very much knew how bad it was. He told us during his campaign in 2008. Yet continued to renew it. Even after the Snowden leaks in 2013, the USA Freedom Act was passed in 2015, which renewed damn near the entire Patriot Act until 2019. The only real difference in that was that the phone companies kept the phone records rather than the NSA.
When it comes to the Patriot Act, you can count on most lawmakers in both parties to vote the same way. The only way they'll vote against it is if they think it might cost them their seat in congress.
Soon after the bunny's arrival at UC Irvine you will find a pile of Coyote poo with pink fluff in it in front of the sign. UCI borders nature reserves and creek/river beds that are heavily trafficked by coyotes. They are frequently sighted around campus and adjoining neighborhoods.
Unlikely. Mr. Coyote isn't very smart. He can't even catch a roadrunner without blowing himself up.;-)
Eh, this is a problem that can be easily solved by a freelance arson or a few enthusiastic thugs before the project even takes off.
Nothing outlasts an Energizer.
I can see the new commercial for Energizer now: The pink fluffy Energizer bunny wearing a suit with wingtip shoes and a fedora beating a scientist, in a white lab coat, to death with a drum mallet in front of the sign at UC Irvine.
Then again, Godfather: Part II, which some people would argue is the greatest film ever made, was probably made to "sell lunchboxes and stuff".Â
I guess you were one of those poor kids that didn't have the Godfather lunch box with the hidden gun compartment. Then there was the one with the horse head severing kit. That one was really handy on the days the cafeteria lady over cooked Salisbury steak.
Well I just assign some default levels of trust in most cases and I find it work pretty well.
TSA agent - I trust that they likely won't choke on their own tongue while I am in the security line
Laptops have already reached the 'thin enough for me' plateau. Weight reduction is still a good thing though.
Lucky you. I wish they'd reach the thin enough and still be powerful enough. My work laptop is a 17 inch Dell Precision. I don't remember what it weighs exactly, but it's between 9 and 11 lbs. The power brick is probably heavier than many laptops as its 240 watts.
We have pilots complaining about the dangers of.5 watt laser pointers, and we're talking about firing up a 30 megawatt laser? What happens if we accidentally blind Gort? I don't want to have to answer to the galactic equivalent of the FBI. Hell, that might be considered an act of war. Or at least the equivalent to a rabid dog attack. And it never turns out well for the dog, does it?
So what the hell does "Ubuntu will primarily run on a foundation of native Windows libraries" mean?
It means you'll be able to run Ubuntu with all of the "stability" of Windows. And use 5 times the resources compared to just running Ubuntu alone. I think it's a way for Microsoft to show just how resource intensive, difficult and unstable, they want the world to think, Linux is.
You spent $90 then you owned it forever. $30 and you can watch it a couple times then it disappears. Big difference there IMO
I'd much prefer to own a physical copy of something than to stream it. But even when new, a VHS tape was pretty awful quality. Granted, I think I paid around $800 for my first VCR, and it wasn't even stereo. But VHS tapes certainly did/do not last forever. Even if you don't play them, they degrade over time due to thermal and hygroscopic expansion/contraction. You can lessen this by keeping them in a controlled environment, but who's going to do that? Every time you play a tape it degrades it as well. So, yes that VHS tape can only be played so many times.
What's really annoying is that I have a couple of movies that I purchased on VHS for $90 that have still not been released on any other medium. I've copied them to DVD, but the quality is pretty bad at this point. So it's tough to watch, especially when they're in 4:3. It was fine when a large TV was 32". But the image quality is dreadful on the average size screen these days.
You still have a blue tooth radio, it's certainly safer, but there's still a receiver in your car. My guess is that at some point it'll be easier for them to install it at the factory on all cars. Or it'll become a government mandate. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if the insurance companies start giving a paltry discount for having it. At that point most auto manufacturers will.probably follow GM and just put it in everything.
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I bet if you get one of those recall notifications, you drive a LOT more carefully!
I suspect you're correct. I drove an older Cadillac, with big chrome bumpers, until 15 years ago. And nothing newer before that. I was surprised how much differently people drove around me after I had a modern car. I guess no one wanted to pull out in front of a car that weighed twice as much as theirs and had a huge chrome and steel bumper between me and them.
Sorry, but refrigeration would be impossible without that little rotating electric thingy called an electric motor.
And you couldn't charge your iPhone without the electric motor either. Unless you have one of those solar chargers. But that probably couldn't have been built without the electric motor.
The program is aiming to teach 100,000 low-income non-white teenagers how to write code,
I guess poor white people don't matter? What if we changed that from "non-white" to non-black? Non-Mexican? Or non-gay? That would suddenly make this program racist or homophobic.
The way we've been treating each other in the US or on the planet, for that matter, has been embarrassing for most of my life as far as I can tell. But the recent trends do not give me much hope. It's a step in a different direction, but I'm not entirely sure it's a good one, just different.
Apple's earnings report last week saw the company report a year over year decline in profits for the first time since 2003.
It's crazy the way people perceive things in the finance world. Read that first sentence again. Apple is not losing money, they are still making a profit. Just not as much as last year. In fact, they have had increasing profits for the last 13 years. There's only so much money in the world. No company can continue to increase profits year after year indefinitely. And when the company rakes in as much as Apple does, it's even harder to maintain that. They still have billions of dollars that they apparently have no idea what to do with.
Oh wait, what am I saying!. Run for the hills, this is obviously the death knell for Apple. In fact Silicon Valley is going to fall into the ocean now. The entire planet going to deorbit and fall into the sun. Apple is going under.
FWIW, I'm not an Apple fanboi either. I have a gen 5 iPod classic, my daughter has an iPhone (I don't), and my wife has an iPad.
Damn. That has got to be the most obscure TV references I have ever seen. I wonder if there are more than 50 people what would not have to google it.
I said "Damn." when I read that too. I couldn't believe it took that long for someone on /. to make a Red Dwarf reference.
Don't forget, it was Bush and his cronies that passed the Patriot act.
I'm not a supporter of Bush or Obama, but...
I'm inclined to be a little more pissed at Obama. Bush signed the original Patriot Act into law a little less than 7 weeks after 9-11. At that point in time, probably more than half of Americans would have been fine if it decreed all children will start military training at age 5. Damn few who voted even knew what all was in it. There were only 66 in the House who voted against it and only one in the Senate. And virtually all of the "leaders" of the democrat party voted for it. The dems had control of both houses for most (if not all) of the renewals of it under Bush. We already had somewhat of an idea of it's issues by then, yet it was still renewed by a democrat controlled congress.
Obama very much knew how bad it was. He told us during his campaign in 2008. Yet continued to renew it. Even after the Snowden leaks in 2013, the USA Freedom Act was passed in 2015, which renewed damn near the entire Patriot Act until 2019. The only real difference in that was that the phone companies kept the phone records rather than the NSA.
When it comes to the Patriot Act, you can count on most lawmakers in both parties to vote the same way. The only way they'll vote against it is if they think it might cost them their seat in congress.
Is AI-Fuel carbon neutral? Or has the corn grower lobby changed the name of ethanol to "A" "lowercase L"-Fuel. in an attempt to trick us?
Soon after the bunny's arrival at UC Irvine you will find a pile of Coyote poo with pink fluff in it in front of the sign. UCI borders nature reserves and creek/river beds that are heavily trafficked by coyotes. They are frequently sighted around campus and adjoining neighborhoods.
Unlikely. Mr. Coyote isn't very smart. He can't even catch a roadrunner without blowing himself up. ;-)
Eh, this is a problem that can be easily solved by a freelance arson or a few enthusiastic thugs before the project even takes off.
Nothing outlasts an Energizer.
I can see the new commercial for Energizer now: The pink fluffy Energizer bunny wearing a suit with wingtip shoes and a fedora beating a scientist, in a white lab coat, to death with a drum mallet in front of the sign at UC Irvine.
Yes. If nothing else, it is as a subset of the entire project being broken.
Then again, Godfather: Part II, which some people would argue is the greatest film ever made, was probably made to "sell lunchboxes and stuff".Â
I guess you were one of those poor kids that didn't have the Godfather lunch box with the hidden gun compartment. Then there was the one with the horse head severing kit. That one was really handy on the days the cafeteria lady over cooked Salisbury steak.
I can loan him a couple of satellite dishes. That worked in The Arrival.
Well I just assign some default levels of trust in most cases and I find it work pretty well. TSA agent - I trust that they likely won't choke on their own tongue while I am in the security line
That's a little higher than is deserved.
Getting 'sucked into' a sun is just as bad for your health as falling into a black hole,
Doesn't that depend on whether you're wearing sun block, or not?
Laptops have already reached the 'thin enough for me' plateau. Weight reduction is still a good thing though.
Lucky you. I wish they'd reach the thin enough and still be powerful enough. My work laptop is a 17 inch Dell Precision. I don't remember what it weighs exactly, but it's between 9 and 11 lbs. The power brick is probably heavier than many laptops as its 240 watts.
I don't know, that sounds an awful lot like your average american school shooter these days, and we know all of them had mothers.
Yeah, but she was also their sister, cousin and aunt.
We have pilots complaining about the dangers of .5 watt laser pointers, and we're talking about firing up a 30 megawatt laser? What happens if we accidentally blind Gort? I don't want to have to answer to the galactic equivalent of the FBI. Hell, that might be considered an act of war. Or at least the equivalent to a rabid dog attack. And it never turns out well for the dog, does it?
FUCK ADT.
I think they still require a POTS landline for monitoring purposes
Well, the "T" in ADT is for telegraph.
How does this compare to how much electricity CitiBank or Bank of America uses?
Since the take-over I've had two stories posted as AC. Both times I submitted under my username. The first time my name was changed to AC
Well at least they got the first letter correct. I'd say that's an improvement over Dice.
So what the hell does "Ubuntu will primarily run on a foundation of native Windows libraries" mean?
It means you'll be able to run Ubuntu with all of the "stability" of Windows. And use 5 times the resources compared to just running Ubuntu alone. I think it's a way for Microsoft to show just how resource intensive, difficult and unstable, they want the world to think, Linux is.
You spent $90 then you owned it forever. $30 and you can watch it a couple times then it disappears. Big difference there IMO
I'd much prefer to own a physical copy of something than to stream it. But even when new, a VHS tape was pretty awful quality. Granted, I think I paid around $800 for my first VCR, and it wasn't even stereo. But VHS tapes certainly did/do not last forever. Even if you don't play them, they degrade over time due to thermal and hygroscopic expansion/contraction. You can lessen this by keeping them in a controlled environment, but who's going to do that? Every time you play a tape it degrades it as well. So, yes that VHS tape can only be played so many times.
What's really annoying is that I have a couple of movies that I purchased on VHS for $90 that have still not been released on any other medium. I've copied them to DVD, but the quality is pretty bad at this point. So it's tough to watch, especially when they're in 4:3. It was fine when a large TV was 32". But the image quality is dreadful on the average size screen these days.
What, precisely, would you like to do about that?
I suggest that 30 years ago we accelerated the building of nuclear power plants and expand the grid.
So the first step is to start working on time travel?
I wish I were smart enough to figure out what's going on behind the scenes...
Sometimes I wish I was dumb enough to not wander about such things. I'm starting to believe that ignorance truly is bliss.
You still have a blue tooth radio, it's certainly safer, but there's still a receiver in your car. My guess is that at some point it'll be easier for them to install it at the factory on all cars. Or it'll become a government mandate. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if the insurance companies start giving a paltry discount for having it. At that point most auto manufacturers will.probably follow GM and just put it in everything.